Hello all... So the last couple of weeks have been going great. I upped my exercise routine and I've been feeling great. The weight is coming off at a perfect pace. The most exciting part of my weight loss this week was being able to wear a dress size smaller for my engagement party!
We expected to have about 40 people over for the engagement party and it ended up being well over 100! We both come from different cultures, so I was a little on edge with how it was all going to turn out... it was a raging success! Everyone loved each other and also loved all the different varieties of food from both families. It was so beautiful. One of my aunts even brought zumba skirts for all the ladies so that we could have some fun dancing. I am still on cloud 9. To wish for this your whole life and see it all come to fruition, is nothing short of amazing.
My struggle this week is with my grandmother. She has advancing Alzheimer's and she is staying with us. It is wild to watch her unravel so fast. Little by little she forgets people, places and things. It is breaking my heart. Not only because she goes in spells of major confusion, but she keeps calling her brother and husband who are belated. Also, its hard to watch my parents with her. Like the rest of us, they are trying to cope with losing someone so close to them. It is my fathers mother. My dad is a burly Irish man who does not display emotions well. So for him to watch his mother go through this and ALSO take care of her is heartbreaking.
In life, things happen. Love, break-ups, sickness, babies, weddings, deaths and all of the in between. I don't understand why some people live so long and others are cut off so short. Or, why are left alive and don't remember anything they worked so hard to create. I also don't understand why my grandmother, who is strong willed, healthy, never drank, had 6 kids, 17 grandchildren, and a wonderful children, seems to have been left "behind" on earth just to be tortured. Yet her brother smoked and drank(along with many other things) his whole life and lived happily with a clear mind until he was almost 90. That is my struggle. The whole concept of life. But, as people say "live your life, because tomorrow is no guarantee."
