freedom is where it's at (limited)

Here we are almost 2 weeks later, I'm back on a normal sleeping schedule and so is Ron-almost. So we did away with attempting to keep dad in his room/area-he only had a 4x2 piece of wood with a latch key holding him in at the end of his hallway, blocking him from going into mom's room. So we moved the latch key project over to mom's side of the hallway and added another latch key project to the living room/stairs area by the front door. All doors remain double keyed dead bolt (meaning both sides) as well as kitchen closet door with latch key. Dad gets his snack in the middle of the night and a drink, figures out it's dark or something and goes back to bed. The earliest he has attempted to wake us is 7:45 I'll take that any day of the week over him falling under the last latch key project by his room 2x's ! Along with the banging, yelling and kicking the bathroom door that connects to mom's bathroom. So we are back to allowing him to go from his room to the dinning room, sit in his wheel-chair have a snack and drink look at a magazine and then go back to his room and either watch tv or sleep. He just can't go anywhere else in the house, which for now is ok with him at least in the middle of the night.

So all in all I am blessed for the extra sleep, I'm starting my 15 minute a day decluttering routine and am off to a good start (even though all the animals are watching. Oh, I forgot to introduce "Cole" our newest Siamese 2yr. old we got from the Halifax Humane Society this last Wednesday. Very interesting kitty, energetic, playful and sweet he even slept under mom's bed the first 2 nights and on the 3rd (last) he slept on her bed and pooped in her room too. Snoop and Kimmy are having the worst time of adjusting, Daisy and Biggie are just keeping their eyes away from paws. Mom gave Cole his last name "Porter" after my grandfather going to school with Cole Porter at Yale. My grandfather said that he never had much of a social life, he was always busy writing songs and music.

Busy but good week, after all.

you must be willing to try anything

ok-so Ron hasn't slept in a week-we worked out one day last week I think Thursday- Dad up all hours of the night-I vowed yesterday to keep him awake and boy did I he was mad as hell and I got it both barrel's and Ron got triple or more- the name calling was horrid- anyway in thinking about what we need to do is all get some sleep mainly Ron and dad has also started to bang, knock and try and get in mom's room-so yesterday and today not so good, I called the doctor to get a script for him to sleep. Test subject dad we will see how this works out. to be continued..........also going to give him the sleeping pill at 10-12 pm after his snack