It has been awhile since I updated our journey.  We have had ups and downs along this pathway.  We are now nearing the 2nd anniversary of the diagnois and we can see the decline.  My mom and dad have been married for 63 years and she is beginning to morph her daddy and husband into the same person.  I think it may be because we call him daddy and then she does too but she has lost the ability to distinguish that it is not her daddy but actually her husband.  I have tried to talk about him as 'Billy' but that is a hard habit to break...for 60+ years I have been calling him daddy.  She recently has been concerned about her mom & dad (who have been dead since the 80's)...she thinks they haven't come home for the evening and she is worried about them.  We have had two long nights where she has asked us why didn't you tell me they died....why did you not let me go to the funeral.  She thinks we may need to plan another  funeral.  Yet she remembers going to the cemetary and placing the Christmas flowers on their grave just last week.  This disease takes bits and pieces of their memory and leave gaping holes in an event....you remember part but not all.  This foggy abyss is going to get worse...this is an awful disease like I have said before.  Take time, stop and smell the roses with your mom and dad while they still are able. Take them for a 'spin' in the car, go see the Christmas lights, go to a Christmas musical, sing Christmas carols with them, take them out to eat or bring in a home cooked meal they can enjoy.  Life is too precious to NOT spend time with the ones who raised you and molded you into the person you are today.  May your Christmas be merry and blessing to you in the new year.  I love you Mom & Dad.  I Peter 5:7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.  NLT