If she'd known all the guests I think the visit would have been easier for her. February 4th Had e-mail asking how old mom is. She will be 80 in April. Very often now my visits with mom include the time for her noon meal. That is the big meal where she lives.
Supper is well balanced but a smaller meal.
Sometimes I eat there too, but most of the time I just have a cup of coffee and chat with mom and the others at her table. I am going to change names in the following descriptions because I know that Santa Barbara residents have read this page, and I want to protect the privacy of the other residents with Alzheimer's Disease. One day the wife of one of the other residents was there too, also not eating but sitting in the dining room with her husband. Bart called my mother Xena. That is Bart's wife's name.