COPING WITH CHANGE, LEARNING TO ADJUST.

Well this week I have learnt a lot, did you know that you have 50 muscles in your face?
I found that out, when I was sent an ad for face creams on my laptop saying that I need to look after the 50 muscles. Sometimes though, when I look at my sagging baggy eyes that my 9-year-old granddaughter shows me after she takes a photo on skype, I feel like I only have one or two muscles not 50, either that, or 48 are resting more than they should.
Due to Covid 19, Clare, my granddaughter and I are meant to be looking at her home work, but with the joy of skype she goes into peals of laughter as she sends me yet another photo of this old woman whom I realise is me. Sad as I feel about not seeing my granddaughter in real life, she is sometimes larger than life on skype, and I feel blessed to be able to spend one on one time with her now, because she can’t be with her friends, even though we are meant to be doing schoolwork.

The relationship between grandchildren and grandparents is such a special one. I guess as a grandparent the day to day responsibility is absent which allows more of the fun, and without the stress and responsibility of parenting I can enjoy the good stuff. Since we are self -isolating all the activities I love doing with Clare are changing, such as gardening, cooking and going to the park, and I expect over time our relationship will change via the internet.
Another change I am increasingly becoming aware of is that I have reached the age called “elderly”. Strange, until I heard comments about Covid 19 affecting the elderly, I hadn’t actually thought I was, but then found out I am now entitled to shop for groceries at 7am so I guess I am indeed elderly.
Change in relationships is a theme in both my books Between Two Homes (when parents separate), and Under the Rose Bush (the changing relationship between a granddaughter and grandmother who develops Alzheimer’s)
This joke shows another element of change. Enjoy!

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