Something to accomplish

Something to accomplish
I have talked about dad Alzheimer’s and have spoken about it on one of my other blogs. Something I have learned over the last couple of years since dad moved in with us. It is important to have things for him to do that he can accomplish, that he can succeed at and do well at or he will lose interest in things. Today was a fast day for my husband and I, we told dad he didn’t have to do it because it was our thing to do. I gave him a breakfast bar which is a pretty good source of a calcium supplements for me. I eat one every day and they are good dad ate it but today he didn’t want to eat anything until later closer to sundown. I told dad you could have told me you where hungry soon, and he said No. We have often wonder with dad mental health problems if he understands what he is learning at church and if he is grasping the sermons from Rabbi Stan. Well I do not expect dad to fast like hubby and I did but I think he did a good job at it. I made him dinner left over taco salad stuff. He asked if it was okay if he ate it. I told him yes. I have found he eats more when hubby and I eat with him. He will color without the two of us but something he requires us to partake in what he doing to accomplish more. Dad is happier when he has something he can do, I am starting to think that some of the things G-d has instructed for his people is more for his people then for him. I know from experience when I accomplish something I feel good, and will be in a better mood. It is easier for me to go to G-d and speak to him when I am feel good about myself then the days where it just seems like a struggle.