This post at Nourishing Relationships had me at the line:
“When you are told by your secretary that a nurse is on the line, do you try to guess if it is the school or the nurse in the cardiac care unit?”
The article by Roberta Benor reprinted there, “Food for the Sandwich Generation: the Meanings Behind […]
My husband is out of town, and, my 83 year old mother-in-law is staying with us.
I’m grateful for the help, but, this weekend there’s been a few moments that have been rather comical in terms of me being needed by everyone.
The kids have been particularly needy this weekend, probably a combination of their dad […]
A Sandwich Generation Moment from our dear friend, Sista Smiff:
The GK has to get home and doesn’t want to sleep on your couch because she has two boys at home alone, plus, she’s just plain wo’ out, but, she doesn’t mind at all seeing that you’re ok because you are her mother.
Many of us have […]
As if there weren’t enough “wars” going on in the media what with the whole “working mother v. stay at home mother” thing, now there’s a whole phenomenon of “parent wars” where the Boomer mothers and the Generation X daughters differ on parenting ideas.
According to the story, mothers and daughters differ on parenting issues […]
So many times, when you read something about people caring for children and parents at the same time, it’s a financial “how-to”, or, list of areas nursing homes, or, agencies. But, sometimes you read something that just “speaks to you”, and, this article titled simply, “The Sandwich Generation” spoke to me, so, I thought I’d […]
We just got back from a lovely vacation with my dad.
I had a quintessential Sandwich Generation experience at the beach one day.
I was out at the beach with my younger kids, and, my father.
The kids got in the ocean, which was OK, but, I need to be reasonably close by. They began to drift, […]
On the way to my father’s step mother’s funeral today, I realized my daughter who was sick, and, home alone for the first time, wasn’t answering the phone because the line had been busy for a couple of hours straight.
I was worried since we have call waiting, and, there shouldn’t have been a busy signal.
I […]
Grace, at I-91, Exit 6, 2 Doors From Archie’s, reacts to an NPR segment on the radio, and, discusses why she believes that caring for elders at home is different today than it was in the “good old days”.
She talks about how long ago there weren’t nearly as many elderly people to be cared for […]
My shift into a card-carrying member of the Sandwich Generation was a bit of a surprise (at least it was to me).
It seemed like one minute, I was taking care of young children, just doing what parents in their thirties do, and, the next minute, the theoretical “you’ll have to take care of your parents someday”, became […]
Sometimes I get stuck about what to write here. I enjoy doing it, and, I have lots to say, but, I am very aware that the topic of being in the Sandwich Generation can easily turn (and probably has more than once, here) turned into Introspective Angst-a-Palooza.
I can’t stand that kind of stuff.
Being in my […]
Parents to the left of me, children to the right, here I am.
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