Kate slept late again yesterday. I don’t know when she would have gotten up had I not wakened her. That was just before noon. She stayed in bed another thirty minutes before I got her up. It was almost 2:00 by the time we got to Carla’s for lunch. It was so late that all of our regular servers were off duty. There were fewer customers as well. This may seem like a silly thing but our connection with our servers and bumping into acquaintances in restaurants have given us a sense of social connection. I don’t like to see that disappear.
We had appointments for haircuts at 3:00, so we went directly from the restaurant. We came home after that. We relaxed for an hour and then went to dinner. When we got home we spent some time in the family room where I watched the news, and Kate worked jigsaw puzzles. Then we retired to the bedroom where we watched a portion of Les Miserables. We had watched it a fourth time in the past five weeks, but I was curious to see if it had lost any of its appeal to her. It hadn’t. This looks like it could be my “ace I the hole” if (when?) she needs a boost.
My sense right now is that I will be looking for more stimulation for her as time passes. That is true for me as well. I’ve gotten so accustomed to our morning visits to Panera that I feel an impending loss of social contact. Instead of seven days a week, we are going two or three days a week. When we go, we arrive after the morning crowd has left. I have long expected that we would become more socially isolated as Kate declines. I hadn’t, however, expected it so soon.
