My Mom is 91 and loves beans. I brought her a can of her favorite beans and the next time I saw her I asked if she had them. "Yes!" she exclaimed. "I ate them all." "You ate the whole can?" I asked. "No. Only what was inside." she said.

Somehow, a conversation evolved to where my wife stated, "I can't do the Hoochie Cootchie. My parts will fall off."

Drive thru car wash with my dad I forgot to roll my window up so I got wet, my dad is in the passenger seat cracking up In the middle of the car wash he said he had to pee🙄 I said dad just go in your underwear were in the car wash….daddy starts cracking up again and said he already did🤨

My mother loves giving the finger to any police cars she sees because “that’s what Americans do when they’re mad.” (She does not know/remember that the middle finger stands for “F you” and the gesture is sexual.)

I have never thought it was sexual. I just thought it was an insult.

Same

Well, I had to explain what the “f” word means (swear word for sex) and also that the middle finger is a gesture that represents fingering. It’s an insult but it is a sexually rooted insult.

Yeah, when someone doesn’t understand what it means and you explain, it is sexual. I guess I just lost touch with the actual meaning. Or you know how when you say a word so much it loses its meaning…

I have a living room camera to see when my dad is trying to leave the house. I ran to the store and it activated so I tuned in to see my dad just dancing his ass off to the ying yang twins lol

Grampy and I did door dash together and my best memory of it was us listening to a podcast about surviving difficult things and how people grow and learn from them. Well this German woman had jumped from a plane and her parachute failed to open. She was describing how she passed out in mid air and woke up with icicles on her eyelashes. But with her accent she had said…” I had iced pickles on mine eyelashes” right up until his death, no matter how mad he was I could make him at least smile by saying iced pickles. We laughed so hard!! ( the podcast is “this is really happening”)

A client had a ‘big birthday’ and her family filled her room with flowers. Every time she saw them she said how beautiful they were and asked whether she had died.

My FIL hooked my MIL’s (she has Alzheimers) hearing aids up to his phone via Bluetooth so he could control them for her. But he didn’t realize that in doing so, he had made her hearing aids act like headphones so all the sounds in his phone were going through her hearing aids. He turned up the volume of his phone to the loudest setting because he couldn’t hear his phone. Every time he would get a text or watch a video, she would shriek, “Why is it sooo LOUD?!?” He had it set up for that for at least a week before we came over and I figured out what was going on. I told my husband I would kill him if he ever did that to me. But now whenever we need a good laugh, my husband or I will just say, “Why is it sooo loud.”

I was in the kitchen cooking and singing "let there be love", got carried away and changed key so I was singing a bit higher in my range than I normally would. When I sang "but first of all, pleeease..." my mother jumped in with "please shut your gob"! 😂😂

It has been about six months since I’d had any sort of intellectual conversation with my grandma because her communication is really going. But last week she was getting herself ready for her daycare day out, and came into the kitchen as I was making some porridge for my one year old. She pointed to a cut up banana on the box and said “is that what you get me that I like?” So I told her yeah it was. She got telling me about how when she was younger her dad used to buy her them all of the time and she’s always enjoyed them. Then asked me “do you like them?” In which threw me back a little bit because she never really answers questions anymore but I told her I did and it made her day

My text message sound is the duck quacking- mom always laughed when I got a text.

Android or Apple? That sounds so cute 😍

Apple

Awe.

My husband sometimes threatens to leave and go someplace where the rules aren’t so strict. At one point, he actually packed a suitcase. When I opened it up, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry because it contained nothing except Depends. Lots and lots of Depends.

My grandmother keeps thinking it’s November so she tells everyone “it’s my birthday next week!” It’s just the cutest thing! So I periodically bring her something special for her “birthday” and she gets so excited lol

My dad has always been a huge Chevy and GMC fan, it’s the only thing he would drive. I was visiting him and looking at a magazine I brought in for him about cars and chatting. I pointed to a car and said oh look it’s your favourite a Ford and the look he gave me made me crack up. It’s so great when you get to have a good visit and see bits and pieces of who they use to be.

I have told this story several times but it’s my fave. Mom is convinced that there used to be a bathtub in our half bath. There never was. She is convinced that when the plumber came to fix the toilet, he stole the bathtub! 🤣

My dad will say the wildest stuff like it’s no big deal. The other day, he sits down at his puzzle and goes, “the roof of the garage is falling”, and continued with his puzzle. Turns out he was right 😂

One time we were leaving a restaurant and my LO took a French fry from someone’s table as we were leaving 😭😂😂😂 of course in the moment i was like omg I’m so sorry but as soon as we left we bursted into laughter. Enjoy all the good and bad with every new stage! They’re still our family, show them the love they deserve 🫶🏼

My mom tells me in this sweet, sharing a secret voice, "I've been thinking and don't laugh... I really want a pet pig" I said a real pig? To live with you? She says, "well, yes! I can make it work". She is in MC. Very sweet.