my mom

[Drunk Monk]

My mom seems to have settled in okay so far. There's four other ladies, all Chinese but speak English. One was blind and mostly deaf. My mom says that one is conversational, the others not so much. 

The caretakers are all Filipino. My parents lived in the Philippines after the war when my dad served as an engineer working on surveillance radar at Clark AF base. The caretakers had some issues with my mom's name until they realized that it's akin to the word for 'warm' in Tagalog. 

I've been running around like crazy getting her there yesterday and getting everything sorted for her.  Today, she was obsessing over the home delivery Library books and me cutting some carnations that I brought her in a very specific way (she studied Ikebana for years - the art of zen flower arranging). I couldn't take her nitpicking and had to leave. Sometimes that just drives me nuts. 

I won't go back until next week. I think she's good there. We're paying so much money so I hope she's taking care of well for that price. They seem very on top of things, which is reassuring that we're getting our money's worth.