Posted in challenges, sandwiched in on Oct 31st, 2011
I shared a short video about a sandwich generation family in a previous post but wanted to follow up with a link to the entire series. Although each of us is in a different situation, I think all of us in the middle of the sandwich will relate to these words from Julie Winokur, whose [...]
Posted in 10 commandments, sandwiched in on Oct 31st, 2011
Grandma does the bulk of the cooking in our house. Part of this is by prior arrangement. When we first talked about the idea of my parents coming to this country and living with us, she said her purpose would be to take over the household, so to speak. (Had she been acquainted with my [...]
Posted in 10 commandments, sandwiched in on Oct 31st, 2011
As the saying goes, humor is the best medicine. I have found that it helps not to take myself too seriously unless I’m talking about a really, really serious topic… like say, taxes, or voting, or chocolate. If I get tense and cranky, it shifts the whole universe (which certainly doesn’t revolve around me but [...]
Posted in challenges, sandwiched in on Oct 28th, 2011
Filmmaker Julie Winokur and photojournalist Ed Kashi opened the door into their private lives a few years ago to show what it was like to be part of the sandwich generation. The couple, 42 and 48 at the time, were parents to two children while caring for Julie’s 83-year-old father, Herbie, who had dementia. Julie [...]
Posted in sandwiched in on Oct 24th, 2011
I decided to write this post while waiting in the ER room with my mom (thank you, Steve Jobs, for coming up with tools, ie iPad, that we never knew we’d need!). This is not a typical day but certainly an illustration of what happens when the pastrami gets really squeezed. Mom came into my [...]
Posted in sandwich ingredients, sandwiched in on Oct 22nd, 2011
When I first talked to my husband about getting my parents to the United States from Moldova, it seemed like a straightforward idea. We had been married for seven or eight years at the time, and the two boys were preschool age. My parents had not met my husband, nor my children, not counting a [...]