Oh, Grandma, why?!!

We went to see Grandma in Molalla today. Normally we go on Wednesdays, but this week, due to travelling plans which have now been changed, we went on Tuesday, bearing cookies for Valentine’s Day.\par
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\’c3\’82\’c2\~While we were visiting, Grandma fell down. We had already been up the hall to the dining room with her in the wheel chair to fetch back her walker. The boys and I were scheduled to leave in about 15 minutes, so I decided to tank up the little one’s tummy before we left to go home. Grandma is very restless, always moving about randomly,\’c3\’82\’c2\~and\’c3\’82\’c2\~asked me to come help her get into her walker,although she didn’t really have anywhere to go.\’c3\’82\’c2\~I told her that I was nursing Ezra right then, and she said “ok.” I was assuming that she would decide to stay and visit with me rather than trying to get on the walker herself and head out of the room. My mistake. She stayed around a\’c3\’82\’c2\~corner in her room and I could hear she and Judah moving about a bit when suddenly I heard a crash and she said “Oh, shoot!” She’d tried to get into the walker herself and had fallen down. She is unheart, except for bumping her head, but I’m still a little distressed. Maybe I should have stopped nursing Ezra to help her get up? Was it unreasonable to expect her to put off walking for\’c3\’82\’c2\~a few minutes, while her company was sitting? What does respect for an elderly grandmother dictate? She’s a strong-willed woman, my grandmother, and I frequently run into situations where I have to decide where to draw the line – how far can you go before you needlessly become a push-over. And where does holding my own become stubborn “you aren’t the boss of me” childishness?\par
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My biggest question,\’c3\’82\’c2\~though,\’c3\’82\’c2\~is: what can I do to become the sort of old lady that people want to go visit because she’s so pleasant to be with? I pray that the Lord will help me to age gracefully to be a joy to my descendents!\par
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