Our Story

In January of this year, (2015) my father was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia.  It was quickly clear that my parents were going to need help in the not-so-distant future.  After many discussions we decided to look for a place for us to live together.  My parents put their house on the market and quickly sold the house I'd grown up in, and the house that they had called home for 36 years.  My husband and I found renters for our little house in Portland OR.  Now, we live just outside of Portland in one big house with my parents and our three kids, ages 7, 5, and 3.  This blog is to document the joys and struggles of living in community, and to record some of the painful beauty of walking with someone we love as they battle a degenerative disease.  My hope is to encourage others who walk a similar road.