You are a woman.
You are every color, you are every religion, you are every career.
we meet in locker rooms, at the store, at our temples of worship.
we share our place: sandwiched between raising our families, making a living, helping our aging parents. perhaps it is your mother, or your father or both. perhaps they live nearby or you have to schlep to far reaches to assist them.
it is an inevitable place we now dwell in.
Sacred, consuming, revealing, emotional.
The term "SANDWICH GENERATION" is a term for those who read about it.For those of us living it, it carries great responsibility and depth, and new challenges to our lives.
I wish each and every one of you who is in between your upper and lower crust: great patience and good health.
We must carry on!
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I enjoyed reading your blogs.
I am a retired geriatrician and have spent many hours with older patients and their families. My wife and I still provide significant emotional and financial support to my mother-in-law.
I have a website you may find interesting:
http://web.mac.com/vanphil/SandwichScouts/
Welcome.html
I would like to repost your blog there, with your permission. Thank You
You are so right. Sandwich generation doesn't quite say it all. I say that I'm a part of the vice-grip genaration--unrelenting pressure on both sides!
What it really is? Just plain old love, family, committment, loyalty, patience, perserverence, grit you teeth and do it any way.
Humor helps. Faith helps. Even know that there are other phenomenal women out there doing the same thing helps--to know we're not alone.
Thanks for your blog.
~Carol D. O'Dell
Author of Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir
avaialble on Amazon
www.mothering-mother.com
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