Mom and Dad always did spoil thegirls, I guess they'll do the same with Laura.'I looked around at the spacious room. Once I was done painting, I had t...assemble a dresser and a vanity. Then I had to put together the bed framefor her new queen sized bed. 'While I get stuck on my crappy double bed.Then I have to clean up all the tools and the drop cloth and then vacuumher new carpet. All while watching my three younger siblings. Thissucks.'"Logan?" called my littlest sister Joannah. "We're. "Are we having arace?" the woman says."No, sorry just a lot on my mind at the moment. Something came up beforeyou got here, but that's not important right now." Lacey looks at theother woman and her eyes seem to gloss over.She notices this, and snaps her fingers to get her attention. "Earth toLacey!" No response. She then waves her hands back forth, finally Laceyblinks a few times. "Wow, sorry Mandy." What was that?" Mandy sits back in her seat looking a little worried."Part of the reason I. She had used two more this morning and now had three left.“Okay,” she muttered, zipping her cords and buttoning her flannel shirt. She smelled, though not badly yet. The urine at her feet smelled much worse than her light case of body odor, and gazing at it with distaste, she wished for something, anything, to blot up the small puddle. Checking her iPhone, she discovered the battery icon continued to obstinacy claim a 100% charge. Her phone had developed early-onset Alzheimer’s, she. This year we were going to Whittier to see the Miller family who had six kids. Rosemary Miller always had a traditional turkey dinner and Mom was bringing a pumpkin pie and her Christmas date nut bread. In a box, however, was a big frozen pan of my mother’s home recipe lasagna, a bag of dinner rolls, two date nut breads, a pie and a bottle of wine with a bow on it. What’s all of this?’ I asked as we were putting presents and food into the car. ‘I thought we were having turkey for dinner’ I.