Journey Home Care Topeka, Kansas

03/22/2024

Great tips on how to save money on your utility costs.

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Every appliance we use in our homes requires a decent amount of energy to run. Be it a small light bulb or an air conditioner, we ultimately pay for them to function and work well. Because energy bills have skyrocketed over the past couple of years due to […]

03/21/2024

The “comforts” of sin may seem safer and more appealing in the fires of your trials, but they will only make your pain that much worse.

03/21/2024

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03/15/2024

Enjoy your journey.

02/29/2024

Plant metaphoric flowers. Something we all can do.

02/29/2024

02/27/2024

This is a good time to let your friends and family know that Journey Home Care is hiring for M-F days and evening shifts. A great "one on one" caregiver job.

01/25/2024

CNA's. We are hiring! One on one care. ❤️
Our agency is having significant growth right now. We are hiring for personal care and homemaker type caregivers for days, evenings, overnights, weekdays and weekends. If you enjoy caring for the elderly in their homes, we would like to hear from you. For more information, please go to www.journeyhomecare.org/careers

Journey Home Care in Topeka, KS is a non-medical, in-home care provider for people with physical and mental disabilities. Contact us to learn more.

01/21/2024

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“When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.
For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.”
Frederick Buechner - Whistling in the Dark, 1988.

Karl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955)

01/08/2024

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My parents have been making life easier for me my whole life. And given the chance, I intend to do the same for their grandchildren.

Not "easy.” My parents did not overprotect me. They did not swoop in to solve all my problems for me. They did not try to shield me from real life. They did not try to make life artificially painless.

But they made life easier. They still do.

When I text them and ask, "Do you know where I can get some good boxes to use for charitable clothing donations?" my mom shoots back, "We've got some in the attic. I'll bring them for you." And then they show up in the back seat of my car in the church parking lot. (The boxes, not my parents.)

When I'm pretty sure I've blown out the gears on my hand mixer while making a double batch of caramel buttercream, I send it (the mixer, not the buttercream) to my dad to confirm its demise, which he does...and then an hour later, an article about "best hand mixers including some that can handle bread dough" shows up in my email in-box.

When my husband and I needed backups to get busy children from where they were to where they needed to be, with dinner and a stop at home to change clothes in between, my parents jumped into the gap and kept things humming along.

They've made life easier by doing things for me that I can do for myself. (I can get my own boxes.)
They've made life easier by doing things for me I can't do for myself. (I can't add a new outlet on our enclosed front porch to plug in the string lights. But my dad can. And did. Thanks, Dad.)

I hope with all my heart to follow in their footsteps.
I intend to lighten my big kids' loads. I intend to fill in some gaps. I intend to smooth some rough edges. I intend—as much as it's within my power and for my children's good—to do what has been done to and for me. I intend to repay my parents forward.

At some point, there may be a switch. I know grown children who are now doing all they can to make life easier for their parents who can no longer make life easier for them. This is not easy at all. It is the hardest thing they've ever done. These children are trying to make life easier for parents whose minds or memories or bodies or spirits are failing. They are trying to repay love backward...to do what was done for them to and for the people who did it.

Too, I know so many grown children who do not have a story of life made easier to tell.

They have parents who made (and make) life harder for them. My heart breaks and aches for them. If this is you, my heart breaks and aches for you.

But as parents ourselves, we are still writing our stories with our children. We still have the chance to earn this telling by them: "My parents made life easier for me."

This is not enabling. This is not co-dependence. This is not stunting growth. This is relationship. This is love. This is life. It's rarely easy for long. But lived together, it can be made easier.

Chocoholic Mama