Planting the seeds with my 2 1/2 year old twin granddaughters

(Chapter 23 Living with a memory impairment and being a Nana in my book)

Recently I was spending some time with my twin granddaughters and I realized that I have started letting them know that sometimes I forget things. This is something that just kind of happened because I really hadn't planned on doing it. For example: when I fed them dinner, I asked each of them, “do you want cheese pizza or pepperoni?” One of my granddaughters said that she wanted cheese and the other one said she wanted pepperoni. I heated up some of both kinds of pizza, but I had already forgotten which granddaughter wanted what. When the pizza came out of the oven, I told them, “Nana forgot who wanted which kind of pizza so they told me their choices again. After it had cooled a little, I put the pizza on the plates and handed them the pizza that they wanted.

I think that as my granddaughters get older, I will be letting them know a little bit about my memory problems. I am not sure if I will be planning this or it will just happen naturally.

I'm very grateful that my granddaughters will never know me before the mild cognitive impairment symptoms. Hopefully I will always keep the MCI diagnosis which means that they won't have to make any adjustments. The way they know me is how I will be throughout their lives.