There is nothing stronger than the love between a mother and her child, and this story is the perfect example of how strong the bond between mother and child truly is. 98-year-old Ada Keating has decided to join her eldest son Tom, 80, in Moss View care home in Liverpool in order to look after and to take care of him, and their relationship is a beautiful one to see.
Ada Keating is a former auxiliary nurse and had four children with her late husband, Harry. Tom, being the oldest, followed by Barbara, Margi, and their youngest, Janet who passed at 13.
Tom never married and instead always lived with his mom in Wavertree, Liverpool. Before he retired, Tom worked as a painter and decorator with HE Simm building services.
Tom had to transfer to a care home named Moss View in Liverpool because of his increasing need for care and support. While his mother is 18 years older than him, it did not take Ada long to decide that she would also move into the care facility in order to help take care of her son.
She joined her son in Moss View shortly after and has looked after him ever since.
They continue to be inseparable, and both mother and son love to spend a lot of time together, whether it is playing games or watching Emmerdale on TV.
“I say goodnight to Tom in his room every night and I’ll go and say good morning to him. I’ll tell him I’m coming down for breakfast. When I go out to the hairdressers he’ll look for me to see when I’m coming back. When I get back he’ll come to me with his arms outstretched and give me a big hug.”
Tom expressed his genuine happiness about how things are going as well;
“They’re very good here and I’m happy to see my mum more now she lives here. She’s very good at looking after me. Sometimes she’ll say ‘Behave yourself!’”
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Philip Daniels, the manager of Moss View care home had this to say about the lovely duo;
“It’s very touching to see the close relationship both Tom and Ada share and we are so pleased we were able to accommodate both of their needs. It’s very rare to see mothers and their children together in the same care home and we certainly want to make their time together as special as possible.”
Their family and relatives also visit them regularly at the care home.
“There’s no parting them! It’s reassuring for us that they’re both getting looked after 24/7,” Ada’s granddaughter, Debi Higham, said.
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Debi and the rest of the family are happy that their grandma and their uncle Tom are together in the same care home.
As Ada lovingly said, “You never stop being a mum.”
If you have a mother or a son that you love, make sure you let them know this week how much you truly love them. Life is a beautiful journey, and tomorrow is never promised, so tell the ones in your life that you love them, today.
Personality tests are fun to take, and when they reveal something insightful or interesting about your personality, they are even more fun. Similar to how inkblot tests have been used to evaluate personalities in the realm of psychology, what we first visualize when looking at an image can be telling about how our mind and emotions function.
Take a look at the image. What do you first see?
Here Is What It Says About Your Current Situation In Life:
The Crocodile
If you first saw a crocodile, it shows that you are practical. You’re probably looking at the bigger picture in life, focused on work while staying to the picture you have in your mind as to how things will turn out. Practical people are the ones who omit or look past seemingly useless and unimportant details for the sake of reaching larger goals which are more important to them.
Practical people tend to care about the function more than the experience of objects and certain aspects of life. For example, you probably have a decent amount of old books you like to read even if they are stained or tattered, or have some old CDs or records you still like even if they are scratched, and likely have clothes you often enjoy wearing even if they have some slight wear and tear. Small details are of little importance when it comes to the fact that these things can still function just fine, even if they’re not perfect.
Those who saw the crocodile tend to not procrastinate and usually have something meaningful that they are working on. While your ideas are many, when you focus on and listen to your heart, truly great things are able to emerge in your life, such as volunteering at a meaningful charity, excelling at the work that you do, or spending time with a loved one who needs help and being able to fix certain areas in their life in an amazingly short period of time. Your ability to see the bigger picture gets things working smoothly, and you should be proud of it.
The Boat
If you saw a boat at first, you have an amazing eye for small details and few things escape your notice.
While most people are at first drawn to the picture of the crocodile, an animal that can sometimes have fear associated with it, you first saw the boat with two people in it, likely having an enjoyable and positive experience.
Your ability to find the good side even in difficult situations is unique, and your creativity can be a source of your strength.
Your current circle of friends likely depend on you when they face difficult times in their lives, as your resilience and positive attitude help them to keep going and to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Your ability to encourage others is truly beautiful, and many of those closest to you are truly grateful for it, even if they don’t always tell you.
When you keep a focus on self-compassion and on the love in your heart, your positive nature can truly flourish, and aspects of your personality will bloom into a beautiful and artistic mosaic of the real you.
If you haven’t considered expressing your creative and artistic self, now would be a good time, and when it comes from a place of love, be sure that many people are going to positively respond to it.
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” you may have heard your parents say, and wonderful things can happen to your body if your breakfast includes oatmeal. This complex carbohydrate and super grain is a healthy source of nutrition and has some amazing health benefits.
For thousands of years, humans have harvested oats as a food source and also for different types of medicine. Oatmeal has been used to heal the skin, to improve digestion and alleviate intestinal illness, to help certain nervous system issues, and uterine complaints, and many others.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BODY WHEN YOU EAT OATMEAL EVERY DAY:
Nutritional Benefits Of Eating Oatmeal Every Day
One small cup of oatmeal contains 26 grams of protein, and just one tiny quarter-cup serving of this whole grain gives you near to 100% of your recommended daily need of manganese.
Oatmeal contains many very healthy antioxidants; vitamin E, selenium, tocotrieonols, phenolic acids and phytic acid. Not only does oatmeal provide complex carbohydrates, but being a whole grain it is more nutritious than refined grains such as corn flakes and white bread.
Whole grains contain more fiber, as well as B vitamins and other important and valuable nutrients that the body needs which are lost during grain processing in factories. Some of these healthy nutrients found in oatmeal are Vitamin B1, Biotin, Copper, Molybdenum, Phosphorus and Magnesium, as well as many . other phytonutrients.
Changes You Can See In Your Body When You Eat Oatmeal Every Day
One of the greatest health benefits that comes with eating oatmeal as part of your breakfast is its great potential to prevent obesity and weight gain. Oatmeal is a grain that when added with water and consumed, gives a feeling of satiety, that feeling of satisfaction of your hunger.
Oatmeal causes you to feel full faster than other foods, and helps you to to feel full for longer periods of time. The body takes longer to break down complex carbs, and during this process excellent amounts of low-level energy are delivered to your body, helping sustain you for the day’s activities. The slower digestion means that this energy will last, helping you avoid hunger cravings as the fiber helps to keep your stomach feeling full for a longer period of time.
The oatmeal we eat in the morning has a low-glycemic impact (GI), providing a good source of energy for the early hours of our day, without a dramatic increase or drop in blood sugar. Maintaining lower blood sugar levels for extended periods of time can help our bodies to regulate insulin usage.
Oatmeal’s low GI naturally helps to avoid cravings due to a drop in blood sugar. When we experience less cravings, we are less likely to reach for our favorite, and often less than healthy, comfort foods.
One of the biggest points to note about choosing to eat oatmeal daily is the amazing daily caloric impact it can have for you. In a study comparing high-GI breakfast foods to low-GI breakfast foods, oatmeal was discovered to prevent people from over-consuming calories during their later meals, leading to a daily caloric reduction of up to as much as 81%. The natural dieting effects of eating oatmeal can be powerful, simply because we feel less hungry throughout the day after eating it.
Most of the low calorie and low fat diet foods that people eat when dieting do not help us to feel full, but rather leave us still feeling hungry. But oatmeal can bring that warm, satisfied, content and not-hungry feeling that has our stomach signal to our brain that we are all set on food, and causing us to eat less throughout the day. This daily decrease in cravings and the body’s need for calories will result in surprising and healthy natural weight loss and fat reduction in your body.
Quaker makes a trusted and delicious organic oatmeal that can be found here.
Other Health Benefits Of Eating Oatmeal Every Day
Slimming down is great, and there are even more wonderful health benefits that come with eating oatmeal for breakfast. According to The World’s Healthiest Foods.org, a non-profit with over 35 million followers who uses science based only health data for recommending foods, here are other research based benefits that come with eating oatmeal:
* Lower cholesterol
* Less risk of cardiovascular disease
* Lower risk of heart failure
* Improved immune response
* Stabilize blood sugar and reduce risk of type 2 diabetes
* Excellent source of fiber which protects against breast cancer
* Whole grains protect against childhood asthma
* Safe grain alternative for celiac disease sufferers or those who are avoiding gluten in their diets
* Extend life expectancy
What You Need To Know About Oat Processing
Whole oats are processed in different ways before they become our morning healthy goodness that we enjoy for breakfast. Instant oatmeal packets tend to come with added sugars, while oatmeal that comes in larger bags tend to be sugar-free. Many of us already have too much sugar in our diets, so by choosing plain flavored oatmeal you can control how much sugar you consume with your daily oatmeal. Add your own amount of sugar, fruit, or even better, stay natural and add some honey to it for a wonderful flavor.
As with all foods, those with specific health conditions may not receive the benefits of oatmeal, such as people who have gout. If you have current health concerns, speak with your health care professional before making changes to your diet.
As for oatmeal processing, instant oatmeal often also contains extra sodium as well as food additives which keep the oatmeal lasting longer on the shelves, but as any chemical goes, is not healthy for the body to consume. While instant oatmeal will still give you all of the amazing health benefits listed above, here is a list of the different types of oats that can make your daily breakfast of oatmeal even better:
Here is some useful information about oat processing:
Oat groats: unflattened kernels that are good for using as a breakfast cereal or for stuffing
Steel-cut oats: featuring a dense and chewy texture, they are produced by running the grain through steel blades that thinly slices them.
Old-fashioned oats: have a flatter shape that is the result of their being steamed and then rolled.
Quick-cooking oats: processed like old-fashioned oats, except they are cut finely before rolling
Instant oatmeal: produced by partially cooking the grains and then rolling them very thin.
Oat bran: just the outer layer of the oat grain that resides under the hull.
Any of these choices can make a wonderful meal, but as we all know with food, the less it is processed, the higher nutritional value and less chemicals it has.
Steel-cut oats is a great place to start for a healthy and balanced oatmeal breakfast.
Look for creative ways to enjoy adding oatmeal to your breakfast. Many people add different types of fruit such as blueberries or strawberries instead of sugar to make it extra delicious.
Also try adding oatmeal to a shake or a smoothie combined with your favorite yogurt.
Oatmeal can also be added to your regular baking recipes, such as muffins, bread and cookies.
Oatmeal can substitute as the grain in just about any meal you cook, so now that you’ve learned all of the amazing health benefits that come with eating it daily, consider adding it to your daily diet as much as you can. Enjoy the benefits of eating oatmeal daily and enjoy seeing how grateful your body becomes as well.
The Veterans Community Projectin Kansas City has taken some beautiful steps of compassion to improve the lives of homeless veterans. Generous donations from community members helped to make possible the construction of the Veterans Village; a collection of small houses that homeless veterans can live in for free.
The houses were designed similar to personal studios; to be space efficient and to also include everything a person could need. Measuring 12 feet by 20 feet, the housing designs have allowed for more space and for more houses to be placed on an unused plot of land in Kansas City. While they originally planned to build 30 of these wonderfully kind houses, they were able to fit and create 50. The village’s community atmosphere will help veterans feel less isolated.
The formerly homeless veterans live there for free and are provided with food and daily necessities, as well as a much earned and much needed sense of privacy, security, and stability in their lives. The group has planned for nearby classes to be held in a local community center which will help the veterans adjust to having a home and also to help them cope with their previous traumas from war.
Homelessness, and suicide, are both two very tragic and difficult things that happen in large percentages to American veterans. Many stereotypes exist concerning the reasons for why people become homeless, some being that they are lazy, don’t want to work, or are not valid members of society. Yet the compassionate who have experience working with the homeless and with homeless veterans have seen a different story: They have seen lovable human beings who were once young men and women signing up to serve their country. They have heard the awful war stories these young Americans faced, and the nightmares they live day after day as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) constantly haunts them and their feelings, sometimes causing panic attacks and disproportionate reactions when doing something as simple as sitting at a bus stop.
They have listened with love, as these brave young men and women tell of the neglect, judgment, criticism that society has given them after they’ve returned, emotionally and often physically wounded from war. When people start to truly understand the difficult lives and experiences that the homeless have had, their hearts begin to have a natural response of love and of wanting to help them.
The Veteran’s Community Project is made up of what they describe as, “veterans helping veterans”, and has been involved in many projects which seek to end homelessness and neglect in veteran communities. Their idea of building tiny economical homes for the homeless has been very well received so far.
Aside from the wonderful benefits of having a new home, a food pantry is available, and free bus passes are given to every veteran in the area, homeless or not.
Marine veteran Kevin Jamison who is the Project Operations Officer of the VCP, left a law firm he worked for to devote his time to the Veterans Village project. He even put up his own house as a collateral to cover the loan needed for the Veterans Outreach Center.
He expressed the VCP’s desire to help veterans which is the group’s main goal. “We couldn’t sit still. We wanted to start helping veterans. It’s that simple,” he said.
Other nonprofit agencies in the area have reached out to the VCP in order to set up partnerships with them and to help them succeed.
If you see or encounter a homeless person this week, take a minute to remember that this person is someone’s brother, someone’s son, someone’s daughter or someone’s sister. Remember that they’ve likely had a very difficult life, one probably harder than we can understand, and that they deserve just as much love as any other person on Earth. Try and share something with them; whether it’s food, water, or even just a smile and an acknowledgment that they are loved. Your kindness can change the world.
Watch This Heartwarming Video Of Kansas City’s Tiny Village For Homeless Veterans:
If you believe you have excellent vision and attention to detail, then put it to the test in this fun visual quiz. It tests how quickly you’re able to find the difference between two almost identical pictures. Keeping your mind active and healthy is important, so see how closely you pay attention to detail and try to spot all of the differences in the pictures below! (The answers are at the bottom 🙂 )
1. Spot the difference between these images!
2. Find the difference!
3. Spot the difference!
4. Doing great, can you find this one?
5. Can you find the difference?
Were you able to find all of the differences? Let us know in the comments. Your visual ability and speed becomes better each time you try. We hope you enjoyed this uplifting and fun visual exercise. You are loved.
