About Kaye Swain & SandwichINK

I'm Kaye Swain, the Sandwich Generation granny nanny, busy dealing with the multigenerational issues of caring for elderly parents and babysitting grandchildren and having fun writing all about it here at SandwichINK, as well as a few other sites such as SandwichINK at blogspot and SandwichINK Real Estate Info. 

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Kaye Swain

1811 N. Dixie Avenue

Suite 104 – PMB 343

Elizabethtown, KY 42701-5564

For the most part, SandwichINK has a bit of a writing schedule:

Sundays – You'll find encouraging and comforting Bible verses, uplifting praise and worship hymn songs and music, and thoughts and devotions for all of us boomers and seniors in the Sandwich Generation.  I frequently link up with Spiritual Sunday, as well as joining in for sweet devotions for Advent and Lent with Floss at Troc Broc and Recup. Both sites offer interesting and encouraging meditations, ideas, and music for all ages from kids to senior citizens.

Monday – This is my miscellaneous sort of day. If I have tech talk, I'll usually share it here – from virus warnings (unless they are major – then I might add a PS to any post) to fun with the grandkids and their delightful Webkinz Stuffed Animals – online as well as off and other topics of interest.

Tuesdays – You'll find fun photos I took with my easy to use digital camera – usually focused around the boomer and senior gardening projects my senior mom and I are doing, including fun activities for grandparents and grandchildren like the Sunflower House we grew last year. This year, we're planning on doing it again – only bigger, and maybe learning how to create a cute and simple butterfly garden. My senior mom so loves the birds, flowers and butterflies, as do her great-grandkids! For those of us who love party and theme blog posts, I have such fun joining up with Sweet Shot Tuesday which is full of creative inspiration and easy to use ideas for our picture-taking, along with REDnesday which adds such a sweet and often vintage RED seasoning to the day. And when I'm working on my on again-off again healthy weight issues, a topic of interest to many of us boomers, working hard to figure out how how people over 50 can raise their metabolism, that usually goes here too.

Wednesday – I love sharing encouraging and comforting Bible verses for all of us boomers and seniors, as well as uplifting Bible verses for the children and grandchildren. So on Wednesdays, I join up with Word-Filled Wednesday and share photos or cute country clipart, and Bible verses. You'll often find me doing a series of Bible memory verses for our kids and grandkids, combining encouraging and uplifting Bible verses for children with cute clip art, to encourage them to grow in the Lord as they hide His Word in their hearts! At other times, you might find pictures, thoughts and verses for devotions for boomers and seniors and everyone in between. It's a sweet break in the week here and at the various sites that participate.

Thursday - This is when I share important news for boomers and seniors – both serious and fun! If you are caring for elderly parents, or will be soon, be sure you check out these great resources - Good News for Boomers and Seniors – Seniors For Living Resource Guide and Good News AND Fun News for Boomers and Seniors In The Sandwich Generation! I first entered the Sandwich Generation when I was about 22, with a one-year old. My grandfather became very ill, my mom had to work, and my baby and I would spend hours at the hospital with my grandmother as she visited grandpa. After he passed away, I helped my mom care for my grandmother over the next two years. After helping other senior relatives, friends, and neighbors off and on over the years, I'm now a widow in my 50s, "flirting with my senior citizen status" (depending on what restaurant I'm in), with several sweet grandchildren, and have been caring for my elderly parents for the past 15 years. First helping them with my dad who had Parkinsons Disease, and then my senior mom after he passed away. She moved in, and we've made a great team since, as we help with babysitting grandchildren and deal with a variety of issues in our extended family including some special needs, sweet adoptions, cute twins, and more.

Friday – This is full of fun ideas for educational activities for grandparents and their grandchildren. Everything from making Resurrection Easter Eggs from their old LEGOs to fun with phonics resources and activities to great Wii games for kids (and us seniors). Not to mention, just plain having fun outside playing all kinds of tag, baseball, and more. Lots of fun, great ideas, and resources for us all to enjoy.

 

Saturday – Often quite PINK, as I love to join up with PINK Saturday, the Saturday focus is on our beloved seniors. Safety issues, low vision aids, practical talk on clothing – like those all important elastic waist jeans, and even serious talk on senior assistance housing and other difficult issues. It's a practical, fun, and sweetly pink sort of day. It's also a fun day for FAVORITES so you'll frequently find posts linking to Laurie for Favorite Things Saturday.

And then there is all the holiday party blog fun around here. I LOVE celebrating holidays, like the Valentine's Day party blog fun!  For Christmas, we thoroughly enjoyed the Holiday Progressive Blog Party at Caregiving.com. And we also have plenty of non-Holiday fun like the Ultimate Blog Party 2011 and Barb's "Show Us Your Roosters" blog party

You'll find plenty of useful information, resources, and encouragement for all the Sandwich Generation issues, here at SandwichINK, giving you a terrific "Sandwich Break," in your day. And yes, all posts at SandwichINK are written by Kaye Swain – though you will also find occasional guest posts from excellent resources that will be included in one of my posts.

As I wrote earlier, you can contact me by leaving a comment under any post, emailing me at Kaye@SandwichINK.com or find me at: 

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I'm also at a variety of other sites such as StumbleUpon and Squidoo. You can often find me by one of my two avatars – either where I'm enjoying sitting in some autumn leaves (my favorite season!), reading to two of my many sweet grandkids." (Seemed perfect as reading activities for grandparents and grandchildren are tops with my grandkids and myself.) 

OR by my brand new photo:

Thanks so much for visiting. And now, to head back to the home page, just click here or up above on SandwichINK.  

Kaye

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.