Last December some of the Winsome Family members contributed their New Year's resolutions to my blog. Cindy's was to do one thing each week to cheer up the elderly. And she's been keeping up with it. She has even been posting weekly updates on my blog. For those of you who have been off conducting experiments and have missed some of her updates, here is a recap of what she has done so far.
Week 1: Cindy helped take down Christmas decorations at the Birch Street Nursing Home.
Week 2: She scraped some gum off the park bench so the elderly would have a clean place to spend their days.
Week 3: She made up a fun dance routine and performed it for the elderly at the park. One old man liked it so much he asked her to do it again, but slower.
Week 4: While Sniffles, Mr. Pearlman's guide dog, was mending at the vet again, she helped out as a substitute, leading Mr. Pearlman around.
Week 5: Cindy smiled throughout Mrs. Shimshack's entire tale of her youth.
Week 6: She put on a puppet show at the Birch Street Nursing Home using some of the invalids' socks.
Week 7: She stayed up way past midnight talking on the phone with Mr. Matthews so he wouldn't feel lonely on the anniversary of his wife's death.
Week 8: She removed all the hair from Mrs. Shimshack's necklace.
Week 9: She helped scrub those hard-to-reach places on Mr. Pearlman's back.
Week 10: Cindy took Mrs. Chang on a nice long nature hike. This also gave Mrs. Chang's family the time they needed to pack up her belongings.
Week 11: She went to the Birch Street Nursing Home and changed all the patients' clocks for daylight-saving time. Many of them seemed surprised to learn they'd lost another hour. But she assured them it was true.
Week 12: Cindy went to the Birch Street Nursing Home and covered the patients' medicine bottles with smiley face stickers.
Week 13: She turned Hazel's chair so it faces the window.
