Beat Stress With These Low-Cost Hobbies
Your mom lives alone and needs help with many of her instrumental activities of daily living. You do what you can to help out, but you’re limited on time. It’s causing both of you to feel stressed. She hates feeling like a burden, and you hate that you’re busy with work, your children, and helping your mom.
Plan a day where you both take a break. Work together to find new hobbies you love. Here are some low-cost hobbies to get you started.
Quilt
In-Home Care Winter Garden, FL: Low Cost Hobbies
You don’t need a lot of money to make quilts. Scissors, a needle, and thread are enough. You can use clothing that you plan to throw away or that others are giving away. Turn those clothes into fabric squares to make quilts.
Quilts usually have batting inside, between the front and back of the quilt. Alternatives to batting include a fleece blanket, flannel sheet, or old towels also work.
Baking Bread
Homemade bread helps slash grocery bills, and it gives you control over the ingredients. You don’t need much either. Some filtered water, yeast, flour, sugar, and salt are really all you need. And, you can swap the sugar for a natural sweetener like honey or maple syrup if you’d prefer.
You can get the flour, yeast, and sugar needed to make a sourdough starter for less than $10 in many areas. From there, the sourdough starter is all you need to make new loaves of bread each week, so flour is really the main expense, and you can purchase that in bulk and save money.
Baking is a great way to ease stress. Kneading the dough helps you release tension. And, you’ll build up wrist, arm, and shoulder strength at the same time. That can be incredibly beneficial if your mom has arthritis.
Reading
Read books to ease stress. Reading is a great low-cost hobby. You can find thousands of free ebooks on Amazon and other booksellers. Authors often give away free e-books to introduce readers to their series. Plus, there’s the local library where you can borrow books or ebooks.
Journaling
You can read books, and you can write things on your own. Journaling is a great way to reduce stress. Write about your frustrations. If you’d rather write about something random, you’ll find plenty of websites with prompts. You can purchase a pen and notebook or use your computer and journal in a word processing document.
What does your mom need to maintain her independence? If her goal is to age at home, in-home care services offer the support she needs to stay in her home. Hire caregivers to help her out as needed. Know that when you visit, you’ll be able to spend quality time together because her in-home care aide has taken care of the rest.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering In-Home Care in Winter Garden, FL please contact the caring staff at Winter Garden Senior Home Care today. (407) 347-2050
Founder / Owner
Jennifer Talbot is the Co-Owner of Winter Garden Senior Home Care in Winter Garden Florida.The business opened on Plant Street in October of 2007 (formally known as Age Advantage).
Jennifer remains active in the business and enjoys personally meeting with families looking for professional, classy caregivers. She prides herself in taking the time to listen and appreciate the personalities and life experiences of people who wish to “age in place”.Her unique ability to match people with their ideal caregiver, combined with a strong sense of service is what makes her business so successful.
Mrs. Talbot is a current member and past president of the Winter Garden Rotary Club, past president of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, active West Orange Chamber member, Recipient of the “Spirit of West Orange” Award 2017, Past Business Networking International Growth Coordinator, Past Committee member and founder of South Lake’s HINT, sustainer member of the West Orange Junior Service League, past board member for AGED, advisory board member for Elder Advocates, a United States Air Force brat, and proud mother of two college graduates.
Rebecca Lanterman
Owner
Rebecca has worked in the Central Florida medical community for over 10 years.She is a native of Winter Garden, Florida andhas a driving passion to serve our seniors.It has been said that Rebecca never meets a stranger.Her experience has been in Hospice, Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Communities where she faithfully served as a community liaison helping residents and families understand the myriad of long term care and healthcare options.
Rebecca is the mom of a little guy who is the twinkle of her eye.She can often be heard telling stories of traveling all around the country pulling her camper.To Rebecca, to live life is to touch it and experience it.Growing up in Central Florida afforded her some unique experiences like being a part of the “Magic” at Walt Disney World where she was a Walt Disney World Spirit Ambassador.She feels that this early indoctrination by The Walt Disney Company helped her understand the true value of serving others.To this day, she still has some of that Pixie Dust.Rebecca has also accomplished countless marathons and triathlons. After the sudden loss of her dad, her training partner, in 2012 she stepped away from the sport.But, as time has passed and healing has taken place, she is back to pursuing their dreams again.This time, her dad, her trusty training partner is keeping pace in her heart.It is from that willingness and drive that Rebecca has a keen understanding of the arduous and often treacherous course that our families are on.And, she is here to come along beside you and be with you each step, each stride, and each hurdle.It’s the old adage “life is a marathon and not a sprint”.She is here along with the team at Winter Garden Senior Home Care to be a part of your journey.
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