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We had 19 residents join in the activity room for popsicle stick bird houses and clothespin birds. These creative birdhouses are definitely worth a trip to our Facebook page to see the pictures. Tim Javorsky with Merry Makers had all the residents tapping their feet and bopping to the beat, great performance.

Westfield Quality Care of Aurora would like to wish everyone a safe Memorial Weekend. We are all blessed in so many ways and we take this time each year to remember those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for us to enjoy many of those blessings.

The National Moment of Remembrance, established by Congress, asks Americans wherever they are at 3 p.m., local time, on Memorial Day to pause in an act of national unity (duration: one minute).

I want to give a big thank you to Rose Stromer for donating the most beautiful paper flowers to help decorate our dining room tables. The residents love the flowers. Creative coloring this week was a big hit, go check out our Facebook page to see all the creative and colorful pictures that were colored.

This week the residents colored monsters that will be sent to Cardz for Kidz in Chicago. These cards will be given to kids in the hospital to help brighten their day. On the arms of the monster, it says “Sending Monster Hugs To You!”. Westfield had a Mother’s Day tea party for the ladies. We served vegetables with dip, cucumber sandwiches and mini cheesecakes.

Residents had watercolor creations this week, the butterflies are colorful and beautiful. I am always so proud of the amazing artists that live at Westfield. I can never say too much about how the residents love pet therapy. We have many animal lovers here so if anyone has a pet that they want to share with the residents let us know.
Happy Mother’s Day to all, please come visit. This is the perfect opportunity to make our residents’ day with a visit from family or friends.
Westfield made a donation box for the Aurora Adopt a Pet. We are taking donations for the animal shelter starting April 19th – May 18th. Donations can be put in the decorated box in the front entryway at Westfield Quality Care. Items that are needed: squeaky toys, cat toys, Iams mini chunks, Iams canned dog food, clumpable litter, paper towels, dish soap, laundry soap, plain milk bones, Jiaxix pet nursing bottles, feeding bottle kits, and Weighmax Electronic Kitchen Scale.

Activities for this week the residents were very busy as usual, they played name that TV show and did very well. Last week we had staff blessing us with jokes and this week it is the residents. Check out our Facebook page to see all the hilarious jokes the residents wanted to share. Bingo was a big hit and many residents came to hear Dolores Kimminau bless us with her musical talents. I want to say congratulations to our Employee of the Month – DanYel Hill. DanYel is a medication aide that works the evening shift for Westfield. Congratulations DanYel, thank you for all you do for the residents.
Westfield made a donation box for the Aurora Adopt a Pet. We are taking donations for the animal shelter starting April 19th – May 18th. Donations can be put in the decorated box in the front entryway at Westfield Quality Care. Items that are needed: squeaky toys, cat toys, Iams mini chunks, Iams canned dog food, clumpable litter, paper towels, dish soap, laundry soap, plain milk bones, Jiaxix pet nursing bottles, feeding bottle kits, and Weighmax Electronic Kitchen Scale.

If you are ready for a chuckle, go visit our Facebook page and check out the Westfield staff jokes. Why did the Clydesdale give the pony a glass of water? Because he was a little horse. Resident colored paper fans, these will be handy as the weather warms up outside. Our talented artists were back at work making stained glass paintings.

Westfield made a donation box for the Aurora Adopt a Pet. We are taking donations for the animal shelter starting April 19th – May 18th. Donations can be put in the decorated box in the front entryway at Westfield Quality Care.
Items that are needed: squeaky toys, cat toys, Iams mini chunks, Iams canned dog food, clumpable litter, paper towels, dish soap, laundry soap, plain milk bones, Jiaxix pet nursing bottles, feeding bottle kits, and Weighmax Electronic Kitchen Scale.

Westfield made a donation box for the Aurora Adopt a Pet. We are taking donations for the animal shelter starting April 19th – May 18th. Donations can be put in the decorated box in the front entryway at Westfield Quality Care.
Items that are needed: squeaky toys, cat toys, Iams mini chunks, Iams canned dog food, clumpable litter, paper towels, dish soap, laundry soap, plain milk bones, Jiaxix pet nursing bottles, feeding bottle kits, and Weighmax Electronic Kitchen Scale.
Go check out our Facebook page and see what advice our seniors have given to the seniors of 2023. The women’s group made glass gumball machines with Pom Poms and then they were treated to a back massage and cookies - - Yummm.

Activities this week at Westfield: We had several puppies join us this week for some pet therapy, we can never have too many animal visits. The residents and staff love it when we have four-legged furry friends come and visit. Another favorite activity and the residents are always requesting more is live entertainment, we had 22 residents enjoy the performance by Dolores Kimminau.

I will continue to mention this one more time, I apologize for the repeat message, but it is very important that we have amazing Easter baskets for the residents. I want to say thank you to everyone who has already donated items for the resident Easter baskets, you really do not know how much this appreciated. With that I will continue to ask for donations. Please help make our residents Easter baskets full of exciting and entertaining items. Westfield is making Easter baskets for all the residents, and we are asking for donations of word search books, adult coloring books, colored pencils and playing cards. Any donations can be dropped off at the Westfield front desk.
The residents played many games this week, they did The Price is Right, Jeopardy, and always their favorite, BINGO. We had artists at work as well coloring beautiful pictures. Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page to see all the great activities that are happening at Westfield.

I want to say thank you to everyone who has already donated items for the resident Easter baskets, you really do not know how much this appreciated. With that I will continue to ask for donations. Please help make our residents Easter baskets full of exciting and entertaining items. Westfield is making Easter baskets for all the residents, and we are asking for donations of word search books, adult coloring books, colored pencils and playing cards. Any donations can be dropped off at the Westfield front desk.

This week we had a lot of great pet therapy, the residents love it when the dogs visit. This is one of their favorite activities. Thank you for bringing up your furry four-legged friends for a visit it makes our day here. Our artists were back at work making spring watercolor paintings, check out the pictures on Facebook.