Activities at Paternoster House Care Home

Our home was full of love on Sunday 30th March in recognition of Mother’s Day and all the mothers in our home. During the week our wonderful ladies spent time reminiscing about their mother's, writing beautiful heartfelt messages of remembrance.
On the day, Angie met with all our lovely ladies to give them a personal message, each spelling 'MOTHER' from the team; 

My mother’s arms are always
Open for me
To love and
Hug me
Expecting nothing in
Return. 

Marvellously
Overflowing with love and
Touching the heart of 
Everyone she
Reaches.

With a touch of sparkle, they enjoyed a buck’s fizz, tasty cheese and crackers platter and scrumptious cup cakes.

It was a privilege to treat all our special ladies and thank them for all they do, and have done alongside the many visiting family members. Mother’s Day at Paternoster House was certainly full of love.

Our Easter Raffle donations are growing!

Today our activities team; Cathy and Angie had the pleasure of collecting scrumptious chocolate eggs and playful bunnies to add to the prize haul courtesy of Tesco. Thank you so much Michelle from Waltham Abbey Tesco Supporting our Community for this fabulous Easter gift. 

We've also received eggs from D C Poulton & Son’s Arranger Amber and Funeral Director Teresa who dropped them off in person to the home last Friday.

We had our lovely armchair fitness with Glenn from  Glenn Bowers Health and fitness this morning, our residents enjoy keeping fit alongside Glenn, they make it look so easy but our residents actually feel the benefits after there session.

Friends and family also had the experience of armchair exercise with our residents this morning.

Did you know our activities team created a weekly schedule of activities based on residents interest? Many of these activities are open to the local community to attend. Please call the activities team on 01992 787202 to find out more.

In celebration of Nutrition & Hydration week our hospitability team  went all out to entice our residents to hydrate with a banquet of fruits, juices and smoothies. As you can see it all went down a treat. 

Today we celebrated World Happiness Day by taking some of our residents on an outing to Loughton High to spread some happiness.

On route we visited Kids Inc Nurseries where we were greeted by the General Manager Chelsea Hawkins and the Deputy Manager Emily and several of the children who attend. The children presented us with beautiful yellow tulips and were very keen to tell our resident what made them happy which was mainly the colours "purple, lellow (yes lellow)  brown and blue".  In return we presented the children with Barchester's Granny & Grandpa's new home story book and keepsake Happiness book marker.  

We also visited Loughton Fire Station who were unfortunately all out on a call except for Scott who opened up the bay and allowed us all to come inside for a picture opportunity and a chat. We then proceeded along the high street distributing our home made book marks and sweets to the general public. However Violet our 100 years young resident wanted to visit every single barbers along the entire high street wishing them all a happy happiness day.

After a lovely morning walking in the sunshine we stopped at St Marys Church cafe for a well earned cuppa tea and cake where  Patrick McCarthy said "I thoroughly enjoy the morning being out and meeting people". 

We're thrilled to share that a wonderful group of our lady residents from Paternoster House enjoyed a luxurious afternoon tea at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Waltham Abbey in celebration of International Women's Day!

This special treat was generously arranged by Matthew, the son-in-law of our resident Diane, who wanted to treat his mother-in-law and several of her Paternoster House friends to a complimentary afternoon tea experience.

The ladies felt like true VIPs as they were pampered with delicious treats and elegant service in the beautiful hotel setting. There were smiles all around as they celebrated women's day together in such sophisticated style.

Days like these create precious memories that our residents will treasure. We're so grateful to Matthew and his colleagues at Delta Hotels for their thoughtfulness in arranging this delightful outing!