Show your appreciation and win a cruise for your parent's caregiver!

To you, it's about finding trustworthy care for your aging loved one. To Home Instead Senior Care, it's about providing the highest-quality in-home care services to fit you and your family's needs. They recognize the dedication and love it takes to care for a loved one, but also the stresses that can come along with it.

That's why Home Instead Senior Care is giving one lucky caregiver hero a free, 5-day cruise - and while they're gone, Home Instead Senior Care will provide professional care for their loved one! And if you are nominating a friend, family member, neighboor, or maybe even yourself, you could win a laptop and camcorder!  Enter here for the Caregiver Cruise Sweepstakes!

Home Instead Senior Care asked five bloggers to share their memories and appreciation for the special caregiver that has touched their life.  Read how these caregivers have helped bloggers restore balance, order, and peace to their lives.

The Crayon Wrangler shares that "in less than a year, my father-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and my mother-in-law was diagnosed with heart disease, eye problems and lung problems. We were the only ones in the extended family that had the ability to provide what they needed." Continue reading about how her family has drawn closer together in this time of crisis.

Red Stapler confides that she's struggling with her new role that she has taken on while caring for her father. "He has taken a dislike to the mail-order pharmacy. Do I overrule him and order from the place he doesn’t like to save us both money and time?" Read what other obstacles she's encountering.

Sparks and Butterflies admits that she has "a couple of ulcers. I tested negative for the bacteria that causes them. Which means I got them through stress, baby. Caregiving is hard. It's demanding, stressful, depressing, and heartbreaking." Continue reading why despite this, she wouldn't have it any other way. 

Retro-Food shares that caregiving for her mother is hard. "It isn’t just the physical pushing of the wheelchair and helping bathe and dress. It is balancing someone else’s schedule in your mind. It is learning to live with another member of the household." Find out the other ways Retro-Food and her family are transitioning to grandma moving in.

Creating Motherhood shares "most days it is a mystery as to what Grandmother will know. Will she know how to dress herself? Will she know my name? Will she remember how to walk?" Read why Creating Motherhood still feels these final moments with her grandmother are precious and fragile.

 Don't forget to nominate your special caregiver for a free, 5-day cruise and give yourself the chance to win a laptop and camcorder!!  Enter here for the Caregiver Cruise Sweepstakes!