No timers for me today, but I am trying to be busy -- although I got a late start.
Yesterday, I was AWOL all day b/c of first one thing and then another.
First -- at 8:00 a.m., which is NOT my wake-up time -- Life Alert called and said dmom had fallen and she was okay, dneighbor had helped her up, this was just a courtesy call...
So I got up and called dmom, and yes, she sounded like she was okay, but she was still without AC! FIVE DAYS, and the heat index around here has been at/or above 100 lately. So I texted dcousin, whose d?h had SAID he was coming to fix it TODAY, and tried to stress how important it was, that I was getting afraid dmom was getting dehydrated, etc... AND I texted the husband/repairman but had low expectations that he would reply.
I was trying to let dh sleep in, b/c his bp had been over 180 and approaching 190, and we were pretty nervous about him also, so I lay back down on the couch and slept a while longer.
Next, after another call from dmom, about nothing, dgd showed up and she and I went to the post office. The better to let dh sleep.
ANOTHER call w/dmom and I decided to go get her some Gatorade and a pick up a rx for Zofran (she said she was a little nauseated) and take that to her.
So dgd and I ended up staying at dmom's (where the thermostat said 86 degrees) until about 1:00 pm, maybe later. Repairman DID show up while we were there, and by the time I finished supper, I called dmom back and she was beginning to feel somewhat cooler in the house. I haven't talked to her today.
* WHEW *
Today, dh was up at 8:00 b/c he had (foolishly?) agreed to play golf at 9:00 a.m. He said maybe the exercise would help his bp, and I thought maybe some time away from home and the little ones and everything, with some adult conversation for a change, would be helpful too.
He's home now, hot and exhausted, but at least he survived, right?
I have sheets in the washer, and dgs has been over to open his presents. I cannot believe this child is SIX YEARS OLD.
Six years ago, y'all were telling me it was all going to be okay, and I was going to love being a grandmother, and I'd be a wonderful grandmother...
and I just couldn't believe you.... LOL...
Y'all have seen me through a tremendous number of insane panic attacks.Now I can't imagine what we did before he was born! And I don't know where I rank on the grandmother scale, but I think these two would give me an "A" -- so that's all that matters.
So -- I've got to go flip the laundry and vacuum up a bunch of lady bugs that dgs uncovered when he played on the window seat in the bay window. It is a ladybug morgue.
I will cuop in a bit.
Missing
KATHRYN... and thinking of a bunch of others that have fallen by the wayside it seems...
helia...
MysteryWoman...
others that have crossed my mind lately... I certainly hope we never lose this little village in cyberspace that has helped all of us in so many ways.