YES,
Harriet... oh to be a size 10 and KNOW one could order a size 10 and it would be RIGHT. All your thinking process is the exact reason why I have no swim suit at the time. And I do need one, since the dgrands will need to go swimming more and the pool membership is actually in dh & my names.
And
Elizabeth's TALKER on the phone!!!
Oh my goodness. I thought I was a talker... * whew *
Dmom and I have spent over two hours on the phone during the last two days. I imagine (like myself) she is nervous re: prospect of surgery sooner rather than later, but oh my goodness... I am just about to lose my mind. She is afraid to drive in Next Town anymore. She has taken a double dose of meds at some point, and she took 4 small capsules from another day, without taking the rest of that day's portion. Yet here I am, agreeing to let her try fixing them again herself.
Yep, I have lost my mind. Then she calls to say she has lost her debit card. I do NOT know what to do with her... I cannot face having to "supervise" her daily at this point, you know? And she would have to have another scary hospitalization before she would ever consider moving closer to me or having daily help. MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE the surgery WILL be soon, MAYBE it WILL relieve some of the pain that has to be keeping her mind preoccupied, and MAYBE three weeks of socialization and supervision and routines in the ass't living will do her some good.
She said today that the ass't living really sounds nice, and "I might never leave." Hah. I doubt that! She'll be demanding to come home waaay before I'm ready for her to leave.
I definitely understand the need for a nap after toddler care,
Harriet. I will be lucky to stay awake till I get mine home from swimming tomorrow. Of course, dmom will be with me, unless she backs out, so she will keep the conversation going. No sleeping when she's around -- unless SHE is sleeping too -- which is highly unlikely in the car with two children!
When we got home today, dgd slept for several HOURS. DGS, not a second.
Toddler C is already three, right,
Harriet? When is her birthday again? I ask b/c I would sooo love if my dgd would start being critical of something! She tries to say a few words, but she still says NOTHING plain enough to understand except Da-da, Mama, Nana, No, and just in the last couple days, Yes. She will sing some little songs, and you can tell by the phrases and the tune what the song is, but no one could make out the words on their own.
She loves the water, though, so swimming lessons are fun even if she doesn't master the skill needed this year. DGS is LOVING swimming this year -- he still needs some assistance, but he isn't one tiny bit slow to jump off the diving board. (He just wants to be sure Miss A is there to catch him. But last year, we had to actually push him in, he was so afraid. He wanted us to push him -- he wanted to jump, but he was too afraid.) The rest of this week and next week, and maybe he will be able to swim his way to the side of the pool and we won't have to worry constantly about him drowning if we're near the water, you know.
Harmony -- I'm so sorry I misunderstood your earlier post -- continued prayers for a good visit when you do get to see this new doctor!
LadyM, what do you recommend for window coverings? I have mini blinds in the kitchen, dining room, and baby room, with curtains also in the baby room. All my other windows have the old-fashioned roller shades, and they are not without their problems also. Some of them don't work at all anymore. * Another obstacle to window cleaning!
DH & I love election day, too,
Kathryn. Fortunately, in our local primaries this week, we were happy with the winners. Of course, nothing is final till November.
Do things while stuff isn't falling apart because once it is falling apart you won't be able to do the things you were to do.
My late dmil pretty much lived by this motto, and it was a very good motto indeed. She would be so horrified to see how ds & ddil keep her house & shrubs now. BUT -- she would be a thousand times more happy to know they WERE keeping it, you know. We seriously doubt that either of dbil's children will ever live within a 100 miles of us again. For dnephew, probably not within a 1000!
We're going to another movie tonight. (The Atlanta Braves are either not playing, or they are on the west coast -- dh's schedule is determined directly by the Braves' schedule.) Last night's was kinda off-color, funny, but not a great movie. I'm kinda embarrassed to tell y'all what we saw.
Action Point -- it's a Johnny Knoxville movie, if that tells you anything. It's kinda like... well... imagine this -- the Three Stooges run a rinky-dink amusement park, and they are all alcoholics and use a lot of four-letter words. Yeah.
I think tonight we're going to see
Ocean's 11 -- or whatever # they are this time -- the girl-version of the con-game group.