Moving On Monday

[DeeClutter]

I would love to cuop but not sure I can. I've had a terrible time with internet. DD had B right H ouse here a couple of days ago and the guy could find NO PROBLEM! Just thought I'd do a quick post and then will see if I can cuop -several days of it -or for as long as I can stay online. Have a church council meeting on S kype tonight so hoping it'll work.

Picked up dgd from school only to learn that the principal will be calling dd tomorrow. Seems dgd punched another student today. She never mentioned it and she's not suspended so not sure what that all will amount to. Interesting. I never mentioned it after the teacher told me -before dgd came out.
I just managed to copy what I’d typed before the internet went out again. So now I’m doing in Word and hope to copy in a reply later. Arrgghhh!
Sent a letter to my Dr. up home today asking her to send me prescriptions for all my meds. None of mine are showing online but dh’s are. Crazy.
DD came out to the car to meet us tonight to show us an ultrasound on her phone. Surprise! DS-A and DDIL (who had baby Zoe last April) are expecting a boy in July. DD asked her last week how long she had to keep this secret. They were trying to wait long enough for an ultrasound to show that all is well. To say we’re shocked is an understatement! So far everything looks really good and DDIL is feeling really well as well. So different from the pg with Zoe. They know it’s a boy and have given him the name, Chance, because they feel they’ve been given a 2nd Chance. DD wants to give her a shower the end of April and thus the reason for her wanting to go home with me. Aha!
DD and dh are going to her TSA competition in Amelia Island (northern FL) next week –for 5 days. I’m dreading time with dgd. Hope things go well here. At least DSIL will be around.
DH is going deep sea fishing tomorrow with the owner of our campground up north, his father and his son and 2 other people. It’s a 2 ½ hour drive from here however and they’re leaving the dock at 8:30am. Sounds like a very early morning to me and too long a drive.
DH is really enjoying his K indle F ire! Been loading several web sites on it for him. And of course he uses it for Sudoko.
Realized you’re on your cruise, Kathryn. Hope the rest of it goes well for you. We’re still thinking on one for this fall with DD & DSIL (and possibly dgd –if she’s still around).
Going to try to post this.

[helia]

Well, I dawdled 2 hours this afternoon as I finished season 1 of Downton Abbey. Some things were concluded, others were not. . . but, I wasted 2 hours this afternoon. Other than that, I have:
-finished the a.m. routine
-gotten 2 lols washed, 1 dried
-helped minimally with the new stove delivery. This time, it is the correct model as the model # is clearly labelled on the outside of the box -- in contrast to the last company we worked with.
-made a menu plan and groc. list
-gone to the groc. store - put everything away
-picked up dd13 from school
-took care of a small organizational issue in the moms group
-emailed w/ dfriend who is having a hard time now
-kept email communication going btwn. different parties as plans for an Austin, TX small group reunion in April are taking shape. Dfriends in Austin, the ones who showed us around Aosta, Italy, hadn't been informed of the plans yet
*-made some DPCs - I'm particularly proud of myself for this. I hate phone calls and procrastinate them horribly. Today, I have made medical appts. for ds and dd16 and called a couple Universities re: financial aid instructions. We're not sure we have even received all of our info in the mail yet, and deadlines are either past or coming up soon. Actually, ds won't make it into 2 of the Universities (I seriously doubt) and one is so over-the-top expensive - and w/out much in the way of need-based or merit scholarships - that I don't think it is a real possibility. We have to ask ourselves with each University: Is its quality of education really $_______ better than UMich? Of course, there is the question of to what extent does ds want to leave town.. . . It will be good when the decision has been made and everything settled.

Next:
-update laundry
-find boxes in the garage attic
-start packing up the 2 upstairs bathrooms -- demolition for the remodel starts tomorrow morning. Fortunately, there's not much in either bathroom; they certainly are not cluttered.
-check w/ ds re: our dinner date - tonight or tomorrow night

I hope you're all having a good day. I'm sorry I can't be more social!

[Harmony]

What is that s p i d e r name I see at the bottom of the page?

Been busy here, or lazy, or both!

Yesterday it turned very cold and weather news said it was supposed to freeze. So I covered all the plants and guess what...they missed the temp by about 20 deg. It was a lot of work in cold wind I didn't need to do. Anyway, better to be prepared than lose all the plants.

Kathryn, enjoying your travel reports.

Today I had to run stuff to jobsite, then out to get new belt for broken dryer at rental. DH is on his way over there now to install it. Appliance place said it was a belt manufacturers have been using for over 30 years. Good, this dryer is 20 years old and we can still get parts.

Just been doing basic stuff, desk chores as usual, did the last of the 2011 filings, and got some groceries. Other than that, sewing. Got a new thimble which I love love love as it helps a lot and keeps my fingers from hurting so much. Old thimble maybe wasn't made for the way I was using it.

Stomach queasy a little today. I'm trying to get off coffee and I think my body is screaming for caffeine. I've had a little this AM but that will be it for the day. I don't know if this will work, but I'm trying.

Indiana, I'm so glad to read you are feeling better.
Dee, good luck with your time alone with DGD. I sure wish they'd get your insurance on track.

BBL

[OKay]

Usually I CUOP then post if I have time, but this time I am posting then i will cuop later,

LynnLee - Thank you for sharing your DChildren experience with the symptoms LO has. That knowledge made me take action this morning. A local boy recently died from asthma so the possibility LO has it hit the ACTION NOW button.

The doctor office had just received a cancellation so we were able to get LO into to see the doc within 2 hours. Said the coughing could be from the virus and sometimes it last 6 weeks! Also said we have to watch for asthma that could have been triggered by the virus. We came home with 10 days of steroids for LO to take.

While in town i stopped by Golden Corral and filled up 3 take out containers for DParents. I got them a wide assortment of food to choose from. I know they are tired of being stuck inside with this cold weather and visits are the only thing that breaks up the boredom. With clearance from LO doctor he was able to visit DParents for the first time in over 4 weeks. I'm not sure who was happier - LO or The Greats to see each other. But I am 100% sure they were happier to see LO then they were to see all that food.

Yesterday was deadline on legal matter. I called lawyer office this morning and they haven't received the judge-ordered paperwork yet but are giving it to COB today since yesterday wasn't a week day. Waiting....waiting....waiting....

[Twins' Mom]

I got dmom to PT today - first time was 1/2 hr of paperwork and then an hour of PT (actually OT, altho I'm not sure of differences?) Took a long time and then she needed to go by a jewelry store because her watch battery was down also.

By the time I checked in at the office at 3:30, the IT guy didn't have my computer going so I took off for the rest of the day to let him sort it out.

Hoping I can get in a good day tomorrow - we have a winter weather advisory for tonight so may be running later in the morning.

[lucylee]

OHHHH!!! I am sooo excited for Dee & family w/baby Chance on the way!!! Congratulations!
OTOH... ((((BIG HUGS)))) re: Internet woes... and continuing saga with insurance... and upcoming time w/dgd... * whew * Wonder how things will turn out when dd talks to principal about the latest incident?


(((LO))) (((OKay))) Steroids should make him feel lots better soon... but he'll have even MORE energy, won't he? A mixed blessing, I imagine...

WTG, helia, w/handling all the phone calls. How does ds feel about leaving town for college? That is a good question -- Is University of X ____ dollars better than UMich? I have always thought UM would be a highly respected school... but if he just desperately wants to get out of town and feel more independent... then that has to be a deciding factor, too, doesn't it?
DS here felt he never really had much choice... had to go to AU or dh's family would have acted like the world was ending, I guess.

So good to be traveling vicariously w/you, Kathryn! Hope all the little irritations solve themselves or go away soon! As far as hypoallergenic products go, what are the chances of finding what you need when you're stopped at one of the tourist stops?

Ooohhh... (((Lilac)))... internet security breach sounds scary! Hope y'all get that straightened out quickly!!!

Glad you feel better, Nancy!

Sounds like you're being very productive AND having fun, MT! Very good to get rid of snake hideouts!!!

Waving to Twins... Harmony... bsweet... Indiana... and EVERYONE else!!!

Watching for a little snow here tonight, too... but nothing major expected. Valentine's Day plans... hmmm... wonder if we'll even make it to a "sit down" restaurant? Tonight we're eating frozen dinners/misc from our Wmart trip.

[Harriet]

Have been able to scan posts and several I need to read over, especially Dee's, so glad she could get posted.

Meaningful Day!
The Museum of the Bible exhibit was really amazing and humbling. All four of us (dcousin, ds26, dd13 and I) were able to make it and ds26 got us there in his luxury truck (smile) with 5 or 10 minutes to spare. Beautiful weather. The site, a newly built non-denominational Protestant seminary, was beautiful. The music piped in throughout the 3 room exhibit, which included the huge sanctuary, was Gregorian chant. The newspaper had been wrong and they did NOT allow photography after all. It was explained to us that we would be viewing some documents so recently uncovered that they had not yet even been photographed by the curators.

As we entered, one of the docents who travels with the exhibit explained to us that although all docents' flights to Rome were for 6 o'clock in the morning, the exhibit would not be boxed up (crated up?) until the last ticket-holder had had all the time they needed to view. We arrived at 11:30 and left at 1:15, so we definitely spent more than an hour viewing it all, plus waiting time and a bit of time at a tiny gift space at the end, where I bought us each a commemorative bookmark.

I thought over and over of so many of you, Kathryn's preaching for instance, even mentioning to our group helia (as we all stared at the columns of Hebrew on the ancient skins of various animals) and Twins Mom (I knew that the textile cover of a Torah was a "Mantle" before we reached the description). We walked through from right to left, since Hebrew is read from right to left. We began the exhibit with amazing Torahs and scrolls. One Torah was from Iberia at the time of the Spanish Inquisition; there was The Westminster Scroll on sheepskin, rescued by the Allies and taken from Nazi Germany to Westminster Cathedral; a Romanian scroll burned by the Socialists, and Polish burned Torah scrolls from the Holocaust. The embroidered Mantle was on a Polish calfskin scroll. There was one Tas (silver protector for a Torah) that had been burned and then restored, and then deliberately burned again by the Nazis. Dd13 scrutinized it and says that the emblem was 2 rampant lions.

In the sanctuary we were able to view parts of The Dead Sea Scrolls, which was just amazing to me. Also cartonage (the papier-mache interior of first-century mummy masks, also on view) which was made from discarded papyrus. So Gospel scriptures that had been unimportant at the time to Egyptians were preserved inside gilt masks in tombs. (Wild, huh?) That was dd's favorite part.

Then we began to see book-like or at least paged scriptures. Several New Testament Papyrus. There was a portion of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, 6th century Old and New Testaments, in Palestinian Aramaic. The entire CCR in the collection could not be present under the same roof because insurers wouldn't underwrite it (yikes) but will all be displayed when it gets to the Vatican. There were Latin New Testaments; an Ethiopian New Testament written in Ge'ez language; the "Paris Bible" (Paris Vulgate, 1230) which was the first Bible to be chaptered; a leaf of the Gutenberg. (At this point I was frantic to express the significance to ds and dd! )

Then a Wycliffe NT, a Cloverdale Bible, The Tyndale Pentateuch, and a "Great Bible" ("The Byble in Englyshe"), which was smaller, interestingly, than the largest Bible we saw, the 1568 Bishop's Bible. The Geneva Bible, 1560, was opened to a fold-out map - who would have thought! - called "Description of the Holie Land". The final display was two King James Bibles, 1611 and 1613. The 1613 was opened to the corrected error of the word "She" (in a passage about Ruth that had inadvertently left off the "s" in the 1611). And I was able to read that exact verse - may not seem like so much, but I was amazed to be "looking up" a passage in a 400 yr old Bible.

As we emerged, a camera crew was asking ds26 for impressions and he deferred to me, so believe me, I gushed. I think it was the seminary preparing a video memory of the exhibit being in their midst. I guess the exhibit is being prepared for transport now, or already at the airport, and by 6:00 a.m. may be leaving America.

[Lynlee]

I'm not moving this Tuesday, though have been moving thru space and time to see

the Exhibit with Harriet ... so great the descriptions.

Kathryns SAfrican travels. and travelling on board.

Hugs and congratulations, love and prayers to Dee's family.

To the OK's. Great LO could have that visit. I do hope LO is better soon. (another of the oldern time treatments suggested for my dds was percussion drainage - draped head down over knee or cushions - light tapping chest w cupped hands. Not to be confused with slapping. I had that without the percussion when I was 7 with pnemoniain hospital - head down over a half barrel type affair. Encouraged to cough/spit up any mucus that would come. Such seemed to be very out of favour when my now 9 &12 yo grandchildren has chesty coughs whatever as little tykes and I did a lot of child minding and taking them to doctor sometimes.)

I need to move. Missed yoga today and the day is marching on.

[Indiana]

Harmony you are seeing one of thed web crawlers yhat indexes our site for outsider searches.

[helia]

Harriet, would have LOVED to have seen that exhibit! I'm so glad you could go, and that you could gush afterward. What a special experience for dd13 too.

The DIA (Detroit Institute of Art) recently had an exhibit on Rembrandt paintings of Christ, and we missed it.