I hope everything works out great with ds and the new house, Kathryn!
Nice surprise for you, Harriet -- finding the carved Santas!
Hope things go better for dd38 and her talk than she expects.
I know WonderBoy will get some good input on the science fair from you, Harriet! I'm wondering if he is doing some kind of experiment with sprouts like you've been raising.
I love the idea of fun socks, too. I'll keep that in mind for Easter baskets!
The genealogy work sounds so fascinating, Twins, but I imagine it gets very frustrating at times. DS spends a lot (too much ) time on the computer researching our family. I'm glad he's interested, though. He starts telling us things he's found and he remembers everything he's read. I just get lost in all the generations.
I need to mend a couple of sweaters, Nancy. Your post reminded me.
So glad you had such a good day, blessed! Especially glad dd enjoyed herself!
Dee, so glad you like the new preacher.
Hope your headache is gone by the time you read this, (((Harmony))).
You, too, (((Kathryn))).
WTG on those shelves/bins, LadyM! I think something like that would be nice for dgrands' rooms. (I wish I could afford to buy them some. DH is still watching our pennies pretty closely till this car comes in, and then we won't have many to watch, )Their rooms are TINY. I think dmil thought children's bedrooms should be for SLEEPING and play should be done elsewhere -- in their case, the family room or the basement, or outdoors. But here we are 60 years later, and kids have so much more STUFF. The closets are small, the rooms are small... but the family room is huge. (And covered wall-to-wall with toys most of the time.) And there is a basement, IF ds can ever afford to have it sealed. DH and his dbro kept toys down there and played there a lot, but it is just not usable now. By the time dh & his dbro were teens, they had a large room outside the house where they kept the pool table and ping pong table. Now that is ds's music room.
I swear this is the 100% truth. DS9 just came and asked if he could get rid of a pair of socks. He said, "The socks fit my feet but I don't like to wear them because I can't feel my feet when I wear them. They just feel weird."
I am LOL!!! I must have started something. (((DS9)))
I have a friend who homeschooled with a coop kind of arrangement -- at least it sounds like what you're talking about, LadyM. Hope that all works out well for both you and ds9.
Speaking of $$$, Harmony has reminded me that we need to go pick up our tax returns tomorrow. There will be even less $$$ then...
I love your campaign slogan, Elizabeth! WTG!
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DM showed up at the doctor's office shortly after my last post,
but in her rush, had left without her TEETH in. This drives me totally insane. How can anyone pay that much for teeth and then leave the house without them??? And dmom is SUCH an attractive woman "when she has her pride up," as she says. It just hurts me to see her either not caring or not feeling well enough to care. * sigh *
Afterwards I drove her car to the drug store -- she didn't go in -- and
we learned that she is 13 days early on her L exapro rx. Oh me. I do NOT want to have to start filling those bottles AGAIN. When she got home she said she HAD (accidentally) put 2 pills in each day of her dispensers, not the 1 pill she is prescribed. She said, "I usually fill the dispensers and then put the bottle back in the ziplock bag. I must have undoubtedly left it out and put it beside the night-time dispenser, and put them in twice. Plus, I think I remember spilling some of them and thinking, 'That's going to cause problems.'" (Invariably, if she spills pills, they seem to roll under the dishwasher or the refrigerator, never to be seen again.)
Well, it's her good luck, there are 3 or 4 pills in an old bottle that I kept here at home the last time she was hospitalized and started fresh with new rx's. This may be enough to get her by until time for the next refill. We shall see.
I told her if this happens again, I have to start doing the meds again every week. * sigh *
But better news, in a way, from the doctor. He told her there is no problem with putting off the surgery indefinitely, as long as she can walk and deal with the pain. She thinks, being some arthritis, along with the bunion/disjointed toes, that there is no way ALL the pain will disappear with surgery, and she really does not look forward to the 6-week minimum recovery time. (And of course, it could grow back... but judging by your experience, Rose, she'd be around 95 when that happened. But "down time" in recovery -- she has been told 3 weeks w/NO WEIGHT on foot at all, use knee scooter, and then 3 more weeks in boot.) He said she just needed to be watchful for sores/infection, b/c that would be a possibility, from the places toes rub each other.
She does have her carpenter friend coming this week to discuss building the ramp, however, so maybe by the time she is ready to do surgery, she will have that in place. * I still want her in some sort of assisted living for the first few weeks of recovery, though!
We also stopped by the grocery store and got eggs and rice pudding for her, then back to doctor's office to pick up my car, and she went her way and I went mine.
My way was to CVS (drug store) where I spent over $200 * and get this: * I had OVER $45 in coupons!!! I don't know WHY I EVER go in that store!!! (Well, I went this time b/c I had a 20% off coupon and $12 bonus bucks that could only be used there. Sooo aggravating though. They give you a coupon, for example, on Scope mouthwash. $1 off $6 purchase. Then the largest size they have costs $5.39. * SHEESH *
I am going to take my receipt and price check on Walmart's website right now. This is ridiculous.
Bright spot -- saw one of my favorite ladies there -- a member of my retired teachers group. She is at least as old as my dmom but she is one of the sweetest people I have ever met. It was so nice to get to chat with her for a few minutes.
Came home, cooked supper, s/s kitchen, dh put dishes away. Emailed dfriend I haven't talked to in a while.
Also messaged dbro during the doctor's visit and drug store fiasco to let him know how the wind lay here...
Talked with ds & ddil a while...
Sheets are in the dryer, must be put on the bed... another load of laundry in the washer, wrinkling...
What a day.
OH! Speaking of toes -- I have one toenail that is VERY thick, almost impossible to cut, not b/c it is so hard, but just b/c it is so thick. It is the pinky toe on my right foot. What could be causing that? All my other toenailss seem just fine, and as I said before, thank goodness I do not have dmom's feet. My feet are not beautiful, but at least my toes are straight. So far.