I apologize for making that last post all about me me me...
I do miss
Harmony...
SUNNY -- please check in and let us know if there are any updates! And let us know what's going on in your corner of the village too!
Also sending soothing, calm-skin wishes to your dgs,
Harriet. I have never had poison ivy, but I know he must be miserable.
Glad things are back to "normal" for your household,
LadyM, and you're enjoying your time at the gym. I am trying to encourage dmom to go to a class I heard about this weekend at one of our local gyms. They have a class that a friend attends, and she thinks it is helping with balance. This is dmom's BIG problem.
Wow -- that IS interesting,
LadyM, about the "trend" of quitting school. I don't think it is that big a problem here in my area -- YET -- but I don't really know. I think homeschooling IS becoming more popular, and I know of several who are doing these sorta hybrid things -- our county has a separate school where kids go two or three days a week, and then the rest of the week it's online. I have a friend who did this for a few years in another county in our area. But the friend's children went back to traditional school after a few years. It's also concerning, IMHO, that the kids you mentioned seem to be on their own for the most part of the time -- no parent even in the home for them for long periods of time. That just doesn't seem right.
I do suspect that a lot of homeschooling kids are just doing no schooling at all, and I think that did happen with a cousin of mine -- the only member of my "immediate" family to quit school since my dmom quit to have me in 1961! This cousin (1st cousin's son) was probably having trouble with grades, if I had to guess, and he quit with the idea that his grandfather was going to home school him. I'm not sure how that turned out... but I think he probably got a GED eventually. As far as I know, he has a good job now, and he is in a good place with his life -- but it's taken a while. We were all waiting a long time for him to "grow up," if you know what I mean.
I don't understand this either. The only people I remember quitting school were a few girls who got pregnant, and I remember a boy who played football for dh who quit because his girlfriend was pregnant. * I graduated in 1979, too,
Cathy!
And
Nancy -- yes -- I don't believe any of my grandparents went past 8th grade. The world was much different then, wasn't it? My maternal grandfather worked as a brick mason and did very well, maternal grandmother worked in "dry good" shops until the "lingerie factory" opened up and then she got a job there. Paternal grandfather had a hard time as a sharecropper/farmer when my dad was little. Later an aluminum products factory opened up near him, and he had a good job there, running heavy equipment. My paternal grandmother never had a job outside the home, as far as I know. Gardening, sewing, and cooking and cleaning for three children and a husband -- three of whom were very "spoiled" males -- was enough for her, I guess.
You know, a visiting nurse would be an excellent idea for duncle,
blessed. I wonder if his doctor might be able to sign him up for something like that.
Well -- I've probably still left out a bunch of people and things I should have commented on. I should be out pruning shrubs,
Twins, but gosh -- we are having wind gusts that would blow you down! We are under a wind advisory that says to expect gusts of 55 mph, but dh heard they could reach 70 mph! Rain late tonight/early tomorrow. And my allergies are acting up big time.
DGD is at ball practice, but dgs is missing his game tonight, and probably tomorrow too.
I've got to get laundry started -- I've managed the "extras" for today, but not the ordinary weekly chore of laundry.
And I am also procrastinating on doctor's appts,
LadyM. I have this week and next week, and then my rx's run out. OBGYN who prescribed them has retired. I am pretty sure family doctor will refill them for me, but I'm debating whether to call ddil's OBGYN (who she really likes) and start seeing her... or just give up those icky exams and use family doctor for everything else. I suppose he'd give me orders for mammograms too. But I don't guess I should give up all female concerns at 62... and dmom keeps saying "remember Mam-maw, who died with female cancer." At about my age. DH, OTOH, says, well... you could also remember all the other women in your family who never had any sort of cancer, if you don't want to go.
I'll have to think about that tomorrow -- they're all closed today!
I'm so distracted by him I can't think right now.
BTDT... (((
TWINS)))