Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:49 pm
We didn't go grocery shopping. Apparently dd wanted to go yesterday but her dh didn't so that is why I came today. In the meantime she decided they had to get out in the sunshine so just went by bus/stroller.
Instead, I played for 3 hours with dgs. We did all kinds of things, things his mother suggested, things his mother approved of (spinning on his tummy on the kitchen floor - she's never put him on a hard surface in case he bumped his face), things his mother didn't approve of (standing holding onto the coffee table, with me firmly holding onto him.) He's also not allowed to be rolled from front to back, just back to front. (He hates tummy time so she's worried he'll get out of it by rolling onto his back if he learns how.) He loved the tummy time on the hard floor because he could move around, spinning from looking at his toy, to me, to the kitchen cupboard, to his mom, to the other cupboard and back to his toy! Life is full of surprises when you are so little!!!
We had lots of fun together. I sang a lot with him as well. He was full of smiles and gurgles and I got baby kisses and hugs today as well. (Which reminds me, I should wipe off the drool spots on my shoulders - his parents were worried about that.
At the end, dd showed me the SHE card system she's programming. Using her program you enter your chores into something (not sure if it is Google calendar directly or a program) and then it sends a notification to your email when the item is due to be done. So the email reminder is the card coming 'up' and then you click on a link in the email message and it asks you which day you did the chore and would you like to now refile it for the next time due (i.e. in 7 days if it is a weekly.) Then it creates the next occurrence of that card in your calendar and emails you when it comes up again. This is an improvement on my system in that all occurrences of a chore (i.e. every Tuesday chore from now until the end of time) is in my calendar which really clutters up the view when my SHE chore calendar is switched on.
To her the benefit is if it takes her 3 days to get around to a weekly chore, she won't need to do it again in 4 days, so wants it to come up in 7 days. But the auto repeat in Google Calendar is based on the original date programmed, not the date done. For weekly chores, having them move around might mess me up (I'm so used to my Basic Weekly Plan which is something she hasn't made a habit yet) but for things like monthly chores, this is brilliant.
This program is a work in progress but when she gets it done to her satisfaction, she'll let me work with it for a while and then release it to any of you ladies interested in trying it out.
After I left her place, I went to lunch at Subway, then did my grocery shopping at 2 stores. Still didn't get everything but have enough for my dinner tonight and picked up a few heavy things and some frozen food.
While at her place, I also was emailing back and forth with MF setting up more dates to work up in Pembroke. Must add those to my calendar as well.