CUOP and wanted to send lots and lots of (((BIG, BIG HUGS))) for Harmony and Mr. Harmony... and lots and lots of prayers for successful surgery & recovery, and for peace re: all business matters in the meantime.
Also -- I just LOVED this from Harriet... how true, how true...
We had call from cousin in Texas last night, wanting to find out about our weather...Exhausted from the million phone calls it takes to deal with the fact that one dear aunt wasn't answering her phone this evening. I'm sure lucylee would understand - it takes a village of relatives, and each one has to have updates on the research and then updates on the discovery she's fine. ... Ultmately, she's fine - she was unable to answer her phone because she was on the phone. Dear Uncle here beside me was so grateful for my last call back. He says now he can sleep tonight.
and call at midnight from dmil re: status of our menfolk on the roads...
My men arrived home at 4:00 a.m., as I reported in J&C. DS quickly deposited himself in the guest bed and dgs continued sleeping in the pack & play in the den.
Until 7:30... when it sounded like there was more playing going on than sleeping and dh was very irritated after his 6.5 hour drive home!
Got up, changed dgs's diaper, put him to bed in the baby bed -- where he should have been already!
I went to sleep on couch so as not to awaken dh again...
and then 9:30 a.m., call from cousin in southern part of our state this morning, wanting to find out about funeral arrangements for friend's father, much closer known to him than to us, so I was not much help there -- but was able to give him phone number of local funeral home.
Back to sleep for me...
until DGS was up at 10:30 for good.
He had his breakfast and we went out to play in the snow.
I got some nice pictures of dgs in the snow, but he was not really carried away with it, and we didn't stay out long. It was already melting quite a bit, but there is still plenty out there. It was the first time I really remember having "good" snow. Usually our snow is very icy and not good at all for building snow men. This time, it would have been possible to roll the whole yard up in a huge ball, I think, if one had been inclined to do so. We were not. We made a feeble attempt at a minature snowman, about dgs's height, but were seriously lacking in decorations for him. Who has a corncob pipe around the house anymore or coal to make two eyes??? (However -- saw that dcousins made a wonderful snowman, don't know what they used for facial features, but topped him off with a late dgfather's hard hat with his name right there on the front! Gave me a big LOL & a smile!)
DS started debating how long he should stay -- dh had gone to post office, dgs was having quite a lot of fun rearranging toys all over the house, and ds began to remind me of Barney's "that's the plan" episode -- where he sits in the porch rocker and keeps repeating what he's going to do... go down to the drug store, get a bottle of pop... remember, Harriet? Till finally, Andy (I think) says, "Then do it! Do it! Go to the drugstore..."
Finally when ds said he guessed he probably ought to go home, he needed to go home, needed to get dgs ready to go... for about the 100th time, I said, "Well, get him and go!"
I was sooo exhausted. He LOL (thank goodness!) and I told him -- "It's not that I don't want you around, but that dog does need to be seen about." (She had been in her kennel (?) in the house since ddil had left for work Wed. afternoon.)
After they left, I went back to sleep -- after fielding another phone call -- this time from duncle, apparently just bored with the snow. He wanted to talk about family photos he was looking at.
FINALLY s2s and went to dmil's w/dh, ate supper... and I have slept some MORE since then.
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Sorry I'm using this for my "journal" today, LOL... but anyway -- the day (Thursday) has been a total loss. This whole week pretty much has been. Have been busy with dgs for the majority of every day, it seems, and he will be back this evening for a few hours. HOWEVER... I do intend to reclaim some sense of order here tomorrow. Bathrooms are in desperate need of attention. I have done NOTHING on the focus area. I did get all the laundry done Wednesday, and had the dishes washed and kitchen was neat and tidy when I went to bed. Saturday -- back to college town with dh... Sunday -- church... Monday -- Wmart... Tuesday -- nursing home (pm) w/ds-dgs... Wednesday -- ds & family will be going to visit her family for the rest of the week.
So I'm not complaining about all the grandma duty... just explaining why nothing is getting accomplished.
Enjoying every minute with him though, and even though we're not "making memories" that he will probably ever really remember, at this age, I know that the relationship we build will be the foundation for the rest of his life. My grandparents were sooo incredibly important to me, and I just hope I can be half the wonderful grandparent to him that they were to me.
All right... I'll see y'all sometime later in the day.
Sometimes I do too. . .
