Hello, hello!!!
Yesterday, ddil and I went to visit dcousin-with-the-new-baby. Baby weighs 9 lbs now, and feels sooo light-as-a-feather!
So hard to imagine dgs was smaller than that less than 2 years ago!
I told ddil she couldn't hold her long, b/c she'd start getting that baby fever again, and they didn't need anymore babies at their house, LOL! DGS was totally uninterested in new baby, even when his mom was holding her. He was much more concerned with exploring daunt's house and banging blocks on the metal garbage can.
Dcousin-with-cancer, the baby's grandmother, didn't get out of bed while we were there. New treatment makes her feel awful... and there is so much fear that the news will not be good Monday. Daunt holds it together amazingly well, but she teared up talking about how trips to chemo make her think how exhausting it was to dmom & ddad, making daily trips out of town. I just can't imagine how daunt manages her emotions... losing her husband so unexpectedly 7 years ago... her brother last May... and now to face this fear with her oldest child.
And my dmom is so upset by the whole situation w/dcousin, so close to ddad's death, that she can barely talk to daunt!
Anyway... that took up most of my afternoon, and then last night dh and I had a wonderful "date night." Crab legs... K rispy K reme donuts... and saw the new movie
Nonstop -- about the air marshal who is being set up to look like a hijacker. WOW. it was sooo good. No fingernails left. And definitely hard to figure out who the real villian was!
Helia asked about the job interview for ddil. Yes, she is working now, part-time, as a nurse's aide at the hospital. She interviewed to move into the lab, b/c she is now certified to draw blood. DH and I have extremely mixed feelings about this... ESPECIALLY after she shared with me that she would be alternating weekends.
Remember -- weekends are kinda "sacred" to dh, ESPECIALLY during college football season. If ds is traveling and we are going to college town... ooohhh... going to be trouble. They really, really need to find a good back-up babysitter, but who you gonna call for 4:00 a.m.? * sheesh * I can't believe she's going to like this schedule at all, anyway. (Of course, she doesn't know what sort of schedule they will offer her, but the day schedule is something like that -- 5:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
And ddil thinks dh is just kinda selfish... but OTOH... dh put me through school, all the way through a Master's Degree. He retired 15 years before me and waited all that time, just looking sooo forward to the time when we'd be free to go and do as we pleased. He spent six years watching his father bedridden and fears sooo much reaching the age when his own health restricts him from traveling and doing things he wants to do. He watched my father be a workaholic up until the time he died, with no time for real relaxation with my dmom. So... I understand dh's point of view.
Personally, I know we will NEVER regret time spent with dgs... BUT... I understand dh's point of view.
* sigh *
Trying to Let Go and Let God on this one.
Excited... THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY IS GEORGE STRAIT DAY!!!
Today...
[ ] call dmom, make bday plans
[ ] wrap dmom's gift
[ ] CVS
He sounded a little hesitant about it, though, not sure about spending the summer in Texas. I reminded him that dfriends E and C were there (and other friends too), and they attend a wonderful church with lots of young people, and they've already said they'd be happy to see more of ds this summer, so there is some community already in place for him there. And, I think the interns may all live in the same apt. complex, though E and C might be willing to rent him a room, if it is available. They pretty regularly rent a room to a young person. . . Anyhow, lots to figure out. He needs to first decide if he wants to do that. I'll try not to pressure him. He needs to decide by today b/c the local software company he's worked for the last 3 summers needs to know today if he'll be back this summer. . . I would be happy for an excuse to go down to Austin, TX this summer! The weather certainly will not be an excuse. LOL! --I will not share with irl friends yet until we know more. 
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