Typical Monday

[BookSaver]

Good morning, villagers ~
Today is a typical Monday catching up after the weekend. Sometimes that's good.

Very social weekend. Started Saturday morning with the sewing group meeting.

Stopped to buy some groceries at Sam's on the way home, and was pleased that the store was not as crowded as I was afraid it would be on a Saturday.

Yesterday we went up to Younger DSis's for family pot luck lunch. Although the weather was not nice enough to be outside very long, DSis's fiance grilled burgers and brats for the first cookout of the summer. (Yummy!) DMom is feeling quite well these days and she really enjoyed seeing everyone. Oldest DSis could not come, but Older DSis and DBIL are back home from being in Texas all winter, and it was so good to see them again. (There are 4 of us girls and obviously I'm one of the middle ones.)

Younger DSis's grandchildren became more and more rambunctious the longer they played together which made her a little anxious, but I reminded her that when we were little kids playing with our cousins, we got loud, too. They were able to put on coats and run around outdoors with their dads for a short while, and that helped.

Mid-afternoon we left DSis's to go visit DMIL at her apartment. We chatted about her plans to move back to her big house. She seemed a tiny bit confused, but she may not have had her hearing aids turned up. Sometimes she is good at pretending she hears more than she does.

Just as we were getting our jackets on to leave, DBIL arrived with his family so we stayed another half hour to chat with them. I could tell DMIL was becoming very tired, though, so we left to give DBIL's family some alone time with her.

My boss asked me to come to work 2 hours earlier than usual this afternoon. The service counter should be extra busy since this will be the first day for patrons to sign up for the Summer Reading Program and start earning tickets to enter for some nice prizes.

[RunKitty]

Typical Monday sounds good to me. Leaving for work soon.
Hope everyone has a good day.

[CathyS]

Hi everyone!

Went fishing on Saturday morning. Got some sun. Had a long nap in the afternoon.
Went to Wayne's mom's yesterday. Wayne and his sister bought their mom the same card.

Lots of dirty dishes. so it is a typical Monday here.

[DeeClutter]

Good morning, Booksaver. Thanks for getting us started. I couldn't muster up enough thought process to think of a title. Typical would be nice.

The weekend was nice but stressful at some points. It is not dd's favorite day. She loves to honor me and her grandmother and the other Moms she knows, but her own experience as a Mom has definitely been less than stellar. Kathryn addressed this area of Mother's Day last night. We had an open mic yesterday at church for anyone to say what they'd like re: Mothers. DD felt very led to remind us that not all women are mothers, some are not good mothers, some can't be, some have lost, some have estranged children. Her statements were really quite nice and encompassing. Could see a lot of heads nodding.

Slept well until 2am, then was awake until nearly 5. Slept till 7:30 and had to take a bathroom break. Laid back down for a while till I felt more like getting up.

I need to make a DPC to our cable company today (our internet). Hate to even broach this, especially since I'm not up there.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Good morning SHEville!

The weather, which has been hot and muggy (not FL hot & muggy, but H&M for us in May), has turned cloudy and cool. And windy. So sleeping was much easier last night. Dh had to close the window at 6 because it was so cold and the noise of our blinds moving back and forth and someone's wind chimes, were disturbing us. Don't think it was my wind chimes, I shouldn't be able to hear them there.

Didn't get out of bed until 8:30. Will have to be up earlier tomorrow, I have an 8:40 Dr. Appointment and my doctor is 40 minutes from here. From there I'll leave and drive up to see MF for a long lunch and then dinner & a Presbytery meeting at a church in Quebec that is about an hour from MF's church. My own minister is disappointed with my plans because it means we can't car pool. Things might have to change if the doctor sends me for tests.

In church (while in extreme pain) I kept thinking about what could be wrong with me and blood clot popped into my head. Sure enough I have at least 3 of the 4 symptoms. The doctor can't diagnose it without tests so goodness knows what my day tomorrow will end up being like. I'd wait until Thursday but if it is a blood clot I'd rather have a sooner diagnosis, rather than a later one.

I have 3.5 hours now to do a week's worth of cleaning here.

Double checked the plants out on the balcony; windy enough I wasn't sure if everything would still be upright. Everything is but the purple plant I have is only 6" below the railing and has long tendrils. One of those had flipped over the side of the balcony so I flipped it back. Hope the inside plants survive the cold nights this week. I'm debating making a 'green house' under the glass table in order to keep them warmer. They have dealt with 50 degrees in their lifetime but not 40 degrees. The purple plant is an outdoor plant in warm climates (I've seen in South Africa and Southern US) and the other is a Norfolk Pine which should be fine but grew up inside so may not know what to do with colder weather. Perhaps it will love it! The nursery plants should be ok since they should have been hardened outside for a few weeks before coming to my house.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

Dee: in my prayers of the people yesterday, we gave thanks for our mothers (everyone has one), we gave thanks for those who mothered us (we all have that as well, and in some case because of poor birth mothers) and we gave thanks for the opportunity to mother others through our touch, guidance and example. Then we prayed for mothers everywhere, those living in abundance and security, those living in poverty and insecurity, and prayed for those with challenging children or living in challenging environments. Dead children would have been covered under the more specific praying for those who are mourning which is a constant section within my prayers.

It was the only way I could comfortably deal with Mother's Day since so many are in pain that day. One of the mothers in the congregation is facing the imminent death of her adult child so Happy Mother's Day seemed the wrong thing to say.

[DeeClutter]

Yes, and if it might be a clot you would not want to be driving, me thinks!!

[helia]

Good morning! Typical Monday sounds good to me. I am tutoring at 10, making a quick run to the groc. store, hopefully walking to work for exercise, payroll work, feeding a family of 5 with a quick time turn around; I'll be home from work a little after 6 pm. Dd16 needs to be somewhere at 7 pm and dh needs to be somewhere at 7:30 pm. We're having leftovers. Then, I need to make sure I'm ready for moms group leadership meeting tomorrow a.m. - order Panera coffee and bagels, write out my devotional - my last words to these women as I'm stepping down as Steering Committee Chair after this - and an agenda.

Dd19 is babysitting a 3.5 year old boy, the dnephew of dfriend S2, at our home today. I'm not sure how this happened. . . .I think it is happening here b/c dd19 told S2 that she didn't have a car today. Anyhow, I'm hoping it won't affect me too much.

Our church has changed how it does Mother's Day over the years for the exact reasons Kathryn and Dee brought up. One minister gave a lovely prayer acknowledging mothers and their important roles in our lives, but also acknowledging those for whom motherhood is painful (lost mothers, lost children, infertility issues, women who aren't married but would like to be, etc.) and acknowledging others kinds of motherhood: foster mothers, mentor mothers, and spiritual mothers. I know he mentioned adoption in there too; we have a lot of adoptive families in our church. Several traditional mothers in the church thanked him for his prayer afterward, for including all sorts of mothers and for acknowledging the pain for many in this holiday. He said that some women avoid church on Mother's Day b/c it is a painful subject for them.

Weather here has also been hot and muggy. I think we got up to 86 or 88 one day last week, one of those days I walked to work and arrived red-faced and sweaty. . . It is supposed to cool down for a couple days starting tomorrow before bouncing back into the 80s.

I have had bfast and some QT and checked emails and websites and written a couple emails.

We are now playing musical cars with 5 people in the house with transportation needs and just 3 cars. It's going to be a puzzle each day. Dh goes to his office + other random church meetings. Dd16 goes to school every day plus ap exams off site this week. Dd19 has some babysitting jobs. I have payroll (though I can get myself there w/out a car every day except for Friday) and moms group meetings 3 mornings this week + errands. Ds will be going to campus every day to work in the lab where he's been working this semester - w/out pay other than experience and potentially a good recommendation letter from a well-known professor IF he applies to certain grad programs. I think the prof. (and one of his grad students) would like for him to finish up a project before he leaves for the summer.

I'm off to s2s.

[Lilac]

Dh called the dealer from whom he bought the lawn mower. They will pick it up by noon today. I am hoping when they see that the front lawn is half mowed, they will fix and return it sooner than later.

I need to shower and make out a grocery list. We have been getting by on what was here. I am ready for some fruit.

Dh is still having drainage in the tube. It can't be removed until there are 30 cc or less, in a 24 hour period.

Dnephew went and spent their first Mother's Day without their dm, with dniece. They took flowers to the cemetery and someone took their picture beside her grave. Dn put the picture on FB, telling their dm Happy Mother's Day and that they love her. It is still so hard for me to believe that she is gone.

Well I better get a shower and get busy.

[Twins' Mom]

Mother's day was rough for me too yesterday. I miss my fur-children so much, and then dh and I got off to a very bad start to the day when I blurted something stupidly untactful about his Mother's day gift to me. I know where dd gets her "lack of a filter" sometimes. So he was pretty upset with me all day and that added to the stress of missing ddogs. Dd came home on Friday with a plan to make eggplant parm for me today and she and dh labored over that - I think her nose was out of joint because he "took over" so much from her instead of letting cook. Early in the afternoon, dkids and I went to see my dmom - she appreciated the visit and we didn't stay too long. So I spent most of the day puttering around here or reading.


Today is really anything but typical because I need to be on the road tomorrow morning to the NGS genealogy conference near St Louis. I'm excited about going, but OTOH anxious because I hate to be away from home so much, and when dd and I return on Saturday we are packing to go to the beach on Sunday and will be away a week.

DD is taking my car this afternoon (the Honda Pilot) for an oil change and whatever other servicing they recommend. I'm not happy about this coming down to the last day because she didn't get home until Friday evening.

I need to organize my day and get going. I'm kind of all over the place right now. I meant to work on a list yesterday and felt too dispirited.
-rest of annuals in pots at firepit
-sign cks for religious school at temple (not sure about this one)
-get my car washed and clean it up
-laundry
-packing
-desk clearing, as much as possible
-decide on Stamping up order for this week and email to demonstrator, send her a check in the mail for order
-start list for the beach
-figure out whether I want dcleaning lady to come on next two Fridays
-call JCC re delivering meals for dmom
-what other leaving town things to do?
-what else?

For right now:
-finish breakfast and take meds
-clear kitchen counters
-start a lol
-plug in fitbit to charge
-s2s

I miss walking the dogs, and my weight is reflecting the lack of movement. And I just feel weepy right now. I also need to send Facebook messages and emails to acknowledge the sympathy cards and notes from neighbors.