SHEs Organized

Done with that round. DD is up and is about to s2s so hopefully get will get started soon. I need patience for this....

I never got most of the last round that I posted yesterday around supper time done. DD was cooking and asking questions (how do you steam zuchinni noodles? should I start it now? How does the new food processor work?) Ds and dh hanging out yacking. I'll try to hit it later today.

Meanwhile, just chillin' waitin' for dd.

Dee, as ya'll break this to dsisil, explain from guardian family's point of view and what they have had to do and why. That's really the actual situation right now, anyway - their turmoil resulting in changes. If all that hadn't happened, there wouldn't be much change and life would be going on along as when they first decided to become guardians. It's not what's been going on from dd and dsonil's point of view - they couldn't even affect most of these events.

Kathryn, our lesson yesterday was about good Samaritan and lots of discussion arising from that, the most widely known of parables. Lots of consideration of how much more trouble such a person would have gone to than we realize - what it would have meant in terms of his own delay, interruption, upset, stepping out of his own comfort/boundaries, etc. Also what it meant that such a person would promise to come back if needed and do more. Anyway, just interesting to hear you express this incident in terms of a good Samaritan story. I wish that there could be more support for this particular good guy.

((Nancy))

((Cathy)) thank goodness you have a diagnosis.


My own day has been spent mostly at dsecondmil's with HRH. Also we picked up chicken feed on the way back. Also we grocery shopped. We took out our own recycling and hers.

Funny that HRH's great aunt in Oregon can't get out to office supply stores to purchase erasable pens, which she thinks would be helpful to her in doing sudoko puzzles. So she sent dsecondmil a coupon for $1.50 off of some and asked her to go, and then mail to Oregon. Well, dsecondmil can't very well get out to an office supply store either. So now I have the coupon and envelope with great aunt in-law's return address label, and I will do it.

Oh, my Harriet, long distance helping of relatives! Too bad she doesn't have someone close by to ask.

Hugs for (CathyS) and (Dee) and (Nancy) - sorry about your DAunt. Was she very old?

Watching the weather channel. Looks like a lot of rain up the East Coast.

I slept in today after getting up before 6 and going back to bed. Most often I can go back to sleep, but when this happens I usually go into really deep sleep that's hard to wake up from. I have a feeling it was all the excitement yesterday with the graduation and the dinner and eating late...I kept dreaming about saving the file about the graduation...which I know was mixed up in my brain with all the recent computer stuff!

It took a while to "clear the cobwebs" in my brain, but I am up puttering around. DD & 3 DGKids are coming tomorrow for 2 days... and I am trying to figure out just what to cook and I'm not coming up with any ideas. DGD is really picky and actually so is DD and I'm trying to watch what I'm eating...

So far I've watered the houseplants, dustmopped the house and vacuumed the area rugs, changed battery in the one fan/light remote, reloaded vitamin/med containers, shook throw rugs. 1 set of sheets is in the wash. It's a good start. What to cook, what to cook, why can't I come up with an idea???

Hello Dear Ladies,

We have much needed sunshine for the next few days.

I slept in late today too, I cough a lot through the night so staying a bit later in bed balanced it out, I hope. Been drinking lots of grapefruit juice to help with the coughing, I think it is helping.

DsonJ went out with a girl to dinner last night. She asked him out. She is a tall girl he told me and he is tall, over 6 ft too. She works at a restaurant he frequents and usually visits with her for a few minutes each time. I know often times tall guys end up with very short women so maybe she just got bold and asked him before he ends up with a short girl too. They have a movie date for Friday evening too, so who knows where this will lead.

Gotta get a shower in and then it's off to work for me.

Great day to all!

PS it is DsonN getting married in October, didn't want to get mixed up.

I have been trying to work out a knit pattern for a shawl this morning leaning as I go. I have sheets off the beds washer is going now. I mopped kitchen dining room and main bathroom. Had lunch getting a breather now.

I woke up in a donwanna do anything mood...
finally forced myself to follow the routine --
* s/s toilets
* put a load of laundry in the washer
* hung to dry, put second load in washer
* s2s, did Bible reading
And then the pool table man called.

This man is one of those people who goes over everything ten times, speaking v e r y slowly and deliberately, explaining everything till I am ready to SCREAM...
and it turns out he thinks this is going to HAVE TO be a two-day job...
AND, although he will bring a helper, he will need ds & dh's assistance as well...
and he told me, didn't he, that he had recently had a hernia operation... (YES, he has told me this repeatedly)
and he is not sure he can get this done before the end of the month, b/c he has a vacation trip planned in two weeks.
So. In two weeks, we have just about GOT to get contractor over here and get that floor put down.

All this confusion set dh off in a tizzy, and he is saying he doesn't want the (disassembled) table moved from ds's to our house until the second day... and I did not get the impression that the man would have time to schedule the two days back to back, although dh says that is ridiculous, why couldn't he do it two days in a row? DS will definitely not want the disassembled table sitting around in his room once it is taken down, and if man can get it upstairs here, as he says he can, that will get it out of the way for everyone. DH is just very anxious about the "downtime" -- doesn't want it sitting in our "unfinished" garage any longer than necessary -- fears heat damage to the soft rubber parts, I think...
DH is still very wary about the man being able to get the table upstairs anyway, even though the man has seen pictures and the contractor says it can be done.
All this just put dh in a very bad mood, and now I've totally lost my momentum.
He just cannot deal with stressful situations of any kind, it seems. I wish I could get him on some sort of nerve med... Valium or something...
* shaking my head *

(((Nancy))) So sorry about your daunt.

There is a recipe online that says you can make a cake with nothing but cake mix and 12 oz of any carbonated beverage. No eggs, oil, etc. Do y'all think that would work? The possibilities are endless, you know. White cake and orange drink -- Creamsicle cake! Cherry cake and Coke... I might try it. I just wonder if it would be any good. Thinking that would be fun to try with the grandchildren, Harmony, if it works.

(((Dee))) I understand your anxiety about discussing this whole situation with dsisil, but good gracious, it's really none of her concern. She has no idea what any of you have had to deal with. Let's see how quickly SHE would like to bring dgd into her home! It does add weight to your position, and your dd/dsil, that yet another family had no luck in reaching this child, and the fact that multiple counselors and others have said she is the worst case they have ever dealt with. (((BIG HUGS))) -- and LOTS of PRAYERS for tomorrow!!!

(((Cathy))) Praying you will feel much better soon!

at Harriet's daunt...

Waving to Twins... Elizabeth... Kathryn... helia... and anyone else I may have missed!

* Small success for ME * FINALLY got b ooks a m illion order to go through.

Hmmm... probably not worth the experiement (on the cake).

Another small success -- FINALLY -- after 3 FAXES from doctor's office -- my insurance co believes I had my wellness check up and has cleared me for the $50 waiver, or whatever they call it.

Maybe I can summon the energy to get back to the laundry now.

OH -- weather here is cloudy, 74 degrees. However, I am wearing flip flops in the house and my feet are freezing.
DH and I have plans to go out tonight.
DS & family are on their way to her parents for the weekend -- kinda combining business (ds) and pleasure (ddil/dgs) -- and we were expecting them to call by now, so dh is also beginning to fret about that. DGS had 3-year-old check up today, so of course we want to hear from that and need to talk to ds about the pool table situation.

I did not get called on at my meeting, my part has been postponed to another time. I have another meeting starting in one minute, but I am more of an observer there. I have been banging my head on reports. Getting a handle on it. Gotta go - meeting.

Laundry done.
I have not dusted, as I hoped to, bc I just lost my enthusiasm...
and I have not talked to dmom, as I hoped to, b/c I thought as soon as I got on the phone, ds would be calling.
DS has NOT called, as he said he would, which is aggravating, especially to Grumpy Man.

The Braves game is doing nothing to improve the man's mood either, but maybe ds will call soon and he will cheer up.

I told him it was good he had a hobby he could enjoy and find relaxing. (He's been yelling at the tv all afternoon.)