SHEs Organized

Working on my "Not Wed." Plan aka bwp.

Quick quick ci....
I haven't done much today except --
* walked 3 miles w/ds
* found all china and flatware prices on Replacements.com for dmil's dishes/silverware
-- I hope dbil will realize that these prices are NOTHING LIKE what he would get if he were to put them in a yard sale or even an auction, I would guess, BUT -- they do give us something to compare to when dividing among ourselves. Replacements.com is VERY expensive, I think.

Must let dh have computer. BBL.

I am really having trouble getting things done today. I feel like I've been pulling out stuff all over the house and not putting it away, and I never got upstairs. (Actually, I think it's just from working toward unpacking our bag from the weekend and clearing the top of the washer/dryer.)

Good news for today is that realtor rec'd a full price offer on dsis' house, which I have accepted and am crossing all my fingers. I will need to go to courthouse in dsis' home county on Friday to take/fill out paperwork to get court approval. Crossing my fingers that nothing goes wrong.

I also emailed dd and worked on my li&t for tomorrow. Dh is supposed to be home early so we'll have supper together - grilled chicken, salad and corn on the cob.

I still need to put groceries away.

I so identify with your statement that you miss your "little" children and miss how they were.

Yes, me too. Reminisce often about how our 5 were growing up. Definitely do more of that about dShelley, but all of them really. I can identify with your being careful at times what you say around DD, Kathryn. Our own dd can get in the doldrums over not being able to have her own children. And then the guilt she puts on herself sometimes at how their adopted daughter turned out over the years. It's not an easy road. She tries to make the lives of her nieces and nephews more central for her. Unfortunately they are all up here and I think that's part of the reason she so wants to be up here for the summer.

Okay, I'm back.
S2S, too!
DH is in the shower and we'll go get something to eat when he gets out. Dbil gave me a gift certificate to Red Lobster last night, and I was hoping we could use that tonight, but dh says he doesn't want to go all the way over there (next town) and take that long eating... he's playing golf again tomorrow. (Very unusual for him to play twice in a week, and he doesn't really feel like it. DS said, "So why did he tell them he would play?" I said b/c he just can't tell them no. DS said, "It's good his friends aren't drug dealers, isn't it?" LOL.)

I also made the two DPCs!
* Doctor should be calling in rx...
* Dmom sounds like she is doing well. Said she's been cleaning out closets -- although she didn't really have a plan for most of the stuff she's taking out -- I think she's just re-organizing junk, actually... -- and said she wanted to call dcousins and tell them they could have her flat-bed trailer (the one ddad used to take the show car places) if they'd help her move dgmother's washer and dryer back to dgmother's house. Also mentioned that she needed to call my yard man and arrange a time for him to come look at the flooring that is out there now and see if he could take it up and use it somewhere. So she's full of PLANS, PLANS, PLANS... I guess that's a good thing. She was in a rush today, though, b/c I made her realize it was an hour later than she thought, and she just barely had time to get to the drug store herself. Honestly, I think maybe she does better when we don't talk every day. I think maybe our calls eat up too much of her time, and break her momentum, if she has any to start with.

FF -- you were talking about having little tiff w/dh the other day... yeah... we had one of those last night. Talking about plans for dmil's house/cleaning/dividing/dbil/etc. DH says I am not LISTENING to what he is saying, I say he is not making himself CLEAR. He said, "Well (his point) should go without saying..." I said, "Well, obviously not, since I did not understand it." MEN.
Everything is fine today; we're okay. I just wanted you to know you were NOT alone in that discussion.
Mainly, dh fears that suddenly dbil is going to act like he wants stuff -- just b/c we want it! And dbil was talking about flipping a coin for things we both want, but I think -- and dh & ds agree -- that is not a 100% perfect solution either -- feasibly, a person could lose every coin toss, right? DS, DH, and I think dh & dbil should each mark their lists of main furniture, and then compare. Where both brothers want the same item, then we could flip a coin and say A wins the toss. A gets his first pick of the "contested" items and then B can pick the next. Then maybe flip a coin for the third "contested" item. How does that sound?
I just hope and pray ds is able to be present when they do this, b/c dbil will listen and be much more considerate to ds than he will if he only has dh and me to deal with.
I know some people say inlaws should stay OUT of all estate dealings, but dh thinks if I were not there to be a moderating voice, there's no telling how this whole scenario would play out.

Little ones... I sooo often try to remember that and realize that these days of little bitty arms around my neck and little hands in mine are NOT going to last forever. We'll blink our eyes and dgs will be playing ball or driving a car or going off to college. So hard to believe when you're in the midst of raising children, just how fast it goes by.

That is GREAT news, Twins, re: your dsis' house!!! Saying a prayer that all goes well!!!

Waving to all... maybe I've been wavering today, but it took a LONG time to look up all those prices online. And I did walk 3 miles -- that took about 45 minutes, and ds and dgs were here for a couple hours. I don't think I'm being as productive this week as I was last week, but I'm not giving up! I may manage some WHB & Zone work before the week's over.

Not wavering ln my bwp got lr vacuumed.

FF re listening to others probs. That want to dump emotional garbage on me I had a sis & mil doing that for a while the I put a ten min. Limit and got off after a
7 min. Warning leaned against the doorbell saying oh theres the door bell gota go or I gotta scoot.

I'm on the balcony now, enjoying the lovely sunset after a good dinner. I had been sitting, overlooking the city but when I got up to get my computer, I saw how gorgeous it was behind me so switched chairs. The river is pretty still tonight and so the trees and the colours in the sky are reflected in the water.

While we were eating, I could hear children shrieking behind me and sure enough, the school field next door was finally in use. A gorgeous playing field that has not been used (but was mowed) all summer. Sigh, my tax dollars at work. The kids were out playing soccer but went in about 30 minutes ago. It is nice to see life over there. The school is for deaf, hard of hearing, deaf/blind, blind and severely learning disabled Francophone children and is residential so they on-site Monday - Friday. Four languages are taught - French (Quebecois), English, ASL and LSQ (Quebecois sign language.) There are only spaces for 40 students and apparently 23 staff members.

Off the other balcony is a regular (English) public school but it is far enough away that we only hear the bells from it, but don't see any of the grounds.

I ran my errands, came home and put away the food, rested and then headed on bike to get cream and ice cream. Remembered to buy a top-up card for my new cell phone as well (the time expires on Saturday.)

Realized I'll need to go back to the store tomorrow for fruit for the lunch dh is making. Dd may be over as well to join us. This meal is with an industry friend. And the weather should be just fine for eating out on the balcony. Yay!

Next up: clean up the kitchen and get the meat frozen since it is taking up too much room in the fridge. I think I'll empty the fridge and readjust the shelves since they aren't working well the way they are now.

Still working...frantic phone calls here and there. I haven't done dishes for 2 days. Going to kitchen now. Can't do anything about the problems until DH comes home from church. Very inconvenient. I called him 10 times. His pocket is vibrating away, I'm sure he could have gone out to hall to call me back...

Hello, villagers ~
I tried to keep working steadily through the day. I'll still do some more tonight, but I'm going to take a break now to watch those NCIS shows I recorded while I was at the library last night. After I came home from the meeting, I had to type up a bunch of notes and send Emails, and ran out of time for tv.

Today I've been slogging through financial reports, Emails, DPCs, errands, 3Ds, misc. prep for tomorrow's library group meeting and next week's sewing group meeting.

One of the errands this morning was to stop at the library before they opened to stick a note on the back door with an apology to the staff. I was suddenly jolted wide awake about 3:30 a.m. with the thought OH NO! I forgot to take the bright orange paper out of the copy machine after I ran LEGO Club flyers last night. I hate those kind of middle-of-the-night wake-up calls! I hope the post-it note stayed stuck to the door long enough for them to see it and take out the orange paper before they needed to print anything today.

As I said, I'll do more work tonight because my goal is to have at least 1 square foot of empty space on my desk before I go to bed. (Filing, ugh! ) Right now, though, I'm going to drink my big glass of water and watch some tv. It won't take long since I skip the commercials and watch boring bits in fast motion.

Edit after cuop: Kathryn's post about missing her "little" children reminded me of a current viral video of a 5-year-old girl sobbing her heart out, saying that she doesn't want her baby brother to grow up because he's so cute and she wants him to stay little!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DLT4yRcy4

awwwww!