Sooo much to respond to and I know I will miss a BUNCH of things I wanted to say...
(((BIG BIG HUGS))) to (((
Dee & Mr. Dee))) Hope they get him straightened out really soon!!!
(((
Harmony))) Hope your toe feels better soon. I can't wait to tell dmom about the A dvil gel caps! She has two places that should really benefit from that. Let me know if you try it! (Thanks,
Cowinkie, for the tip!)
(((
Cowinkie))) I certainly do hope they get you back on the right track soon, too!
(((
Lynlee)))
(((
Kathryn)))
color=#0040FF]Helia [/color]-- as someone very much in your neighbor's situation, I say go ahead and send the card. I had three people today express sympathy to me at a fish dinner thing @ dparents' church, people who had missed the funeral for one reason or another, and I appreciated their words so much.
I also received a card just last week -- a "thinking of you" as Father's Day was approaching -- and that meant a lot to me too. It was from a friend, but not a super-close friend, just someone who had lost her dad in the past couple of years, too, and she wrote a short note saying that she knew the first Father's Day was the worst. It just always feels good to know people still care, especially after a little time has past -- you know they are still thinking of you and that they haven't just forgotten and gone on with their lives, you know?
My goodness -- all this talk of bee swarms is going to have me terrified to step out the door! Ooohhh... I do NOT like stinging, flying insects. I once threw one of dmom's kitchen glasses at a FLY while I was lying in the sun on the brick patio -- b/c I thought it was a wasp and it startled me! NOT fun to clean broken glass off a brick patio. Not fun to explain one's stupidity to dmom, either, now that I think of it.
(((
OKay))) I know my dmom has not totally been "herself" in the last month, you know, which I am hoping is due to grief & stress. I think my dmom is a good bit younger than yours, though... dmom is 68. That makes her lapses less troubling in some ways -- and more troubling in others. * sigh * Maybe time will work its magic.
(((HUGS))) for you with dental woes. Not crazy about the dentist, myself. When I was little I had a prescription for anti-anxiety med that I took before I went to the dentist.
TA-DA's * tooting my horn here *
I am not lazy; I just have to get dh out of the house! Apparently he is a bad influence on me!
Today, I have
* spent an hour (4 15-minute sessions) in the master bathroom, organizing and discarding stuff in drawers and cabinets
* cleaned dh's shower, which is not nearly such an ordeal since I discovered the power of Scrubbing Bubbles + a Mr. Clean pad
* vacuumed all the living area floors * which took approx. 50-55 minutes *
* and did not include any dusting at all *
* babysat dgs for about 90 minutes or so, while doing a lot of the above tasks. All he did was watch his programs
and sleep, after I changed him & fed him
* visited w/ds for a little while when he came to get dgs
* went to grocery store for dmil
* got supper for dmil & us, delivered dmil's to her (along w/groceries)
* read paper
* made appt w/gyno
* made appt w/dbil the lawyer
* talked to insurance people who called, did NOT make appt
* talked to other insurance people who only needed extra info for paperwork
* talked to dmom on phone
* talked to local business re: leftover school purchase order that hasn't been closed out yet
It makes you feel like you've accomplished a LOT to write it all down like that!
It is reasonable to assume that some of the other eggs are at the stage of development you saw with the chick almost ready. It's even possible most are, she heard/felt something from them, and at that point knew that one was not going to make a baby so pushed it out. What she has going for her is how little you have bothered her.