WARNING: This post is extra long and mostly for me to put my thoughts down. Read at your own risk...
We ended 2010 with a whisper. It was quiet until the neighborhood opened up with firecrackers, or was all the noise guns going off? ha ha
And now, I looked up and realized the month of January was at an end. Where did it go? Time sure does go by fast when all we do is the same thing day after day. It should drag, but not for me...I guess that is a good thing or maybe I would be bored, antsy, etc. Maybe it's the age thing because I don't have any problem with our stay-at-home days.
It's not as if I get to sleep late, laze around on the sofa eating bonbons and watching love stories all day! No, my day starts at 6:30am when the alarm goes off. Of course there are days when Stephanie's alarm wakes me up and forces me to get up and go into the other room and wake her up at 5:30 in the morning...
Any way, I dress Kara in the mornings, make her breakfast, fix her lunch for later at school, and a lot of days I am driving her to school. Then I can relax and it's only 8:30 am.
Around 9 am, I am fixing breakfast for Harry and Mom and me, and it usually consists of home made biscuits, eggs, and sausage two times a week, toast another day, cereal another day, and if I wait long enough, say till around 11 am, I can get away with brunch! That doesn't happen often so I then deal with lunch around 1pm. Lucky for me, there is usually leftovers from past dinners, so I just have to heat things up, put on plates, and eat.
In between breakfast and lunch, there are beds to be made, chamber pots to be cleaned and bathrooms to straighten up. Harry will do laundry and dishes and that's a big help. I also can count on him to do any errands that need to be done. I do believe he enjoys getting away...
Around 2:30pm, Harry leaves to pick up Kara from school and I enjoy a moment of silence knowing that as soon as our little one bursts through the front door, all thought of peace and quiet will be let out the same door.
Afternoon snacks are next on the agenda for Kara and GG, Harry takes a nap on the sofa, and I start dinner and prepare for Kara's homework to get done. Then we do homework and finish dinner prep.
Melissa or Stephanie will wash dishes on occasion and Stephanie will do for Kara in the evenings, but both Harry and I are wanted by Kara to sit with, watch tv with, read with, lay with, etc.
So I find myself reading late night after everyone else is sleeping. This is after Harry turns the tv off at midnight...I shut down around 2am, and set my alarm...5:30 comes early!!!
Oh, I forgot to add in the nurse and aide visits every other day and the occasional doctor visits.
See, busy, busy busy!! What's to be bored with? I fit good in this rut. The funny thing is when Mom is talking to one of her friends and she tells them I am on the computer most of the day!!! I admit I get online to check mail, pay bills, play a game or two. But...not all day!!! Really, if I am not sitting in my spot on the sofa to her left when she opens her eyes, then I am in trouble! I just have to laugh...
Yes, I would like to have the freedom on occasion to get out during the day with no agenda. Just start driving with Harry and enjoy the day. I never took that sea cruise that family and friends so lovingly funded, and I don't see one any time soon...oh well...
We had a new great grandchild born in December. Alex is a daddy to a boy. And Heather had her baby boy just a few weeks ago. The family is enlarging but not according to marriage first...what a tangled web we have here. But babies are well and all the others are growing fine, so we are blessed.
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Today is Feb. 1. I was stopped in the middle of typing and forgot to get back on until now...
Let's see... I'm sick and I have been sleeping on the sofa for most of the morning after I did my morning duties...
Here's a funny tidibit. Mom woke up around 3am this morning and I heard her talking to herself and she was saying how thirsty she was. Not knowing if she could find her water, I went in there. She had already taken a drink, but she said she was so hungry and wanted to know if she could have a "crusty piece of bread". Oh thank you Mother, now it sounds like I keep you in prison food...bread and water! I went into the kitchen and got her a cookie and a Boost and she responded to those as if I was giving her a royal meal...again thanks mom...
Another funny tidbit...The other evening we were watching tv and she was messing with her hearing aids. She turned to me and asked me if she was supposed to take them out during the day and only wear them at night while she sleeps...huh??? She was serious about the question and was not happy with herself when I told her she had it backwards..funny? Maybe not.
She is telling me a story right now...about how watching a show with Phil on trip up north, the actress pulled her shirt over her head and she was naked and Phil got upset that his mom was watching that with him...did that happen Phil? I asked mom a question about it and she got mad at me for questioning her so I just let her ramble....
We had visitors from Alexandria a few weeks ago and ever since she has been doing a lot of crying and when she is in a conversation she talks as if she currently lives in Alexandria and will soon go back. As much as she enjoyed seeing her friends it puts her in a mood of sorrow...
It seems like we are all going through these types of days with family members or in-laws; watching them age and not being able to stop the time for them. I guess that is part of our aging also. .
Kara is on her way home from school so I will stop for now. Bye for now.
We ended 2010 with a whisper. It was quiet until the neighborhood opened up with firecrackers, or was all the noise guns going off? ha ha
And now, I looked up and realized the month of January was at an end. Where did it go? Time sure does go by fast when all we do is the same thing day after day. It should drag, but not for me...I guess that is a good thing or maybe I would be bored, antsy, etc. Maybe it's the age thing because I don't have any problem with our stay-at-home days.
It's not as if I get to sleep late, laze around on the sofa eating bonbons and watching love stories all day! No, my day starts at 6:30am when the alarm goes off. Of course there are days when Stephanie's alarm wakes me up and forces me to get up and go into the other room and wake her up at 5:30 in the morning...
Any way, I dress Kara in the mornings, make her breakfast, fix her lunch for later at school, and a lot of days I am driving her to school. Then I can relax and it's only 8:30 am.
Around 9 am, I am fixing breakfast for Harry and Mom and me, and it usually consists of home made biscuits, eggs, and sausage two times a week, toast another day, cereal another day, and if I wait long enough, say till around 11 am, I can get away with brunch! That doesn't happen often so I then deal with lunch around 1pm. Lucky for me, there is usually leftovers from past dinners, so I just have to heat things up, put on plates, and eat.
In between breakfast and lunch, there are beds to be made, chamber pots to be cleaned and bathrooms to straighten up. Harry will do laundry and dishes and that's a big help. I also can count on him to do any errands that need to be done. I do believe he enjoys getting away...
Around 2:30pm, Harry leaves to pick up Kara from school and I enjoy a moment of silence knowing that as soon as our little one bursts through the front door, all thought of peace and quiet will be let out the same door.
Afternoon snacks are next on the agenda for Kara and GG, Harry takes a nap on the sofa, and I start dinner and prepare for Kara's homework to get done. Then we do homework and finish dinner prep.
Melissa or Stephanie will wash dishes on occasion and Stephanie will do for Kara in the evenings, but both Harry and I are wanted by Kara to sit with, watch tv with, read with, lay with, etc.
So I find myself reading late night after everyone else is sleeping. This is after Harry turns the tv off at midnight...I shut down around 2am, and set my alarm...5:30 comes early!!!
Oh, I forgot to add in the nurse and aide visits every other day and the occasional doctor visits.
See, busy, busy busy!! What's to be bored with? I fit good in this rut. The funny thing is when Mom is talking to one of her friends and she tells them I am on the computer most of the day!!! I admit I get online to check mail, pay bills, play a game or two. But...not all day!!! Really, if I am not sitting in my spot on the sofa to her left when she opens her eyes, then I am in trouble! I just have to laugh...
Yes, I would like to have the freedom on occasion to get out during the day with no agenda. Just start driving with Harry and enjoy the day. I never took that sea cruise that family and friends so lovingly funded, and I don't see one any time soon...oh well...
We had a new great grandchild born in December. Alex is a daddy to a boy. And Heather had her baby boy just a few weeks ago. The family is enlarging but not according to marriage first...what a tangled web we have here. But babies are well and all the others are growing fine, so we are blessed.
------
Today is Feb. 1. I was stopped in the middle of typing and forgot to get back on until now...
Let's see... I'm sick and I have been sleeping on the sofa for most of the morning after I did my morning duties...
Here's a funny tidibit. Mom woke up around 3am this morning and I heard her talking to herself and she was saying how thirsty she was. Not knowing if she could find her water, I went in there. She had already taken a drink, but she said she was so hungry and wanted to know if she could have a "crusty piece of bread". Oh thank you Mother, now it sounds like I keep you in prison food...bread and water! I went into the kitchen and got her a cookie and a Boost and she responded to those as if I was giving her a royal meal...again thanks mom...
Another funny tidbit...The other evening we were watching tv and she was messing with her hearing aids. She turned to me and asked me if she was supposed to take them out during the day and only wear them at night while she sleeps...huh??? She was serious about the question and was not happy with herself when I told her she had it backwards..funny? Maybe not.
She is telling me a story right now...about how watching a show with Phil on trip up north, the actress pulled her shirt over her head and she was naked and Phil got upset that his mom was watching that with him...did that happen Phil? I asked mom a question about it and she got mad at me for questioning her so I just let her ramble....
We had visitors from Alexandria a few weeks ago and ever since she has been doing a lot of crying and when she is in a conversation she talks as if she currently lives in Alexandria and will soon go back. As much as she enjoyed seeing her friends it puts her in a mood of sorrow...
It seems like we are all going through these types of days with family members or in-laws; watching them age and not being able to stop the time for them. I guess that is part of our aging also. .
Kara is on her way home from school so I will stop for now. Bye for now.
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