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Singin' the Grama Blues
Took 86 year old Grama tag sale-ing (garage sale...yard sale) today. That's what she wanted to do. Wow, it's not till we are out somewhere that I realize how hard it is for her to get around. My right arm and shoulder are so sore from her holding on to my arm and leaning on me. Still, she wanted to get out of the car at every one. We did ( Read more... ) -
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The Mate told me earlier in the week that Saturday he wanted to have a burn pile. 1st couple of times I sort of said mmm hhhmmm. But there we were this morning out in the yard dragging downed trees and brush and stuff that fell from the ice storm in the winter over to a central location. It was drizzly and overcast this morning and aside from ( Read more... ) -
Angry Protective Mama Rant
*** Hi all......Duh alert here.....I've posted a few times and wondered why people weren't commenting on them. Finally, I asked a person on the list who is a Livejournal friend about it. I thought that if I made a post public it also went to the group. Following is a post from last weekend. ***
Oh my gosh, I'm so angry and sad. I've started ( Read more... ) -
Silly Saturday
Ok, I've gotta get this on cyber paper or I'll forget it! This morning hubby took his mother (his 85 year old mother, the one who has lived with us for 12 years, who is getting dementia, who yells to the kids "Where's your mother and father??" when we're alone... upstairs... finally by ourselves for fifteen minutes--if ya' know what I mean, who ( Read more... ) -
Teachers and kids away from school
It's funny when kids at the school see me at somewhere other than school. They either look at me like, "I know you look familiar, but I'm not sure where from" or "Hi Ms. Viv! What are you doing here??". One of the kindergarteners saw me at the grocery store and was so surprised. I remember when I was a kid, I was always flustered when I saw ( Read more... ) -
Diabetes sux!
Over the past month or so my blood glucose level has crept up and crept up. For a while I was out of insurance because dear hubby was laid off. Now it's in the 300s & 400s ( Read more... ) -
Nice long weekend
Friday, I took a personal day from work because my student didn't come to school. (although, I didn't leave till almost 11:00 because I had stuff to do, but that was my choice) Then had Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off. It almost feels like another Christmas break.
On Saturday we went to a car show in Massachusetts. My husband wanted us ( Read more... ) -
Firewood ~ Shoveling Ice & Snow - Sympathy
Yesterday we knew what we would have to do today and dreaded it. The day after we're done, we'll be happy we got it done.
This is a shameless request for sympathy on my part, I must admit upfront.
Our woodshed is empty. (that is, except for the several inches thick of ice on the ground)
Dear hubby and I have to shovel a 5 foot wall of ice and ( Read more... ) -
Unexpected extended Christmas Vacation
This morning, we received an unexpected extension of Christmas vacation. I got up, got the kids up, began making breakfast. Then got the call that school was canceled due to icy roads. Aaaaarrrrggghhhh! I would love to have NOT gotten the kids up. (some alone time with coffee would have been really nice before the kids got up) Oh well. An ( Read more... ) -
Kitty Surgery
On Christmas day, our youngest kitty went into heat ~ oh my! What a day that was! LOL ( Read more... )