Too soon Monday MC

((Gina))

boneyjean

This is bad timing and I had been meaning to ask this morning, but did you get to see your cousin? 

rwbeagles

boneyjean

This is bad timing and I had been meaning to ask this morning, but did you get to see your cousin? 

yes I did see her briefly. I guess the visit was a real fly by! We had breakfast and did some shopping together. She seemed to want to just act like we'd never not been in touch so I just went with it. Honestly it was nice to spend time with my Mom (since I almost never see her anymore), she was with us. the kids too. It was a nice visit if short. Thanks for asking Sarah :)

I am so glad you got to spend some time with both of them!  I saw your note on FB too.  One thing my mom and I do to spend time together is run errands together.  It makes it a lot more fun for both of us, is productive which is a must for me since my weekends are the only time I can do some things since I work.  There are a lot of times I just want to spend some time with her so I just go along with her for the ride.  I am not sure if this is something your mom would be willing to do, but you might ask her some day when she is off if you or even you and the kids could keep her company while she runs her errands...or something like that.  That would make it about her while also giving you the opportunity to spend some time together.  I know this is probably a long shot, but just thought I would put it out there.  As nice as it would be to do things focused on the kids, I am sure it would just be nice to have a little more time with her in general.

Gosh, Julie.  I'm sorry.  I have a friend who is the same way about her Mom and it just astounds me.  Yeah, Mom still tries to "mother" me and sometimes I get impatient with that, but, in general, yeah, I like to spend time with her.  When I went to MI I actually stayed with her at her apartment in assisted living and we really had fun. 

Ginger, yep, that's what I use, just regular garlic, and this is the time of year to plant.  After a hard frost is what they say.  And, we love fresh garlic also.

DH ordered some new faucets for our master bath and I feel like I got an early Christmas gift. I'd love to remodel the whole thing but that's just not gonna happen right now but the faucets were in very sad shape. I'm sooooo excited

Gina - I'm sorry about the ongoing hurt you feel from your mom. (((Hugs)))

I'm NOT a big fan of this whole time change thingy.  Just messes up my whole mojo!

Jewlieee

This mom discussion makes me wonder what it would have been to grow up with a totally different kind of mother. I can't imagine having the kind of bond where you actually want to spend time together.

I spent today w/my mother at my grandmother's place.  Going through papers, witnessing more "clearing of the air" confessional things, dealing with the social worker, changes to the power of attorney, etc.  Working out if she wants to be buried vs cremated, one or three days of viewing, do they want to disinter my grandfather and move them both up to Arlington Cemetary.  I should have been at work, but I've been feeling sick and on my way in I got pulled over by a state trooper and got a speeding ticket that is half my weekly salary.  So I cried and decided I needed an actual day to take care of things for me.  Except I stopped at my mom's and she said she was on the way to my grandmother's so I went with her.

While there I got a call that my friend came home and found Gracie had peeped and pooped everywhere.  Based on what I found when I got home, Gracie is/was sick with something.  Monday - so awesome!

(((Paige and Gracie)))

YUCK!!!

First off ((((Gina)))), Paige, hope Gracie will be ok.

YUCK!!!  Earlier I had felt something crawling on me...was driving me nuts and I finally caught a tiny black "spider" on the back of my neck and promptly sent him on a "sea cruise" down to the septic tank.  Then DS mentioned that it could have been a tick, but we discounted that because it was black, just like the spider we'd seen on a log with a body the size of a dime.....regardless, I had this creepy crawly feeling all over my body so hit the shower.  The hair was washed THREE times.  As I was scrubbing the body I found a little tiny piece of dark lint...you guessed it....on the lower belly right above the hair line...and that sucker was stuck to me.  YEAAAAAACCCCCHHHHHH!!

Guess that's what I get for going into the woods, but, ICK!

Jewlieee

Paige, ugh! Life is kicking you non stop lately.

 hahah - and I didn't even tell you on the drive up my mom tells me my oldest nephew (who is also my godson) has concussion from several weeks ago (him and another kid going for a soccer ball connected skull to skull instead...) is still causing such havoc that he's been reduced to partial days at school and he dropped a class b/c his doctors don't want him thinking so much! (uhm!  WHAT?!)  and he had an MRI this weekend because the doctors agreed something is very wrong.  He turns 17 next month and he's on a full scholarship at a private high school b/c he's such a smart and good kid.  His head has to recover and he has to be ok.  I'm eternally grateful he has my brother-in-law's health insurance, because in a blended family w/6 kids and no child support, there's no way he'd have the right health care.

Edit, now I remember why I wasn't mentioning that earlier.  I'm dumping way too much negativity on here and I feel badly about there always being something wrong to share.  There is good and I don't want to be a drama suck.  My apologies all.