Aging Parents
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Christmas Decor, Mom’s Health, and My Spirit Animal
Bye bye, fall decor. Hello Christmas. I was very surprised at how smoothly the weekend went in transitioning over to Christmas. It was a quiet weekend, overshadowed by the bafflement day to day with Mom’s foot. One moment it is so much better and the other moment she is lazy boy ridden and unable to function and needing to be cared for, fed, waiting on, foot soakings, and taking trash out for her. George threw away some science projects in the fridge while I got her foot soaker machine going. Today is the day we are to go to the walk-in clinic after work for foot x-ray but last night…
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Thanksgiving Days along with some Thanksgiving Troubles
Good afternoon. Post Turkey Day. I’ve looked forward to this weekend for a long time. It is so hard to come by a day at home. And to have a few days finally is just delightful. It doesn’t come without threats to it though, as always. Mom went to Thanksgiving dinner to see my sister on Tuesday. She hobbled in and out with her gout. We had a nice time with my sister and my niece. My nephew had a virus and my BIL stayed home with him. It was a busy short 3 day work week of trying to get payroll done and the aftermath, and to get manual…
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Planning our Christmas Shopping Excursions and Taking Care of Mom
Good morning! Just checking in. I don’t have any fabulous news to report. It’s just been a busy week of working and video editing and eating and sleeping – or trying to. The sleep has been less good for some reason. Lots of wakeups across the night and then not wanting to get up when alarm goes off. Trying to get quarter end done at work. Almost there. It’s been the least stressful quarters of all. I think I might actually make it on time this time and I have not had to work a lot of extra time over. And I’ve not had to stress and worry over it.…