Sunday ~~ June 8, 2014 ~~ Getting closer to normal...
Posted 06-08-2014 at 10:53 PM by CSD610
Things have been such a whirlwind around our home since May 18, 2014 and we have started the downhill back to normal. Well normal for us anyway. My Husband is doing much better and is adapting to the splint on his left arm quite well. He is going about 8 hours between pain medication and when he does take it he takes 1/2 of what he was taking. He started helping as much as he can around the house. This is not required but he was pretty excited he was able to put away most of the clean dishes by himself earlier this morning. Pretty sad when that is the most exciting part of one's day.
The animals have finally calmed down but I cannot say they have returned to normal but they were never really normal anyway so I guess that is normal.
I heard from the gal who used to work part time for me today and she ended up coming over and helping me so that all worked out.
She came over and spent 4 hours today cleaning our motor home and one of the big trucks on the inside. Both vehicles are for sale and they really did need a good cleaning and with everything going on lately I have not had the time nor the energy to get either of them cleaned. It was nice to see her and she can always use a wee bit of extra money so it worked out for her as well. So the vehicles are clean and ready to be sold, the titles have been found and are put where I can get them quickly when they sell and she made a bit of extra money. All is good with the world right now.
My Husband is asleep, the dog is asleep, both cats are asleep and here I sit writing my current thoughts. As boring as it may be to some it is just as boring to me at times.
Not that I don't enjoy writing because I do enjoy writing but sometimes what I write just bores me to distraction.
I'm not sure I really know how to write anything exciting, well maybe those adult stories I write and have published but that is another discussion for another day and probably will never be discussed here. The childrens stories are different and make no sense to anyone but children and that is just fine because the main focus is the children.
They are silly with regular animals who are of irregular color but there is always a message. However slight and covert the message is still there and the children get it and that is all that counts.
Child like thoughts, are they really child like or just smaller thoughts than what adults have. Interesting topic to ponder if one would choose to do so. Have you ever just sat and listened to a group of children chatting with each other over lunch? I have and it is incredible what they discuss and how they discuss the things they discuss. It could be as mundane as the best jelly to go with peanut butter or it could be the mean boy at school and what do to about him. It is truly amazing how they put such thought into each encounter they have daily. The feel of their new socks, the size of the scab they have from falling off of their bike last week, the smell of the dog, the height of the tree they are not supposed to climb. Those are just a few of the topics children discuss and to just sit and listen is truly a gift from God.
Then there are the discussions that teenagers have and believe it or not teenage boys gossip more than teenage girls.
That is all I will say about teenagers though, I've paid my dues the hard way and I think every other parent on the planet needs to do the same. So, no warning about teenagers and good luck I hope you all survive it nearly unscathed.
So let's move on to those in their 20's, what a group we all seemed to be. We were young, strong, invincible, smarter than anyone we knew. We were married, parents, working, learning, growing, and boy did we make mistakes. Then things were not mistakes but as we aged and grew wiser (in theory) we understood some things were mistakes. If we survived the mistakes we were still married to the same person into our 30's and 40's. If we did not survive we were divorced by that age and wondering what went wrong and why couldn't we fix it. The truth is we could not fix it because we did not know how to fix it. We were too young to be married because none of us knew how to be married. How to have a real relationship. How to have a balance between marriage and parenting. Some of us knew and remained together but most of us did not survive round one of marriage and hoped the next round, if there was one would be much better and we would know how to do things closer to right.
Now that I have strayed from one end of the spectrum to the other with the topics today I must admit I am exhausted and I really need to get some sleep while everyone else in our home is asleep.
So I will leave you with this: If and when the time is near and you have a basic fear. Don't delay, go ahead and make that stop because it won't be long before you pop. A wise woman once said to me, never pass up the chance to Pee...
Rest well and peaceful dreams when it is time for you to wander your timbers of slumber ~~~~
The animals have finally calmed down but I cannot say they have returned to normal but they were never really normal anyway so I guess that is normal.
I heard from the gal who used to work part time for me today and she ended up coming over and helping me so that all worked out.
She came over and spent 4 hours today cleaning our motor home and one of the big trucks on the inside. Both vehicles are for sale and they really did need a good cleaning and with everything going on lately I have not had the time nor the energy to get either of them cleaned. It was nice to see her and she can always use a wee bit of extra money so it worked out for her as well. So the vehicles are clean and ready to be sold, the titles have been found and are put where I can get them quickly when they sell and she made a bit of extra money. All is good with the world right now.
My Husband is asleep, the dog is asleep, both cats are asleep and here I sit writing my current thoughts. As boring as it may be to some it is just as boring to me at times.
Not that I don't enjoy writing because I do enjoy writing but sometimes what I write just bores me to distraction.
I'm not sure I really know how to write anything exciting, well maybe those adult stories I write and have published but that is another discussion for another day and probably will never be discussed here. The childrens stories are different and make no sense to anyone but children and that is just fine because the main focus is the children.
They are silly with regular animals who are of irregular color but there is always a message. However slight and covert the message is still there and the children get it and that is all that counts.
Child like thoughts, are they really child like or just smaller thoughts than what adults have. Interesting topic to ponder if one would choose to do so. Have you ever just sat and listened to a group of children chatting with each other over lunch? I have and it is incredible what they discuss and how they discuss the things they discuss. It could be as mundane as the best jelly to go with peanut butter or it could be the mean boy at school and what do to about him. It is truly amazing how they put such thought into each encounter they have daily. The feel of their new socks, the size of the scab they have from falling off of their bike last week, the smell of the dog, the height of the tree they are not supposed to climb. Those are just a few of the topics children discuss and to just sit and listen is truly a gift from God.
Then there are the discussions that teenagers have and believe it or not teenage boys gossip more than teenage girls.
That is all I will say about teenagers though, I've paid my dues the hard way and I think every other parent on the planet needs to do the same. So, no warning about teenagers and good luck I hope you all survive it nearly unscathed.
So let's move on to those in their 20's, what a group we all seemed to be. We were young, strong, invincible, smarter than anyone we knew. We were married, parents, working, learning, growing, and boy did we make mistakes. Then things were not mistakes but as we aged and grew wiser (in theory) we understood some things were mistakes. If we survived the mistakes we were still married to the same person into our 30's and 40's. If we did not survive we were divorced by that age and wondering what went wrong and why couldn't we fix it. The truth is we could not fix it because we did not know how to fix it. We were too young to be married because none of us knew how to be married. How to have a real relationship. How to have a balance between marriage and parenting. Some of us knew and remained together but most of us did not survive round one of marriage and hoped the next round, if there was one would be much better and we would know how to do things closer to right.
Now that I have strayed from one end of the spectrum to the other with the topics today I must admit I am exhausted and I really need to get some sleep while everyone else in our home is asleep.
So I will leave you with this: If and when the time is near and you have a basic fear. Don't delay, go ahead and make that stop because it won't be long before you pop. A wise woman once said to me, never pass up the chance to Pee...
Rest well and peaceful dreams when it is time for you to wander your timbers of slumber ~~~~
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