I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Told Mom this morning we need to get back on track with our eating - we went off the rails over Thanksgiving, but that's enough of that. Got up this morning and found she'd eaten almost an entire apple pie all by herself during the night. Said she only had "a couple of pieces" - they must have been huge pieces. When I went to bed, only 2 small slices had been taken out of the pie - now there's only one slice left.
I *did* get several pretty good deals online yesterday, and made ONE foray out to a small, local store for their sale. Our local five and dime is an old fashioned variety store, selling everything from Brach's candy in big glass display bins to the granny panties you can't find anywhere else - and everything in between. Fabrics, craft items, canning supplies, holiday decor, toys that you can't find in any big box store, etc. If you can't find it at WalMart, chances are good you'll find it there. :-) The store has been around for over 80 years, and it's never changed much. The old wood floors still look and sound the same (they're creaky, just adds to the charm of the place), and it smells of candies, chocolate, candles, etc. Wonderful place. I managed to snag the dark blue plastic table covers I wanted for the family Christmas party and a few other decor items on sale - oh, and a Snow Block maker as a gift for one of the kids!
So, it's off to the shower and then back to work for me - have a great day everyone!!
a good oven costs 2 k ? i had no idea . that used kitchen aid double oven upstairs in my house must have cost a fortune . i live in a dream world where i drag stuff out of peoples trash and repair it . dont wake me up im on a roll .. lol
And we don't even *have* Thanksgiving over here? I'm so confused...
Did my holiday shopping on line last week. Would not even get into a mall assuming i wanted to drive there. The walk from the parking lot would be too much.
i do have a handicap sticker but guess what all thos spots are always full so it's to the far end of the parking lot.
Hope everyone had a peaceful Thanksgiving. We had our nicest one in years shared with two old friends. Both men are given to "ranting" so we just left them together at the table. At least there was no yelling. They seemed to enjoy their discussion about the govt and law enfocement and security. At least they ate well and nothing got burnt but I need a new oven when I can put my hands on $2K. mine is about 25 years old and some of the controls don't work including the oven cleaner and timer.
I remember decades ago when my Mom and I use to go to the day-after-Christmas half price sale at our local Hallmark store, got some really good deals and boxes of holiday cards to use for next year.... the store would open at regular time and maybe there were 6 people waiting for the store to open. We did that for many years.
I am going to add that to my list along with *where is my helmet* [for wearing when banging head against the wall].
It's all good. I can still smile. Now where's that wine.....
Not a great start to the day today. Is it too early for wine to go with my whine?
Meanwhile, I've had exactly one cup of coffee all morning, no food, because I haven't had time to stop and put a coherent thought together, much less make myself something decent to eat.
The one good thing is that my sis was here yesterday and saw firsthand what Mom is like when she gets pouty and resistant - so at least that lends credence to what I tell her and my other siblings when they ask how mom is doing...the one that really *needs* to see it, never will, because she's never here long enough. Oh well.
"… so another time you must call me, not try to do it yourself."
"oh yes I remember. I will now."
[thinks] No you won't.
Nuts to arguing about the bathroom, though. Run a basin of warm water for her to wash her hands (yeah right) and then jolly her in there willy-nilly. It's the only way I can get my mother into the bath - run the water and make like she'd agreed beforehand.
Mom, however, pulled her usual stunt of not wanting to go to the bathroom when told to, putting the pouty 2-year-old face/voice, and then going after both sis and I told her she needed to. She pulled it again with me tonight, refused to use the bathroom, saying she wanted to lay down but would be back up shortly and would go to the bathroom then. I was too tired to fight with her over it - and of course, she was back up in 5 minutes, peed on the bed and floor on the way to the bathroom. Told her when she got done changing ALL of her clothing and I changed ALL of her bedding and cleaned the floor that this has to stop. She agreed...but I know we'll go through all of this again tomorrow. I'll remind her, she'll resist it, I'll insist....ugh. So tired of the endless cycle.
Mom, seriously, has not stopped pacing since yesterday. Yes, she was up ALL night long pacing... her legs are like giant tree stumps. She cannot stop though. This is so worrisome. None of her meds are slowing this down either.
searching the world over to find a 5 lb bag of whole wheat flour cheap . its that time again and i dont wanna pay 5 . 50 for a bag of flour . oughtta buy some wheat from the feed mill and smash it with a brick hammer .
Well, now. My mother lives with me and my ex-SO (it's tricky but we're coping), and he has done more for her and eaten with her and kept her company a hundred times more than either of her sons for more than five years. He's kind to her and she likes him. My SIL - ex-husband's sister - has come to visit and called and invited my mother to family events more than both of my brothers put together; and all of my ex-husband's family pay my mother more attention than most of her own do. But there's never any allowance for how much my mother might, herself, *like* particular relatives, it's always got to be done according to family order.
And I think that's hooey.
To be fair, I don't think it's hypocrisy, I think it's ignorance. My sister doesn't know what goes on in my mother's social life so perhaps she just doesn't know any better.
You don't think our brothers are blaming us for their no-shows, do you? Are we sitting there beaming disapproval at them and putting them off? Well. They're big boys. They can just handle it.
But in the meantime, my parents have grown apart from these kids. I know there's parables about the prodigal child. But really. These days who has prodigal children? They have selfish children who could care less about visiting their own parents -- assuming the parents weren't abusive, I believe there is no reason to not visit parents at least once a year, and call once a week! Honestly! OK I'm done whining.
My two oldest brothers stopped by unexpectedly and of course, unannounced. Yes, you heard me right, just appeared out of nowhere... both of them. Now, if you recall, one of them swore NEVER to come to this house again. Awh shucks.
They brought mom a lovely poinsettia. It being evening mom was in full blown sundowners which is very hard to witness. I almost feel empathy towards them... almost. They get to go home so my almost is a small almost at the very least.. or best, depends on my mood. Oh, the one brother whom swore never to come here again, ... well, we did not speak, at all. That is highly unusual for me as I am a people pleaser and normally would have went out of my way to make him happy and comfortable. Not this day.
Oldest brother mentioned to mom they were both stopping by again tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving Day with her ( I wasn't mentioned) (which is fine) ... I told oldest bro I wasn't cooking a Turkey, he said neither were any of them, surprise surprise since it's a known fact his wife doesn't cook and they normally end up here scarfing up food.... I did tell them I was making eggplant lasagna though... he said he'd bring pumpkin pie, ice cream and whip cream. Oh oh, I added the whip cream, he included it in his list. WOW!
hope, I am incredibly Thankful for your mama's bounce back... not only for her, but for you! Yes, let her sleep... she's been through a lot trying to battle that infection.
I agree. No frenzy allowed! Ha! We should all show up on Cap's doorstep and eat brats until we can't move! That, would be an awesome day :)