just a few minutes
WEll my daughter "got" me a few minutes ago. About half an hour ago, she left for her very first paying job. All of a sudden a few minutes ago, she came back in the door, saying she had been fired! I guess I had quite a look on my face. I mean, that would be about five minutes of her actually being at the job...But it's okay, the boss just told her the wrong day to come, must have meant tommorrow...So anyway she says now her butterflies are gone at least.....
So now we have to breathe a few big deep breaths and carry on with the day. The boy went to the dr. yesterday, but I don't know if I feel any better.....She gave him the same "zantac" type pills that she gave Bronwyn. I guess she is the dr. and is supposed to be right. Maybe they both have nervous stomachs or something. He has had a rough spring/summer emotionally, so maybe that is what it is that is keeping him asleep all day and hardly eating anything and feeling icky. I thought it was a virus....I know the kids all tease me about West NIle, but the symptoms are flu-like and he had a lot of the symptoms. There is also Mono going around and I know that he is run down. My mother told me that is how you get it, from being really run down. I remember when Bruce had it. I suppose David's feverish episode a couple weeks ago could have been heatstroke as we originally thought and this that he has now isn't related? Anyway, the dr. says to keep away from the greasy and spicy foods for a couple of weeks, so hopefully we will have him back in shape for school...I just find it odd that both kids would get the same meds. Almost a year apart, mind you. I suppose it is not unrealistic for them to bothhave nervous stomachs, as B's family has those type of problems. I have always figured our kids should look out for heart disease, diabetes and depression and those things seem to be on both sides of our family. I think every family has their problems.
I ran into an old friend the other day, she works in the walmart that I mostly shop at, but strangely enough we don't often run into each other. So she invited me home for supper and we had a great visit (after the usual, we keep meaning to keep in touch speeches)(which we always mean most heartfeltedly--it seems ridiculous that we work on the same street, maybe a mile apart, and never see each other--last time she popped into my workplace was probably nine months ago....) Given that our husbands were work partners for years and that our kids went to the same schools as preschoolers and high schoolers, and we all get along, it does seem ridiculous that we don't get together more. Especially as our kids are big, we are not running around after them anymore. A person is so used to just sliding into routine behavior, (eg. come home, eat, fall over, go to bed, get up, go to work, repeat...) that we don't often break the pattern without great effort. Last night I went to aquacizes here after supper. First time this summer. I missed the whole month of July, mostly because Cait was home, and some work commitments, but also worried about my foot. But I have been getting so fat, and everything hurts when you sit too much, I feel so creaky etc. that I just have to start moving again. 6 weeks of zero exercise has taken a bigger toll than I thought. You don't think you are doing anything but then you stop, and you can tell that whatever little bit you did was helpful because it all disappears mighty fast. I still have arm muscles though, I notice, from heaving around boxes of books etc. Some days I feel like a pack horse. Most days actually.
It was hard to get going, and the weather was very windy and almost chilly; usually the water feels so good in summer, but it was cold to get in. I was fine after we got going though. It was funny, the girl who led the exercises is a year older than my youngest, and surprisingly,she knew who I was. I don't think she worked there last year, and I suppose it is not unreasonable that she would recognize me, as being Bron's mum, but I was surprised she knew my name.....Anyway she did a decent job of it, I learned some new stuff and had a good time. It was strange, there were only four of us, and I knew none of them. I guess if they don't use the library, then I don't know who they are....It is a far cry from the day when I knew the whole school, or most of the community and surrounding ones, in Carievale. Here, I only got to know people who had to do with my kids. And now they are big, you don't get involved with other parents etc, in groups anymore. I think that is one reason why churches are good, they provide community in a time when communities are dissolving or morphing into something bigger.
I suppose I had better get ready for work, usually on my morning off I have so much to do the time just flies. Today I did mostly the same things but it feels like it is crawling. Maybe because I have a big thing on at work this aft that I am concerned about. So much to do there. Anyway I will be glad when the afternoon is over.
Let's see, what am I thankful for today? Small towns where my daughter can walk to work. Swimming Pools. Fresh Fruits and garden vegetables (wish I had some, the store stuff just "doesn't taste" in the words of my German grandmother). I am thankful for lovely summer, when I was a kid I got to go stay with my grandparents for a week each and when a pool was built there, I got swimming lessons. two of my favorite things, Grandparents and swimming. definately thankful for those. Bron just home from a week vacation with the grands. I think she had a blast. I don't think they were very happy as her stomach was acting up, but she seems fine. I am very grateful my kids have had a chance to know their grandparents and spend time with them on a fairly regular basis. Have a peaceful day, D.
So now we have to breathe a few big deep breaths and carry on with the day. The boy went to the dr. yesterday, but I don't know if I feel any better.....She gave him the same "zantac" type pills that she gave Bronwyn. I guess she is the dr. and is supposed to be right. Maybe they both have nervous stomachs or something. He has had a rough spring/summer emotionally, so maybe that is what it is that is keeping him asleep all day and hardly eating anything and feeling icky. I thought it was a virus....I know the kids all tease me about West NIle, but the symptoms are flu-like and he had a lot of the symptoms. There is also Mono going around and I know that he is run down. My mother told me that is how you get it, from being really run down. I remember when Bruce had it. I suppose David's feverish episode a couple weeks ago could have been heatstroke as we originally thought and this that he has now isn't related? Anyway, the dr. says to keep away from the greasy and spicy foods for a couple of weeks, so hopefully we will have him back in shape for school...I just find it odd that both kids would get the same meds. Almost a year apart, mind you. I suppose it is not unrealistic for them to bothhave nervous stomachs, as B's family has those type of problems. I have always figured our kids should look out for heart disease, diabetes and depression and those things seem to be on both sides of our family. I think every family has their problems.
I ran into an old friend the other day, she works in the walmart that I mostly shop at, but strangely enough we don't often run into each other. So she invited me home for supper and we had a great visit (after the usual, we keep meaning to keep in touch speeches)(which we always mean most heartfeltedly--it seems ridiculous that we work on the same street, maybe a mile apart, and never see each other--last time she popped into my workplace was probably nine months ago....) Given that our husbands were work partners for years and that our kids went to the same schools as preschoolers and high schoolers, and we all get along, it does seem ridiculous that we don't get together more. Especially as our kids are big, we are not running around after them anymore. A person is so used to just sliding into routine behavior, (eg. come home, eat, fall over, go to bed, get up, go to work, repeat...) that we don't often break the pattern without great effort. Last night I went to aquacizes here after supper. First time this summer. I missed the whole month of July, mostly because Cait was home, and some work commitments, but also worried about my foot. But I have been getting so fat, and everything hurts when you sit too much, I feel so creaky etc. that I just have to start moving again. 6 weeks of zero exercise has taken a bigger toll than I thought. You don't think you are doing anything but then you stop, and you can tell that whatever little bit you did was helpful because it all disappears mighty fast. I still have arm muscles though, I notice, from heaving around boxes of books etc. Some days I feel like a pack horse. Most days actually.
It was hard to get going, and the weather was very windy and almost chilly; usually the water feels so good in summer, but it was cold to get in. I was fine after we got going though. It was funny, the girl who led the exercises is a year older than my youngest, and surprisingly,she knew who I was. I don't think she worked there last year, and I suppose it is not unreasonable that she would recognize me, as being Bron's mum, but I was surprised she knew my name.....Anyway she did a decent job of it, I learned some new stuff and had a good time. It was strange, there were only four of us, and I knew none of them. I guess if they don't use the library, then I don't know who they are....It is a far cry from the day when I knew the whole school, or most of the community and surrounding ones, in Carievale. Here, I only got to know people who had to do with my kids. And now they are big, you don't get involved with other parents etc, in groups anymore. I think that is one reason why churches are good, they provide community in a time when communities are dissolving or morphing into something bigger.
I suppose I had better get ready for work, usually on my morning off I have so much to do the time just flies. Today I did mostly the same things but it feels like it is crawling. Maybe because I have a big thing on at work this aft that I am concerned about. So much to do there. Anyway I will be glad when the afternoon is over.
Let's see, what am I thankful for today? Small towns where my daughter can walk to work. Swimming Pools. Fresh Fruits and garden vegetables (wish I had some, the store stuff just "doesn't taste" in the words of my German grandmother). I am thankful for lovely summer, when I was a kid I got to go stay with my grandparents for a week each and when a pool was built there, I got swimming lessons. two of my favorite things, Grandparents and swimming. definately thankful for those. Bron just home from a week vacation with the grands. I think she had a blast. I don't think they were very happy as her stomach was acting up, but she seems fine. I am very grateful my kids have had a chance to know their grandparents and spend time with them on a fairly regular basis. Have a peaceful day, D.
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