H3LL of a Month

Since no one reads this I will tell you all about my month. I got this really great job! I love my job. The people who I work with are great. after being on the job for 3 weeks I got a bad case of pneumonia (is there such a thing as a good case?) So for my 4th week I am at home trying to breath, good news is that I quit smoking!!! (fear not it didn't last long)

So here I am going about my life and feeling good that I have not lost my job for my week off, and my family seems to be flowing nicely. Then one night I step outside my front door, where my daughter and her friend are supposed to be sitting talking, to tell my daughter that it is time to come in and there is no one there. I spent the next 2 hours searching the neighborhood, calling the cops, and generally frantically trying to find the child. At about this time I am on the phone with one of the local hospitals, when I get a phone call from another local hospital that my daughter is in their emergency room. She has swallowed a bottle of pills and is not doing well. I call my DH, who has gone to work and rush to the hospital. I spent the night watching heart monitors praying. She is fine (now I am ready to kill her) I miss 2 days work after being back at work for just a week from my illness.

As my daughter is recovering in the adolescent psych ward, I find out that my dear friend needs brain surgery. I help her to get her stuff organized in between visits to the hospital and family psych meetings. I miss a day of work to sit at the hospital while my friend has surgery just a week after missing 2 days for my daughter. I spend the rest of the week visiting my daughter for an hour in the mornings, my friend for an hour and then I rush off to work to return to the hospitals after work for another visit. (It would be really nice if they could have chose to be in the same hospital not one's on opposite sides of the city!)

Now we have a meeting with my daughter's psychiatrist, psychologist, and counselor and they recoment to me that for my daughter's peace of mind, and since she is feeling so lonely since her brother left for college (another kettle of fish) that we need to get her a dog!!!!!

Daughter:
"Oh mom I'll take care of it. I'll walk it every day and feed it and clean up the poo poo in the backyard."

Me:
"Funny I seem to recall this same conversation with the last dog ... which I had to take to the vet when he was suffering ... and I was the one that walked the dog, fed the dog, and cleaned up the accidents in the house ... I refuse to clean the yard!"

So when tomorrow comes ... Saturday, I will get up bright and early do my rounds at the hospitals and then take my son, yep he came home from college for this special event, out shopping for a dog!!!

Out of everything that has happened the most tramatic thing for me ... getting a bloody dog!!!!!

Wanting Peace and Quiet

It has been a bad couple of weeks with my FIL dying and now my Hubby’s Uncle has died but I did not do this to bring everyone down. No more obsessing with the afterlife.

Now that the kids are back in school I was thinking that I would get some peace and quiet to do my schoolwork in. After all, I suffered through them playing all summer while I had to knuckle down and do my homework now it was going to be easy. No distractions just me and my work peacefully plodding along. Silly me!!

Every time I sit to dive into my homework, hubby decides he need my undivided attention. While this was cute for about 2 days it’s been a month now he can grow up. I am not his mommy he is not a little boy who need so much attention.

So what do I do when I do get some quiet time … I blog!

Well I better get to my homework now that the masses are settled and the little boy is sleeping LOL

XXOO

Rae

Resiliency

In my community psychology class we had an interesting question this week and it got me thinking. I started to wonder what other people thought of this topic. So here I am asking my friends opinions:



What characteristics would you say create the most resilient adult? How were these demonstrated in your life or in the life of someone you know?


I will put my opinion in a comment and am looking forward to what you folks have to say.

xxooo

Rae 

So long to summer

It has been a good summer. Warm nights with the breeze blowing through the windows to cool you just enough to sleep, prime beef on the grill, sense of quiet that only summer can bring to me.

There has been so much going on this summer, with my school my family, and my health. My dad’s side of the family had a reunion this summer, which has not happened for years. It was so good to see my cousins and how much their kids have grown. Most of their kids have kids now, which should have me feeling my age but it just brought back memories of us at that age. We were too wild in our day.

With the exception of loosing my dog, it has been a great summer and I morn it’s passing. But fall is upon us, today the temps were low enough to start the trees to turning in the next week or two, and I for one am looking forward to the explosion of color and sweatshirt and sweater weather (if only it didn’t get any colder than that).

Enjoy each day as if it were your last

Rae

A tribute to Bosley

as you can see he was very camera shy but just as cute as a button

Waiting

I have discovered I hate to wait. When a commercial comes on TV I find myself working on the coomputer, playing a game, or some such while I wait for my show to continue. This said, I decided to try and see how creative I can get with my waiting time ... So far I am pretty boring! I do the same things, especially playing at pogo.com, or Cubis Gold.

Does anyone else look for distracting things to do while waiting? What do you do?

Rae (With too little time for such foolishness)

Sad Day

Bosley and his best friend Esa, who is lost and confused without him

Today is not so good. I had to put my dog down this morning. He was an older dog, 16 years old, and has a lot of health problems but it was still hard to do.

Bosley was a beagle, a very loving dog, though he was very naughty. He liked to get into the garbage at night and strew it all over the kitchen. He was my shadow, he would follow me all over the house. I'm not a dog person so I have no idea why he choose me but we had an understanding. he was my companion as I did laundry, and kept me company at the lake when all the others went fishing.

I will miss Bosley,

Rae

Happy Thoughts

I was looking over my blog and realized that … I whine … a lot!!!

So I have to tell you about the other day:

I came home from coffee with a friend and found my daughter, Cece, sitting on the floor next to the toilet white as a sheet. I did the mom thing and gave her Pepto-Bismol. She felt better soon after and I thought that was the end of it. But she came into the living room with me and not only sat on my lap but curled up as though she was a little girl again … for those that don’t know Cece is 14 years old … but for the next few hours she was my baby again. It was wonderful and our relationship has been much calmer since. We have not had a good row in weeks!

It’s not really an aww moment but it’s as close as I can get with teenagers … there are days where I miss my babies. Those of you with toddlers are looking at the screen like I am nuts! I have tried to enjoy each stage that my kids have gone through and has some success some of the time LOL