A Visit to Grandma Great

I went with my mom to visit my Grandma yesterday. We had the pleasure of bringing along T, J, and K. As we were walking into the home I said to the children - "Guys you need to be quiet inside because the people that live here are old and some may be sleeping." T, with his 4-year-old logic said "Does that mean we are new?" We got a laugh out of that one.

J, J, and L were all there to visit Grandma too. So she had a lot of visitors today. We went to the Chapel to have some alone time. It was sure good to see her. She looked good. Mom asked Grandma if she wanted to go for a walk but let her know it was hot outside. Joan told her it was 95 degrees out and Grandma said that is hot - so that was good that she remembered that. Joan, Joe, Joy and all the kids did take Grandma for outside for just a few minutes.
When J, J and L left - we took Grandma back into the Chapel and sang with her. I think Grandma enjoyed that as much as the children did. She knew all the words to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "You are my Sunshine" and "Jesus Loves Me". She enjoyed watching the children and laughed at their sillyness a few times. I did take my camera and got a few good pictures. Grandma even told me when I got my pictures made that she would like me to make some for her too - so I will be doing that. After our almost 2 hour visit, it was obvious that Grandma was getting tired so the kids and I went for a drive. Mom used that time to spend a little time one on one with Grandma. It was a good visit.

We also stopped by Jill's house but no one was home so I will have to see their house some other time.

this week so far

So T has been having trouble staying asleep these last few nights. He will wake up and just scream. I am not sure what is going on with him - needless to say we haven't been on a normal sleep schedule around here. This has caused problems in the morning when we are supposed to get up and meet T's school bus. Well, Tuesday we missed the bus and I got in the car to take T to school at 11:45. My car started but something sort of popped and my car would not shut off. I took my car out to Ken's Alignment and he said it would cost a couple hundred dollars to get it fixed. I told him I would have to talk to my dad about it. Dad was not happy about the fact that I was having car troubles again. There was good news however - since the car was running I could take it out to Ipswich. So on a mini-road-trip I went. I drove out to Ipswich (which caused me to miss my class - but save me gas in my car). My dad and I took the car to Lapak's and left it there. Luckily for me we have a spare car - the green Taurus. So I bring that back to Aberdeen. On my way to town I come up with the idea that the class that I missed is a back to back class so I'll just go to the next one. I head to NSU, walk into the classroom - its the same teacher but a different class - so that didn't work so well and I ended up looking like a goofball. By now I'm slightly annoyed. I pull up to my apt and am thinking - at least I'll get some homework done - but as I'm walking into the building I'm thinking its way dark in here. Much darker than usual. That's because the power was out in the building. Not only was it out in my apartment but the entire area south of Mellgaard (I believe). Apparently an electrical transformer blew...so I was without power...meaning I couldn't get my homework done on the computer so I laid down on my bed to read a book and fell asleep. I didn't wake up til like 5:15 which is 15 mins late to pick up T. It was a pretty crazy day.

Tonight when I went to pick up T - I was right on time 5pm. I was talking to J and T walked down off the deck - he usually does - but then I hear him scream. He had slipped on the ice and cut his cheek. It look more like a puncture wound. I think he must have hit a pointy part in the ice. I thought to myself - I better take him to the ER just in case. Well I'm glad I did because he ended up getting liquid stitches. The doctor said this way is better for kids like T and the good thing is no needles. T is doing fine and I am glad I followed my instincts and took him in.

Things will be better tomorrow - right?! Saturday I'm getting a new tattoo so that will be FUN!