Well LL and Sue (and the rest of gang ), it turns out that my fears were not justified...
Last evening W came home around 8 for dinner and it was a good one. D needed to finish up her spelling homework so we stayed pretty much together until it was time to head upstairs for bed. W said that D wanted to get to bed earlier so that she would not be as difficult to get up in the mornings. While we were upstairs, W mentioned that her mom wants her to visit and asked if I was planning on going to dance practice this evening. I said that since I was going to be leaving on Friday, I had no problem missing out on dance practice. W said that she was OK with that.
This morning W did complain a couple of times that she is not be able to work this weekend or can put off visiting her mom until the weekend either. I didn't rise to the bait but keep quiet while I read some of the first Harry Potter book to S in the living room. And when I saw them off this morning and hoped that both of them have good days, W gave an emphatic "NO" as a response.
So it turns out that W DID remember after all. This from a woman who was no longer concerned about keeping my schedule in mind. Good for her! And good for me since I am not at all pressured into changing my plans for the DB weekend.
W did occupy some of her time this morning trying to identify a large spider that has made a rather large web between some bushes in front of our bay window in the living room. She was very curious since her boss received a rather bad bite on the foot last week from a brown recluse spider. Her boss is hobbling around on crutches, has been out for the past several days and will likely be out for another week - so that is adding to W's work pressure.
So today I start getting my things together for the weekend. I am really looking forward to this. Although I do sympathize with W's work troubles and everything, I think that it's high time that she needs a sense of what it would be like not to have Bob to rely on. My prediction is that she will be decidedly glacial to me upon my return for a few days - but that will get her only farther down into the abyss that she seems willing to create for herself...