I know we need a meetup! One of these days, I'm going to take Linda up on her offer and show up on her doorstep in PV. Since I've got her car, maybe we can barter for something?
LOL, D21's team did drive across Canada in a bus. That broke down right when they pulled into Grand Rapids. Talk about good timing? She's back at school and pretty much finishing her semester tomorrow. She's stressed and I'm leaving her alone until tomorrow night.
She had to pull some tough duty this past weekend, and got nothing for it. Those of you who know me on the alt know that my D18 came down with a vile enterovirus that landed her butt in the hospital in the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning. I was busy with the medical staff doing mom things when I felt that wave of nausea hit me and then I went down. My poor D21 gave up her TG to take care of her sister (I think helping the nurses catheterize D18 was super sweet of her) while I wallowed in agony on the couch. It was AWFUL. The most awful 24 hours I've ever had in my life. I came out of my fog after my D18, and woke to see her waving at me from across the room. And then true to form, the day after we got home, my D21 and mom came down with it. Apparently, my family won't persevere through the Darwin hypothesis: survival of the fittest. The only one who came out of it was my dad.
Now we're back home, and I'm finally back to working a full work week and trying to get the townhouse ready to inhabit so we can move in. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we move in sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve - while I've got my D21's muscle power. Okay, let's call a spade a spade - while I've got free labor. Then I'll turn around and get my house ready to put on the market. I'm hoping to get that accomplished at the end of January. We will see. It's kind of a project management nightmare. Right now everything depends on the flooring. I'm wanting to minimize any transition issues for D18 as much as possible.
Like Ryan, she's really not good about stuff like this. Hell, I'm not sure my D21 is going to be good about it. Leaving her childhood home is probably not going to be emotionally easy. But I think my message to both of them this month will be "wherever we are, we're together and a family and we're good". Memo to me to reinforce that. Maybe even to myself.
So glad you were able to meet the G girls. I adore both of them. BA, I promise to work on staying well the next time I fly into town. I didn't even see most of my family while I was home. So, so awful. Don't get it. If you do, you better get yourself ready for a long date with your bathroom. So stay well!
Happy December to all- Betsey
"There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
