Hey Anna123 - How ya doing? Agree with you that this sitch has made me closer to my mom. She has been there listening to me everyday...
Think H cancelled golf because of guilt? He hasn't seen his kids for a few days, and it WAS Fathers' Day! and perhaps he felt that he needed to do some fatherly stuff to warrant the greeting?? Perhaps as a face-saving thing, he said he was tired.
Anyway, the plant is called "Money Plant" over here. It is some kind of ivy. It is very easy to take care, propagates like crazy. All you have to to and cut a small leave and stick it in some water, and it grows and grows. Apparently, ivys or any climbing/crawling type of plants are NO good. It creates back-stabbing and bickering if they are in the offices. And in the home, it creates "women luck for men". So, I've gotten every single leave of this plant from my house...and now I need to replace the void with some other plants.... (oh Prickly type of plants are no good too...but not too sure in what aspects)