What are you willing to do today? Monday 8//12

Cathy
You drew up a very clear road map for an OP day!
Yum. Your breakfast burrito sounds delicious! Thx for the inspiration for a different breakfast option.

"Golden Girls" was an American sitcom from the 80s. Theme song included the words "thank you for being a friend" ...
Show celebrated female friendships of mature women. Was a hoot!

New courses are a lot of work, but exciting to conceptualize & field test. Hope that your DD has a great start to the semester.
Ha ha ha ... leave it to the grands to let you know that you goofed!

Okey dokey
It's time to get thisday underway.
Will try to check back later.

If I am remembering right, Cathy, The Golden Girls solved everything with cheesecake --- or it seemed that way to me.

Today I am setting out to solve a mystery. Yesterday afternoon when I swept the kitchen floor, I saw one ant. Have no clue where he came from, but will do some searching this morning.

Yeah to NO PLANS, Susi. Company is nice as well as quiet time Hope the weather holds out so you can enjoy the beach!

Ann
So less stressful to have your presurgery check over the phone.
Yes, it is a relief when any part of the process easier for the patient.
Hope that you can stretch out w/ a good book or watch a worthwhile movie.

Bee j
Ants drive me nuts. Hope that your guest was a lone soldier.
My nephew's house in FL had ants show up this spring. Not good.

Susi
Can just picture you hanging out in your back yard w/ lots of good company.
Ain't that the truth-- lots of fun to anticipate & then entertain company. Equally as when the visits are over.

Pam
Ready, willing, and able-- have a great day before your WI.

I'm here at home with FourBoyz (the Kressling came here after soccer tryouts but then went home with Mom when she was done with grocery shopping): the Mice, K'ling2, and the Zigster.

Trampoline place went well and they gave a lot of bonus time (they call the wristband color when time's up and we went for almost 2 hours). We've had lunch and there is a plan for a mid-afternoon snack if they're interested.

The Mouseketeer "lost" his playDate-afternoon-at-HIS-house privilege when he "forgot" what I had told him not to do again (which is, in any case, something he's regularly told to STOP DOING). That means no fancy gaming with his cousin. But the younger ones are playing trains and the older ones are getting along with whatever they're doing so here we shall stay until late afternoon or they blow up, whichever comes first. And this "forgetfulness" in the child with the steel-trap memory for EXACTLY what was said is something to bring up tomorrow when I take him for his session <ahem>; it happens when it's something that he would RATHER forget, and it gets him into trubble.

We have some chicken from Son#2 if I don't get the chicken at DD's out of the oven by the time she gets home...

Ann, our big hospitals do everything over the phone as well. It just saves time. The urologist's office offers and on line check in so after I sign in and pay the $20 for a specialist fee, there is nothing else I have to do.
Lily Belle was happy and joyful for everyone at the vet's office but now she is just resting. She turned up her nose at the food but I was able to give her a dropper full of the pink medicine with DH holding her. Hopefully she will be more responsive after he gets home.
I am so exhausted. This morning I called the shower door people who will arrange a time for tomorrow. I went to the bank before my appointment and to the janitorial supply company in Clovis for 2 gallons of tile floor cleaner before I drove home. The latter was after the medical appointment which was fine other than the scale.
Susi, I understand about being near the beach but never having time to just go and relax.
I have to redo the table with the kitchen linens I washed earlier and hand dry a blouse I did on delicate.I have to go through the check book and list any deposits and home maintenance bills so Bob can do the money tonight before we have to do it again on the 15th. Our pool has really gotten cooler in the past two weeks so perhaps I can squeeze in a bubble bath before dinner.
MJ the Mousketeer is at a difficult age in learning responsibility. Before school Whitney sent me a happy photo of Theo with his dad but then Rob called later to say Theo apparently had a temper tantrum at the school. As I may have mentioned he is now at a new school way across town for a dual immersion Spanish/English program. He is repeating transitional kindergarten because he is young and immature. He is 5. I don't think his parents realized how traumatic this is for him compared to being at a comfortable neighborhood school or even at the school he attended last year. He is also probably one of the fewer non Hispanic children in the program. My mouth is closed beyond this point. I also see Nora as having issues as she gets older because of a lack of boundaries now. Leo is just a quiet responsible child and she is a wild 4 year old. My older two mock their younger sibling's parenting which is strict with rules, boundaries and consequences but having worked in schools for so many years a child has to respond to rules, boundaries and consequences unless it is a small nontraditional school. We are born who we are in so many ways.