A Life in the Day(s)

Wednesday, January 11, 2012, about 9pm: Susan Brown comes in to vend at the Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show.  It's always fun to have Susan around!
Thursday, January 12, 2012, about 6pm: Toot (my sister, Tomme Fent) and husband Craig fly in for a visit.  $1000 Sandwiches and Buck's homemade brownies for dinner.  Yum!
Friday, January 13, 2012, all day: Baking apple pies, slow-cooking baby-back ribs.  And hoping Toot's cold doesn't get any worse.
Saturday, January 14, 2012, about 9:30am:  Susan calls from the quilt show.  She can't find her money bag!  Luckily I locate it at the house.  Whew!  Toot, feeling lousy, is off to the am/pm clinic.  Full-blown sinus infection.  She stays home while I take Susan her moolah and meet Sophia Snider at the show.  So proud of myself - I resist the urge to spend tons of money!  Only bought one new book and a marking pen. Back home, Toot and I watch Harry Potter movies to take her mind off being SICK.
Sunday, January 15, 2012:  Toot stays home while Craig goes to see his family in Stillwater.  Buck and I are off to church.  More Harry Potter.  By late afternoon, Toot's feeling better.  We all go to dinner with Carrie's crew and Ginny's gang. 
Monday, January 16, 2012, is spent catching up on laundry and putting away all the extra linens. Until about 9:30pm:  The phone rings.  Buck answers; a short exchange ensues from which I can tell it's one of our daughters.  Since we usually talk to them at least once every day or two, this in itself didn't concern me.  It was Buck's announcement that Carrie had broken her foot that caught my attention.  "What?  And you didn't let me talk to her?"  He pulled himself together and went over to watch the sleeping kids.  Yep - the ER confirmed it.  A broken bone in her right foot.  Makes chauffering kids around and going to school a little hard, huh?  Thank goodness for sons-in-law.

And so it goes.  Other than the broken foot, just the usual utter chaos.  We're so fortunate to have each other - friends and family.  ALMOST makes every day a holiday!  ;)

Winding Up, Winding Down

Starting a blog just seems like the thing to do.  That's the winding up part, the putting-my-life-into-words part.  The winding down refers to this being the final semester of my Masters in Education program and my last few months living in Oklahoma. (At least for the time being; who knows where we'll be in 5 or 10 years!)  Then in May I'll be winding up again.  Moving to Oregon (daring thing).  Leaving the kids and grandkids (hard thing).  Starting a new career (scary-but-exciting thing).  Living near my sister (fun thing).  Buck and I have decided this is our version of a midlife crisis! You can follow along, if you want.  The more the merrier.  And maybe you'll start an adventure of your own.

Gator, later!