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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 4:40 pm
LOL, sounds like you did a lot even though it was all different from your plans. I am doing taxes for my investment club this weekend I am hoping it all goes very smoothly. We shall see.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:35 pm
I hope it goes well, Dipo! I spent most the afternoon at my aunts. Cleaned the house, helped her with a shower, also visited with everyone (little adopted bro and his daughter showed up and our uncle) for a bit. Didn't do much at home, except working on a few projects for the kids I have going. Caleb though worked his butt off. He raked the front yard, picked up the living room, then him and Kota got in the backyard and moved the wood pile and stacked it nice and neat against the fence. After that, he went across the street and mowed the neighbors yard (Dakota and my nieces went with him and dug up worms and surprising to me, the neighbor lady was giving them lessons on bugs, lol.) Tomorrow I'll clean up around my house and do some laundry and then get to starving Caleb (he has a fasting blood test first thing Monday morning.) He's very, very unhappy about it and positive he'll starve to death not eating for 12 whole hours.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 11:03 am
LMAO about Caleb. I have found a couple of things I need to correct, the former treasurer forgot to enter the April dividends and I forgot one in December, plus I noticed I created one to the wrong company. So once I make those corrections we should be good to go. Once I finish the taxes I think I will clean the sliders and do my floors.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 5:22 pm
Taxes done as much as possible, I need one gals ssn to finish, left her messages on her home and cell phone, still haven't heard from her. Got the dishwasher unloaded, neatend up the house by putting away everything that wasn't where it belonged. Now I am trying to decide if I should cook something or just have a pizza delivered. Oh and I am going to balance my checkbook. When I was putting stuff away in my office I realized I had my statement. So need to balance that and then go through it and see if there are any other tax deductibles. I found a couple of other things at work, when we pay $5 to wear jeans for Am Heart Assn or JD. That reminded me that I probably wrote a few checks for something. LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 01, 2009 - 10:41 pm
LOL, Dipo, Caleb went to my sisters to help bil with some yard work and I told them he had to be home by 6 to eat dinner. Sis called me about 5 and said he probably won't want dinner, he just ate two sandwiches, an apple, and some chips. Uh huh right, he came home an hour later and ate three pieces of pizza and then turned around and had an orange. THEN half an hour later ate a fruit cup and drank a glass of milk and said that'd hold him over til tomorrow morning, lol. I'm not so sure of that! I picked up around the house and did some laundry earlier this morning. Then I spent several hours organizing my beads. Darren bought me a large tackle box for Christmas for my beads. It's so perfect, it has four clear boxes that stack on the bottom and then a large compartment on top. I use the top for all my tools, wires, string, etc. The clear boxes are great because they have removable divider pieces so I can make compartments as big or small as I need for the beads, crystals, findings, charms, etc. The only problem is that the dividers aren't real secure and slide up so all my stuff was getting mixed up with everything else. I'd tried super gluing them in, that didn't work and tried hot glue but that left a gap big enough for stuff to slip under it. I picked up some shelf liner (the non slippy, not sticky stuff and kinda thick,) cut that to fit in the compartments and now can glue the dividers in. So, spent several hours doing that and seperating beads and putting em all back where they belong. I discovered I need a 2nd tackle box, lol! I love that thing, all my beading stuff is in one spot and I can just carry the box wherever I want to work.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 1:08 am
Detailed Cleaning List for Zone 1 Monday's Mission I wish Flylady would stop scoping out my house to get ideas! First, the porch. With softball season back on Dakota's bat bag and our lawn chairs have taken up permanent residence in my trunk. Now with my niece playing and us driving in one car, littlest nieces stroller is also spending a lot of time there. When I went to clean my aunts yesterday, I pulled the stroller and chairs out and set them on the porch, where they still are. The porch could also use some sweeping, lol. Second on the detailed cleaning list...I'm pretty good about going after cobwebs. Leave that job more than a few days around here and it's ridiculous. But, just yesterday I laid down on the couch and looked up and was shocked to see some between a couple pics. Guess I can do that tomorrow. Tomorrow starts off my insanely crazy busy week. Caleb's blood work at 7:10, then need to get him home and fed and to school (on time if possible.) Then over to my aunts to get her ready for and to rehab. Think after that I'll do the porch, the cobwebs, and wash mine and Caleb's windows. I'm gonna have to follow a schedule this week or I'll never get anything done. Dipo, way to go on the taxes! I started ours, just haven't gotten around to finishing them yet.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 10:10 am
I hear you about the cobwebs, I looked up the other day and noticed on above my shower head. I promptly forgot about it and only just now remembered seeing it. So I shall get that one, I don't want to disturb my porch spiders since it is raining like crazy here right now. Maybe this weekend I will sweep around, but I have a couple of daddy long legs living up there and I don't mind. LOL. I haven't been able to finish my own taxes either, I needed the K-1s from the investment club and I am waiting on a 1099 from my broker (they didn't change my address on one of my accounts). I can't imagine what is taking so long! Have a good week, it does sound crazy.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 1:43 pm
Why do we forget stuff like that? I'll see something like the web, walk away thinking I'm coming right back to it and then it falls straight out of my head, lol. Today was kinda rough. Er, it started when I went to bed. I had strange dreams that kept waking me up. At one point I woke up, grabbed my water and took a few drinks and went back to sleep. Now, I thought I put the bottle (with the lid on) on the nightstand. I was having a dream about Dakota waking up and freaking out cuz someone was throwing kleenex boxes and bars of soap at her while she was sleeping and in my dream I ran into her room to calm her down and tell her no one was throwing anything at her, when they threw a bucket of cold water at me. That woke me right up...soaking wet! Took me a minute to figure out I must not have put my water on the nightstand or put the lid back on the bottle cuz it was laying on its side next to me, I was soaked, the bed was soaked, lol. I don't think I was all that awake, I went to the bathroom and dried off, changed into dry jammies, and threw a towel on the bed then scooched up next to Darren til he got up. When Caleb came and woke me up at 6:30, I was pretty happy it was time to stop sleeping, lol! Took him for his lab work. That actually went pretty well. Because we had an appt, even though the lab was busy, we only waited a couple minutes. They called him back and he sat chatting with the phlebotomist while she took his blood, asking what all tests they'd be doing and amazed that they could do all that with such a small amount of blood. I wouldn't know how much she took, I had to stand facing away cuz I have serious issues with blood. Got him home and he ate some oatmeal and drank a glass of milk, complained of being a bit nasues and dizzy, and promptly threw up. He laid on the couch til it was time to go to school, and since I was pretty sure he wasn't sick sick, he went. Went over to my aunts to get her ready. I'd been out at my sisters and then went back into aunts and stopped dead in the doorway, yelling for my sis. I thought for sure I was dreaming, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing...there was a small crab crawling across her kitchen floor right behind her. She came in took one look and said, ew spider! and grabbed the dustpan. I thought she scooped it up, but when I followed her outside she told me to hurry and get aunt out, she'd find the crab and take care of it. I'm like hold up a minute, where the hell did that come from??? I'm used to mice, spiders, heck even frogs and snakes out here, but crabs??? She started laughing, said bil bought one for the fish tank (guess they eat the algae or something?) and they occassionally crawl out of the tank! Aunt absolutely hates the things and sis said no way in heck was she telling her that the damn thing had crawled out of the tank. Sis called me while we were at therapy, she'd finally caught him and put him back in the tank. Told her to tell bil I was gonna kick his butt the next time I saw him, lol! Therapy went really good today. They switched from yoga to stretching exercises and aunt really liked those. Her therapist told her tomorrow he's putting her on the bike and will strap her feet in and have one of his trainees do the pedals for her. He's pretty concerned that she's not exercising her legs enough, though she's doing great on the upper body. I was just leaving her house when my cell phone rang. Normally I ignore it while driving, this time I popped it open, remembering Caleb not feeling well, and sure enough it was the school nurse. Pulled over and told her I'd be right there...she said it's weird, he's not running a fever, but he looks almost green. I explained about the fasting blood test and him getting sick and she said, yep that'll do it. She told me she could have him lay down and get him some crackers and juice and he'd be fine but I told her since I was already out and it was already 11:15, I'd just come get him. That's been my day. Haven't accomplished much else, but Darren has class tonight and that's usually a good time for me to get some housework done.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 5:25 pm
War does Caleb like juice of any kind? If so, take some with you and as soon as he's done getting his blood drawn have him drink the juice. It'll help his sugar come up before he eats his breakfast, and also help settle the empty tummy blues. Even if you're just 5 or 10 minutes away from the Dr's office, it can make a difference. The milk and oatmeal - actually most anything you eat - take awhile to get your blood sugar up. I used to have to get regular fasting blood tests - not diabetic related - and that's what I had to do or I was out for the morning, sometimes into the afternoon. Something about eating regular food when I had fasted made me sicker than a dog, but drinking the juice 5 or 10 minutes before eating helped me tremendously.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 6:11 pm
Serate, that's funny. When Darren and I were talking about it this afternoon, I told him next month I'd take a bottle of oj and maybe a small cookie or two for him to munch when it's done. I figure that's what they give you when you donate blood so maybe it'll help with a smaller amount taken. If we decide to put him on accutane (we're still discussing it though we have to decide before Wed.) he'll have to do the same fasting test once a month at least for the next 5-6 months. I also found out that the lab is open Saturdays but by appointment only so when I get the referral to see the dermatologist and make the appointment with them, I'll call and set up a Saturday appt with the lab. That'll avoid the morning rush before school and if he still feels lousy he'll be able to just come home and rest.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 1:01 am
Tuesday's Mission Didn't do the front porch today cuz it was sprinkling on and off most of the day. Just enough that it would have made more of a mess to do it than leave it for later. I did get the cobwebs, lol. Besides picking up, also changed the sheets on my bed and the light bulbs in my room (blew the last one in there tonight.) LOL, also hit the grocery store. Vons has been having a sale this week on things I don't really like, but make good munchie food and uhm, hold over snack food. TV dinners, which are a good little meal for the kids between school and dinner, especially the days we have plans. Also bags of mini cookies ($1 each) and dang, what else did I stock up on? Oh frozen burritos. Today was the last day of the sale and I wanted to stock up, cuz while that's not stuff we use every day, it does last quite a while. By the time I got everything on the counter I was cracking up...90% is what I'd consider junk food! I was joking with one of my normal cashiers that we don't normally eat like that and he was joking about seeing a bag of bananas and asparagus. I was just taking advantage of the sale, lol. Tomorrow will be half nutty, half not. Aunts therapy, then it's banking day for her, and sis actually wrote me out a grocery list for aunt/the house. Not sure I'll do the shopping tomorrow, I'll be watching my little niece while sis runs to the DMV and probably keep her til Kota and oldest niece have softball practice. Probably spend the afternoon at home puttering around, cleaning, and vegging.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 1:25 am
Wednesday's Mission I'm free tomorrow til 2, so it's cleaning day for me. Along with the mission, I'll be hitting the main rooms (living room, kitchen, den, bathroom) and giving them a good cleaning/dusting/sweeping/vacuuming/mopping. Might do Costco shopping later in the day after Caleb's appointment with the dermatologist. Therapy went ok. We learned today that besides being fun for kids, bubbles are a great respitory therapy aid. I'm gonna take her over a bottle so she can play with them at home...good for her and my nieces, especially the baby, will love that. I had her banking day after that, which actually went really smoothly today, first time in several months. I came home with baby niece who was extremelly clingy today. I'd put her down for a nap and she got up and came over to me. Put her hands on my leg and was just hanging out, all of a sudden put her head on my leg and I thought, weird, is she dancing? Looked down at her and she was standing there, head on my leg, sound asleep! Unfortunately she woke up as soon as I tried to lay her down. Softball practice was this afternoon too. Coach hasn't picked positions yet but Kota is really, really hoping for pitcher. He has to have four (they can only pitch so many balls in one game, then have to play another position the next game, one of the rules to avoid overuse injuries) girls to pitch and every practice he grabs Kota and one other girl to go practice pitching. He takes several other girls for pitching practice, but Kota and the one other girl are the only two he takes every practice for it. I keep asking her about it and she keeps saying, "he hasn't said anything yet, maybe, maybe not." And then there is my itsy bitsy niece. At 9, she's one of the older girls on the team, but also one of the smallest (if not the smallest.) Turns out, she's a power hitter! This isn't proud auntie talking either, every time she got up to bat today, she sent the girls in the outfield running.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 1:21 pm
Last night I made chili and cornbread, watched my soap tapes from Monday and Tuesday, and went to bed early (had to come in early today). The house is still neat, but not clean, LOL. That is hysterical about the baby, why is it that they just have to be with you even when they are so tired they can't stay awake, LOL. Sounds like a great day! We might have 2-3 days of no rain, so I may get some stuff done. Need to repot a plant that got blown over and pot broke, didn't faze the plant and a bunch of other stuff. Definitely need to get some laundry done.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 1:59 pm
Oh, chili sounds so good right now (it's cold and windy here.) LOL, I don't know what was up with the baby yesterday. It was a pretty bad nap day all the way around, she'd tried to sleep in the car but woke up when we moved her, then she fell asleep in my lap and again woke when I tried to move her to the couch. Then the standing up time. Finally she fell asleep in the car when I went to get Caleb and woke up again when we tried to move her. I don't think she slept more than 7-8 minutes each time. Poor kidlet was sooo tired. I've done minor cleaning. Meant to do more but it just didn't happen. I've actually been on the phone most of the day. Caleb has his appointment in a bit, when I made the appt, I asked my neighbor if she could keep Dakota after school til we got back. She said sure. This morning though, her daughter mentioned having a game after school so I called neighbor to find out if she wanted me to make other arrangements for Kota. After going back and forth (she can go with us to the game, nah I'll have my sis pick her up, she can go with us, are you sure) she remembered something else they had to do today. So then it was call my sis and little "adopted" sis to find out which one could pick her up and who would keep her, and then oh crap, no one mentioned this to Kota this morning, she'll freak out if no ones there to get her on time and wouldn't be looking for either of her aunts to come. Another phone call to the neighbor, then to sis and I think we have it worked out. Neighbor will pick her boy up and tell Kota to go wait back up by the office for my little "adopted" sis to come get her. Then she'll drop Kota off with my sister and she'll stay there til we're done. That also frees us up to go pick Caleb's glasses up (they came in today) and go cash my paycheck before getting her. And the bonus, sis will have her sit down and do her homework along with my nieces while waiting for us.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 1:29 am
Thursday's Mission We didn't get done with Caleb's appt til after 4. By the time we got back to town (his derm. is in Palmdale, we're in Lancaster,) picked Kota up, and ran home to call the drs office back with Caleb's social security number, it was pretty close to 5. No biggie really, except Darren had to meet his study group at 6 so no time for Costco shopping or picking up Caleb's glasses. I don't feel like we accomplished all that much...no glasses for Caleb, can't turn his prescription in til tomorrow, no shopping for my aunt. Ah well, that's life. My aunts appt is at 11 tomorrow so I have a bit of time between dropping the kids off and going to her house to drop off his prescription and pay a bill or two. Afterwards I have an errand or two to run, some housecleaning, and I don't know what else. Kota has practice after school so Darren's gonna take Caleb to get his glasses. We'll do Costco shopping Friday, aunts got enough groceries (plenty, in fact) to last a couple more days. I think I will be glad when this week is over!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 12:24 pm
LOL, you are having a very busy doctor week it seems. I managed to get the recycling out during a dry spell, cleaned up the kitchen, shaved my legs (they were starting to really bug me) so I scrubbed the tub and that was it for me.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 1:36 pm
Dangit Dipo, you had to mention shaving huh? I'm out of blades and haven't bought any in, er lets just say several weeks. Aunt was grumpy today. Unpleasantly so. Haven't done much around the house, it's starting to show I've only put minimal effort into it this week that's for sure. Next week I'll be busy just trying to catch up!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 5:05 pm
LOL, wargod, I think it has been since Christmas for me!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 9:39 pm
LOL, ok, that's a bit longer than me, I did mine around Valentine's Day.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 06, 2009 - 1:06 am
Friday's Mission I found myself in Walmart this evening and then the pharmacy and was thinking about the blades when I went in and still didn't pick them up, lol! Tomorrow is the last dr day and it's gonna be a bad one. The appointment is at 10 and because of where they are located (hospital parking lot) we'll have to get there at 9:30 so I can get her out of the car and then go hunt down a parking place. I like the dr, just hate where his office is located. After her appt, I have several errands to run. And tomorrow is Darren's early day so he'll be home by 2. Don't see getting much around the house done. I've got quite a bit on my list for this weekend, lol. Oh, we also have to do grocery shopping tomorrow (Costco) for both my aunt and our house. Told my aunt that I'm cleaning her house next Tuesday. Caleb has minimum days Tue-Fri and he told my bil if he leaves him a list of chores he can do alone around the house, he'll go over after school to do it. Since I have to drive him and hang around anyways, it's a good time for me to clean too. LOL, he's planning on staying busy...next week is the four min. days and then they have 2 weeks of spring break and besides offering to do chores around my aunts for bil (that's all yard work,) he's offered to help our neighbor redo her entire back yard besides the weekly mowing and moving her trashcans he's already doing.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, March 06, 2009 - 12:52 pm
Lets see, I cleaned up the kitchen, put all the stuff that got wet when it rained and I wasn't expecting it back out on the patio (Today we have sun, YEAH), got rid of some more recycling, and did my safeway order. I got a $3 break on the delivery fee since I was able to take 5-7 pm tonight. I have so much I need to do this weekend!! Laundry, sit on my patio in the sun, clean the sliding glass doors, mop the floors. But if you don't mop your floors the universe will eventually help you out. Last night (really evening, around 9pm) I knocked over a bottle of water on my nightstand. This would not normally be an issue since I keep the top on them, of course this top was loose. So I did a little mopping of the floor just to get all the water up, LOL. Have a great weekend.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 06, 2009 - 1:45 pm
LOL you were channeling me the night I either knocked the open bottle over or just fell asleep before I put it back on the nightstand and soaked the bed! I've been doing bits and pieces of picking up for a while. Was mostly trying to figure out my time card (I didn't keep very good track the past three weeks) and enjoying doing nothing! Darren will be home in a bit and I may see if he wants to do the Costco run now before the kids get out of school. Will only have an hour, which isn't that bad unless they are busy.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, March 06, 2009 - 3:39 pm
Oh, I forgot about that, LOL, so true.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 06, 2009 - 11:09 pm
I thought I was doing a good thing today doing the Costco shopping at 2. Oy. We made good time and were finished to pick Caleb up right on time. Came home to drop off our part of the groceries and I called sis to tell her me and Kota would be over in a few, would she have bil and the girls come out to help carry them in. Sure, no prob. Kota and I go over and I pull up in the alley and honk the horn. The girls and sis come out, bil was in the house fixing something for our aunt. We stood there a minute splitting stuff up...littlest niece took bread, Dakota and oldest niece some boxes, me and sis grabbed meat. The girls headed towards the gate and opened it just as sis and I were walking up there and the dog came running out. Slammed right into sis, got between her legs and knocked sis down. Poor sis hit the ground with all of her weight (er, about 106 lbs) coming down on her right knee. Meat went flying and sis couldn't even utter a sound. I dropped what I was carrying and ran over...I'd seen her fall and knew she was hurt. Sent middle niece in to get her daddy, told Kota and oldest niece to pick up the groceries and get the dog (who thought since sis was on the ground it must be playtime...she's just a puppy.) Bil came running out, asked sis if she could bend her leg (no,) did it hurt (YES!!) and picked her up to carry her in. He slammed her knee into the fence on the way in the gate. After getting her in the house, I hurried to put the groceries away and go back to check on her. She was sitting on the couch, pants leg up, knee swollen twice it's size (this is the same one she hurt this summer,) and trying not to throw up. Middle niece saw me and started howling, which set off her little sister to cry. Little adopted sis was there with her baby, who took that as her cue to cry too. I looked around and said is it me? I come over, sis falls and gets hurt and three kids who were perfectly fine a minute ago start crying! Talked to sis not that long ago and she said she's still in a great deal of pain and her knee is even more swollen now. She said she needs to go to the doctor but was hoping to wait. They just got their medical insurace back Mar 1, but the union was slow in sending in the paperwork so it still shows they don't have insurance. She told me she knows though she won't be able to wait it out til Monday (she can't walk on it) and will have to go tomorrow even though they'll have to pay for it out of pocket.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 11:25 pm
Detailed Cleaning List for Zone 2 Monday's Mission I was somewhat productive this weekend. Got most the shopping done for us and my aunt. Got some cleaning and laundry done around my house. Finally filled out my time card. Mostly took care of a sick kidlet. Also managed to go get her new softball pants and long sleeve shirt. I'm keeping both kids home from school tomorrow. Kota's been sick all weekend, Caleb started to feel lousy this afternoon. He was running a fever tonight at bedtime so I'm pretty much counting on him not being well enough to go to school. Tomorrow is also therapy day, also need to help her with a shower in the morning. The kids are going to go hang out with sis kinda, they're going to go over and go straight to bed, that'll keep them away from sis and youngest two nieces and aunt. After taking aunt to therapy, I'll bring the kids home and call and set up an appt with them (or Kota at least) for their pediatrician. I don't really expect to get much done tomorrow except drs! This whole week though should be easier than last week. After therapy Tuesday, I don't have nothing else scheduled (except parent teacher conf at Caleb's school, but we're planning that for after Darren gets off work so he can go too.) I did tell sis I was going to come over and help her with some cleaning and moving furniture out of one room (they're getting ready to remodel it) either Thursday or Friday, but there's not much of that to do. I'm looking forward to a week spent mostly at home.
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