domestic goddess
3-18-11, 4:11pm
Hi! It's me, the poster formerly known as "homenurse", now under a new name, selected for no particular reason. It just re-entered my memory and took up residence.
Had a few changes. For the present, I'm living with my dd and her family, due to her illness, some financial problems, and some work that needs to be done in my house. It seems like everytime I get ready to move home, something comes up in one area or the other, so I stay here. I don't get much privacy, but I am finding out that I enjoy having people around, which I hadn't thought I'd like. So it is really not a hardship to stay and watch my granddaughters grow up. I love them dearly, and really enjoy being able to participate in their lives and activities. For example, tonight we are going to their Grand Prix race at the Awana group they attend. You know the drill: the kids each get a piece of wood and some wheels, and it is up to them to make something out of it. Many of the cars appear to have been made by adults, but theirs are all from their own brains! Dgd1 wanted hers to look like a bathtub, and it does; complete with a little towel, sponge, bubbles and a little ducky. The younger girl's car looks like an elephant with a peanut on it's snout.
So that is what I'm doing now. Still doing home care and have 2 new patients. Have not been as active in church lately for a variety of reasons, but hope to get back soon. Will be going home soon to visit my mom and do what I can there, and hope to be taking the girls with me. My mom hasn't seen them since my dad died, so she is really looking forward to it, too.
I hear a lot about my dd's and sil's friends, and it amazes me that some reasonably functional people come from families of such chaos. I am truly glad that my parents provided for us a warm, stable,loving shelter that gave me the strength to deal with problems, and to help them when I can.
So, to make a long story short (though it is really too late for that) here I am. Ready to get back to living a little simply, and to spread the word to this household.
Had a few changes. For the present, I'm living with my dd and her family, due to her illness, some financial problems, and some work that needs to be done in my house. It seems like everytime I get ready to move home, something comes up in one area or the other, so I stay here. I don't get much privacy, but I am finding out that I enjoy having people around, which I hadn't thought I'd like. So it is really not a hardship to stay and watch my granddaughters grow up. I love them dearly, and really enjoy being able to participate in their lives and activities. For example, tonight we are going to their Grand Prix race at the Awana group they attend. You know the drill: the kids each get a piece of wood and some wheels, and it is up to them to make something out of it. Many of the cars appear to have been made by adults, but theirs are all from their own brains! Dgd1 wanted hers to look like a bathtub, and it does; complete with a little towel, sponge, bubbles and a little ducky. The younger girl's car looks like an elephant with a peanut on it's snout.
So that is what I'm doing now. Still doing home care and have 2 new patients. Have not been as active in church lately for a variety of reasons, but hope to get back soon. Will be going home soon to visit my mom and do what I can there, and hope to be taking the girls with me. My mom hasn't seen them since my dad died, so she is really looking forward to it, too.
I hear a lot about my dd's and sil's friends, and it amazes me that some reasonably functional people come from families of such chaos. I am truly glad that my parents provided for us a warm, stable,loving shelter that gave me the strength to deal with problems, and to help them when I can.
So, to make a long story short (though it is really too late for that) here I am. Ready to get back to living a little simply, and to spread the word to this household.