Life is just a blurr lately

Thanksgiving is already just about a week away...like a snow ball going down hill, gathering more momentum and snow layers as it goes...well, that is what my life feels like right now.  Like I am on auto pilot and not really present.  The work days at school are merely a blurr.  I try to get things done around the house with my 3-4 hours after work and before bed...but I get side tracked, or there is just too much to do and I get overwhelmed.

I am so looking forward to having a couple days off for Thanksgiving to just relax and enjoy being with family.  I am hoping to make it a no fuss relax and have fun day.  We have so very much to be Thankful for and I Thank God for his abundance of Blessings.

God Bless, Take a Deep Breath and remember Every breath is truely a gift!

Home for the Holidays

I am so enjoying my day off!  The weather is gorgeous, although I have not been out yet, the sunshining in the windows is lifting my spirits and encouraging me along on my tasks at hand.

The tasks list is getting shorter and shorter as I zoom through them one at a time.  All that is left is finishing two batches of Christmas cookies for the bazaar at church on Saturday, and finishing straightening out my closet with some purging of  the summer and "what were you thinking?" items.

I might even sneak a nap in.  The more I can get done now the better it will be next weekend, when both Al's parents and my Mom arrive for the weekend.  I want to really enjoy the holidays this year and not get stressed out.  We are having a small Thanksgiving dinner here with Our oldest son, Scott, his wife, Angie, and those adorable grandgirls, Bella & Kate. 

Their names together are so sweet like a upper class store that sells exclusive high end merchandise with delcious chocolate and other culinary sweets...  I bought this at Bella & Kate's, see?  doesn't it have just the sweetest tone to it?

Anyway, We have Al's Birthday on the 21st, then Tim's on the 23, followed by Thanksgiving....a busy month for sure, but I wouldn't have it any other way....I am truely Thankful, for all the abundant blessings I've been given.

call me Sleeping beauty....just don't wake me up

One of the perks of being a para in the jr high, is late start days like today.  I do not have to start work till almost 10 this morning.  So I why am I up at 6:30am....that is a good question, the answer is simple too.  I was so tired last night I went to bed at 8pm.  This is probably not a good habit to get into.

What a week, capped off with an ER visit to Mom!

Friday night, after a very crazy-long day, the phone rang, just as I was finally turning in for the night.  My mom had been rushed by ambulance to the hospital and was in intensive care.  Her doctor had given her 2pints of blood earlier that day to remedy her anemia (her hemoglobin was at 7).  Because her blood pressure was already so low they did not give her the diaretic with this transfussion.  Several hours later, while out to eat, she went into pulmonary adema....(I am learning way too many medical terms, that is not a good when dealing with one's parent's codition).  I spoke with my mom from intensive care at midnight, when she asked me to come to the hospital.  We got there at 2:15am.  I dozed off here and there from 2-6 am, but never really sleeping, and constantly being woken by mom arguing with her medical team. Even though her blood sugar was 385 without eating in 6 hours, she refused insulin and demanded food.  At 80 years old my mom is soooooooooooo stubborn!  A doctor who works with her regular doctor was oncall came  in to see her during the am rounds.  He let her eat breakfast and told her she could probably go home by afternoon.  I waited till my baby sis got there and then drove the 2 hours home and went to sleep.  At 4pm I called her to see how she was doing and if she was home.  She was so upset, she is being kept in the hospital another day at least.  She does not accept that if she would just take her insulin shot she could probably go home.   The underlying problem of all her medical issues is stenosis of her main artery leading into her heart, which she will not have surgery to fix.  These issuses will continue the rest of her shortend life. 

It seems this is all I do is deal with oppositinal people!  from my mom, to the ld population I work with in jr high special ed, to the vulnerable adults I work with at VOA.   I would think I would be more oppositional myself!  I admit I can be....but really I am not, at least not to the degree of  the amount I work with.

I guess I need to just focus on positive and get on with it though, because Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I have so very much to be Thankful for.