Just journaling November 15-22, 2009

November 15, 2009

Paul went to church this morning by himself. I think I am coming down with something. At least that would explain all of the sleep I have been doing lately. This morning I was coughing and sneezing. We have been asked to stay at home when we have some symptoms, so I did.

I put a pork roast in my crock pot this morning. It is starting to smell good. By the time Paul gets home from choir practice, dinner should be ready.

When teenagers are texting on the phone they create all kinds of short cuts. BFF means best friends forever. DH is dear husband. LOL is laughing out loud. MIL is the one for mother-in-law. I have been challenged to name my plant. The plant is called mother-in-law because of its sharp pointed leaves. Now, my mother-in-law is sweet and kind so I had to laugh at the name. Anyway, I have taken calling my plants Millie. I just use the shortcut for mother-in-law and went from there. The Millies is doing great. New growth has shown up again. I am really amazed at my plants.

My son, his girlfriend brought Kathy over. Kathy will be staying for a few days. Kathy was a little clingy to her dad, but when he left, she was fine.

We ate a yummy dinner and spent time with Kathy. It was a good Sunday.

November 16, 2009

Kathy was up very early this morning. She was very clingy all day. You know she isn’t feeling well when Grandma is her favorite person. I sat at the table and she pulled her chair up right next to me. I couldn’t even get out of my chair. And so it went all day.

I fixed her lunch and we tried to get her to sleep. She slept for just a little while and then she was up. I had gone to bed for a nap and she climbed in bed with me. That would have been the end of my nap, but Paul took her into the living room and I got 45 minutes of uninterrupted rest.

My sister called today. As it gets closer to the holidays, she gets busier. The wind was blowing pretty hard and she had to go and rescue some signs that were in her yard.

Paul and Kathy started to watch the Santa Clause movies. By the end of the evening she had watched all three. She went off to bed with ease. Grandpa gets to put her to bed. We are always surprised at how easy she goes to sleep at night



November 17, 2009

Kathy was up and ready to go very early this morning. I feed her breakfast and we spent some time playing. My sister gave her a movie and we watched it this morning, The Tigger Movie. She played with legos, put puzzles together, colored and kept her eye on the TV all at the same time. I guess she is a multi tasker.

Kathy hears the train and always asks what that? I just ask her the same question. Usually she shrugs her shoulders. Today she said, train. Then she acted like she was pulling a whistle on the train and woo woo. I think she must have learned a lot of new words this week.

Kathy had a really rough night. She is just not feeling well. I think she had a bad dream, she woke up very upset. I took a chair into her room and sat with her as she tried to go back to sleep. She finally got back to sleep around three in the morning.

November 18, 2009

Kathy didn’t get up until almost ten. Because we are using her as our alarm clock, we didn’t get up until 10. Paul and I have shifted our schedule a lot. We stay up late and then sleep late. Usually when Kathy is here I have an early morning, but Paul gets to sleep in.

With Paul going back to school this January I am afraid he might have some trouble shifting back to a normal schedule. Maybe we should start now. We don’t want him sleeping through the morning classes.

Today was payday. We left about the time for Kathy’s lunch. We went to Burger King. Kathy loves to play on the slide there. It is too cold to play outdoors today. Kathy ate what she had to eat to be able to play but she wasn’t very hungry.

Her time in the Play yard was different today too. She was not as enthusiastic as usual. She climbed through the maze and went down the slide a couple of times. We realized she just isn’t up to par, so we left early. Kathy was sad to leave, but we really didn’t want to overtax her.

We bought my supplements, and headed to Wal-Mart. Kathy decided to go with Grandpa today in the store. She wanted to be in the bottom of the cart and my cart fills up and she has to sit in the seat. So she and Grandpa took off to explore the store. Star Trek VI is out and I told Paul that was our treat if he can find it. He found it.

We finished in the store, bought gas and we are done spending money for the week. Paul was pretty blue that we can do so little with the money coming in. I am just grateful that there is still money coming.

Paul looks for work all of the time. He realizes more and more the blessing he has by getting to go back to school. Jobs that he has done before are now requiring Bachelors. He could do the work, but with the hoards of unemployed, employers are requiring more schooling. It is a little scary that our income will drop more after school starts, but you do what you have to be employable again.

We were all pretty tired from our excursion out today. We ate leftovers and watched TV. Kathy went to bed and slept quietly all night.

November 19, 2009

Kathy is feeling so much better today. How do I know? My living room is covered with toys. She is running back to her room for more. The legos are all in their wagon, but the wagon is in the kitchen, just in case I need to be there, she will have something to do when she is supervising me.

I put her in a little dress today. She loves dresses. She loves to twirl and sway and hold your hand and dance. I taught her a little dance today and she caught on very fast. My sister will know this dance. Put your little foot, put your little foot, put your little foot right there.

I showed her how to point her to her foot and tap right there. I taught her that you do it once with one foot and then once with the other foot. Then the song goes on Then you touch and you turn and touch and you turn and you touch and you turn, see how easy to learn.

She spent the remainder of the morning holding the hem of her dress and pointing her toes. And of course at the end of the dance, she remembered to curtsey.

Kathy’s dad came and got her a day early. She finally is feeling better. I am so very glad. I hate to see her not feel well.

Tonight Paul and I rested and watched TV.

I went to bed early. I am going to try to get back on schedule.

November 20, 2009

Well, going to bed early didn’t work out. I tossed and I turned. Then when I finally got to sleep, I had a nightmare. The dream really shook me up, so I got up and went to the office and surfed the internet for a while. Then I went back to bed and slept fitfully. I got up to eat breakfast and realized that a cold had finally caught me. I was really grumpy. I went back to bed.

Paul enrolled at the University today. He will have to go to the school Monday to fill out some more papers. He asked me at 2:00 if I was getting out of bed. NO, I AM NOT. I was grumpy.

But I had made arrangements to go and visit a couple of young ladies with another lady from church, so I got out of bed, took my shower and got ready, all of the time thinking that I would call and cancel my appointment.

Paul and I left a little early so that we could stop by the Verizon store and change our phone numbers to a local number. We have a house phone, but we have only received a handful of calls on it, so we decided to drop the phone. Paul wanted a local number to give the University.
Then he took me to visit the young ladies.

I really enjoyed the visit. I got to know the lady that had asked me to go along as well as to get to know the two we had visited. Just as we were getting ready to leave I asked if there was anything that we could do. I won’t go into to details, but the one is going through a horrible experience and she needed a ride for her and her daughter Monday. She wasn’t sure of the address, she has no phone and no car. I had her give me a number to call to verify the address. I hadn’t taken my phone with me or I would have just let her call right then.

When I got home I called the number, but because of confidential reasons, I could not be given any information. She will have to call Monday for that information before we leave to go to the appointment.

We had a quick dinner and got ready for a dance. It was a church dance being held at a historic hotel in Sedalia. The lobby of the hotel was elegant, and ready for Christmas. The dance was being held on the second floor in the Grand Ball Room.


We had a good time at the dance. It is really a good thing that we ate before going to the dance. There was suppose to be a table set up with food and drink. It was never delivered. The Stake President kept checking to see if it had been delivered yet, but when we left toward the end of the dance, still no buffet. Someone ran home and got a big container of water and brought cups, so everyone could rehydrate after dancing. But even with the glitch we had a very good time. We met a couple of interesting people and dance a few times. It was a good night.

November 21, 2009

First thing I did after breakfast was to go over to the lady’s house and give her the information, or actually the lack of information. I made arrangements to go to her house Monday and let her use the phone to get the information herself. Then Paul and I will take her and her daughter to the appointment.

Today we went exploring. I had seen an old house on line in the town just east of us and I wanted to see if we could find it. Plus we had never really explored Knob Noster. I don’t make up these names really. This is a quaint little town with lots of old homes. The surprise is that we found the one we were looking for. I guess it helped that Knob Noster is a very small town. We had a good outing; it was really nice to get out of the house two days in a row.

I have wonder about this name Knob Noster. So I looked it up. There are two small hills or knobs just outside of town. It was the landmark that you looked for back in the 1800’s to find this town. The word Noster is Latin meaning ours. Originally the town was really called Our Town, but was changed to Knob Noster in the early 1900’s. The name translates into Our Hills.

I worked in the kitchen today. It took so long to accomplish the little that I did. I have a baker’s rack in the kitchen and we had the microwave on the biggest shelf. Kathy was able to reach it and it worried me. So we moved the microwave up onto a smaller shelf. I have a couple plastic drawers with sandwich bags and wrapping paper and stuff in one and packages of noodles in the other. We put these on the bottom shelf. I have smaller plastic drawers to hold cooking utilizes. One more smaller drawer to hold the silverware. They went on the main shelf. This maneuvering left enough counter space to use my electric skillet or have my crock pot going when I want it on. This small kitchen will eventually be organized.

We finally watched the Star Trek movie. It helps that we are both fans of Star Trek, but the movie was great. We saw this on the big screen in Vancouver on our trip home this summer. We enjoyed it as much today as we did last summer.

November 22, 2009

We didn’t make it to church. Paul woke up and now he is not feeling well. He woke me to tell me he was staying home. My leg is bothering me so much that driving myself was out of the question, so we both went back to sleep.

We both got up later for breakfast. I played on the computer, wrote letters and read stories.
After a little while Paul had to go back to bed. I am going to go and read Cami’s book 29 days of giving. Today it finally dawned me that all three of us have been at various stages of some kind of flu. Kathy and I are starting to feel a little better. I still feel weak and tired, but I think it, whatever it is, finally hit Paul.