Thursday, August, Wow!

     I can't believe it is August already.  We arrived home last night and this morning I got on line and paid the two credit cards we still have.   It was weird only have to make one phone call and one on line payment.  The list of payments is so small now.  It will be really weird when there are no payments but housing expenses.  Will I really get there?


  Uncle Art's funeral was lovely.  He was the kind of man that made you feel that you were his favorite person in the whole world.  He will be missed.  The music was great.  Hub's played with his younger sister and his cousins sang.  They are an amazingly talented family.

      Hub's mom has had a bad case of pneumonia and is quite weak. I see another trip down there soon.  It is a worry because she is 90 and has total care of dad who has dementia. It is hard to get to this point of our lives with so much responsibility for our older ones.  We would have brought mom and dad here but we have no bedroom to put them in.  So we have decided that we will not rent out a room again after these girls leave until we find out what needs to be done with Hub's folks.

     People with dementia do better in their own surroundings.  Mom is great and loves to go and visit, but dad wants to be home.  So some tough decisions will have to be made soon if mom's health fails.  I know hub's is not wanting to do anything so soon after my mom.  But we will see.  Prayers are needed for this situation.  Eeh gads life is complicated.

     I have to, have to,have to, clean house, catch up on laundry, ironing, gardening.  Zipping out of town every few days is not working here.  Plus I have a wedding dress and several other things to finish before Saturday.

     Right now I have no real goals for August as I am waiting for things to settle around here. I do have a Bill to pay things that I bought for mom's room when I re did it.  I also have a 523.00 electricians bill to pay back the savings for. We have money to pay our bills.  We have some savings for emergency.  I will continue to live frugally.  I would love to attack one of the two last CC's but am not sure which one and will think about this over the next two days. I can't really wrap my head around anything right now, as life has been so much flux.  I will get to a good spot soon.

     So I am off to go through the laundry, pick tomatoes, start spaghetti sauce and pie crusts. I hope to post some progress on this mess of a life tomorrow!  Stay tuned....

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim