Monday, sad and exhausted

     I have been on a dead run since last Thursday and I am so tired, but I am also sad, as I just realized that Anne has lost her mom.  I cannot imagine waiting at the house for the ambulance to drop off my mother and to have a doctor call and say she had passed.  No matter how much work, or how sick a parent is, the final notice is so hard and shocking.  It is not something you can prepare for.  I am just sick for her, and there is nothing I can do but just be very sad.

     We have all worked so hard on this house, and it is still a work in progress.   All the upstairs closets are clean but one needs to be painted and I hope to get that done today or tomorrow.  It was only 4-5 closets not 45 as in the previous post.  Yes my sight reading skills are defunct as are many of my other skills right now.

     Having all the girls and the three grandsons here yesterday, was so fun and also so much work.  We loved every minute of it, but after they all left the silence was golden.  I forgot how much noise everyone makes in this family,(we all are talkers) and then add three boys on top of that.  Crazy chaos.  We have to keep this house show clean and it was impossible.  I have a showing at 7:15 tonight and a video zoom tomorrow at 10:00.  But with three little boys it was impossible to keep this place clean.  Now that they are all gone I don't know if I have the strength to get the house back.

  Even though I had swept all the hardwoods on Thursday, I pulled all the rugs yesterday morning and did them again and got a pile of dirt big enough to plant a geranium.  So I will have to do that again today.  The mirrors that are within the height of a 4 year olds hand must also be redone.  The trash can that was empty on Friday is now full to the brim.  We just found a dead mouse in the family room, don't know which cat brought it in.  GREAT!

     I mean it is non stop, plus I have wedding dresses and  bridesmaid dresses due out this week.  I have not tackled the closets in the shop of under the stairs that still have to be cleaned out.  They are actually clean I just have to move all the bins to my sister's basement.

     Last night all three of the boys pulled the lights out of flower boxes that light up the yard at night.  We took out the pointy ends before someone poked out an eye.  They then proceeded to run around in the dark chasing each other and playing police dogs.  What ever that is? This involved much barking and screaming. Finally at 10:00 we made them come in so the neighborhood could sleep.The girls and I sat on the back porch and laughed at them.
 
     Both the younger girls look so cute.  B is 7 months pregnant and just as skinny as a rail, with this bump out in front.  S is much shorter, but has lost so much weight as she has been so sick ad she is 6 months pregnant with her 2nd baby.  S is like me when she is pregnant and I feel for her.

     I got the eldest packed up and her boys loaded this morning and of course at the last  minute she pulls two pairs of jeans out that need to be patched and a pair of navy dress pants that need hemmed.  So I was frantically trying to get sewing done after making Swedish pancakes for the troop.
She has a 8 hour trip a head of her and has to be back at the court house tomorrow morning.

     I am so grateful for her help I don't know what I would have done without her.  Lil sis has also worked like a dog over here.  Family what would you do without them?

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

Kim