Spent last night at my mom's with middle daughter (who's 12) and was gratefully to get mom into the shower, get her hair washed and also to roll it. The silliness slipped in when I was rolling her hair and had dumped the plastic rollers out on the kitchen table. There had to be about 30 rollers in that bag, and I don't think I'm exaggerating. Anyway, I got to rolling it and after about 12 rollers, asked her how many she usually put in. She said that she generally used all of them. Imagine my horror in seeing that I was almost done and had used about 15. Thankfully she was just glad to be clean and shiny and the quality of my hair rolling wasn't an issue. Still, it was nice and poofy when it was all said and done!
One of the boys is there tonight, and we're slowly weaning her from needing someone at her house all the time. She's been alone the past 2 afternoons. It's maddening, though, how weak her right hand is even though that's not the arm that's in the splint/sling. She's just not very strong, anyway. We're going to have to figure out ways to get food set aside for her that's manageable. Told the kids that we need a meat or vegetable-flavored PopTart that she can put into the toaster. Don't think that there is such a thing, though. A great marketing idea, I'm thinking, and I'm only partly kidding.
Not sure what tomorrow holds, but glad to be here at home tonight. Have juggled our schedules enough to drive anyone nuts, but it's necessary and the kids are very willing. Having us split up is a strain, however, with the little girls a bit off kilter at either me or their older sister hither and yon. And we're avoiding Gary or me being out of the house one right after the other. It's so sweet when the kids tell me that he's like a lost puppy when I'm gone overnight. And likewise is true as well. One night in a row is enough of that, so I guess that shows we're still smitten.
Well, today's good and I don't have to figure out the rest of the weekend yet. Time to rest, and after only 5 or so hours of sleep, I think it's overdue.
