Wednesday, June 13th by Lisa
Good morning, how is your week going? how about your summer?
I decided a few weeks ago that I would take a week off from work and just do some things that I wanted and needed to do. I decided on this week. June 11-15.
Our summer at work is getting ready to kick in and I knew there was no way I could take time off then.
Even though the Hubs could only get a couple of those days off , I wanted to get some things done for me and around the house. We could then spend a day or two doing some fun things together.
Now of course me being the Type A person that I am I immediately made a list of things I wanted to get done such as:
Clean my floors
Clean my yard and cut my shrubs and plant some flowers
Take items to goodwill
Get a mani-pedi
Buy a car
Post some things on Poshmark
Have some quality time with my sisters and friends
Go to a Smokies game
Work on several blog posts
Read a couple of books I haven’t had time to read
Clean out my garage
I looked back over this list and thought, woman you are crazy!!!! just because I’m not going out of town doesn’t mean I have to stay home and kill myself. But never fear life stepped in and kept me from doing damage to myself by trying to get all of these things done.
You know they say that life happens when you are busy making plans, and that is exactly what happened here.
I have mentioned that my mother in law fell and broke her hip a couple of months back. She had a total hip replacement. She has had a lot of problems with this including a serious infection where the prosthesis almost had to be removed to clear up the infection.
Anyway she has been staying in a rehab facility about an hour from us. The facility called a few days ago and told us she was being released yesterday. We had talked to her about going to an assisted living facility to try to get her a little more prepared for going home. So that was the plan but we had no idea we would get such short notice.
I had to go into overdrive to get her to the doctor and get a release from the doctor and have her IVs removed, and try to get a room at the facility which is closer to us. this is still an ongoing process with a lot of steps involved so we will just take it a step and a day at a time.
I guess I am disappointed that a lot of the things I wanted to get done won’t. But it is also a good thing that I have time to get these things taken care of for my mother in law. She can’t do them on her own and it is just me and my husband to take care of everything.
I planted some Marigolds over the weekend they are my favorite summer flowers
I did get to spend the day with my sister yesterday. We always have such a wonderful time together. We hang out and bounce ideas off of each other, bitch, moan and complain and laugh ourselves silly. We did some shopping, had Starbucks and went to see a movie. That is what we both needed yesterday. She also went car shopping with me. She has a really good eye and is a stickler for details. She asks all the questions I don’t think of. (More about our car buying adventures in a later post)
So it is Wednesday and I think I will go back through that list and choose some fun family and friends things to do. Life is too short to worry about cleaning when you can be having a good time right? I have to remember to take my own advice and live in the moment and keep it real. I am headed outside to enjoy my coffee in this cool morning air. What are you doing this summer?
Love your day your way
Southern Patches 