The leaves are changing colors

I know its extremely hot and humid for this time of year still, but none the less the leaves on the trees are turning colors, which means Autumn is just around the corner!  I am ready for it!  I am ready to hit my kitchen and begin a baking frenzy!  My dad brought home a flier and there is an Inn here in our County that is having a Halloween Party that is open to the public and I would so love to go!  I wonder if my hubby would be up for it?  I think it would be a lot of fun to get dressed up in halloween costumes and mingle with people and maybe even meet and make some new friends that we could do things with.  It seems the most we do is maybe grab a bite to eat together or do our shopping that needs to be done.  I wish we could just start doing a little more than that!

Next week he is on vacation and I have been trying to find us someplace to go, even if we can just spend one night away!  Something!  I love to go to Legacy Village and walk around, that is something we could do one day!  Take my camera along and take some pictures, its really how the different stores are set up, it does really look like a little village and sometimes they have things going on like events such as a live band or something!

Its been three years since we been out to Amish Country, we could do that for a day maybe?  I was thinking since we are pretty close to the border of Pennsylvania we could head that direction but trying to find a place to stay on a short notice is a bit challenging.

I just want to do something!  I feel like I need a change in my life here, more than just being home all the time!!  Its just going to feel a little worse once football season starts.  Hubby tends to want to be home to watch the games and I get that I really do, but when your home day in and day out,  you just have this feeling of getting out while you can!

Mr. Sandman has been kidnapped!

Mr. Sandman has been kidnapped!  Just has to be what happened, I mean after all why does he keep missing me?  I long to have a decent night of sleep.  Its been months to be honest and the last time I talked to my doctor about not sleeping at night, his solution was the prescription for Xanax, then the increase when he had increased it.  I toss and I turn and I beat the living tar out of my pillow, I bury my head under my pillow but nothing helps or works!

Sometimes I think part of my issue could be that darn fan.  Its not the box fan that makes that awesome sound that summers previous I slept too!  I do have one of those sound machine and set to rain but honestly it just sounds like static to me now!  I gotta do something soon.

I try making myself get up early in the morning but then by mid afternoon its migraine city.  So that doesn’t work.  The most sleep I get is when hubby leaves for work and I get between 6 and 8:30 in the morning.  I have to tell you, being forty years old, just a few hours of sleep isn’t cutting it anymore!

Our weekend was different

Our weekend was different than usual.  Its weird not having any of the kids around now that my son is working!  He had to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, my dad went to the Randolph Fair which is about two hour drive one way from here and that made for a long day since he did not get home until 11:45pm.  So while my son was at work hubby and I were looking at each other and going, so what do you want to do?  We had no idea!  They did their practicing driving thing,  we did run our errands but when the house was quiet we just did not know what to do with ourselves!

Hubby is on vacation next week!  He wants to redo the caulking  where the tub and the wall meet.  No matter how clean I try to keep it, the caulking itself still gets moldy looking.  I wish we were in a place where we could do away with that wall and put up glass tile!  I seen this pretty Mirage tile that I absolutely love and think it would look so pretty in the bathroom in place of that wall that is in there.  I showed the tile to hubby and he even liked it and he said maybe one day we can remodel the tub area!

I am encouraging dad to take a bath this week, its been a few weeks, but since hubby is home next week I know for sure he won’t take one then!  So this way if hubby does redo the caulking we can just use the back shower for a few days while it cures!

It sure is quiet tonight, yes my son is at work.  I do miss having him around but I am glad he is working.  It is just another adjustment but a good one!  I did not think he want to go to the store with me today since he works there now, but he was showing me things he does or did!  It was so cute!

He sounds congested

My dad, when he talks, sounds congested.  You can hear it in his voice and of course he is telling me I am crazy and he feels fine.  Being his caregiver for the past ten years, and having some medical experience from my Navy days, I like to think I know the warning signs.  It’s like having one of those healthcare medical jobs twenty four hours a day, seven days a week but without the pay!  Seriously I am thinking of applying at the hospital for a job, maybe taking care of some patients who would appreciate what the person caring for them does!  He sees his Rheumatologist tomorrow morning bright and early and I am crossing my fingers that she will hear the same thing I do and NOT give him his Humira shot!  If they do, and he is pushing still going to the fair in Randolph Ohio on Saturday, I can almost guarantee a trip to the hospital in his near future!

I found a fragment of a medication tablet on the floor in the bathoom and trying to figure out which one of his pills it could of been.  I been watching the cats very closely today to make sure they did not get a hold of it, like the whole tablet was on the floor and they nibbled on it and what I found is what was left behind!  I didn’t see any of them acting out of the normal so I think its safe to say they didn’t find it before I did.

My son works tomorrow evening.  He really enjoyed the first day although he complained he was a bit sore.  I am sure for the first few weeks he will be.  He is stocking the shelves, packing groceries and bringing in carts and they have this vacuum he says you have to keep pushing down on the pedal to jump start.  Wow that must be one very old vacuum!

I can not get over that the temps are dropping down into the 40′s tonight and we are heading back into that hot and muggy weather.  Hubby just got a message, his Uncle is in the hospital with pneumonia.  We will go and see him when hubby is off work tomorrow!

Ready or not?

Yesterday at officially 4:31pm I found out that its “official”… I am going to be a grandma! My daughter mentioned the possibility a couple weeks ago but she never did get back with me to say it was definite.  Ironically folks where my husband works was asking questions to him at work, did you know type of questions and he was like no way, if it was for sure, she would of told her mother about a week ago and he just never mentioned it to me (apparently some are on her facebook)!

When she mentioned she was “high risk” due to her gallbladder…I am seriously trying to figure this one out because I spent all evening trying to find how pain from the gallbladder can damage a baby as she put it in her text message.  I did find out being pregnant can add to gallbladder risks, but I did not find anything where it would damage the baby.  I did also find where women have been pregnant and have had to have their gallbladders removed while carrying the baby and it didn’t hurt the baby, other than that, I did not see that this automatically says if you have gallbladder issues and your pregnant, your considered a high risk pregnancy.  She also said she is only allowed children’s Tylenol!

So what did this mom do?  Cry!  What else could I do but cry!  Here is this soon to be 21 year old, out there, living with “friends”, I don’t even know where she is at, oh quitting her current job and she is going to have a baby!  What else can I do but cry?   She can barely take care of herself, still no license, and is going to have a baby!  If anything EVER was going to make her grow up now, its going to be this baby!

So ready or not, come 2011, I am going to be a grandma!

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