G'day for Wednesday!
Sharon/LDM, I hope easy child gets her sculpture handed in before the snowstorm hits. Keep safe... but part of me is jealous, if you have somewhere inside safe and warm, it does sound exciting. Our snowstorm experience is limited to that one time in New Zealand. By your standards, it was probably nothing. We got about 15 cm over about 6 hours and for a lot of that, we were out in it playing. But it was not the last of it and it did cause a lot of havoc, they said it was the biggest snowfall in 30 years, and this was in a ski resort area, too!
We had a moderately hot day today but with frequently overcast skies. I wanted to get to the beach but there was just too much to do. difficult child 3 got back to school - first day of the new school year. Of course today was a pupil free day, but I didn't tell him that. For a correspondence student, I've told him, there are no such things as pupil free days. But I do go easy on him as we ease into the new school year.
husband & I went out this afternoon to run errands and do a little shopping. We got back a bit late, husband had to see the chiropractor and do some hardware shopping - it's easy to lose a guy in a hardware store!
We got home and got cooking. Or rather, chopping. We'd planned some sort of stir-fry for dinner, again cooking it down at mother in law's so we know she is eating a healthy meal. Lately she's been too tired to eat, or too tired to cook for herself. Not good. At least this way, we know she's eating well.
While we were out, mother in law's rehab specialist from the hospital called me. We're going to have to keep a diary on her now she's turning into a difficult child as well to a certain extent. It's going to be tricky... because most difficult children at least are allowed to know they're being difficult children. mother in law will get VERY difficult if she catches on that we're concerned about possible mild dementia.
oh dear...
Still, it is easier on us to keep an eye on her and just toss in an extra serve's worth when I'm cooking.
Tomorrow is my cleaning day again - I need to call the agency and sort out some extra help for mother in law, and also try to do something about my idiot cleaner who has blotted his copybook for the last time. Trouble is, he's a sort of friend of mine, I don't want to cause trouble for him but at the same time, he IS incompetent. Another difficult child, very much so. But his life has been a mess lately (again, his own fault) and I don't want to add more to his troubles than necessary. I need to find a way to extricate myself somehow, without him knowing I've had it with him. But I will have to have it out with him tomorrow, to a certain extent - I mean, a vacuum cleaner is not a magic wand making things vanish. You need to pick things up off the floor before you vacuum, or you block the machine. again. And again. Until it overheats. Again. And again. This time we found a very bright, very large, colourful scrunchie jammed deep inside the hose of the vacuum cleaner. And my idiot cleaning mate said he had no idea why the thing was not working properly, maybe I should take it back to the shop and complain!
I am not looking forward to tomorrow. But I am looking forward to hopefully sorting this out with the agency, as tactfully as possible. I suspect I'm just about the only client this guy has left. mother in law used to be a client until he began to preach at her (not permitted by the agency). We know of others who have complained about him also.
Definitely not looking forward to this. But after it's all done, I have an appointment with my hairdresser tomorrow afternoon. Time to get my hair trimmed/streaked again.
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Marg
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