Well I can't believe it but IT IS NOVEMBER and I forgot my Janice Sister's Birthday. This morning I noticed the calender in the hall was open to October. As I was about to change it , I realized I hadn't phoned Janice on her Birthday .......................... OH OH .................. WAIT ....... I am ahead of the game this time .................... way ahead because I sent her Birthday present North with my Niece-in- Law in the summer.................... I still need to phone ...............Sorry Janice as I know you read this.
I have been busy..................... really it is true............. I have been very busy. Doing what you might ask. Well it involves getting up and down off the floor (getting down is okay but getting back up off the floor is another matter), doing laundry, making formula, feeding a baby, rocking a baby to sleep ............... You guessed it BABYSITTING. DD Jill has been doing "call backs" for the Survey Service she used to work with. You can't do surveys and look after a 3 month old baby. The solution is - Go to Mum's and get her to look after the kids. Most days it is only the morning she works as Tiffany does the afternoons but there have been some full days. Sunday I woke up and thought ...........OOOOOOHHHHHH ............. A day off ................ that was wishful thinking ................. They were behind on the phoning because of Thursday. What happened on Thursday ........ well Jill went for her Heart Catheterization/ angiogram .................. She had to be at the hospital for 7:00 am. This meant we had to leave the house about 6:00 as it takes 45 minutes to 1 hour to get there during rush hour. I didn't get to Wednesday Night Knitting as dinner was late , the girls were going to stay the night and I had to get to bed early. Thursday morning Jill, Shelby(who wanted to go) Elizabeth and I take Jill to the hospital, come home, make coffee( DH doesn't seem to know how to do this), have breakfast, Take Shelby to school, Now I have decided that I can't make formula, feed the baby, change a diaper, phone someone on the survey list, change a diaper, do laundry, phone someone on the survey list, feed the baby, change a diaper, let the dog out, clothes in the dryer, phone someone on the survey list, rock the baby to sleep, phone re survey , change diaper, feed baby, let dog out, so I phone my friend Molly and she catches a bus to the Coquitlam loop ( their car is broken) Bill picks her up at the loop and drops her off with me before he leaves for the day. Some where in there I made breakfast for Bill before he left....................... YES HE LEFT after telling Jill that WE (please note the WE) would look after the kids and make the morning survey calls. So this man who doesn't change diapers, make formula, feed babies or make coffee..... didn't drive Shelby to school and didn't want to make the survey calls (said those phone calls would make him crazy) left the house about 10:00.
So Molly looks after the baby and I phone people on the list, most of whom aren't home ........great that puts everything further behind. Shortly after 1:00 Tiffany arrived to take over the phoning. After looking at the list she said " Is this ALL you did??? Two o'clock Jill phones, I can pick her up as she didn't have the sedative........ Okay I will get Shelby from School early and then go pick up Jill. It is now 3:00, I drop Molly off at her house head for home in RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. We arrive home at 5:30, YES THAT IS RIGHT FIVE THIRTY. DH arrives home at 6:00, looks at me and orders PIZZA for dinner.
Jill has to rest and isn't allowed to bend her hip very much or bend over so I look after every one. They all stay the night as Jill is supposed to be monitored for 24 hours ( or something like that). I have made up a bed for Shelby and brought in the buggy for the baby so Jill doesn't have to share the bed and we all have a good nights sleep.
Anyway that is what I have been doing for about two weeks now. Today Jill said there wasn't many calls to do so She is staying at home and I have a day off. I haven' done any spinning or quilting since the retreats but have made a Christmas list. Now I just have to figure out where I am going to find the time to make all these things.
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