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connierandel

Just got the call that church is cancelled again for Wednesday. Now the Pastor has it as well as his wife. So many members! This is really going to be hard on a lot of families this year. I also just got a note from a cousin that has a fractured vertebrae and was to go into rehab today, but found out that they can't move her because she has COVID (for the 2nd time and after her booster shot).

cmsienk

Glad your mom is doing well, Kim.

Connie, that edit function is only good for an hour. I guess that's better than nothing.

We got a little snow the other day, so since there's no warm-up in our forecast, it looks like it will be a white Christmas here.

We've had a series of things go bad here lately. My tires needed to be replaced before winter. So I kind of got those for my birthday. My husband asked if they could be my present and I said, not the tires, no. But if he did the research, found the best deal, made the appointment and took my car in to get them - so that I didn't have to do anything - that could be my present.

A couple weeks earlier our 18 year old dryer gave out. It would still tumble and blow cold air, but no heat. My husband replaced a couple of sensors but that didn't do the trick, so on Black Friday of all days we went out and bought a dryer. I only had a couple of must-haves. It had to have a hamper door (drop down, not swinging out left or right) and it had to be in stock! My daughter waited 10 months for a couch they bought last January and my son is still waiting (it's been almost a year!) for a bench that matches his dining room set.

And to top it all off, just the other day my husband determined that our furnace needs to be replaced. It's been occasionally making a banging (sometimes a booming) noise and he finally got a little camera to check out the inside and there are cracks in 3 of the 6 - I can't remember what they're called now - but cracks aren't good. So we've had one guy give us an estimate and we'll probably have another couple guys come out. I'm grateful that our woodstove is able to heat the main floor. The furnace is 31 years old, so we definitely got our money's worth out of that!

connierandel

Cindy - I have edited as much as a month prior. It doesn't matter if it says one hour - just try it. And...I have the free version, so that isn't an issue.

Restfinder

Oh Cindy - when it rains it pours. So sorry so many things aren't functioning like they should right now! We know that our HVAC unit isn't going to hold out much longer, but so far it has held in there! When we moved in here the house came with a washer and dryer. We brought our washer and dryer from our other house, so had those on hold. A friend who desperately needed a dryer has that, but the washer is waiting if this one goes out. So much to think about when you own a house!

Doing well. I need to work on keeping wheat out of my diet! What I've had recently has wreaked havoc with my system! LOL! At least I know how to fix it - it's just hard to get wheat out. My friend made us a macaroni salad the other night and I didn't think about it being wheat, dairy, and onion! Mom and Wade will have to finish the rest - boo, it was really good!

Mom has an occupational therapy evaluation today. She's seen her other in-home therapist a couple of times and is getting stronger. We do exercises with her every day too. I don't know if she will ever be able to function as independently as she used to though, but that's okay, she's still with us.

Oh, I discovered something the other day - if you get the double blue line or red line under a word, left click your mouse for the correct spelling. I kept right clicking and then going to whatever dictionary it mentioned. I inadvertently left clicked and there was the correct spelling!

Hope y'all have a wonderful day.

connierandel

Oh my, Cindy! That is my kind of luck! It seems like when it rains, it pours. We had over $11000 in expenses in about 6 weeks from late October to early December. We knew that it was coming, but WHEW it sure hurt Bill's checking account.

We are going to have to do some expensive work inside the house this winter. I am hoping that Bill and his brother are able to do a lot of it, but we have to replace flooring in Kip's apartment even if they do the rest of the work (we got our 31 years out of the inexpensive carpet on that floor!). I'm thinking that when we do the flooring in his apartment that we might just do flooring upstairs, too. I want wood throughout the house (except our bedroom), but Bill is adamant about carpet in the living room. So, hard floors in the hall, entry (if we can't match current wood), two bathrooms and maybe the two guest bedrooms, carpet in the great-room and our bedroom.

Kim - Praying that all goes well with Mom. Therapy can do wonders, but sometimes that body just refuses to cooperate.

Restfinder

Mom met with her physical therapist today and he mentioned that her left hip was actually weaker than her right hip. I knew that she didn't get as extensive rehab after that hip as she did with this hip and it just shows how those three hours five days a week make so much more difference than the one hour five days a week she got on the other. She is getting stronger every day, Praise the Lord for that.

OOO, new flooring. We have wood throughout and want that because of our allergies and mom getting around easily with her walker. Our floors are very old and scarred, probably from when they were originally put in in the 1940's! LOL! They are also hilly. We had the underside of the house redone when we moved in but that didn't help with the unevenness of the floors throughout the house. We are just going to be happy with our lumpy floors for quite awhile!

Going to work on getting our Christmas presents bagged today and under the tree so at least we have that lovely "full" feeling for at least one day. We are going to have a pizza party at our house and have invited the two single ladies we have in our Church since their families aren't in the area, then on Christmas day, in the afternoon, we will have a dinner for whoever wants to join in. We are going to try and be there with Mom for a little while.

cmsienk

connierandel wrote: »

Cindy - I have edited as much as a month prior. It doesn't matter if it says one hour - just try it. And...I have the free version, so that isn't an issue.

Thanks Connie. It doesn't say an hour anywhere, and I have edited this post like crazy within the hour (finding typos and adding screenshots) but the 3 dots go away for me after an hour and aren't there to be edited on either my computer or my phone. There's no way to try it.
How odd that it's different for us.

I can still edit this one from about 40 minutes ago

No dots - I can't edit this

Restfinder

I have dots to edit on posts from four days ago (which is the top of this page). That is so weird!

I hope y'all are having a very good and happy Christmas Eve. We are going to have a pizza party later on with our Pastor and his wife and at least one of the single ladies in our Church whose family is out of town. Our other single lady had a bit of a scratchy throat yesterday, so we are hoping that clears up and she is also able to come. Can't wait. Tomorrow we will be having dinner around 4 with the Church. Wade has to work at 2:30, but he has today off!

Hope y'all have a very merry Christmas!

Restfinder

Hope y'all had a good Christmas. We had a very nice day. Friends came to visit since Mom isn't able to get out. It set her back with her dementia though. Any kind of "confusion" or change sets her back, the past two days have been very difficult. I would appreciate your prayers.

We have been having very warm weather the past few days. It was 75 the day after Christmas! I can live with that!

cmsienk

I hope you all had a great, restful Christmas. We had our kids and their kids over on Christmas Day. I think I told you we have two new babies this year. Plus we invited my dad to join us. It was really nice.

We're planning a quiet New Year's eve here.

connierandel

We just got home from my Mom's. I am totally exhausted! Bill hasn't slept well for a couple nights, so neither have I. And my mom's memory isn't great and that worries me and wears me out. For example she kept wanting to make another pot of coffee this morning....I think 5 or 6 times we told her that we didn't want more coffee to take off on a 4 hour drive.

I am needing to get back on my regular regime.

Restfinder

I'm glad y'all are home safe and sound. Mom had a bit of a set back after the holidays but seems to be doing better this morning. We have a doctor's visit this afternoon and I want to see how she handles that. It seems that she doesn't do well with her dementia if she has a lot of things going on around her. I'm hoping this doctor's visit won't be a set back for her since she is doing so well this morning. The first night since she's been home where I only had to get up twice! The other night it was 12 to 13 times I was up! Praise the Lord for a very loving and kind friend who stays for a night here and there to give us a chance to catch up. She is our pastor's wife and has become Mom's best friend.

cmsienk

I hope things get better for both your mothers. The other day I was thinking how much enjoyment my mom would've had with my newest granddaughter. She loved babies and was partial to girls for some reason.

Back to the one hour editing thing, I just saw another woman ask if they'd be changing that and the response was no.

Restfinder

I hope that your mom will be able to continue to live independently. It makes me sad to see other 82 year old's with all their faculties and my MIL struggles so with hers. Her physical limitatons wouldn't be as bad if she didn't have the brain problems that she has. We saw another "side-effect" of her brain shrinkage, the left side of her body isn't as responsive as the right side. In every day life it wasn't very noticable (although I know she would reach across her body with her right hand to get something on her left side), but during therapy today it was very obvious. Praise the Lord she has improved over the past couple of days and is more in touch with her surroundings and responding to us more normally. You continue to be in my prayers, Connie! Thank y'all for your prayers, it means the world to me!

I can't believe how warm we are. It's been in the 70's for three or four days now. I think we are due for some rain though, a little bit earlier than we expected. Hopefully it will come in tomorrow and be gone by New Year's Eve when we are having a Church get together. Not sure Mom and I will be able to go since she didn't do well after Christmas and that was getting together with just one family at a time. Her poor brain just can't process right where there is a lot of activity around her.

Get some rest, New Year's Eve is just a couple days away! Love y'all.

connierandel

Cindy - how sweet to have the new grandbabies. Mine is 24 years old, now. I am more likely to get a great-grandbaby than a grandbaby....and of course, they are from my step daughter.

We went to a dinner theater for a matinee yesterday. I expected less crowd and thought it would be easier for Bill during daylight. The daylight was a great idea and we had a wonderful meal, but the place was totally full! We have learned the theater and know the row to use (no steps on that row) and so everything was great. The show was good (about Johnny Cash, June Carter and Minnie Pearl). The music was really good, but Minnie Pearl was the best part.

cmsienk

It was cold here this morning - 3 degrees! Thankfully it's up to 27 now. 3 degrees is just too cold!

Tonight is my exercise class. My oldest daughter meets me there sometimes but isn't available tonight. I'm hoping not to use that as an excuse to stay home.

I cleaned out a bookcase and have boxes and boxes of books. I checked online at some book buy-back places and the most I could get for a $17 Karen Kingsbury paperback (for example) in like-new condition is 15 cents. It's ridiculous. So I'm donating them all - I just don't have the room.

I hope you're all staying warm and healthy.

connierandel

I could love to get rid of a bunch of my books. My Mom's church will take them, so that's probably what I will do with them. I have about a dozen that I won in 2021, or that are signed by the author. but I would be willing to get rid of all of the rest of them.

When I got up at about 7:30 this morning it was 8 degrees. I agree that it is entirely too cold. It has gotten up to 32 now, so it definitely making a bit of progress today. I just hope that it melts some of the ice on our front steps. Right now they are too frozen and too slick to try to get cleaned off. We can come and go through the garage and that is okay, but grocery delivery tomorrow comes through the front door (13 steps!).

pianolady831

This is what I woke up to this morning... my first east Tennessee snow! I hated that it fell during the night, so I didn't get to watch it come down, but I'll take this anyway. When I stepped outside, there was such a feeling of quiet and peace. There's nothing like the quiet after a new-fallen snow - no people, cars, sirens - just total silence. It melted some as the temperature got above freezing this afternoon, and the roads seem clear. I'm pretty sure it will be gone by tomorrow, but I enjoyed a lot of snow watching today.

I also finished my first book of 2022 today. Hoping to do more reading this year. I didn't sign up for a reading goal on Goodreads or any challenges because I just want to read whatever interests me at my own pace. Did any of you enter a goal?

connierandel

I entered a goal on goodreads of 500. I was at over that this year, and rarely put anything in it - just let my kindle reads go there. I don't take any time with it.

Your snow is beautiful. We were supposed to get 4-7 inches on Saturday, but we only got about a half inch over ice. It was over freezing today, but didn't do much to help our steps since they are pretty much shaded all day. It is supposed to be nice tomorrow, so hopefully it will melt a bit more.

Restfinder

I'm so glad that we didn't get any snow here on the coast and our temperature didn't dip into the freezing range. Last night was supposed to be down to 33, but the rest of the week our nights should be in the 40's and days in the 50's and 60's! We did get a lot of rain though.

I am going to need to start doing my inside walking, just so tired all the time I can't seem to find the will or the strength to do it; but last night my feet were quite swollen and I know walking helps with that - so...

I don't know what my goal for this year would be. I haven't been able to read as much as I used to so I will have to give a smaller number than last year. I did make that goal. I made a goal of 300, we'll see if we can get that done!