A book with a note from you written inside? Recipes that you fix for your family? (Maybe not your moms recipes, but something handwritten of yours) pretty stationary and address books for sending letters back and forth?

Praying for everybody scarlet

((( @gardenmom5)))

Most of us were stuck near home because of work, but dd19 and ds13 took off for a small town an hour and a half from here. She planned all back roads, packed a picnic and they saw totality in a strip mall parking lot with a few other people, bought ice cream sandwiches and came home. No traffic, no fuss, but all sitting around Shari g our varied experiences last night was super cool

None of my people spread around southern Ohio/northern Kentucky heard fireworks

We were 97%. The birds were noisy and active, stopped at peak, then a few minutes later started again. The dog and cats acted normal. The chickens were totally weirded out and kept all bunched up close to the chicken house door til the light was back to normal

Hurray!!!

I’m very proud of my ability to find humor today and to actually work in how talking to adults like they are dumb is hurtful, even if she couldn’t hear it. Dh said “well you are feeling froggy today aren’t you? First you trick Howard into an extra tour and now your mom😆”

Then she asked about dh’s eyes and if there is any improvement. I tell her no. She asks we’ll have they figured out what’s wrong with him? Yes, they have always known. But they won’t fix it? We’ll, they tried, but it is what it is. We’ll, what are you going to do about it? Nothing. We are just living our life. What is wrong with him? He’s retinas keep detaching and causing loss of sight. We’ll you would think they should be able to fix that. Yeah, well, it is what it is. Have you talked to your sister? Yeah (no, but we have texted) what did she have to say? She’s fine, they went to gatlinburg and are going somewhere to look at the eclipse. Where? I don’t know. I thought you said you talked to her. I did. Then why don’t you know?!? Because I didn’t ask. At this point I have been pushing her buttons long enough and her mind blows. At this point dh texts asking if I’m coming home? So I start the car and it bings and she asks what the binging is and I say the car. Why is your car binging? That’s what it does when you start it. Are you driving the car?!? Yeah, I need to go home. We’ll fine, I didn’t want to talk to you anymore anyway. Tell the kids I love them. Bye and hangs up 😆

Sorry had to drive home Asked why it was so quiet, so I told her I was at the laundromat. She asked why and told her the washing machine is broken. Why isn’t it fixed? Waiting for my brother in law. Call him and tell him to hurry up. We’ll, he’s doing me a favor so probably do t want to aggravate him. Mom doesn’t care, he needs to just come and do it. Maybe you need to call and remind him. Nope, I see him every week. We’ll tell him to stop wasting your time and money! He’ll get to it That reminds her her handy man never came back about the water pressure in her kitchen, so I say, why don’t you give him a call? Tell him to stop wasting your time and get here and fix your water??? She doesn’t respond to that. Then she start telling me about how my aunt is making her beef and noodles (my aunt she didn’t think would make it to the end of the month last month) and offered to bring them over to her tomorrow.

Called my mom to remind her to make sure she has her eclipse glasses…she does 😆 so far she’s told me she fell trying to get on the lawn mower and thought she broke her back, but she went ahead and mowed the grass because if she’s going to be in pain she might as well get something done. When I first called she didn’t answer because she was in the bathroom and why do I always wait until she is in the bathroom?!? When she talks on the phone, it makes her yawn because she is breathing in all of the old air and she is going to have to figure out something else Asked about each kid individually asked if I remember why she called ds24 last week, I reminded her that she didn’t like my answer about him having a basement so she called herself. She said oh that’s right. She then launched into how you’re always a mom and much to the entertainment of the other people in the laundromat, I said yeah, but as a mom we also have to treat them like adults when they are 24…and 47. It can be insulting to an adult to feel like people think they are too dumb to know to go into the basement. She said whatever, they need to know. But now I know he has a basement and you do so I won’t worry about it. I said do you have a basement? She said no, I go in the closet. I said when are you digging one? She laughed and said I’m not, I just go in the closet. So I said so people who don’t have basements figure it out, right? And she said of course they do!

Trying to get through Anne Hagedorn’s book Beyond the River for work. The true stories are amazing, but not an easy read.

And diced for me! I was just showing the kids the complicated plate pull system the other day! I found a picture of the old uniform and they had a hard time picturing me with that tie and headkerchief😆

Working at the Waffle House in the 1990s we used sliced Kraft American cheese. One of my dds love American cheese, the other sprinkles on shredded cheddar

“Get in loser we’re going ______” mean girls Pretty much any line from What About Bob. So many apply to so many circumstances. ”Don’t you remember, you was there too”- Maters Tall Tales Tons of lines from the decades of adventures In odyssey or the pond