Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!~D Saturday!!! Happy Wedding to Susan and family. I pray that all the things go smoothly and it is a memorable and precious day for you all. CW, that sounds like a great surprise and congratulations on the secrecy. Slashie, congratulations on the Latin. I am a Latin failure, but someday, when my life is less insane, I am going to pick it up again. My kids couldn’t care less, but I loved (and still do) love studying it. Yesterday was busy. Had good conversations with most of the families I visited. Ended it grocery shopping at the AFSA with my sick girls. DH left early this morning to drop oldest DD off at a soccer tournament. This afternoon we are headed to the mountains for DH’s company Christmas Party. I don’t really have anything suitable to wear, but I am attempting to pull something together and that will just have to do.

California here and yes, back in my high school days in the 80’s, that’s what it stood for. And everyone knew it.

I wasn’t able to watch, but I was getting texts from IRL-BFF. Pretty unbelievable.🤪

Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!~D Fri-yay!! Why is it that the day before vacation start is actually better than the day vacation actually starts?? But it’s true. Busy busy day today. I have five family meetings, two on Zoom and three in person. Plus all the end of Learning Period wrap-up stuff. It will be busy, but good. Yesterday was a long and difficult and kind of bizarre day. My Aunt’s memorial service was at mid-day, and I did take a couple hours off work, but I had some family meetings I couldn’t reschedule, so I did those after and then I had my hair done. It was the big, long, get my highlights redone, so there was that, which I couldn’t reschedule until after the holidays and my grays were just really getting bad. Then, I went to my Aunt and Uncles house after that to finish the funeral gathering stuff. People were there from out of town I needed to talk to…. I didn’t get home until 10:00. That last part was good, but I was exhausted at the end of the day and as I drove in the garage I was just thinking how long ago the morning was.

I think some people can get mean as they age. there are a lot of reasons. As has been mentioned, a lot of them lose their filter, and early dementia could be a reason. Just the frustrations of losing freedoms and abilities they had when they were younger can contribute. General increased body pain can make a person more crabby and mean. I think there are a lot of things that can contribute.

Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!~D Friday Eve!! Today is my Aunt’s memorial service. I said I would say a few things. I have had them swirling around in my head these last couple days, sonI’d better write them down this morning. The girls are all sick. There’s some virus going around.

Ewwww!

Good Morning!! COFFEE!L~D Humph Day!! This has been a busy and draggy week. Baby has this virus that is going around and she is just sick enough to be incredibly whiny. We have soccer games every day for someone. I’m trying to wrap stuff up for work before we go on break and I’m having a hard time concentrating. My Aunt’s funeral is tomorrow. She passed sort of unexpectedly right before Thanksgiving. It’s been hard because she’s been part of my life my entire life and now she’s not there and that emptiness is really painful. I didn’t expect it to be this difficult. I went to CVS yesterday to pick up a prescription and looked for Advent candles. They didn’t any kind of tapered candle. I wasn’t really expecting them to, but CVS seems to have everything, so I had hoped.

This just happened to me, too. Except it was the USPS. Make me so mad.

Good Morning!! COFFEE!!~D Tuesday!! School and work!! Yesterday was busy. Our “Holiday Meet Up” was pleasant. Baby’s team lost their soccer game. I don’t remember if I mentioned in yesterday’s post that DD1’s Choir Concert was last night. It was outstanding, as usual. A very nice variety of Christmas music and very well sung. School and work today. Older two girls have a soccer game an hour and a half away. I will not be going to that. I had a family meeting in the far reaches of our County scheduled, but the parent changed it to Zoom and I didn’t protest. I usually see them in person anyhow, so a Zoom meeting once in a while is fine, and I have a lot to do.

Good Morning!! COFFEE!!~D Monday!!😩😩😩 However, this is the last week of work for me before Christmas Vacation, so… it’s fine. We have a “Holiday Get Together” today for my little teacher group. Our school has a couple hundred teachers, and we are organized into little pods. I really only know the teachers in my pod, although since I’ve been there 5 years now I have gotten to know a few others. There are other parties going on today regionally, but I’m only going to my little pod group since I have done the big parties before and I just don’t like small talk with people I don’t know. Baby has a soccer game this afternoon. This is the first of two, so I cleared my schedule so I can go. I hope she’s feeling better. She’s had a mild virus the past several days. There is something going around.

Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!~D Sunday!! and a chilly one at that. The wind machines are on. They sound like a flock of helicopters. Church!! Not much else going on. I finished my Christmas shopping online last night. I think next week when I am off work I will go to the Big City and get some stocking stuffers and miscellaneous stuff, but the bulk of it is done. My one brilliant idea (unfortunately it wasn’t original) was to get car wash gift cards for the elderly members of the family. They don’t need more “stuff” and a car wash is a treat that people often don’t give them self.

I went to middle DD'S soccer game. They lost but played well. Half the girls had never played soccer before this year and they had no subs due to injuries. The goalie was brand new, but she was awesome. Middle DD was awesome. She just got in there and popped this one girl. Knocked her down. I was yelling.

I know, you’re right. Everyone only has 24 hours in their day.

I took it. It was good, but I don’t think it’s exactly what you want. Order something else, but not from Abe Books. They’re flakes.

Good Morning!! COFFEE!!~D Saturday!! Slept in, but not too late. DH took middle DD to her soccer tourney in the Big City. I will pick her up later. My goal is to watch her last game. Yesterday’s trip was nice. The mountain’s are beautiful, but very dry and no snow. We need some of that Pineapple Express the PNW is getting. I had delightful talks with both families. Went to the Afsa last night. Forgot to buy candles for the Advent wreath. They completely “reorganized” the entire store. I grumbled my way through it not being able to find anything. And it’s been two months. Today I guess I will go shovel weeds at my farm, watch a soccer game, take Christmas present inventory and figure out what else needs to be bought. I am personal shopper for elderly family members, too. Tomorrow I have to teach Children’s Church, but I think DD1 will do the actual lesson. She’s good at that. I just need to be the “official adult” there.

Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!~D Fri-yay!!! Crazy busy day!! I’m driving to the mountains to visit a couple of my families. I hate driving and it’s a long drive (1.5 hours each way), but it is a beautiful, breathtaking drive and the families are delightful. So… there you have it. It will be fine. Both older girls have soccer tournaments that, while they want us to come watch, we won’t. Oldest DD is in a town 2 hours away and they will be staying the night. Middle DD’s tourney is just in the Big City. Oldest DD’s boyfriend is also in a soccer tourney in the same city 2 hours away, but his family is going. I guess I just can’t figure out how some people can just go to everything. This kid’s family does. I have work today, so I can’t go down there today and tomorrow I have a million things to do that I didn’t get done during the week. We haven’t eaten dinner together at home all week. I feel like I am being strangled. And yet some of these people go to everything. I can’t figure it out.

it’s from doing the pew bows.

Good Morning!!! COFFEE!!~D Friday Eve!! School for some, work for others. No soccer games today. The girls won yesterday 2-0. which was good. They needed a little encouragement after Tuesday’s 0-10 bloodbath.

Went to the soccer game. We won 2-0.

I'm having dinner. Then going to DD's soccer game. I want to get there after halftime so I don't have to pay. I know that sounds terrible but we are going broke paying for all these stupid games.

I love chips.

I guess I should go back to work now.

And speaking of Goldie, I see this little video in the Ring ap this morning about some cat that is in someone’s neighborhood several blocks away. And he was identical to Goldie. But then Goldie showed up, demanding to be fed and I breathed a sigh of relief.

I about had a panic attack. Our neighbors are getting a new roof and they are stapling the composite shingles down with an air stapler. it sounds exactly like a cat scratching up furniture. So I ran in to the living room, getting ready to yell at poor Goldie and he was just sleeping away and that noise kept on going. That’s when I figured out it was the staple gun.