Time to Relax

We hooked up the trailer the other day and took off to one of our Thousand Trails parks and let the kids have the house to themselves...don't want to be stepping on their toes all the time! It's such a blessing that we have our trailer and park systems to go to...maybe we'll like this so much we'll decide to full time????

The other day I pulled a muscle in my ankle. The park we're at has a swimming pool but no hot tub so we went to one of our other parks for the day and had a wonderful soak in the hot tub there...now my ankle is a lot better.

A couple campsites from where we're parked is blocked off because there's a birds nest in it. I think they're killdeers. We've seen mama and a couple of her babies scooting along the road in front of our trailer...they're sooooo cute, and their little legs go a mile a minute, especially when Mama is calling to them!

I can get wireless internet at the clubhouse...not the fastest connection but at least it works and we also get to do jugsaw puzzles and watch TV while we're there. Did a really neat 3D puzzle of hot air balloons...it reminded us of the year the kids bought us a hot air balloon ride for our birthdays and anniversary. It was scary, but once we were airborne it was fantastic...unfortunately a year or so later the balloon was taking off and caught fire and 2 people died....now I don't know if I'd like to go on another balloon ride or not!!!

911

Sunday night we were sitting in the trailer reading when all of a sudden pound, pound, pound on the door...both of us jumped and I screamed...our son called for us to come quick. C had collapsed and he couldn't wake her. We ran into the house and I called 911 while he tried again to wake her. The firehall is quite close to our place so they were there in a matter of minutes followed several minutes later by the ambulance. Checked C over and gave her some oxygen then helped her walk out to the ambulance. Our son gathered some stuff together and went to the hospital, so I stayed in the house with the kids...they hadn't even woken up! Everything checked out okay, so it was probably the stress of moving...sure hope it wasn't the stress of moving into her in-laws!!!

I made a pot of chicken soup the next day and watched the little one while she slept and relaxed on the couch, then Papa went up to get granddaughter from school. We got along very well and she was really thankful for all the support my husband and I gave her and I was so thankful that we were here for her.

Having them live her certainly livens up the house and the grandkids are such a joy to have around...think I'm going to miss them when we take off to our parks.

Trailer Trash???

Some people refer to those who live in their trailers as "trailer trash". Friday night we "moved" into our trailer, Saturday our son, daughter-in-law and family moved into our house. Right now we're still parked in our driveway but next week we'll be off and staying in our Thousand Trails park system. Does that mean that we are officially "trailer trash"?????

I cooked dinner on Saturday...the day of the move and this morning our son made us Swedish pancakes with blueberry sauce, I made lunch and tonight our son bar-b-qued hamburgers for us....what a life!!!!

Time

Today is our youngest grandson's first birthday...imagine...a year already!!!

This morning I walked over to Mom's. The health nurse came last week and again today. It's so hard to talk about "do not resitate" (DNR) orders, palliative and hospice care and all that stuff, but I'm so thankful that we have the health system we have and that there is a network of workers who are dedicated to keeping people in their homes as long as they can comfortably be there and that there's hospice centers for them when the need arises. Mom has been designated as "palliative", which has some perks like the home care, support and medications, but still hard to accept!

Mom keeps telling everyone it's not cancer...only an infection...so let her think that...I'm just so thankful that she's not in pain! But ohhh it WOULD be so nice if she could cough up that tumor and be rid of it!!!

Can't shake this Cold

We both seem to be having a devil of a time getting rid of these colds. One day you feel okay and the next you feel like you're back at square one and the cold, pollen count and barametric pressure are playing havoc with my migraines!!! That's my tale of woe for today.

Had a delightful day Saturday. Took Mom up to the lab for some blood tests the Dr. ordered when we saw him yesterday, then we headed out to my cousin's in Clearbrook to have home made corn chowder and biscuits...she knows it's Mom's favorite. We drove out to Yarrow and found the place where my cousin's daughter buys bulk carrots for her horse...thought they'd be good for Mom's juicing. Unfortunately they don't have any more left and won't have any till the 3rd week of July, but they did have beets, so I bought a 25 pound bag and split it with Mom. Mom's going to try juicing some and I'll probably freeze and pickle some. From there we went to Cultus Lake and visited with our daughter and son-in-law and grandkids. They're camping there and it's their first trip out in their new trailer. On the way home we stopped at a real quaint home-style cafe and had a wonderful dinner. Got home tired but it had been a great day, and Mom really enjoyed herself!!!

Can you OD on OJ????

When we babysat the grandkids last week, our son had a cold. Now both of us have it. We managed to get away for 3 nights in the trailer...heavenly!!! It's been so long since we've been away. One of the stores had orange juice on sale so I bought 3 half gallon jugs thinking the vitamin C would help our colds. Well, I drank one jug in a day and a half and I was wondering if you could overdose on OJ. Haven't got any ill effects so I guess the answer is "no". Unfortunately between the cold and the high pollen count in the air, I'm still coughing a lot, but at least I've had lots of vitamin C and kept hydrated!!!

MOTHER'S DAY

Happy Mother's day to all you mother's out there. It's been a difficult day for me knowing that if the oncologist is right, this is probably the last Mother's Day I'll have with my Mom; and also remembering that it was five years ago today (on Mother's Day) that Dad fell, broke his hip and never recovered, dying on May 30, 2005. My heart was also hurting for my friend who's Mom 's funeral was yesterday.

When we got home from church #1 daughter and son-in-law came down and gave me a card she'd made and a lovely box of herbal teas. Our son also phoned today and wished me "Happy Mother's Day". Yesterday evening we took Mom and went out to #2 daughter and son-in-law's to see their new trailer and we had a lovely dinner with them and the grandkids.

I had taken some pork chops out of the freezer so tonight B told me to go relax and he bar-b-qued and made supper for me, complete with a glass (or 2) of wine...it was lovely!

Watched the Canucks win the hockey game....now we have to babysit Tuesday! Our son and daughter-in-law have tickets to game #7 in GM Place so we get to watch the 2 grandkids while they go to the game. Hopefully the Canucks will win!!!