9:37pm
And I should really be out in the living room with the hubby,,, but I just had to share my day.
Among the hundreds of things I did today, I made three cuffs that really stand out in my mind. There are things that I make that just sometimes stick with me for awhile. The necklaces for an entire oncology department at a hospital, the baby cuffs for baptisms, the necklaces for the twins that just were adopted from China…. but today I made three cuffs that really stand out. Two of them were for a woman who is from Ontario, Canada who, along with a friend of hers, is going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this December. So, this gal wanted to commemorate their climb with a cuff for each of them. Now, normally I don’t like using my mountain signature stamp as part of a piece. It’s on there somewhere, but I don’t oxidize it to make it stand out. But this woman wanted me to use my mountain stamp along with the date of their climb. I had to make an exception…. just too cool of a thing not to. Then,, I did a cuff for a woman who is severely allergic to three specific types of drugs. Drugs that could inevitably kill her if she were injected or given any of them. Big bold lettering across the front of the cuff with the names. She said that she felt she was being an irresponsible parent to be driving around in a car with the risk of getting into an accident, knowing that at any time, she could be given lethal drugs to her system that would ultimately end her life, and in turn, end the life of her children’s mother. Some of you might think that it is paranoid,, but if you knew just how allergic she is to these things, (things that you or I could take regularly), then you’d think differently.
But then, at the end of my day today, hubby got home, and brought home dinner for all of us. I REALLY didn’t feel like cooking tonight. Anders has been home all week with THEE nastiest cold I think I’ve ever really witnessed. I actually took him to the doc yesterday for a strep culture. Fortunately it came back negative, but it’s still discouraging as I saw him walk into the kitchen this morning covering Maggie’s mouth and they were both giggling about some bad word that he made her say. She runs in to tell me,,, only to have his germ ridden hand all up in her mouth……….EGADS….. It’s inevitable … She’ll get it. Anyways,,… so after we ate, I tootled off to my group. I don’t even want to call it a “parenting” class, albeit most topics begin with parenting, but ultimately end up in wayyyyy different directions from where we start talking. Tonight was a relieving night for me. There were a couple of new faces in the group, and I’m sure it will be a couple more months before we all show our faces. I’m just hooked, and it’s only the 2nd time we’ve met this year. But tonight was good. Like Ann says, “Women need to get together” and “Nobody gets us like we do”…. amen to that. I’m not MAN bashing or anything, but when you are a mom, you are the glue that holds everything together. And when the glue gets a little soft and you feel like you are about to explode into tears, it isn’t until THEN that the people around you (your hubby and your kids) actually notice. It takes a weak moment,,, (and I shouldn’t say weak),, but a real, true, emotional outburst to make a point. Which is pretty sad when you think about it. But that’s just the way that it is for the majority of us. So many good points were brought up tonight. You walk away from this group feeling a mixture of things. The list of things to work on as a parent gets longer everytime I go, but yet the list of the things I “thought” I needed to work on gets a little bit shorter. It’s wierd…. and sounds like it doesn’t make sense, but I’m so glad I’m in this group. It’s refreshing to know that there are women out there, moms, in somewhat the same frustrating situation that I am in,,, that we ALL are in. It’s all good. In other words, I can go to bed tonight knowing that I learned something today. And the older I get, I’m learning to accept who I am. Granted, there are things in the parenting realm that really need some undivided attention. But it’s so hard to run a business from home, and be a stay at home mom. tough cookies…
So we should find out in a couple more days or so what the broker thinks about our offer on the house. Hmmm For some odd reason, I’m just not chomping at the bit to know either way. Maybe that’s just maturity. Maturity to know that what will be will be. But for now, I’m just going to continue to love the house I’m in. It’s Our home… Whether or not we get to make a new place Our Home…. well,,, that’s in someone else’s hands for now. Good night…..