So Grandson the I is 6 today

 

Happy Birthday to our grandson.  Stepping into grade one life in September.  It is really something how time flies so fast when watching children grow.  New parents don't believe us when we say that - you don't see it until your toddler is an adult and you are looking at them wondering how that happened and trying so hard not to parent them anymore but only be supportive. 

This week another super quiet week and it was pretty cool out for most of it but the weather is winding up to hit 30C and higher so time to put the A/C in the window this weekend.  

Another blogger friend was writing about her summers as a kid and I started thinking about mine.  For most of July my friends Pam and Beth and I would head to the Delhi pool in the morning for swimming lessons and then in the afternoon for the public swim.  This would go on for the month and then August would be days spent in my treehouse reading books and enjoying the time outside.  Summers were forever as a kid and now they flash by in moments it seems.  When I worked in a school, July was the month that it would take to relax enough from the school year and only in August was I feeling more myself only to face heading back at the end of it.  Summers did not last forever but flew by before I knew it.  It was a real benefit that I learned early on how to save for two months a year without a pay check but it was certainly worth it in order to make it through the school year.  

People asked me what was so tough, and I use to say that when you worked in a normal office and were feeling out of sorts or it was a rough time of month you could always just keep your head down and do your work and no one would bother you and a school (or similar places) kids and parents didn't care if you were having a bad day, you were expected to be up and cheerful and focused on them so you needed those months to recover and be up and on once more.  I don't miss it, I don't have the patience for it anymore.  

 Darling Daughter the I is heading back to her home in British Columbia from visiting my sister and her family in Florida.  I don't think she really wanted to head back and would have liked to stay.  I made it clear that if needed my sister's laundry room is already called dibbs by me should the need arise.  I am hiding out there and she will have to find another place to hide out in if she really wants to stay - LOL

 My sister's backyard at sunset.  I think the view is so beautiful.  So you can see it was tough for DD the 1st to leave there but she is on the plane back home as I write this.  

Have a great weekend everyone!

So That Was a Week!

 This week I stayed off my phone, tablet and such to let my hands get better.  Not that they are painful at all, just achy really.  Hubby had been dealing with a headache and cold for nearly three weeks (which means as much as I love him - so have I) It was pretty hot at the beginning of the week and our neighbour asked if hubby could get her AC into her window.  We went over to give a hand.  This time I mentioned what was up health-wise with the two of us and she looked at hubby and said that if he really wanted the headache gone she could give him something.  I thought what pill could she have that we haven't tried but it wasn't.  It was a Dr. Ho's unit thingie to use.  I have never bothered with the product mainly because I cannot stand the man's use car salesman ways, he seems a slippery as a snake-oil guy.  I change the channel so fast I barely hear a word from his mouth.  Anyway, our neighbour swears by it and so did someone else we know from church so since both are pretty reliable hubby decided to try it and as we where heading back to our place with her Dr. Ho's product she mentioned it might just help out my hands too.  

When we got home, hubby tried it right away and the headache he had after 10 minutes was gone and he was stunned.  It actually worked, he used it on the neck pain several times in the day for the next few days and everything was all better.  Bet you are wondering about my hands, well, not as fast acting on the hands but there is a lot of improvement each day that I have been using the unit.  I figure because this hand problem has been going on awhile it is going to take awhile.  We went out and got our own kit.  Now, I don't like the man anymore than I did before but it does seem that the product is very helpful for neck pain, shoulder pain and the like.  

Then the fire alarm went off at supper time.  Good thing I rarely start making supper until after Tigger eats.  We ignored the sound for a bit after living in an apartment pretty much our whole married life every time one goes off it is a false alarm or something that has been handled but one has to wait for the fire department to shut the noise off.  This time it wasn't.  The apartment that was getting renovated on the first floor was the one on fire and smoke was starting to come up to our level.  We grabbed Tigger and shoved her into her carrier before she had a chance to figure out what we were up to.  We zipped it shut and closed windows and headed down the stairs.  Tigger was not happy and really heavy for hubby to carry.  We opened up our car and put her there in her carrier to wait it out.  Smoke was bad in the hallways.  

Great news that it didn't take the fire fighters long to put it out.  Turned out that workers may have left the stove on when they left for the day (bet you someone is in real poopies ) Within the hour of leaving we were back into our place and Tigger was happily having her supper.  

Our walks together had been up off because of headaches and other aches but we plan on getting back to it very soon.  Not sure if I mentioned it before but Tigger loves to watch TV in the morning.  She lays on the footstool and waits for me to put on her favourite show and she still isn't tired of it.  

She isn't impressed by squirrels but she seems to really love the birds and bunnies but she will leave if a squirrel sticks around too long.  

Anyway, that was our quiet week - LOL.  

Enjoy the weekend.