Updates and Life Lately

Happy Wednesday!  I’m finally back with updates and life lately around these parts!  It’s been a whirlwind of a month, for sure!  I am sure hoping that June will be much calmer.

First, thank you all so much for praying for my mama!  She did amazingly well through her surgery and was able to be released from the hospital the next day.  The Teen and I stayed until late Tuesday afternoon, when we were finally allowed back to see her in the ICU.  She was groggy, but we assured her she did great and talked to her for a little while.  We then left and started the drive home.  The hospital is about two hours away.  I called throughout the night to speak with the ICU nurse, who assured me she was doing well.  The next morning, the Teen and I left bright and early to get her.  However, about halfway through our trip, the air conditioner in my car died!  I was so upset!  It was a really hot day, and the drive home was miserable.  My mama and the Teen never complained, but I was scorching hot!  But we made it home ok and got Mama settled in for the evening.

This beautiful fountain at the hospital entrance would have been great for a nice, cooling dip that day, haha!

My aunt and uncle from Nashville came to stay with my mama the next day. My aunt is a nurse, so I was thankful she had planned to come. But Mama was doing so great that she barely needed any assistance!  I’m glad they spent time together, and my aunt went to church with me on Sunday morning.  My aunt and uncle used to live here many years ago, so my uncle always uses his time to go fishing and catch up with old friends.  They left early yesterday morning.

Writing Thank You Notes

The Teen has college orientation next week.  He has been busy writing thank-you letters for graduation gifts. I pulled out his thank you notes, addresses, and list of gifts and prepared to sit down and help him, but he assured me he could do it.  So, I let him write the first one and looked over it.  Y’all!  This kid wrote the most heartfelt, sincere thank-you notes I have ever seen!  Much better than anything I could have come up with!  His senior seminar teacher went over this with his class during the school year, and she nailed it!  I happily left him to it; he will complete a few daily until they are finished.  It’s just another lesson that he doesn’t need me hovering to accomplish things.  As a parent, it’s hard sometimes to know when to assist and when to back off.

Catching Up On Reading

I also finished this book.

If Grunge was a part of your musical taste in the 90s, then you undoubtedly know Dave Grohl. I often passed this book, Storyteller, in our local bookstore but always chose something else. When our little bookstore announced it was closing, they had an amazing sale, so I finally grabbed it, and I’m glad I did. It was a great read.

Everything Else

Other than that, I have been slowly catching up on housework when my body allows it, and I will be taking my car into the shop to see about getting the AC fixed.  It’s certainly much too hot to go without it.  We had some heavy rains last week that made it muggy and miserable.  I’m certainly not looking forward to more of those days in the thick of summer.  Even Jake has noticed the heat and prefers to stay inside until almost 10 PM.  He stays out until about 7 or 8 AM and is inside for the day and most of the evening.  And the mosquitos!  They are certainly out in FULL FORCE and much earlier for summer.  I also have a lot more itching with these bites.  But that’s just typical of a Mississippi Delta summer.  I love my little town and don’t think I could ever love living anywhere else as much, but it has its disadvantages in the summer.  Heat, snakes, mosquitos.  Ugh!

Next week I hope to start a pantry inventory to take advantage of summer sales.  I like to be all stocked up early before the weather gets cold.  Although that seems so far away now, doing a little bit helps us get there economically.  Hope you have a great day!