I don't think Mom is ever going back to church on her own. I'm going to call Bill & Nancy Ham and see if they can get someone in the Sunday School Class to offer Mom a rider and take her.

After last weekend's debacle, I have to agree....ROLL TIDE!!!

Hi everyone!

I seem to take a hiatus from this every so often. This week's been busy...I've been trying to get things in order so that I can make a job move. Met with a lady this week about a position in a nursing home. I'm not real excited about working in a nursing home, but the money's better and it's much more flexible. Both of which are very important to me. Keep your fingers crossed that this works out. I don't think I can take much more of Coliseum Hospital's B.S.

I've told Gama countless times that I will help her do anything she needs around the house. I did notice that her bedroom (Fran's old bedroom) was a lot cleaner last weekend. I say a lot cleaner. The broken bottom half of Papa's old recliner was out of there and had been relocated to the carport. Is Anna still coming? I don't think she'd throw stuff like that out on her own...maybe Anna got a cattle prod after her. I've told her that I'll help her paint and a ton of other things, but when I get up there and ask what she wants to work on she says that we'll just wait and do it next time. Last summer, Rachel and I had made arrangements to come help her work on the basement one weekend and she wouldn't let us come. I don't want her to be mad at me for just going ahead and doing something, so I just let her win.

I've been trying to get a phone list together so that we can post it on her refrigerator because everytime I talk to her she asks me for somebody's number. I think we'll put one on her refrigerator and then hide a whole bunch all over the house so that when she loses one we can tell her where to find another one.

I talked to the ol' gal this morning. She didn't go to church this morning. She did go to the neighborhood party last night. She just couldn't believe how many babies there were in the neighborhood these days. I told her the neighborhood had finally come full circle. She thought that was funny. I talked to her for about 20 minutes when she finally said that she had just figured out that it was me and not Mama. She normally knows exactly who I am when I call. I mentioned going to Savannah at the end of the month to see some friends and she said that she just loved Savannah and that it was one of her favorite places. I told her that we'll take her there for the weekend sometime soon. I'll start looking at a calendar to see when we can do that. I think that would be something for her to look forward to. I'll let everybody know details for anyone who wants to go. I think she would really enjoy a little roadtrip with her family.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and is gearing up for the week ahead. Oh, and just one more thing for you Dawgs...
ROLL TIDE!!!

Hello?

Hello? Does anybody read this blog anymore? Just wanted to let everyone know that Fred and I are leaving for Albuquerque this Sat. and coming back the following Sunday. You can reach me on my cell phone.
Fran - I never did hear how it went with Trey's science teacher. What up?

This Weekend

Robin, Lauren and Dylan came up this weekend. Brandon and KK were also there on Saturday. I went down on Sunday morning, after I finally found some gas! Mom still seems to be in a fog. Robin said after Mom said Good-Night Sat. night that she walked in a circle through the living room and den 6 times! She needs to sell her Honda, but seems more interested in selling it to Ray the oxygen guy than to Eddie. She said for $1,800 she'll just keep it. Car isn't worth more than $2,200. She thinks Ray will give her $5,000. Turns out that offer was several years ago! I asked her if she's going to Sunday School next Sunday. She said, "I don't know. We'll have to see what this week brings." I said, "Well, it's going to bring a Sunday. They all do." Robin and I got a few men's clothes from her. I took stuff that I know Fred won't wear; it's going to Good Will. He will wear the Bay City Lodge tshirt though. We all need to excercise 30 minutes a day to ward off dementia!

Where to hide DDT?

I would put it in a black garbage bag and put it out with the garbage. I've done that with paint cans. I know - I'm bad.
Rick probably didn't take much because Mom was probably hovering over him. Maybe Robin and I can take her to Alabama one weekend and Reynolds and Fran can back up a truck to basement door and fill 'er up.

I went over to the house Friday evening to check on Mom and she really enjoyed eating Chinese with you guys on Thursday. She was also very appreciative of Robert mowing the yard. I went down in basement to see where we could start cleaning it out and determined that just about all of the 'crap' in the crawl space and under the steps could go in a dumpster. Mom told me that she did not want a dumpster in her driveway and that she would have Rick come clean out the stuff. Rick works for Cox Sanitation and Dad had him come over last year to take some stuff out. Though, I'm not sure he took a whole lot out. I also found cans of old insecticide that is now outlawed. Where the heck do you dispose of DDT?

Mom called yesterday to check on Fred and told me she forgot Sunday. I said, "I told you to write down Sat. night and Sun. on your calendar so you wouldn't forget." She said, "I need a keeper." I said, "I know Mom. That's why we need to get you on some memory medicine and get you another place to live. It's not good for you to live alone. And you're never going to get that house in shape to move. It's just not gonna happen. So you might as well move somewhere and take with you what you need and leave the rest." She replied, "And you think I'll be able to sell the house that way?" I said, "No, you're kids are gonna have to pitch in and clean it out so we can sell it." Then she changed her tune and told me she thought she's been doing pretty good by herself.
I don't know about y'all, but the week leading up to Dad's birthday was extremely depressing for me.