I Got My Kicks on Route ‘66 Yesterday

My poor sister in law. I think she’s about 12 weeks pregnant and she’s getting married next Saturday. Well, the final fitting of the dress…it didn’t fit her anymore. Can you imagine? Poor baby had to go pick out another dress at the last minute. I can’t imagine going through that with first trimester pregnancy hormones. The happy ending is that she loves the new dress even more than the last. My step grandfather is not doing well at all. Long story short, this is the grandfather that has not been the best person or man. I kind of disassociated myself from him years ago. I realize that sounds cold, but it’s really what I had to do. Forgive and move on. He’s 89 and been in a nursing home for 2 years or so and fell and broke his hip yesterday. This is not good of course, and possibly the beginning of the end. Yesterday his heart was enlarged and potassium too high for surgery and today was the same prognosis only with pnuemonia. We are assured that he’s pretty much out of it on morphine of course and comfortable (from what they can tell). Really, it’s a waiting game. It’s stirring up a lot of tension and emotion in the family. It’s hard to explain without giving too many details as to respect everyone’s privacy so I’ll leave it as saying I just hope that he is comfortable and he knows he’s in a good place with no pain.

Annnnnnndddddd moving on with happier things now,

Mom and I spent a few hours in her sewing room today repairing some maternity clothes. I’m telling you – maternity clothes are so CHEAPLY made, especially those I have bought from Motherhood. Of course, this may just be my experience but we had to re-stitch several unraveled seams on several different pieces of clothing. I also de-hemmed my maternity jeans and added an extra inch or possibly inch and a half to the 31′ inseam. Doesn’t exactly get me out of nerd territory…but it’s an improvement. Yay! But that’s not the point. It was cool to hang out with Mom in that realm and I really think that I’d like to take a sewing class sometime in the future. I do have a sewing machine, you know.

Yesterday was a great day! I we went to a small town in OK called Arcadia to eat at a unique restaurant/gas station called Pops. They have over 500 different type of POP you can choose from. They have burgers and stuff. But really the best part was getting to see my brother who is doing AWESOME in Job Corps. He’s taking his series of tests to get his GED and doing very well. He’s grown up so much over the past couple of years. He’s really a new person and excelling at all he’s doing. Yay, Kyle!