Happy Mother's Day

Even though mom won't get to see this, I thought I'd tell you some things about my mom.  I bought her a card and will stop at the florist to get her a bud vase with some flowers since that's about all the space she has enough for in her room.

Some things you don't know about my mom.  She was the driver in the family because dad didn't drive.  She would take us all over when we were kids.  She was very involved with our elementary school being a noon aide.  She used to help the nuns and drive them places. 

She was always very fun loving.  A couple of embarrassing things she did when I was young was for a couple of years when we went for Christmas to my one aunt and uncles house she would dress like Santa Claus.  She would wave to the people as she was driving in the outfit.  Us kids, use to duck our heads so no one would see we were with her LOL.  Also, she had an old car and decided to paint it pink.  OMG, talk about driving in an eyesore and having people look at you LOL.

After I got married, when she would come to our house she would always bring what she called "A Happy Day" present.  Usually it was something small.  As she grew older, we started bringing her "Happy Day" presents. 

She always liked to sing. She used to be in the choir when she was in high school.  She still remembers her music teachers name and the old school song.   Even at the nursing home she's kinda "known" for her singing LOL.  She used to tell me that she would wake herself up from singing in her sleep.  I didn't know if that was true or not until one time she was in the hospital.  I was sitting there while she was sleeping and sure enough she started singing ;-). 

Mom's birthday is in May she will be 83.  I'm going to save some stuff to tell you about her then. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day. 

New ride

No random thoughts today.  It's not that I don't have some they are all just scrambled up with all the stuff that's happened over the last couple of weeks LOL.

My husband got rid of our van almost two weeks ago and bought a Colorado Truck.  I love it.  For one thing, the van was 10 years old and was on it's last wheel ;-)  We wondered if it would last until he could find something new.  It's so quiet compared to the van.

He'll be able to buy dirt now for the yard and won't have to spend a fortune on bagged dirt.  I was going to save this for Alphabe-Thursday but then thought of something else for T.  So here's our new ride. 

Alphabe-Thursday

For Alphabe-Thursday I chose for the letter P - Parent Teacher Association - PTA

When my son was in elementary school, I was very involved with PTA.  At various times, I was secretary,  went to council meetings and was membership chairman.  Also, I was in charge of the birthday book club for many years.  I loved this.  It wasn't actually a book club.  It was more for your birthday a parent could donate money.  Then the child would pick a book from the library and I would put a nameplate in a book the child wanted.  The kids would be thrilled that they would have a book in the library that had their name in it. 

For years, PTA sponsored a Christmas Breakfast with Santa .  One year we decided to start a Bunny Lunch for Easter so me and Magellan figured out how to do that.  We did that for a couple of years and then handed it off to someone else once it was a well oiled machine LOL.

Tried as we might, although we had a lot of people join PTA, when it came to volunteering - not so much.  Most of the time, it was always the same small group of women that volunteered for EVERYTHING. 

For the most part, I really enjoyed being involved.  I was at the school a lot.  I got to see what was happening.  I knew all the teachers and the other workers. By the time my son got out of elementary school which was 6th grade, I was really burned out.  Besides doing the PTA stuff, I also was room mother every year and some times I would do things for the principal or the teachers.  When he went to junior high and high school, I just joined PTA and really didn't volunteer too much.  There really wasn't a whole lot to do in the older grades.  

Were any of you a part of PTA?   Did you all have a lot of volunteers at events?


I hope you go over to Jenny's to see what others did for the letter P http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/2010/05/alphabe-thursday-p.html

Family Bar

When I met my husband his family owned a neighborhood bar.  I guess in its heyday it used to be really busy.  By the time, I started going there,  they pretty much only had a few regular customers.  My mother-in-law didn't work there anymore.  

I used to love going there.  My father-in-law was the first one that gave me slo gin.  I never liked really strong liquor or beer.  Still don't.  We used to go and play the jukebox.  We would hang out with the old guys and a couple of young guys that came in.  Some times we would see my one sister-in-law and brother-in-law up there.  That's where I really got to know her.

Once when my father-in-law had to go to the VA hospital for months, my husband took a leave of absence from work to work at the bar.  Between him, my sister-in-law and brother-in-law they kept the bar going until he got better.  

I wish I could have seen it when my mother-in-law had to make tons of food.  It would have been so fun.

Mom update

Mom went back to the nursing home on Saturday.  When I got there, she had another bump on the other leg @@.  The nurse called the doctor and he said he had seen it but didn't leave any instructions for it. 


While this doctor we've been dealing with is okay, I found out I could switch doctors.  In particular, I could switch to a doctor that has a nurse practitioner that is at the nursing home 5 days a week.  So, I switched mom to them.  The nurse was suppose to work on it when she got back on Tuesday but somehow she managed to get it done right away.  Mom was able to see her yesterday already.  She is a Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and has a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Degree.  I think she will be great for mom and will get to know Mom much better so when things crop up, she will have a better idea of what's going on. 

Summer vacations

When my parents were married for their honeymoon, they went to a place called Geneva on the Lake  and rented a cottage. 

When we were kids we went there quite a few years for summer vacation.  It was a lot of fun.  As I got older, I met a girl my age from Pennsylvania and they would go the same time we did for a couple of years.  I wish I could remember her name.

Towards the end when we were going there, they had coffee shops with beatniks LOL.  We would go and have a cup of coffee and listen to poetry.   

Does anyone remember beatniks?  Do you remember Maynord B. Krebbs on Dobie Gillis ;-)
 

Hematoma

After sending Mom to the hospital, all it is is a hematoma.  They did an ultrasound at the hospital and couldn't find a blood clot.  The doctor had a vascular surgeon consult.  They just need to put a heating pad on it @@.

The doctor didn't know why the one they took at the nursing home showed a blood clot.  

I guess that's good it was not something more serious but nerve wracking for us.

Have a good weekend everyone.