This week I was dog sitting my parents dog. I spent a good amount of time assuring my mother that everything would be fine. That leaving me with the dog and as the emergency contact for my grandmothers was not too much for me to handle.
The weekend did go fine. Monday was the disaster! It was one of those days when nothing seemed to go right at work. I couldn't wait for the day to be over but then some of my partners wanted to work together so I was at work for a while after.
My mother visits my grandma everyday. So with my mom being away, I felt the need to give my grandma some company. While I was there I reminded my grandma about Bingo that night which prompted a hunt for her wallet. My grandma has dementia and neither of us could find her wallet. I finally convinced her to go down for dinner and look for her wallet after, thinking she would forget about it, only to find her wallet with her walker.
I was going to leave from there to go get groceries but it was already after 5pm and I just wanted to get home so I stopped by my parents house to get some spaghetti sauce. At which point my car broke down and would not drive anywhere.
When we bought the car used we planned for some maintenance costs but it has been a while and nothing so when the dishwasher broke down we bought a new one with the money set aside for the car. Now it looks like the car needs a new transmission. GREAT!
My brother in law has been riding his bike to work so very kindly offered us his car. He wouldn't take no for an answer so he drove an hour to our house with his wife and two kids. We were finally eating and I had assumed that they would have eaten first before coming. As they were leaving they commented about going to pick up something for dinner. It was now about 8:30pm and the kids have school the next day. I felt terrible.
After they left I thought it was funny that my parent's dog has not eaten anything yet. He wolfed it down the last few days. So I bribed him with treats. I remembered that we needed to get the stuff ready for our taxes. There was one piece of paper that I could not find. Hubby told me that he had left in on the fridge because it was important. I have been holding myself together all day and it is all I can do not to scream at him that the fridge is not a filing cabinet. I go looking for the paper and my parent's dog throws up twice. Yuck.
I clean it up and finally find the paper we need and by this point my pregnant self can't hang on anymore. Hubby was a little freaked that I was crying saying "I found the piece of paper"
The dog woke me up a few times in the night when he was sick again a few times but ultimately the week got better as we went.
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Now to backtrack just a bit. I got a "push present" a little bit early. He upgraded my phone for me!!!
I have joined the iPhone world! Hubby is just a addicted as I am as he has all of his sports things on there and angry birds. I have a few knitting apps too and I am sure I will be adding some more.
As far as my knitting goes. I finished my
Gnome Mittens. They were a lot of fun to knit.
I have also started the first sweater for Baby Preston.
E.Z.'s Baby Sweater on Two needles. I have changed the gauge and think I might use a different stitch pattern on the bottom section. I will keep you posted as I go.
