Joely Sue Burkhart

After the monsters came up to the room from swimming, we had an unexpected fireworks display right outside our balcony.  The finale was so loud that MM came flying back inside holding her ears (she hates loud noises–two rounds of ear tubes).  We let them stay up late to watch the end of Finding Nemo, and they all went right to sleep, LM and MM sharing the pull out bed and PM on the floor in her sleeping bag.

I only had to get up twice in the night to keep MM and LM from kicking each other, their whining and stirs woke me up before full blown battle had everybody up.

We slept in this morning and headed downstairs to breakfast, only there were people everywhere and no tables to be found.  So we returned to the room, packed up and loaded the van.  The breakfast area was still crazy.  No plates, no food, messy tables everywhere, but we finally got everyone fed.  Meanwhile, Grandma called from the hospital and said that Papa was definitely getting released today, and we should just head on home.  She was already packed up herself, and they were waiting on the final paperwork.  So we finished breakfast and were headed out much earlier than we planned.

It rained on us off and on all the way home, and it took over an HOUR to find a Starbucks!  Grr!  But we made excellent time and I had the first load of laundry going by 3:00 p.m.  Unfortunately, Grandpa’s release was delayed and they didn’t get home until nearly 6:00 p.m.  We also learned that he fell getting out of the car.    He’s fine, but they were both pretty shook up.  If he’d been seriously injured, That Man’s Mom would NOT have been able to get him up alone.  I guess we should have waited around and followed them over to the Lake, and then still faced the 1 1/2 hour drive home….  Well, that’s what the guilt tells me.  They adamantly refused to have us stick around and didn’t want anybody to follow them, but still.  I’m going to feel horrible if FIL suffers any repercussions from his fall.

I watered my hay bale garden as soon as we got home.  Just in the short weekend’s absense, my tomato plants are looking rather… yellow.  I hope they don’t die.  The zucchini are looking great, though, with the big yellow flowers indicating they’ll soon have little squash growing.  My basil plants must be extremely tasty, because the bugs won’t leave them alone.  I’m not sure what I can put on them to protect them that’s still edible, and I haven’t had time to research anything yet.  If you know of a safe organic bug repellant for spices/herbs, please holler!

We’ll pick up the dogs from the kennel tomorrow.  Meanwhile, I have at least four hours of meetings to look forward to tomorrow, and documentation that I still haven’t finished.  Sigh.  And much more laundry.  No groceries in the house.  Happy Monday.

P.S. Writing wise, I got all my small sections smoothed and put into the main draft, which is a pretty solid 10,400 words.  I’ve started the next section, nearly 500 words.  So not as much as I hoped, but seeing all the pieces put together into a smooth story makes me feel a little better.  I really want this first draft done by the end of the month!!