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Jul. 24th, 2021 08:42 amWe, as I said the other day have had lots of family in town for my mom’s birthday(which was yesterday).It is an all day thing and by the end of the day when I go to bed, I am out as soon as I put my head on the pillow. Yeah, it’s really that go-go-go!
Yesterday was the best example of that. We were having a family get-together at a local hotel(where my aunt is staying;she has MS so it was easier for her-in a lot of ways.The spanner in the works was my aunt and uncle who took the train out here.There was an issue and it meant that they were delayed.Delayed by quite a bit. And we’re at this hotel which is a pretty good size and the a/c is just NOT getting to where we are so I was going back and forth from where we were to the lobby where the air conditioning was a LOT better! Also the Olympics started last night and, in the end, I only got to see bits and pieces of the opening ceremony but what I saw I liked(saw the very start of it at the hotel, on the bar TV so there wasn’t any sound.)
All told, though, I’m enjoying it, even though I crash into bed at the end of the day.We’ve got 3 young kids(2 7 year olds-twins-and a 15-month old who is adorable but she is a pistol! Sometimes I wish that my nieces and nephews could be that age again if only for a day but then I remember how much of a handful *they* were at that age. I love them to death but it’s that thing of , as an aunt(or uncle) you can just give them back at the end of the day. Most of us don’t do the diaper changing thing(I had to once, when it was a desperate situation but it’s not anything that I wanted to make a habit out of. And all 5 of them are well out the diaper phase at this point; the youngest is 16 and the oldest is 30.Wow.I am old enough to be the aunt of a 30-year-old.
*Coffee is a big help.
Yesterday was the best example of that. We were having a family get-together at a local hotel(where my aunt is staying;she has MS so it was easier for her-in a lot of ways.The spanner in the works was my aunt and uncle who took the train out here.There was an issue and it meant that they were delayed.Delayed by quite a bit. And we’re at this hotel which is a pretty good size and the a/c is just NOT getting to where we are so I was going back and forth from where we were to the lobby where the air conditioning was a LOT better! Also the Olympics started last night and, in the end, I only got to see bits and pieces of the opening ceremony but what I saw I liked(saw the very start of it at the hotel, on the bar TV so there wasn’t any sound.)
All told, though, I’m enjoying it, even though I crash into bed at the end of the day.We’ve got 3 young kids(2 7 year olds-twins-and a 15-month old who is adorable but she is a pistol! Sometimes I wish that my nieces and nephews could be that age again if only for a day but then I remember how much of a handful *they* were at that age. I love them to death but it’s that thing of , as an aunt(or uncle) you can just give them back at the end of the day. Most of us don’t do the diaper changing thing(I had to once, when it was a desperate situation but it’s not anything that I wanted to make a habit out of. And all 5 of them are well out the diaper phase at this point; the youngest is 16 and the oldest is 30.Wow.I am old enough to be the aunt of a 30-year-old.
*Coffee is a big help.
