Looking Forward

Tomorrow I am taking the day off from work. It’ll be a good Friday. I’ll let the kids sleep in. I'll make them waffles or pancakes. We'll have a nice morning and I'll take our daughter to school. Then the Little Big Guy and I will go to his appointment. It’s just a follow-up appointment. He has had fluid in his ears and swollen nasal passages since February and all the allergy medicine he is taking, hopefully (fingers crossed) is making a difference on his little system. We dislike putting anything in their little bodies but one must be able to breathe to live. Next month he goes in for allergy testing. I’m not sure that will give us any results to work with but we need to start somewhere.

We’ll stop at the grocery store on our way home for items for our Father’s Day dinner. I asked the Big Guy what he wanted for dinner and before he could answer, the Little Big Guy said “ribs.” The Big Guy agreed.

Once home, I think we’ll spend time outside with Ruddie. We can give him some play time then put him to bed. I plan to paint a second coat on the dining room and hallway walls. Then I can cross that job off the to-do list. Then I’ll clean and hang items back on the wall. I so want to get order back in the house. In my life.

And have I mentioned the washer? About 2 months ago, the darn thing stopped turning off the flow of water. So I had a wet basement floor. Lucky for me, I was home and the “flood” was stopped before it was a wash-out. Since that episode, I have been babysitting the washer. Babysitting is not necessarily a bad thing. I sit on the dryer, knit, read or listen to one of the kids read to me, and manually turn the water on and off as needed. In some ways, I have looked forward to babysitting time. I am making progress on the Big Guys socks (which, shhh – are not going to fit him because the tension of my cast on, even though I used an “elastic-y” cast on, makes it too small to fit over his foot – I am very disappointed but I will NOT rip it all out to start over. I’ve done that too many times with this sock. And to think, I have to knit the second sock?! I know, something else to look forward to.) Tomorrow marks the day that I can stop sitting in the basement as a new washer will be delivered in the afternoon. You know, between 12:00 p.m. and 4:03 p.m. I love the time frames these companies give you. Like I have all this time to just wait around.

I also plan to run over to my mom’s summer camper and open it up. My cousin flew down to Florida and he is driving her back to New York. I want to air her small place out and grab her bedding while there. I’ll wash it, hang it out to dry (weather permitting) and then take it over Saturday morning to make her bed and take care of a few other things. The kids can pick flowers and leave her welcome notes. We did this last year as a surprise and it really welcomed her home. She loved slipping into fresh bedding. It swept her off to dreamland.

So I have a lot to look forward to and a lot to do. Here’s hoping the weather holds out because once I have the walls painted, I need to start that push mower and get walking.

Here’s to a longer weekend.
Here’s to a shorter To-Do list by Sunday evening.
Here’s to seeing my mom soon – I am so excited.
Here’s to a Happy Father’s Day to the love of my life and a wonderful celebration with our family.