Sorry Alisa, didn't mean to extend Father's Day any longer than Mother's Day!!! I'm not sure if today is a good day to be expressing myself in my blog or not..... I am house bound for a few days. The son and his friends left Monday for their year end camping trip. It took everything in my power not to help them organize the two vehicles. There are six of them camping (sorry Andrew couldn't make it - he was my hope for not worrying too much - but probably not a good idea to send another young male with a broken collar bone, out to rescue 6 other young males) Needless to say, one of the vehicles was mine and another boy was taking his truck. For six guys, they had 5 coolers, 4 of which were empty when they left. I finally had to go into the house while they finished packing. My sister made a very good point, and I'll try to phrase it the same way she did. "What a good learning experience for these teens. Usually going on a holiday is a breeze because mom and/or dad do all the planning and preparation. They will actually (hopefully sooner than later) figure out, it's not that easy and having a good time, comes with a little work and organization. Maybe even throw in a little appreciation for what parents do before a holiday happens."
So I have spent the last two days cleaning, decluttering and organizing this house. I started upstairs yesterday; and today was the basement. I even made it into Patrick's room. Really, how many t-shirts is too many. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50.. I stopped counting and started recycling. Really, do we need to keep every orange blizzard soccer shirt that we have received for the last 8 seaons? I'm willing to bet, he won't even realize anything is missing. And another question - his exact comment to me, was don't throw out any school papers yet. He may need them. Does that include the papers in a back from from Grade 10 sitting in his corner? And what about all the papers under his bed, that were never used for studying anyways? Again, I don't think he'll even realize anything is missing.
Onto the third thing that is currently bugging me. I can't go into much detail, because of obvious reasons, but I'm having a difficult time in deciding if I want to continue having a relationship with a certain individual. I am finding that I cannot be myself; I can't joke (for fear of offending); I can't be generous; (for their fear of making it a competition); and I can't be open about my concern (because this person is clueless that they are like this) K, that really doesn't help; guess I'll have to make another phone call to get that one off my chest.
Other than that last "situation"; life is good. No, life is great. I have more energy than I have had in a long time. I am at a great place; (the weather helps).
Just picked up the mail, so I guess I better get some paper work up to date.
Have a great evening; I'm planning on it!
Stacey
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