Stitchin' and a Bitchin'

Woke up the other morning to find this outside my door. Lovely 7 inches of heavy wet snow. Hubby reported it was a balmy 80 degrees in Dallas. I twisted my knee wrestling the snow blower to clean up the mess.

To keep my sanity lately (with Mom here it is sorely needed) I dragged out the sewing machine and have been making a few projects. There are a lot of tutorials on the web - some done quite well on how to make things, so I've been a little crafty lately in attempt not to lose my mind. The black bag is for me, the camo for Igor and the airplane is for Sonny Boy. The boys are excited about their money bags. I don't have the heart to tell them they are sorta like purses.

Saturday I took the boys to the Milwaukee Public Museum (I was going to put a link there but it won't work) I had cabin fever so bad I couldn't stand it, Mom was whining with a cold and the kids were climbing the walls, so to find some sort of activity it was. The museum has a butterfly exhibit where the little bugs flutter around, it's quite neat. They have some butterflies in there as big as your hand, that's pretty cool.

The museum has several different scenes set up from different cultures. For some reason the boys decided they must have their picture taken in front of the Guatemala scene. Horrible focus but it was just my phone.

Sunday Igor and I spent 4 hours in the local emergency room. The boys were sledding (yes another sledding accident) with the neighbor's 3 year old grandson. Igor was careening down the hill -just a small one really- right toward the little kid. Sonny Boy in and effort to keep the little kid from being crashed into jumped in front of Igor's sled and the collision resulted in Igor's mouth meeting Sonny Boy's knee. The result was that a tooth went through his lip.

You can see here the cut on the inside of the lip and the little hole where it came through. Nice huh? Three stitches later and he's fine, though he's a little swollen looking today. I think we might have to ban sledding all together after the last two winters.

Mom is still here and I've about bitten my own tongue bloody trying to keep my sanity. She has been good about exercising but honestly I've never seen anybody so content to sit on their keister in my life! I'm seriously thinking about hiding her Kindle (made the mistake of showing her how to download free books) and changing the code on the T.V. Today she has gone to a neighboring town to talk/interview with an employment agency. I don't really expect much to come of it, but she certainly needs to jump at all opportunities she can. I see I really have to get her involved in somethings around town. I've been watching the paper for clubs etc but honestly nothing really seems to fit her interest. You can bet as soon as one shows up she's going, like it or not, as sitting around here 24/7 is too much for anybody and bad for mental health. My last post I said she was a lot like having another child around. In the last week she managed to take a shower without having the shower curtain inside the tub, I caught her smoking on the front porch (it's more like a sunroom) when we have asked she smoke outside because it smells so bad, last week before Hubby left for Dallas she watched the boys while we went out to eat and when we came home she had let them each have a full can of Dr. Pepper because they had conned her. AGGGGG, I don't mind the spoiling by Grandma's when they are not seen often but when they live us they have to follow the rules too.

Honestly her job prospects don't look good. Two solid weeks of sending 4-6 resumes out a day and not a call for an interview. I've gone over her resume, Hubby has too. It's simply a result of few jobs, no education and a host of other factors. Stressful to think I might be living like this for the next 18 months until she can draw social security and pension and hopefully qualify for the senior apartments here in town. Anybody got any ideas?

Anyway, that's the stitchin' and bitchin' post. Some stitches were fun, some were not. Wish the bitchin' didn't come into play so much but I got to vent somewhere!