CBB, sending out healing and calming vibes.
Sending your brother healing prayers, CBB.
I had a wonderful work trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. D joined me for part of my time there and I enjoyed being with her and celebrating her birthday.
Her flight home was through Stockholm, and she had been where the terrorist attack occurred five days later. Earlier in her trip, she had visited the memorial in London for the Westminster Bridge attack. Sigh.
CBB so sorry to hear that your brother is having infection problems. I am hoping he improves soon. Sending healing
MP of course stressful work situations, so sorry.
My house has so much to be done and we haven’t had time. looking forward to getting out of school so I can pull myself together.
D2 is graduating and just found out she is getting a prestigious award at the University. One of 100 student chosen throughout the University. She also tentatively has a job. She has signed a lease on an apartment.
I still have the plague, just coughing a lot. From what I understand form you guys is that it hangs on. I am so tired. I have a test on Thursday and fell asleep in the afternoon yesterday, so am trying to push on. I also found out I got an A on a test that none of us even understood the questions. I took it when I was sick and had a fever, maybe that is the way to do it?
Congrats on new weddings. Congrats DTE on your grade and D2’s award. Does D2 have a nursing job in Boston or is she moving?
MP, I thought you went to work for an airline, no? They haven’t announced a major transaction so I must be wrong.
We are in Memphis for Passover seders. ShawD is helping the BF’s mother prepare for her Seder. ShawSon is unlikely to be doing anything. His GF switched from one high-tech giant to another and is currently “funemployed” as she says, so they may head to Mendocino or someplace like that for the weekend. We left them some stuff in Sausalito so they can pick it up.
DTE - hope you feel better soon. Good luck on your test.
CBB - hope your B is doing better today.
CQ - saw some of the pictures on Facebook. Looks like you had a great time.
Easter dress for GD is done. Sewed on the buttons last night. Tonight I’ll work on the GS’s pants. Made one pair already but they were way to big so on to another style. He’s just so tiny.
Shaw, I was seconded to an airline a couple of years ago. I returned to my law firm, then last year went in-house for a different company. The kind of company that has 1100+ units to sell.
I need to exercise more because depression is setting in big time.
Hugs, missy. I am reading a book for book club wherein the Dali Lama and Rev Desmond TuTu reflect on Joy. Its actually helping me remember to depersonalize my outlook. Otherwise, these days I’d be falling back to my mantra of “Humans, they’re delicious.” 
Its aptly called “The Book of Joy.”
In that vein, sending healing mojo and strength to CBB, brother and father.
In other news, mcson is rather shocked to learn his former GF from a few years back has quite suddenly gotten engaged to a fellow she’d only dated for a few weeks before a 6-mos. gig abroad and subsequent long distant relationship. The irony, for him, is that she’d sworn she’d never marry without living with someone first for a year and a day…plus had issues around LDRs when it was him, so I think this must sting a bit.
He sounds a bit bitter still, despite his claims of apathy. As displeased as I was about her final year of conduct in their relationship, I truly hope she’s happy. I also hope one day he can genuinely reconnect with his former fondness for her and be glad in his heart. Maybe that is expecting a lot. Maybe you only get to that place when you’d been the one doing the leaving.
Easter will be low key around here, just mcson and gf. My sib and hoard are not coming as planned because they could not find a dog sitter are unwilling to board their lab, and because with the dome up, I just can’t host a dog. I’m allergic, so I can’t have dogs in the house at all…but in summers I let people bring dogs over and stay in the pool house, camp etc.
This dog, like most labs, will not let her peeps in the pool without joining in to save them, which is fine in summer once guest pets have been trained to use the stairs and not scrape at the vinyl liner. But however well-trained the dogs and observant the owners, there is always collateral damage on toys, vinyl balls punctured, etc. Since the dome is essentially just a giant, inflated vinyl bubble, McH and I decided there has to be a no paws, no claws clause in its use
So its my own doing, but nonetheless, Im bummed I won’t get to see them. I feel a bit guilty, like I’m worrying about material objects instead of my connection with people. But at the end of the day, the truth is if they came, I’d spend the entire time trying to protect the children from drowning in a collapsed dome and the dome from the dog and the whole thing was feeling like a prospective nightmare.
I have enough trouble enforcing the McSafety compound rules with children let alone dogs
Son’s in laws invited us over for Easter dinner. I guess I’ve lost any Martha Stewart pride because I accepted as soon as I saw their text. The girls aren’t coming home and DIL already accepted her parents’ invitation on behalf of both of them. I’ll bring wine and a carrot soufflé.
My poor sister. She was a terrible mother and now her 35 year old son- who used to text her many times a day- stopped texting and sent her a letter telling her what a terrible mother she was.
My mom told me this. I’m going to pretend I don’t know for a while because I don’t know what to say. (She wasn’t physically abusive. She did things like - as the custodial parent - gave the kids to the dad while she moved out of state with a guy. Etc. ). I’m always impressed with the grace with which many adults forgive and/or deal with their terrible parents. But my nephew is not in that camp and my guess is that everything in his letter is true.
She hasn’t changed her ways. She is a terrible daughter to my mother.
kmc…Mcson will heal when he finds the love of his life. Then ex gf will not matter as he gets to spend his life with his soul mate. 
I am hosting Easter breakfast after church. We will have both Ds and their husbands and my friend’s family. Her mother just passed away and her life is in turmoil with a move/remodel and brothers who will now celebrate with their wives’ families. As the only daughter she is truly missing her mom and how she held the siblings together. H is still not in a good place with his parents so they have not been invited. I am trying to stay out of it and keep my lips zipped! The only thing I remind him of is that his parents are 84 and 83 but I think he is in denial about their age. They talk on the phone but he really hasn’t visited with them. I don’t think their relationship will ever heal.
It’s sad when parents and adult children can’t get along, but at later ages, you can’t change people much.
Many thanks for all the healing vibes, prayers, etc. B is definitely much better. I went to the hospital in NH on Wednesday to visit him. At that point he was still in ICU, although he had fewer tubes than on Sunday. SIL texted today that he’s been moved to a regular unit, so that’s good. He still has an NG tube in his nose which is driving him nuts, but that should come out in a couple days. They think the infection was MRSA, but at least they’ve got him on the correct antibiotic. A scary few days!
H had his “colonoscopy replay” yesterday. Thank heavens they changed the anesthesia, so he came out of it much, much better than the first time around. And, the results were stellar, so he doesn’t have to go back for 10 years. YAY!!
Went shopping this afternoon for something to wear for Easter dinner. (We go to H’s brother’s.) It’s supposed to be 80 degrees! No one gets really dressed up, but all my warm weather clothes are at the beach house.
Glad to hear good news of your B and also your H @CBBBlinker .
Hugs to all with difficult family dynamics.
We have spent the last 30+ Easters with very close friends. It started out with 3 couples having brunch at nice places in the city, then moved to dinners at home with kids (and egg hunts!), ended up with just 2 couples, but we have a nice dinner and always lots of wine!
Such a beautiful day yesterday. Hiked around some local waterfalls and soaked up the wonderful sunshine. Cooler and rainy today. Can hardly wait for more sunshine and warmth.
We’ve been having great weather back in Boston. But, I’d prefer to be in Sausalito.
ShawWife is pushing hard to finish her show – driving in pieces to be photographed for a book that will be written about her. Went to the doctor and she has decided to have both knees replaced in the fall. I think and hope that will help her a lot.
Ten years between colonoscopies. That’s pretty wonderful.
ShawSon still in a fair bit of pain, now by the ears, but the doc said this is normal and he immediately needs to start myofunctional therapy as he has to adjust to a new jaw angle. Had dinner with ShawD and her new BF (new to us – she’s been going out with him since Rosh Hashanah). Sweet kid. Very bright (math major at a very good school who is now writing speech recognition software for a consumer device). She seems to be accommodating to his life. ShawWife questions whether he is accommodating to hers. His family is embracing her – Mom, aunt and uncle, cousin, twin brother and fiancee all love her (several have emailed her telling her so). She’s having fun with him.
Need some help finding shoes for the wedding. Looking for some type of strappy sandal, comfortable - meaning can’t be too high a heel, prefer something that has a back strap or something on the heel - slides are not for me with dancing. Color - I like rose gold but haven’t been able to find much in that color so really anything that will go with navy I guess. So those with ideas just let me know.
Hope everyone had a lovely Easter or Passover.
Hope ShawSon is feeling better.
Oh and the shoes should be good for outside. If the weather is good the ceremony will be in a field.
RM - I have a hard time buying shoes that fit me so I am not the one to help. I do have one suggestions and that is to also consider nude color shoes. Navy is hard to find.
Good luck!
Agree FG. I wasn’t planning on navy since the dress is navy - would be hard to match I think.
RM…would you be interested in wedge style since you will be outside? That style would be good so you don’t stick in ground.
I have been thinking about a wedge. I think that would be great if I could find something I like.