It is what it is

Interesting comment from Amy Dickinson who writes a column called "Ask Amy".  "Family is not a status confined to those who share your DNA.  "Family are also the people who pick up your call on the first ring, put on a pot of coffee when you drop in, easily forgive your transgressions, laugh with you, cry alongside you, and importantly, love your kids along with you.  She continues saying that many readers have honorary "aunts, uncles and cousins", who are not actual family members but long-standing family friends.  These relationships are a gift".  She put to print what I have said all along about my family.  Those family members have been "Family" for so many years, we have all forgotten they are not related! As to the laugh part, there are times when I have not been able to breathe, I have laughed so hard with my "sister".  It is what it is and I will be ready to write about losing another brother soon.  What a week this has b...

Adjusting to all the quiet time. Andrew and Bryce left Friday.  Amanda is here a couple more days but everyone is probably ready to wind down and get back to normal.  Whatever that is in the Dobos household!  Enjoying our time playing Scrabble, watching Modern Family, movies (I think we have watched 4 now) and mostly yakking!   The list of to-dos when she is home is long and we never get it all done!  Lucy has enjoyed our down time on our laps...smelly beagle! My brother is still in the hospital but headed to a nursing facility for some re-hab and continued improvement.  He has a long way to go but with a team of doctors and the right medications, he should improve.  Going to see him Tuesday.  Will stop and see my other brother and his family.  Hopefully the weather improves. Quiet a Christmas.  Andrew fell down the stairs (all the stupid stuffed animals on the stairs are not conducive to travel up and down them I guess!), broke a cha...

Dark dreary Christmas Eve morning.  Rain, dismal but the lights look great.  Otto is at work, Brian in LA, Bryce, Andrew & Amanda are taking a long winter's nap (not up yet) and Matt, Dana & Hannah never made it from Chicago.  Traffic was so bad last Friday, they turned around and went home!  We opened our Secret Elf gifts via Face Time.  Our Christmas gift exchange is over except for stockings in the morning.  (What Lucy didn't eat of the summer sausage that was wrapped for Otto).  Just ornament exchange and silly candy etc.  Looking forward to Christmas Eve service tonight.  We will re-do another Christmas meal, much like Sundays before Brian left.  What a mixed up holiday!  Grandma even went to Vermont!   Very fun though.  It is nice not to have to be spending this time running crazy and frantic wrapping (we did all that Friday and ALL day Saturday, cooking on Sunday).  It has been a little slower pace. ...

Spent the day doing decorating inside and some outside because it was over 50 degrees.  Feel like it is the calm before the storm!!!  Schoolwork, grades for progress reports are DONE!   Lucy had a bath in the basement and I had to change my clothes!   Haircut, manicure, shopping, decorating, church, cleaning....scheduling, hosting, Christmas is EXHAUSTING!!!!   It is what it is!

Spent the day catching up as usual.  Laundry, ironing, washed the car in 43 degree weather, walked the dog, posted grades, comments, dinner is in the oven, general stuff.  Up early to go to church with friends of our.  Someone forgot to check the time and assumed it incorrectly.  Arrived, only to notice that no one was walking around,  in or near the church.  Yup.  Someone was wrong and we were 20 minutes late instead of 10 minutes early.  I can't even express how angry I was.  Got dressed up for an early morning Sunday drive.  Someone needs to pay attentions a bit more.  Friday, our chimney and ducts were scheduled to be cleaned (2nd time moved) and that same someone was 10 minutes late and now it is re-scheduled....again.  I can't do everything and yet sometimes, I feel as though I must.  It is what it is, and was not a great start to the day!

So, the day started with not much sleep after yesterday's student incidents.  Anyway,  the day progressed to my prep when we met with a parent of one of the problem students (hopefully issue resolved) and I saw my new math coach in the hallway.  Forgot she was coming today for my worst hour of the day.....3rd.   I have 34 students, many problematic, and it is a nightmare.  Hopefully after observation she had comments that will help.  Fast forward to the "dance" after school.  I ran out to get a soda between school and the dance.  There was a problem with the DJ and we had crazy 7/8th graders to deal with but nothing compared to getting ready to leave and I could not find my keys.  Ran out to my car only to see them on the front seat with a door that was locked.  Thank goodness my principal has "connections" and within 5 minutes we had a "guy" that is connected to the HPD retrieving my keys.  What was amazing was how fast he was in m...

What a busy Saturday.  After working around the house, changing the bed, doing laundry, grading papers, paying bills, decorating for Halloween, I did errands, went to the grocery store, washed the car, took Lucy for a walk, washed all the downstairs windows,and called my brother (who is back in the hospital).....I am ready for bed.   Early call for bells tomorrow, 2 services and back to work with school tasks, packing up the back yard chotchkee stuff, and all the other Sunday tasks.  It is what it is and it is busy!!!!!