I am sooooo tired right now and I can't take a nap yet.  I will be able too shortly after Bob's lesson.  I am awake enough for his lesson or I would have rescheduled it.  I am going to have to find something better to make mom sleep!  She stays up late and then comes in my room to wake me up early and then comes in about every 1/2 hour or so.  Not good for my sleep.  I don't say anything to her because if she does remember she won't come in on something important like she doesn't feel well or something like that, so I don't say anything.  It is better that way.  She is sleeping a bit better when she sleeps, just doesn't get enough of it.

I bought Warren (3rd cousin or something like that) a new toy.  He is living with his grandma right now who is Tillie's daughter.  I saw one of the cars from the cars movie that he loves, so I got it for him.  I plan to bring it to him sometime this week or next, depending on Mom's swallowing test.

Pain is medium right now, my arms feel uncomfortable but not painful, if that makes any sense.  I can't seem to find a place for them.  Silly me.

My cousin has a new blog.  She is a very creative person with crafts and furniture and stuff like that.  She decorates things beautifully, I have seen some of her work.  I am excited about her blog so that I can see what she is doing with her talents.

I hope this finds you doing well!!!!!  And, hopefully, not in too much pain if you have some!  Happy October!

I am very tired right now.  I could go and take a nap.  Hmmm, perhaps I will.  Can't hurt anything except maybe make me more awake.

I had Katie's lesson earlier.  She is doing really well and practices so nicely.  I just love teaching people who actually practice.  It makes it so much more fun.

Not much else going on today.  I bought two new tires for the car (back ones - and I need a new wheel.  Yeah)  I have to call tomorrow for the price of the wheel, I am not looking forward to that.  Wheels are very expensive.  Stupid potholes.  Michigan roads are horrible, potholes everywhere.

Pain is medium high today, except the knee which is high.  I hope your day is more exciting than mine.  Have a good one!!!

So, today is supposed to be book club, only I don't think anyone is coming.  So no book club.  I am sad about that.  I love book club.  Oh, well, there is next month.  We will have to pick a new book and date so that we all can attend.  Katie has been working the last few Saturdays, now that she has a job so she hasn't been able to attend for two months.  I will see her tomorrow and see what time she can attend.  Maybe we need to make it later.

Lily and Aggie had their lessons this afternoon.  They are doing well.  Aggie is almost ready for her audition, she just needs to stop chopping off her long notes and she will have the songs down pat, and finish memorizing the German song.  Lily is almost done with a couple of songs she has.  She is learning to breathe properly.  It is hard to do at first, but I have no doubt she will catch on.

Not much going on now.  Mom didn't go to sleep until about 2 am, so I am very tired.  Then she came in my room at 9:30 am and asked if I was ready to get dressed.  I managed to stall her for an hour.  Not a happy camper about that, not at all.  I hope we don't have a repeat tonight.  I am thinking we are heading for bed early today.  Especially because tomorrow is church and we have to get up early like around 7:45 am to get ready.  So early to bed tonight!!!

Pain isn't bad today, my arm is a bit sore as usual, but not more than usual.  I was expecting it to be worse because of no sleep, but it isn't.

I hope this finds you having a fun day and enjoying a Saturday.

It was sewing today!!!!  Yeah!  I love Fridays.  They are so fun.  Hannah is finished with her shirt.  She finished last week so she had school today.  Lydia and Natalie should be finished by next week.  I was a half hour late this afternoon.  I reset my alarm, or so I thought, I forgot to reset it so I didn't get up on time.  Oops.  Mom slept through a lot of sewing.  It was kinda funny.

We need a new roof.  It is going to be very expensive, but we have to do it.  Apparently, it won't last the winter.  yeah.  Another huge expense.  I am not looking forward to it.  I had the salesman here on Wednesday and he went over everything.  We shall see what happens next.

It is pouring out right now and has been pretty much all day.  It is making me ache so much more than usual.  It looks horrible out.  So basically, the arm hurts, the shoulder hurts, and the head hurts.  I am sure the knee will start again soon.  It has too keep everything company.

I hope you are having a great day despite the rain.

Tillie called while we were at walmart shopping for groceries and prescriptions.  Apparently, in order for Mom to be put on the waiting list in Windsor, she has to have a valid health card, which we don't have because we don't live in Canada.  So since I am not planning to move to Canada, I can't get her a card so that is the end of that.  Finally.  She is doing okay today.  I didn't get her a donut, instead I got her two muffins and they seemed to go down just fine.  I haven't heard from her doctor yet so I don't know when the test will be.  Hopefully soon.  Although, this week hasn't been so bad, so maybe it was just a phase.  We shall see.  I bought her a scale to weigh her one weekly so I will be able to keep track of her weight.  She has to gain 15 lbs.  I offered her some of mine, but somehow she didn't want it.  Neither do I.  I will not get on the scale because I know how much I weigh, and I know it is too much.

It looks like it is about to pour outside, my shoulder can tell.  My arm and shoulder are really sore right now.  It didn't help that I had to lift groceries out of the car, but how else are they going to get put away?  Mom doesn't know where anything goes anymore.  I just feel blah today, no other word for it but blah.  I hope it improves soon.

Have a great day!!!

Mom had trouble swallowing her donut and muffin this morning.  Not good.  Yesterday it was just the donut.  I won't be getting her donuts anymore.  I am still waiting to hear when the test will be.  I hope this week.  She has to be able to eat otherwise she will waste away.  Right now she is sitting in her chair sleeping, sort of.

Frank will have his lesson tonight.  I am very happy about that.  It has been a few weeks since he had a lesson because of his Mom's work schedule.  He works pretty hard on piano and is planning to accompany Rachel at competition.  Rachel's younger sister, Rebecca, will be taking lessons too and wants to go to competition.  Kayla and Katie are also planning to compete.  I am hoping that the Muglia girls will be competing too since competition is in town this year.  We shall see.  Grace doesn't want to go to competition, which is fine with me.  If you want to go, go, if you don't, don't.  Doesn't matter to me either way, just that if you are going to go, plan on doing a good job.  

I have to go to Evola's Music this week and sign up for the benefit.  We are going to do it around Valentine's Day.  I am very excited about it.  As soon as I have the date I will be working on who is going to be in it.

Pain is medium as usual.  Nothing out of the ordinary.  Just the regular pain for the day.

I hope this finds you doing well and having a good day.

No students this afternoon.  Charlie has a band event.  It would be kind of hard for him to be in two places at once and he is an important part of the marching band.  One of these days Mom and I will go and see him in the band.  I like going to see what my students do.  It is a lot of fun.

I bought Mom her ensure.  She didn't look very happy about it, as a matter of fact she looked kind of ticked at me for buying it.  I will make her drink it until she is back to the weight she is supposed to be.  Her donut was difficult for her to swallow this morning but her muffin went down fine.  I am not sure exactly what to do with this new problem of swallowing.  We should her from the doctor this week when her test will be and then we will go from there.

We will be relaxing this afternoon and sorting bills for the bankruptcy for both of us.  I think I have enough bank statements to finish off the stuff I need to put together.  I am planning to call and make the appointment to file early next week, then it will be over!!!!!!  I can't wait for that.

Pain was medium until I, of course, moved my arm wrong!  Now it really hurts and I had to take another pain pill.  Stupid arm.  My head just has its normal everyday headache.  It will be rather boring the rest of the day.  I hope yours is filled with stuff to do and that you are enjoying your day!

Mom had a doctor appointment this morning with her neurologist.  We haven't been in a year.  Oops.  I didn't realize it had been so long until I made the appointment.  Apparently we missed her last appointment.  I didn't mean too.  Anyways, she is down to 105lbs.  The doctor is not really happy about that, not happy at all.  Mom has to start drinking ensure again.  She is not happy about that but what can I do?  She has to gain the weight back.  Once she is at 120 again, I will take her off ensure, but not until.  Mom also has to take a swallowing test.  Lately different foods (I never know which ones will do it) are difficult for her to swallow.  She says the foods won't go down and get stuck in her throat.  So the doctor's office will call us and let us know when the test is.  I hope it is not too early in the morning.  We all know I am not a morning person.  She isn't happy about all this but too bad, she is going to the test.

In the middle of Grace's lesson she got hungry.  She wanted something to eat, well I didn't have anything for her to eat.  She got mad.  I am now going to get a snack with us at all times in case she gets hungry.  I never know when that will happen because she won't eat enough.  It drives me crazy but I will get the food down her somehow.

Grace is doing well for lessons.  She has learned two hand positions so far and will start a new one in two weeks.  Then she will get the Christmas music too.  She says she loves Christmas music, I do too.

Kayla is going to be absent today, but Rachel should be back so it balances things out.  I hope to have everyone next week.

Pain is medium and the arm is medium too.  I have tried to do some of the exercises and man do they hurt.  I have to have help with them.  I am going to get a heating pad and then try them.

I hope you are having a good day.

Busy day so far today.  We went to a new church this morning.  We have been there once before, but that was for Emily's confirmation.  Mom liked it so we are going to start to attend.  I don't like what time the service is, but I did like it.  it was nice and traditional, the way we like it.  Then I took her to Big Boy for breakfast.  She was hungry and I knew we didn't have any milk so we went and got the breakfast bar.  I am still full from it 4 hours later.  We ran into Peggy and her family there so it was nice to see her.  She used to be one of my best friends in high school.  We aren't really friends because we don't spend any time together, but we aren't enemies, we are more facebook friends which works for me.  It would be nice to do lunch or something some time, but we shall see.

When we got home after breakfast Donna called so we went and met her at Tim Hortons and for the first time, I only got a drink as I was super full from breakfast.  We visited for about an hour then she had to go home.  Her granddaughter Samantha is ill and Donna wasn't really feeling well either.  But it was nice to spend a little time with her.

I have decided that I should put Mom on the Canadian list just in case something happens and it becomes necessary, I don't think it will, but you never know.  It will calm Tillie down and make her feel better, I don't really want her upset either, she is trying to do the best she can for us.  I do think she should listen to me a bit more, but whatever, it isn't worth strife in the family over all this.  I am not, however, going to make Mom go to a day center unless she wants too.  That would be mean and unfair to her.  If I need a break, and yes, sometimes I do, I can call someone here and they will come and stay with her or I can take her to their home and go out for a while on my own.

Pain is high for some reason today.  Don't really know why.  My arm hurts more than the shoulder which is kinda weird, but hey, what can I say, I have a weird body.  I hope this finds you well and having a great afternoon and evening!!!!!!

I had Lily's lesson this afternoon.  She is soooooo cute and adorable and much more interested in singing than she was in piano.  I love listening to how all my students weeks go and what they did and are planning to do.  She is excited about going to camp this week.  She won't miss any lessons either so she is actually happy about that.  She is doing pretty well and is remembering most of the time to keep her eyebrows up.  (An important vocal technique, lifts the muscles which help lift the soft palate to open your throat to let the air in).  We are working on airflow too.  She doesn't want to compete this year which is fine by me.  I don't care if my students do or don't, it is completely up to them.

Pain is high in the shoulder though.  My arm sort of burns today.  My head is normal (the usual daily headache - the one no one can do anything about).  I had to take another pain pill for it.  I try to limit them to nighttime, that's when I really need it, but I couldn't take it anymore.

We are trying a new church tomorrow, Lily's.  We have been there before for her sister Emily's confirmation, but we are going to just a regular service.  It has been a long time since we have regularly been to church and we are very unhappy with the one I grew up in, so we are trying.  The only drawback is that they go to the 9:00 am service, so I have to get up early, and we all know how I am not a morning person.  I will definitely be taking a nap tomorrow.  Mom misses going to church on a regular basis so I hope she likes the church and we will go every week.

I hope this finds you doing well and having a good week.  To Sarahbear - I hope you are feeling sooooooo much better soon!!!!!!  Less pain!!!!

We had sewing this afternoon!!!  What fun!!!!  I think I am over my upset from my visit with my cousin.  I just think they should spend some time with Mom at home before they tell me she will need a nursing home soon.

Lydia was at her grandmother's today so she wasn't there for sewing.  Hannah finished her top and Natalie is getting closer.  Hannah wants to make another top only a little more complicated one.  Good choice for her.  She did a good job.  Natalie and Lydia are doing very well with their tops too.

Not much going on today, just sewing and then we got something to eat.  We each took 1/2 of our dinner home so we have dinner for tomorrow night!  They give such big portions that often we take the rest home for the next night.

I talked to Donna tonight for almost an hour.  She wants me to take my facebook page down.  I wish people would stop telling me what to do, it's not a good week for that.  I like facebook, yes, my younger brother totally misunderstood one of my posts, but over all I have not had any problems with it and I have reconnected with several friends that I haven't talked to in years.  So over all, I like it.  I will just be more careful on what I post.  I wonder what she would think of my blog.  Probably not much, but I won't be asking!

Pain is a little high for the day.  It's been one of those kind of weeks!  I hope your week is better than mine and in less pain if you have any!