Sunday: Weekly Wrap-It-Up #19

Posted by Sarahbear on July 25, 2010

Monday morning my grandmother had her knee replaced. I took the two younger children down to my home town and spent a couple of days visiting. I had intended to go down Saturday and help prepare the house for her physical therapy, but due to work schedules I was only able to offer some support after the surgery was over. She’s back home now. The surgery went extremely well. She’s recovering faster than they had anticipated. Not in much pain, aside from the tenderness of the wound. I’m so very fortunate that things are going well with her.

While I was visiting, I was able to visit with two friends from high school. Since my grandma was resting in the hospital, I invited Steffers over for some pizza and chatting. We were both pretty anxious, thinking we might not have anything to say to each other since it’s been 12 years since we physically saw each other. Fortunately we were able to do a lot of catching up. It was really comforting, for lack of a better word, to realize that a lot of the experiences we have had during our entry into motherhood were similar. I really enjoyed our visit. I think she finally wound up heading home around 3 am. I was up bright and early to head back to the hospital to check on my Nana (the name I’ve always called my grandmother).

I hung out until around lunch time and then went to eat at Chili’s with my aunt, mom, two younger kids and another friend popped in on her lunch break. We didn’t get to spend quite as much time catching up, but it was still good to see her and give her a hug. The visit has made me far less hesitant to go to my class reunion next year. These friends, of course, were never catty. I don’t think they have a mean bone in their body, but I was concerned about how some of the other people would react to finding out their old classmate is a stay-at-home mother with no college experience, married with 4 kids and has put on 100 lbs. I’m sure there will be a few of those, who are stuck in the mentality of a high schooler, but most of us seem to have grown up.

After I got home, I spent a lot of time just hanging out with Chad. We missed each other, even though it was only two days. We rented some movies, worked on improving the house a bit to try and cut back on the electric bill (ceiling fans, room darking blinds and curtains, etc.). I’ve kind of avoided being online. I was in a fabulous mood and I knew twitter and blogs would suck that out of  me. So, I savored the moment and took a short break from writing blogs and reviews. I’ll be back to it this week. Hopefully I will be able to write enough to schedule over the next weekend because we intend to visit some more family and check in on my grandma.

I am working on the 30 days of letters meme that other bloggers are participating in, but I will not be posting the majority of them on my blog. My interpretation of the project was to write to these important people in your life, telling them the things you need to say that you maybe haven’t said to them before. Letting them know the impact they have on your life and who you are. I feel like the letters would better serve their purpose if they were actually presented to the people they were intended for.