Back home

I'm back home from my trip. It was a good trip, everything went smoothly (well, except for mom). My flight over was uneventful and dd picked me up and we went back to her house. Thursday morning I took her car (she carpools with her dh) to my work meeting/event. Traffic estimated an hour to get there. I needed to be there by 10am so left her house at 8:30 just to have time to find parking and find the venue. If I hadn't been able to use her toll pass it would have taken me more than the hour drive, that's for sure. It was a fun day, but the place was pretty loud and sensory overload. Even our meeting, which was in like a banquet type room was hard to hear, because of the loudness of the arcade area outside the meeting room. Then we switched over to a private room with private bowling lanes and a bar. They also gave everyone a card loaded with $30 to play the arcade games. I bowled a game, visited with people, played a dice game a couple times, ate, visited some more, went out to the arcade area with a few of the other ladies, then came back into the private area when they decided to leave early. I decided to stay until the end at 3pm, since my boss had paid to fly me over, the least I could do is stay until the end. I then had a nice visit with another coworker, who also lives in another state and works remote. The parking was supposed to be validated and free, but when I checked out of the parking garage, it was $14. Either they told my boss wrong when she set up the venue, or they messed up validated our parking. But, work is reimbursing everyone, so I'm glad I kept the receipt.

My boss gave me a birthday card, which I opened when I got back to dd's. It had a nice $100 visa gift card in it. I decided to buy myself a new suitcase, as the old one I have, the wheels weren't turning very well anymore, as I realized trying to roll it through 2 airports on Wednesday. 

The rest of the 3 days at dd's was great and we kept busy during the day, shopping and a look at their property they will be building their house on. I ate lots of good food and dd made me a birthday cake. In the evenings we just visited and watched tv. I did find a nice Samsonite carry on suitcase at Ross, It has the spinning type wheels and I loved that for traveling back home. Much easier to roll around. Saturday we antique shopped and I found several things. A few of which I was able to get into my suitcase, but dd will have to bring the rest when she drives over in May, but she may be able to fit 2 of the items in her suitcase when she comes over this week, on Thursday.

I did get at text from mom's caregiver, K, on Friday evening that she had had yet another bathroom accident all over her carpet again Friday morning. Apparently she keeps taking off the depends at night when she goes to bed. I told her at this point, with a week until moving, I'm just going to wait and have the carpet all cleaned AFTER I move her out on Friday. I've already had them there twice now. I had hoped the Imodium would hold off the accidents until I could get her moved, but apparently not. Friday is going to be one of my hardest days, I think, but this move is so much needed by now. I have no idea how the memory care will get her to keep them on, but since they have staff all night, I'm sure they will figure it out.

The weather here took a turn for the worse over the weekend and the freeway was really icy on the drive for dh to pick me up and back home. Trucks in the ditch, etc. When we got home I texted the guy we are getting the new bonus room carpet from and told him it's super icy for like 30 miles after leaving the city and if his installer wants to schedule us another day (they were supposed to come this morning) we are ok with that. He texted me back, thank you, they will reschedule then. The roads/weather will be back to normal in a couple days and no sense in trying to drive out in that. It's -10 out this morning. 

I need to make a few calls this morning. I forgot to call the phone company last week to set up moving mom's landline phone service, need to call the carpet cleaner again to set up one last time and call our pharmacy in town to make sure dh's doctor office called in his refill we need to get.

I will be so glad to have this week behind me.