I'm supposed to be vacuuming and dusting and cleaning off surfaces. I am trying to help out my parents while I'm home (and, let's face it, make it more pleasant for all of us visiting) by cleaning the house - they both work so much, by the time they get home they don't have any energy to clean. So it piles up, and then they have even less energy, and then after a while they don't even notice until their daughters come home and start tearing into things.
So that's my plan for today. But instead I'm here, tapping away on my computer, eating Mom's delicious rhubarb crunch, and trying to persuade myself that keeping my sister company while she hunts for apartments online is being productive. Never mind that she needs to clean her place, too. I think we're enabling each other to be lazy.
But it's been a busy week, and we're all tired. Lis and David have been helping my grandmother tear apart the house next door so she can live there. I have been trying to keep the girls out of the construction zone and making meals, keeping up on laundry and dishes, doing everything that needs to be done so the workers don't have to worry about it at the end of the day. Quite the vacation, eh?
Most of my dad's seven siblings, as well as assorted other relations, are coming out tomorrow for our family reunion. We're hoping the weather clears up for them, since they are all going to be camping. Carl comes back tomorrow, too. He will NOT be camping, since we luck out and get to stay with Mom and Dad.
All in all, not a great time for blogging. Which is okay, I guess, since it seems not many people are reading/commenting on blogs lately. What is up with that? Wrong phase of the moon, or just end-of-school-year-lethargy? Or is it that Blogger has been acting up? (I'm seriously considering switching to WordPress or some other blogging platform. Anybody have any recommendations? My only stipulation is that it must be free!)
Although not much blogging has been happening, there have been good conversations - with Gram on the way to and from church, with Dad before I head off to bed, with Lis last night when we had a sister night on the town, and ... not much with Mom yet, but she has tomorrow off, so I'm sure we'll get a chance for some chats then.
Family, good food eaten out on the porch, too much coffee and wine and not enough sleep, sunshine and rain and wind and everything in between (but no snow, thank goodness), long conversations and raucous laughter, construction and flowers and cows in the neighbor's pasture ... what more could you ask from a vacation?
2 comments:
It's good of you to help clean your parents' house. I (and my house) know all too well about the not having enough time and being too tired to do everything that needs to be done. I've got to find time to try and get most of my house clean before Saturday when two different sets of friends might pop through.
As to the not blogging much, by the time I have a chance to blog, all the clever, witty things I've wanted to say were basically beat down by the countless idiots I deal with on a daily basis... and I'm too tired to think. You can see evidence in that by my last blog post. The first paragraph was written during a rare moment of quiet clarity here at work, the rest was written after coming home, eating, biking each dog a mile, talking to Bart on the phone, ironing for today, and taking a relaxing bath before bed.
I hope you do get to relax and enjoy your vacation some. Can't wait to hear more about it.
I don't want to take credit for ALL your coms but i know i have not commented as much, partly due to the Blogger fiasco and partly because work changed their Internet settings so i can't see your blog (booooo!). we just got a new computer though and i'm hoping improve. i always love reading your blogs. i do read your tweets every day since i can still access that (heehee, evil me).
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