Day 531 of 1000

This last month has been fairly insanely busy.  After the holidays, I went out to Arizona for a couple of weeks, followed by a weekend trip to Oregon to visit my parents who have very recently moved into a memory care facility.  That was too long to be away.  I do not like to be away from the family on weekends, so two weekends in a row is definitely too much.  Next time I go to visit my folks, I plan to go on the weekend between my two weeks stay in Arizona.

  • I arrived home on a Monday evening
  • I started a new job on Tuesday morning
  • Overnight guests arrived on Tuesday evening
  • We had some drama
  • I wrecked the pickup in an ice storm on Friday
  • We jumped through hoops to get everyone where the needed to be with only one car starting on Monday
  • We found out the pickup was totaled on Wednesday
  • I got caught in a traffic jam on I40 on Thursday that was bad enough I got home to late to go to bible study in our one car
  • I dropped everything to run to Durham on Friday so I could sign for the wrecked car check so we did not have to wait two more weeks to get it

Fortunately, we had a normal, go to the library to study day yesterday.  Normalcy is nice.  I get on a plan this afternoon and will not be back with the family until the fifteenth.