Je Me Souviens.

I can still remember when the kids were younger and we were homeschooling them all ( now it's just the youngest who is 15 left) everyone always hated Mondays so we made Monday into a Funday we called Monday The Funday where we had this bag of Dollar Store toys and every Monday the kids each got to pick a toy out of the bag and they also got a serving of chips and we had a candy bowl on the dining room table put out as well. For punishment I also invented The Wheel , kind of like the spinning wheel you have for games like Twister where you have a pie-like circle divided into "slices" with a spinning arrow only the "slices" said things like no TV, no video games, write lines( as in  "I will not.....")no computer, do a chore, no allowance, pay a fine(which was donated to charity)  and when they lost a priviledge it was for 24 HRS and whenever anyone was bad they had to "spin the Wheel" and whatever it randomly landed on( which would almost always be on the thing they hated most; that's karma for you) would be their punishment.It worked out quite well and was the fairest way but oftentimes the Wheel would mysteriously "disappear"...😂

The 28 YR old also got a steak and a raise from his boss for Christmas and we're getting Snowmageddon ; a big storm of  a lifetime(they're calling it a Bomb Cyclone) starting today into Saturday; they say it'll be one to remember for decades so even if the power goes out and no one can come visit it'll be like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas; Christmas will still come either way, and last night past Midnight when we were all asleep the 21 YR old called from BC and left a message on the machine; they had a massive blizzard as well and their power was off and she called to ask my hubby to help them.....now I know it's normal when kids need help to call their parents( I remember when the oldest was away at university and he and his roomie had Strep and he called me for advice and I told him it sounded like Strep and they needed antibiotics)but what does she expect us to do several provinces away though? My friend P( from grade 6) also left for Cuba again yesterday( she must have been there at least 6 times or more this year) and just in time,too, before the bad weather, and I saw a hungry squirrel stripping bark off a tree to eat too so I gave him some popcorn. I also re-named the Christmas song Jingle Bell Rock  to Jingle Bell F*ck and Jingle Bell Cock, and joke the way Santa gets his reindeer to fly is by giving them weed.My hubby also bawled me out I did the laundry when he was having a shower even though I honestly did forget and everything isn't always about him all the time anyway and I do it when it's best for me on my schedule since I am  the one that's doing it.

My back and abdomenal pain are sooo bad now as well I'm nauseated every day which is rare for me; I only get nauseated rarely, when I'm prego (Morning Sickness) when I have the Flu the odd time( every 5-10 years or so) or when I'm in extreme pain such as in labour ,when I used to have those immobilizing migraines, or post surgery so it must  be an organ in distress,(or maybe just my diverticulitis flaring up?) and I notice it looks like I have vitiligo as well; my hands and arms have blotchy white and brown "patches" on them  and I have pitting edema on my hands now,too, so much fluid retention now when you press down on my knuckles it leaves a deep dent/imprint that stays there for awhile, sort of like when you poke the Pillsbury Doughboy, and I just found out that the name Jim is short for James (I always just thought it was a separate name)...yeah, I know, I'm kind of slow, and my hubby is taking a course at work this week( never too old to learn something new except for me; I'm stupid and I have a really hard time learning new things or adapting to change) and I'm so thankful for Buddy,too; he's the only one that will never stop loving me and will stay right until the very end.

Telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.-The Doobie Brothers