We took Grandpa out to lunch. My mom says that if she doesn’t he won’t make it to his appointment on time. After lunch we went on over to his PT which was actually a class called PACE. Something like “People with Arthritis Can Excercise” Something like that. So he grumped about how he didn’t see a point in throwing a ball to someone who wasn’t going to catch it while sitting in a chair. LOL But he definately was moving better after the class. Mom said he did fall asleep during the class for a little bit. He’s been doing this more and more. Just dozing off.

After dropping him back off at Wilburn we went to Target to pick up a few things. Mom picked up Pitch Black as well as the Riddick game for XBox. I picked up a couple things for around the house like batteries and a bin for toys and some of those disosable toilet cleaners.

We followed that up with a trip to the supermarket. We didn’t feel real well either of us. Not sure what mom was not feeling well over but I was really hot and then we got these drinks in Target that made me then get dizzy. So we decided to just pick up chicken salad and potatoe salad and three bean salad and have ‘mixed salad dinner” I guess you could call it. Then it was home. The kids played and we tried to recover from whatever was wrong with us. Maybe it was the V8 splash or the heat or what. Since I didn’t sleep real well and my hips were hurting… it could have also been fatigue on my part to boot.

We watched Clean Sweep and giggled. Talked about some ideas for what we could do in here. We got a marvelous idea for my mother’s room which will probably be done last. But she says she wants to work on it a bit as well. One of the episodes we watched they did “his and hers dressers” and i thought that was great. And they addressed some ideas for clothing storage. This is a major issue for my parents as they don’t have a closet. They sacrificed their closet some time ago to put a bathroom into their room. So right now among the mass quantities of other stuff, they have a double bed, a dresser, a chest of drawers, two end tables, and a wardrobe. Surely we can figure out something with the wardrobe and matching his/her dressers. I think I need to start watching more decorating shows and the like for more ideas on this front.

I did bring up the 30 minute thing with my mother. She thought this might be worth at least trying. So hopefully we can do this. I pulled a lot of the paper stuff off her desk. Put it in a giant stack on a shelf… I took all the books and put them on a bookshelf. Now all that is left is other stuff that is cluttering. I don’t have anything to put it in. But tomorrow I’m hoping to tell her “OK, 30 minutes… clean up!” and see where she gets. All the papery stuff we have contained for now so she can deal with everything else.

I did try to clean out her living room just a hair. Remade the kids pallet. I filled two small bags for her to go through. Got a lot of stuff within easy reach on the floor taken care of. When we do that room she’s going to be upset. She says she doesn’t want the kids to really play/hang out in there. But they need a place where they can do stuff. I think she needs to realize that. But I’m going to try to take the kid stuff all out and try to make a nice sitting room and then move their stuff back in. I’ve some ideas if she lets me clear it the way I want that the kids stuff won’t detract too much. Here’s hoping. It’s wall to wall knick knacks right now.

My laptop does seem to be OK right now so whew… I’m still nervous. EEEK. You guys know I use it too…

BTW we’re watching Pitch Black… this movie is baaaaad. But hehe… we are having fun mocking it. 🙂