Sunday and One More Sleep....

It has been a busy weekend here.... Friday started with Dad taking a trip up to the hospital to find out that he had water on his lungs and one of them being irritated as well... they sent him home with some medication....no hospital time this time... thank you very much....

By 5:10 pm that night Carl was sent a ticket for a flight for Slave Lake in Edmonton....so you know what the rest of the weekend was made up of for me.... getting things ready for him to leave on Monday.... shopping, laying out things for him to take... our sitting room is starting to look like a walk in closet...today is packing day making sure he is not over weight with his luggage....and it also means that there is one more sleep before he heads out... pouting here...but I know this is the work that he does and he has to go where the work takes him... I am just thankful I am not somewhere alone because it would be so much harder....

Friday night we dropped in to check on Dad even though Pat and Roger are there....you know me have to see for myself when it comes to mom and dad.... and while I was talking to mom about Carl leaving on Monday she came out with ... well why don't you close up the house and move in here while he is gone.... Can you imagine that...There is Roger and Flo there all the time.... Pat is there a few times a week with her work and this week with dad not being well... and then the occasion of Yvette coming up to visit...hmmmm I am wondering where they would put me and the dogs.. hmmmm the roof is looking pretty good at the moment... I said no... though I am sure I am going to be there more then I am any where else while he is gone.... I am still the one that loves coming home at the end of the day... making something to eat... getting jammies on and watching some tv or a movie while making a mess in the tv room with my scrap booking... though the day time is when I seem to not like being here the evenings are my time alone...

And what am I doing up this early in the morning once again... well I can't sleep.... the drier is going at the moment and I just filled the washer up with hopes that this is the last load of clothes that needs to be done before Carl leaves.... Carl just got up and he is heading down to get me some fake energy to get through the day... Tim's tea will do that for me ... with hopes that I will crash tonight.... ya that is going to happen....

I am sure every one is like me who love bargains... well Friday night after watching a movie while eating dinner we decided that we were going to take off for a bit before we started another movie... and ended up at Mark's Work world to pick up some things for Carl... mainly socks and undies... normally if I was doing this on my own... that is what I would have walked out with.... the extra thing I was going in for but Carl is a looker... have to take the whole store in... we got jeans with 20.00 off them... a wool helmet hat... and then he hit a rack... flannel shirts.... priced 20.00 on for 5.00.... normally he doesn't wear these only for work... and since he is going to a colder place he thought he would pick up a few of them... then I got into the act and realized there was snaps on most of these shirts... ohhh yes... snaps...so much easier for the over sized fingers, the fingers that can't work the buttons all that much any more... ohhh yes Dad is getting a surprise tonight...which is normally mom that does...

While dad was in the hospital he dropped 25 pounds of water.... which making most of the shirts way to big for him so I bought him a smaller size and I am very happy to say... they are looking good on him... he had one of them on yesterday when we dropped in with a little surprise for mom...

And if any one is interested dad is doing great on his no added salt diet...2000 mg of sodium per day... and I don't think he has hit that yet since he has been home.... they are keep trace of his intake.... he also has gone down a few more pounds since he has been home.... there is no more mr noodles and can meat sauce for him... no more mushroom soup as well... it is not just not adding table salt to your food any more... unless it is fresh or homemade there is salt in it and plenty of it... I notice myself looking at things what we are or was eating for salt and realizing that we may not have the salt shaker on the table but we are getting plenty of it as well... so there are several things being cut out of our diets as well....

Well Carl just drove in the yard which means my tea is here.... so I am off to start my day... I hope you have a wonderful Sunday and I am sure you will see me back here soon....

Joanne