A little broken hearted tonight

My heart aches tonight, even though I know that the ultimate healing has occurred. My Grandpa Ed passed away tonight at 5 pm my time and 2 pm in Oregon. My mom let me know that it was a peaceful passing, that my Aunt Barbara told him it was okay, that he could go and see his folks, his brother and his sister. She left to go to the bathroom and when she returned he had passed. I say that it is the ultimate healing as he has been living with dementia for awhile now and has been on oxygen. He hasn't really been "present" for some time now.

My heart aches as I wish I had seen more of him these last few years. It had been too long since I had seen him and now I won't get the chance to see him now. So please bear with me as I shed some tears and remember an amazing man...

I think I deserve a raise.

We are about to end a very long week of Jenna not having pre-school, Josh being out of town on business, and my folks being in Florida on a vacation. That has left me with both kids, by myself, with no outside help.

Monday we played with friends and I ended up watching 2 of the neighbors' kids in the evening since the parents had an appointment. (That gave me 4 kids to juggle.)

Tuesday we went over to our neighborhood friend's house to swim in their heated pool. That was fun but it is tiring on your own playing pass interference with Peyton as she runs around the pool. Jenna however is fearless with her swimmies on and jumps from the side, slides down the side and goes non stop!

Wednesday we had exterminators come out to the house to spray for bugs and we ended up just playing in our driveway with bubbles and a kiddie pool.

Thursday we ran errands and then all of our neighborhood friends came over to play since it was raining. What a zoo it was with everyone running around screaming.

Today (Friday) we have been playing with play dough, doing puzzles and I have swept the deck since we have been covered in pollen, swept the front porch, changed the light bulbs in both garage door openers and the burnt out lights on the garage ceiling. Plus I vacuumed all of the cobwebs off of the garage ceiling and swept it out. The girls will go down for a nap soon and I am spent.

Thank goodness it's almost the weekend!