Hi! I’m at the library. I’m supposed to be looking for a job, but I’m slacking. So I’m posting my first blog on “Just Regular Folks”. I’m not sure what to say, since I might dilute the style and purity of the blog.
Author: Doris
OK, I invited my brother and my husband to come join the blogger fun. Let’s see if someone comes on over..
Delightful morning at home with Edda. Vince went off to school with a minimum of fuss. My ear is still clogged with my ear infection. Bob came over last night to spend the day with Vince at school.
Yesterday, Kiki and Vince went to Vince’s first day of preschool. They had a good time at Bright Horizons and we all went out for Japanese food to celebrate. Then we went up to Bard and had dinner with Ben and Johanna. We exchanged Xmas gifts.
Edda’s leg has gotten a clean bill of health. I have an ear infection. 10 days of amoxicillian.
On Sunday, Jeremy baked a linser torte and we distributed them to our neighbors around Avalon View. It was very nice, we hung out with some German expats and read Bob the Baumeister. I also gave Donald a little pep talk about his job hunt…
Oh yes, Bob and Katherine are both back from Sri Lanka. Riding the New York subways.
Well, what a busy few days. On Thursday, I went over to Christine Smilth’s house where we had the best play date ever. Jonathon and Jeremy went to get our Flexa beds for the kids. We were getting pretty frazzled putting it together. On New Year’s Eve, we went to Karen and Melvin’s house where we celebrated with their family. They have a time honored tradition where the men cook and they eat and stay up all night. Vince took off his pants and had a two minute violin lesson. Today we ran errands and started really pulling the apartment together. We are all still pretty tired from this flu, it just seemed to last for days.
An email from Uncle Gene about Sylvia, Jeremy’s grandmother:
Mom died this evening at 10:36 pm. She was at Foxdale where she was
getting very attentive and loving care –and good drugs– to ensure
that she was comfortable and without pain. I had driven up last Wednesday
night when the staff thought she would “be going within hours” and I spent
Thursday with her. (That was the third time I’d gone up to see her for
a last time. But, as always, she held on until she was ready.) She hasn’t
been verbal for a while and lately, had become non-responsive as well;
I started speaking to her by phone with a nurse holding the phone to her
ear. The nurse called this evening to say that it was probably very soon now.
So, I called to tell her that Bob and I loved her and that everyone was
sending her their love and I wished her good night. The nurse told me
later that she (nurse) said essentially the same thing to Mom after
hanging up the phone; Mom looked up at her, as if to acknowledge what
she’d said (?), and stopped breathing shortly thereafter.
Jeremy went to work today, a break from the week of vacation. I am still cleaning out the house at 274 Town View Drive. I don’t know when it will be done. We had lunch at Neko, a Japanese place that has a branch in New Paltz. Jeremy brought a co-worker of his, Helen. She has an 18 month old son who was in Conneticut for the week. Then Vince, Edda and I went to the pet store and looked at all the pets. I thought about gettting a betta fish, but then thought I’d better not. Went to the Children’s Museum where Edda got kissed on the lips twice by the cutest boy named Caleb.