Pizza

So I didn't feel like cooking.  I've worked pretty hard this week.  We were short staffed due to the weather at the beginning of the week.  It threw the whole rush week off. 
I stopped at Papa Murphy's and got a pizza ordered.  Then the cashier took my name and I told him.  His response was "Not Nathan?".  I looked at him and then laughed.  I still had my name tag on.  It was priceless.  He told me he could use either name for the pizza.  I told him I didn't care.....I would get my pizza at the end. 
I had totally forgotten that I still had my name tag from work on.  This quarter only one person commented on my name tag saying Nathan.  And now a non Clark person is added to my list.  Too funny.

Dementia

Dementia is hard.  It changes the person.  So not only do they lose their memories but who they are.  I am seeing this dramatically in my mom.  I have to keep reminding myself that it is the disease being mean or rude, not her.  And it is hard to bite my tongue.  And I still find myself being harder on the littles than I think I should be.  It feels wrong.  Trying so hard to find the balance and then when I do the board is going to keep shifting.  And it is so hard to explain to little people. They just think part of it is fun and games.  Poor Mom, poor kids, poor me.

Back to the Groove

I just realized that we have not done much since we moved.  We had holidays and birthdays and we had a snow day.  But our usual amount of outings and activities seem to have shrunk.  Now part of that is the time of year, the weather and my depression.  Things must be looking up though when I realize it and think it is time to again make a change. 
I have days off during the week next week and I think we shall plan an outing.  We need to get back to doing.  And since we have rain gear and cold weather gear we should be able to do anything we want.  Must be time to make a list for 2016.  Think I will have a chat with the littles and see what kinds of things they want to do.

Day Off

Due to the weather, the school district started late.  When that happens there is no morning kindergarten.  So the little miss got another day off.  She didn't seem to have an opinion either way.  But she was very happy when she found out that tomorrow she goes back to kindergarten.  She said she misses her teacher and her friends from school that she hasn't seen in soooo long (all of two weeks). I love when she has enthusiasm to go.  I hope she never hates school. 

Winter Rush Begins

Wow, what a bizarre day.  Snow came and then it froze.  Got the call last night that there would be no school for the little woman.  That's okay.  It would just be another daycare day for her.  Get up and Clark posted on their website that they would post by 5:30 their plans for the day.  Well I have to leave at 6 for day care and can't wait till after 5:30 to wake kids up.  So I got Audrie up.  Then Clark posted they would open at noon.  Lucky little man got to sleep in.
Left the house at ten and took the kids to daycare.  The roads were no problem by then.  Got to work just before my boss.  So we went in and I actually went to work doing web order pulls.  I always wondered about that job.  And now I have done it.  We whipped through 53 pulls in less than half an hour. 
Noon came and we started the bag check/security.  We did it with just three since our extra help could not make it in.  Tomorrow is the same deal. We all stayed later since opening of the store was so delayed.  After it slowed down I went to the back and finished getting web orders ready for shipping as my boss needed to leave. 
It was a good day, but just different than any other rush day I have had. 

Purging

Still purging and trying to make things fit.  I have found a lot of poems and things that I have wrote in the past.  Things I had long forgotten about.  Not that they are very good, but I wrote them anyway.  Most of them I tucked back away safely to be found another day. 
I got rid of some more stuff from my past.  I am working so hard on letting a lot of it go.  And so Mike's baby outfits went.  Funny how after all these years stains appeared.  I know they were clean when I put them away. 
I let go of my great grandmother's bedspread.  I am never going to use it.  It used to be white.  Now it was a faded yellow.  My baby blanket went out also.  It too had faded.  My parents were pretty poor when I was born.  But my dad managed to scrape enough money together for some yarn and some family friend made the baby blanket for me. And it was beautiful. 
Clothes are going quickly.  I can now again use my dresser for the clothes I currently wear.  I have no idea why I was saving small small belts. 
And no I have not got rid of everything.  I still have the things that are important to me.  My treasures.

Snow Day

It was cold up at Sunset Falls.  The gauge in the truck read 22 degrees when we arrived.  That explained the frozen waterfalls along the way.  Damn cold to freeze moving water.  We hit ice and decided to not go up any further.  Turned around and came down to a spot someone had been parked in when we went up.  It was perfect for the littles. There was a nice bank with just enough of a hill for them to make their toboggans go.  They had a blast.  They played until we called it done due to my cold feet and the need for a restroom.  
One had fallen asleep on the way up and one fell asleep on the way down.  Boy were we glad when she fell asleep.  She was in form when she wanted a lunchable that we didn't have. 
Thanks to my "best friend" for driving and giving the littles a great experience.