Well, it’s Saturday again, and another winter storm is about to hit the Twin Cities. Apparently 6-12 inches of heavy, wet snow is expected starting around noon today. Maybe this will be the last storm? Maybe?
This week was uneventful. Partly, that’s because we forgot to take D to her Pinewood Derby weigh-in on Thursday, so she didn’t get to race on Friday. I guess it was partly her responsibility to remember as well, but I do feel pretty bad about it. Oh well, at least she enjoyed making her car.
Feeding therapy for M has been going well, finally. Now that the stress is off eating a variety of foods, M is eating more regularly again. At least he did THIS week. We’ll see how long it continues.
IL has, of course, stopped rolling over. I think he figures he has that skill down and he doesn’t need any more practice.
I had a reminder earlier this week of why dad and mom should move to assisted living. Dad was out raking his roof and he fell down in the snow. He couldn’t figure out how to get back up again, and he was out of breath. So he just decided to take a nap in the snow (it was a little under 0 degrees F at the time). Luckily, he managed to crawl to the sidewalk after a short rest, so it ended well enough. But it’s scary to think how long it would have taken my Alzheimer’s stricken mom to notice my dad’s absence, find out where he was, and call 911. And does she even know how to call 911? Over a year ago, when I was living there, I heard him say “call 911” in the middle of the night, and she said “I don’t know how.” (I called 911 that time, of course.) This is not reassuring at all. 😦 But I guess lots of people go through this with their aging parents.
Currently Reading
I’m getting back into the habit of reading a lot of books at once. I generally keep that up for a while, and then taper back off to one nonfiction and one fiction. But for now, I’m reading 5 books and listening to one.
Completed
I finally finished Washington Black and American Overdose. I’d set Washington Black aside months ago only 50 pages from the end (it was the end of a reading-a-lot-at-the-same-time era). I’m not sure what took me so long with American Overdose, as it was excellent, and I’d been reading it since before it was published, lol. M read the 3rd Dragon Masters book to me, and I read the second Emily Windsnap book to D. I’m reading the Ranger’s Apprentice Series for my own amusement. It’s excellent so far.
Hibernator's Library 
That’s crazy, I hope nobody gets hurt. I don’t like winter at all, I wish I lived somewhere where they didn’t get hardly any snow.
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So sorry to hear about your parents. I took care of my aging mom for a long time. I hope everything works out.
We have had a mild winter here on Long Island but I always fear a March suprise. I used to enjoy snow but as I so often need to travel in it now I do not like it so much. Hopefully your current storm will be the last of it.
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Sorry you guys missed the Pinewood Derby—I’ve had things like that happen with my kids before, and it’s hard not to feel guilty about it. We just have so much to keep track of as parents; things are bound to slip through the cracks from time to time.
And I can imagine that the situation with your parents is scary. I’m not looking forward to those days.
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