This Week I'm:
Listening To: I finished And The Mountains Echoed just as I left the library book sale with five new audiobooks. I decided to start Mohsin Hamid's How To Get Rich In Rising Asia, in no small part because it was the shortest book I had picked up. I'll be done with it before this week is out.
Watching: Infamous starring Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock and Daniel Craig which is the story of Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood. It takes on a whole new level of interest now that I've read The Swans of Fifth Avenue and I'm seeing Capote's swans in this movie.
Reading: Ashes of Fiery Weather and Natchez Burning and liking both of them a lot. There needs to be more time for reading in the coming days!
Making: For Mini-me's going away party we did a taco/nacho bar, sangria, and Texas sheet cake, including homemade pico de gallo, two kinds of beans, two kinds of meat, a couple of salsas - something for everyone. It's definitely something we'll do again.
Planning: A reorganization and rearranging of what used to be Mini-him's bedroom and will now be our guest room once we get Mini-me's bed this week. A chest of drawers and cedar chest need to find new homes (doesn't this sound like the story of my life?!) and the closet needs to be gone through.
Thinking About: Fall. There. I said it. I'm not to the pumpkin spice everything yet. But I am ready for real football!
Enjoying: Family time last night that included Mini-me's grandparents, two aunt/uncle sets, two of his friends that are like siblings and both of real siblings. Much laughter and my kiddos even tried to give me a Christmas card picture while they were all still together.
Feeling: Sad for my two friends who have lost their mothers this past week. Both ladies lived long lives (one had recently turned 99!) but it doesn't make losing your mom any easier.
Looking forward to: It's not a week I'm looking forward to with two funerals and putting Mini-him on a plane without an idea when we'll see him again. I anticipate an ugly cry. And that's The Big Guy. I can't even imagine me trying to drive back from the airport Thursday!
Question of the week: Those of you who have watched your children soar off into their futures far away from you, what's your best tip for surviving?
First off, so sorry for your friends and their recent loss. We are of the age now when weddings are replaced by funerals and it's a sad state of affairs.
ReplyDeleteTaco bar?? You are my kind of cook.
I can't give you advice on the sending a kid away thing because mine is still here but with him starting college I am pulling back a little and he's doing his own thing. I still feel a little tug of loss though so I can only image how it feels when they truly leave.
That pulling back is one of the toughest things about being a parent, isn't it?!
DeleteI hope your power wasn't out for long! Your taco bar looks very appetizing. :-) I am so sorry about your two friends who lost their mothers. That's so hard. I hope your week has gone well. It sounds like a tough one. I've been thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteWhat I learned from those funerals is that we're never ready to lose our moms, no matter how long we've had to prepare for it or how old they are. I'm going to be a mess when I have to say goodbye to my mom!
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