Random Musings December 13, 2016
Woman in the Middle | December 13, 2016Good friends recently took a trip to Iceland. I have wanted to go to Iceland for a long time, just to say I have been to Iceland. But after finding out all about their trip, I am ready to pack my bag and get on a plane. Iceland sounds like a really wonderful place! They saw so many interesting natural wonders and the northern lights. Our friends thought they were checking Iceland off their bucket list, but now they want to go back. Maybe we can go back with them!
I have been busy wrapping packages, but not for the family. I have been wrapping for the children’s Christmas party I am involved with. The girls and Hubby were laughing about that last night. “Oh Mom’s been wrapping, but not for us!”
Back when the girls were in high school, Hubby dropped them off to school on his way to work (We don’t have busing for high school kids in our area.) Bliss! But usually one or the other needed to take a shower before school at 0-dark-hundred. I noticed it a few times, but then it just became one of the normal sounds of the morning and I never noticed again. That is when I realized I had the amazing ability to ignore normal, routine, household sounds when I was sleeping. Unfortunately for Hubby, Honey getting up in the middle of the night, giving a shake, and wanting to go outside has become a normal, routine sound to my brain. I usually, finally, become conscious of what is going on about the time Hubby is letting her back inside. I feel so bad about this, especially when he is sick as he is now, or just because he has to get up and go to work in a few hours. I have no idea how to get my brain to shake off this amazing ability to ignore things and allow me to become, once again, the primary middle of the night dog minder.
Speaking of dogs, Honey is doing much better. She is eating and bouncing around like her old self. We are glad to have dodged a bullet with our elderly dog!
“I am just hanging out, not nauseous at all!”
I hope you are having a great Monday!
Some of my friends went to Iceland this past summer. (Their daughter was avoiding Zika!) They raved about it and the photos looked great.
Yeah you are not the only one who leant to sleep through what we consider normal night time sounds, I can sleep through the neighbours having a screaming match as that is now normal.
Glad you can sleep through it, but how horrible!
What is Zika?
The new disease going around. It has been all over the news.