Sunday Dinner with Jolene

   Aside from the regular ups and downs, and considering all of the balls we have in the air...this week has been as crazy-average as usual. 
   The two days I spent with Brenda over July 4th were very relaxing and rejuvenating.  I drove on the new toll road in both directions.  It cuts through the rough, South from the 91 into Irvine right around the Yorba Linda area.  Very nice!  Avoids all that beach cities icky interchange.  We watched fire works and went to Fashion Island Mall (very posh!) and saw the 'world's largest windchime', ate at the local Middle-east market, drank strawberry smoothies, and slept in.   But on the way home I didn't recognize the off ramp I needed so I over shot it.  It was late at night and I was looking for Newport Rd. forgetting that it was on the 215 and I wasn't.  The two freeways branch at Temecula, remember.  There is a stretch between the two a few miles to the North that is a bit of a short cut.  Newport turns into Railroad Canyon and then passes Canyon Lake by the time it reaches the 15.   I gained a half hour of driving because I went through Murietta Hot springs instead.  bleh.
   Marian Williams brought Maurita Harman to Hemet on July 10th so we could all have lunch together and we went to Mimi's. They had both been to Cle Elum retreat the week before.  We both teased Marian because this year was  the first year we had been invited, (by her) and we told her we wondered if it was because we were past our SELL BY date? 
   The week of July 7 started out with a trip to the lab to drop off a urine sample.  Mom was having pain, and that usually means that the 'maintenance' antibiotic has failed.  Again.  I didn't hear back by last Friday, but on the previous Tuesday Janet noticed Mom's sugar reading was very high.  That can mean an infection.  Janet dealt with it, and when I got home she was some better.  Today I will call the DR to see if they've got the results yet. 
   Yesterday we were invited to Brock's for Sunday Dinner.  John and Daniel were in town, and so was Jolene.  It was her 19th birthday so we had a little party for her.  They'd included John Jensen, so it made a nice time.  He is recovering well, and he enjoys those boys so much.  I got Mom to bed for a nap by 3.  She slept until 8.  I went to bed at 10, but got up again at 2am to get her into bed herself.  This morning she was in a lot of pain.  Her nurse and her aide came and went.  She stayed in bed.  She is up now having a lunch of Sue's homemade tomato soup, with croutons, and the Social Worker is coming soon. 
   She's here, so I'll go.  We're looking  forward to seeing you sometime in September?