Family......

I don't know why I put this photo in.....I just saw it in my photos

Yesterday was family day.  Not long after I sat down to read my class material, my eldest son called ~ well to fair I texted and asked if he was free for a call and he called me.  Talking to him is rather like talking to an automaton.  He rarely expresses himself on the phone.  Here's an example:

"How are things going?"

Answer: "Fine......(crickets in the background)"

Yeah, well it's typical for him to be this way on the phone.  It's like I have to pry the news out of him with a crow bar.  

While I'm on the phone with him my youngest calls, so I call him back.  He is extremely animated on the phone, and gushes out a bunch of info in a relatively short period of time.  He makes me laugh.  My eldest makes me worry.

Then I call my Mom because I know my sister is there to stay with her while Mom's care-giver is in the hospital receiving his last cancer treatment.  I tell her that Son #2 is coming for the graduation, he's sent me his itinerary and they will be here together.  She claims the bed in one of the spare rooms, and I tell her she would have it at any rate, #2 can have the air mattress, and we both laugh.  She might not laugh so much when she remembers that our spare bed is a single.  At least it's cozy and the mattress has a pillow top on it. :-)

By this time I have spend a little over 2 hours on the phone and have read nothing.  I berate myself for sabotaging my efforts and get to it.  I did get some done, but put off a bit to read at lunch today....and as I start the long article I think to myself that I've read it before.  It seems familiar.  And sure enough it is an article we read the first week of class.  I assure myself that senility is not yet settling in as I thought.  Whew!  So, I suppose I am ready for tomorrow.  

I just have to stay off the damnable phone. :-)

Love, 365