Robin's Nest

 Yesterday I revisited the crime scene, nothing in plain sight to cause the fall. There was a piece of cardboard sticking out from under some other things but not in the walkway where I fell. The mystery lives on. The more I reflect on it and try to process what happened, the more mysterious it becomes to me. What I have gained from this experience doesn't stop at "don't fall anymore". That is just the beginning. I jokingly told a friend that I was down to falling about every 2 weeks until last month. That when I picked up the slack and got back to my weekly routine!  I still have a ton of stuff to do around the house, it just takes much more time to do. Last night the older child asked if she could help with dinner. I said absolutely! The plan was chicken fried steak. I talked her through each dish, and she did great! It took a bit longer to prepare, but I think it would have any way. She may actually have speeded things up a bit. we were out of corn so green bean ca...

 It started out early, much too early. I rolled out of bed expecting the grandkids to be in beds, not on the couch. So much for expectations. As I released the dogs from their kennels, the barking woke the grandson. That may have been for the good, he has to leave the house by 0645 to be on time for school. The next thing you know my daughter is here with her two kids and a request that the baby stay here because she has a fever and preschool won't keep her. After about half an hour I realized all my bio-grandkids were in the room without their parents. I am not sure that has ever happened in the past three years. All the kiddos were loaded and off to school by 0645. Left behind, the toddler, the teen and a nine-year-old. The morning progressed without any fanfare. Until that fateful moment when the phone rang... It was the care center. SIL had fallen, no one knows when, no one knows how. But she has a bump on the head, and I need to come and get her and take her to be seen. Okay, ...