Yeah, We're Back (or something like that) Part 4

Wednesday, Aunt planned on having a memorial dinner for Grama Darling during lunch time.  SO, I made deviled eggs, Supa helped Mom chop up veggies for the veggie tray, and Supa and I went and picked up Italian beef from the neighborhood Italian restaurant that makes amazing Italian beef.  (Grama used to make it all the time but it's hard work and time consuming so we cheated.)

We had a few of our close family members over and got busy pigging out!  I felt Grama all around us!  She would have loved what we had to eat too!

This was my plate plates.  Wow, it was wonderful and I was so full!  Uncle Darling made the pasta salad.  YUM!

We all helped clean up the big food mess and when it was all squeaky clean again, Supa and I ran to the thrift store to drop off a huge donation of things that came out of the sewing room.  I hope someone can make use of some of it.

I ate too much at lunch time and for some reason I felt SO sleepy!!  I climbed in my Grama and Grampa's bed and took a nice long nap. 

Mom kidnapped the kids and took them to the state park while I napped. I gave Dazzle my camera and told her to get some good shots.  She didn't disappoint.


She made sure to keep identities hidden for her Mom's bloggy purposes :)



What a pretty picture of the river!!



The trees are so vibrant this time of year!  What a great green color!!



Another great picture!  He looks like all he needs is a fishing pole and a bucket!  :)



This was one of Dazzle's favorite shots.  She likes that she captured the ripples in the water. 



Dazzle even captured this picture of my Mom and Neon with BOTH of their identities hidden!!  Wow!

There is a drive-in hot dog stand in the town that I'm from that has the best hot dogs that I've ever had.  The fine establishment is called Jaenickes.  That's what we had for dinner.  Unfortunately, I scarfed my hot dogs down so fast that the idea of taking a picture of what I was eating was completely lost.  LOL, food that good makes me lose my mind for a minute.  Jaenickes is a family owned restaurant so even Google images couldn't help me out.  Use your imagination. 

<Insert amazing picture of the most delicious hot dog on the planet right here>

Thursday, I woke up full blown sick.  Sinus infection.  Wonderful.  No wonder I felt so wore out and needed a nap the day before.  I was catching Supa's crud that he gave to Dazzle!!

I got up, sick as shit, and drug my ass off to breakfast.  I wasn't going to miss my biscuits and gravy for nothing!


HELLO YUMMY!  Those biscuits are homemade!



Supa got an omelet which he promptly covered in hot sauce!



Grampa and Aunt split corned beef hash, eggs and toast. See the spoon resting on top of his coffee cup?  That means he's not ready for a refill yet.  The best part?  The waitress knows what that means :)

When we got back home from breakfast, Mada came over to financially advise us some more.  It's interesting stuff let me tell you. 

We had Taco John's for lunch (yes again).  When you only get it once a year, you get it! 

My Grampa informed me that he wanted me to clean off my Grama's dresser (including the 3 packed shelves over the dresser) and also the 3 glass cabinets in the dining room.  He said I needed to take everything that I wanted home with us.  Supa and I worked on that for a while.  We got some huge Rubbermaid containers (rescued from the sewing room) and a couple of dusting rags and got thing packed and organized.  It was hard and I had to swallow my tears a couple of times but I wasn't about to let my Grampa see me upset (in fear of making him upset).  (pics of the items we saved later)

After we were finished, it was time to go to Walgreen's and get me some medicine.  I was feeling pretty bad.  (Dazzle took it all!  LOL.  She was getting better but I wasn't.)

I went back home, took medicine and went to bed.  We were supposed to take the kids bowling with Grampa but Supa helped me make the difficult decision that I was too sick to go and that we would all just stay home and rest.  Poop!!  I never wanted to be well so much in my whole life as I did at that moment.

We had leftovers for dinner.  No one really felt like eating so we just had a quick bite. 

Friday morning, I woke up with the huge feeling of dread that I normally get when I know I have to leave my family.  Most people don't understand how I feel since their families live down the street from them or at least within reasonable driving distance for easy visiting.  It takes a huge emotional toll on me and Supa is trained on how to handle my stress of leaving so I lean on him pretty hard.  I pushed my horror to the side and went to get my biscuits and gravy just one more time. Sivart met us for breakfast and that was a nice surprise. 

After breakfast, Aunt, Grampa and Sivart took the kids to explore another park near our house and to see some ducks that live there.  Supa, Mom and I ran some travel errands.  Gas, ice, grocery store (for much needed caffeine) and then we had to go back home and pack.

Packing:  Well, since we were leaving with four times more stuff than we brought with us, you can imagine what a challenge that was.  Aunt had to come outside and help Supa figure out how to fit it all in the van.  Fml.  I was feeling so shitty that I hardly helped.  Supa basically did everything while I just pointed to where he should move and pack stuff. 



It wasn't as bad as this van but it was pretty fucking close to full capacity.  We tried to get the kids to ride on top (we would have tied them down) but they declined.  Damn.  LOL!! 

 Aunt Darling and Mom had to work during the afternoon and after we finished packing, there wasn't much else left to do.  Supa went upstairs and went to bed so he could sleep the day away and have enough energy to drive all night long to get us home.  I sat in the living room with the kids and Grampa for a while but eventually I had to take meds again and lay down.  I slept for a long time.  Dazzle and Neon watched over their Grampa and they were so quiet and good.  I was super proud of them.  Dazzle got me up and said it was dinner time so I promptly called Domino's so they could feed us.  I just wasn't feeling good enough to make even a sandwich. 

We hung out with Grampa after dinner.  We watched some TV and talked about our upcoming trip back to SC.  At about 9 PM, Supa woke up and came downstairs, Mom got home from work and we made sure we were all packed and completely ready to go.  The kids and I went upstairs to take our showers, put our travel clothes on and make our last sweep of the apartment. 

When I realized it was about one hour before we were leaving, I took that second Xanax that Jade gave me.  I knew I was going to bawl my eyeballs out (because I have for the past 21 years each time I have to tell everyone goodbye) but I didn't want to because my nose was already out of control with being sick. 

By the time Aunt Darling got home and it was time to say goodbye, I was nice and calm.  Dazzle was hysterical (I wish I could have given her a Xanax!) and Neon was just ready to go to sleep in the car, I think.  We hugged, kissed and thanked everyone bunches and then off we were!  Our long drive back home began....

To Be Continued...........................

Please don't hate me.  There is only one more post left!

Apple