Visitors

'Tis the season. This year has found more visitors in our house than years past. For Thanksgiving, we had my mom, nephew Ladd, sister-in-law, her family, and father-in-law stay during the weekend. Whew. Felt like all I did was cook, eat, and wash dishes. I am so tired of cooking. rofl

My father-in-law is staying with us until Christmas. Kathy and family will be back to get him. Maybe. I hope he has been enjoying his stay. I try to give him time to himself. I really cut back on my activities. Driving me crazy. But I don't want to have a lot of people relying on me and then I can't follow through because something happened with Bob. So far he has been behaving himself.

The only trouble we have been having is salt. He knows he can not have it. We changed the salt out with a salt-substitute. The bad part is that the sub. isn't good either in large doses. And that is what he does. Large doses. Whew! I am not certain how he can eat the food when it is crystallized like that. Here is an adult man that knows he is not to eat salt but he puts it on everything! I am surprised he doesn't add it to his glass of milk.

The other thing that drives me insane. He has spent the last 3 years in a nursing home. They will allow you to have several different glasses of fluid to drink. Now that he is out, he has at least 2-3 glasses of something at a meal. Do you know how many glasses I wash in a day? Too many. We need to break his habit of this.

Husband is not liking having his dad here. Stresses him out. The whole family is stressed from having him here. A visitor in your home will do that to you.

This morning was fun. F-i-l is an amputee. The boys had questions about how he puts his prostetic on. So he shared with them. The good news is that it didn't freak Morghan out like grandma's false teeth. tofl