Apologies in advance if I forget to answer any previous questions...I haven't been on much lately...
@lynxstch, lots of prayers for Madalyn! I hope she continues in the right direction and can come home soon! As far as the Big E...yes, they still do the butter sculpture. And we also usually like to walk through the state houses, but the past few years we've not enjoyed them. WAY too many people...all you can do is shuffle along in the stream. Nobody will let you cross over to one side or the other to actually look at the merchandise in the booths. And you're toast if you have a child in a stroller! Last year I had someone who must have thought that the space in front of me was empty, so she shoved her way around me, tried to dart from left to right in front of me, tripped over the stroller wheels, and had to literally leap over Josh in the stroller to avoid falling on him. But we still like all the food, the animals, and last year we enjoyed the "Mutts Gone Nuts" exhibition.
I'm almost 48 and I always wanted purple hair...never did do it!
BUT, I'm getting it colored (just to match my born with color) to cover the white that is coming in nicely!
I want purple hair, too (and I'm 46)! My hair is a kind of reddish-purple already, but I'd love to go true purple. My hairdresser has told me that once my hair turns all white, it will be easier to do - right now we'd have to strip all the color first, so it's really easy once you have grey or white hair.
Are any of you on Facebook and would like to friend me there? I tend to mostly post pictures.
I will! I don't know if you'd be able to send me a request (I'm pretty locked-down...too many requests from people that just want to friend me in order to sell me stuff), but my FB link is...
https://www.facebook.com/liz.h.carr/
I'm mostly a picture-poster, too. Some observations and memes, too, but mostly photos of Josh
QOTD - Do you have a will?
No, and we REALLY need to. Our child is 5 now and we know we absolutely must have one. We just have never seemed to get around to it. I think we talk about it 2-3 times per year. All we have is Josh - and my mom says that if anything ever did happen to us, she's taking Josh and "I'm not giving him up to anybody" - and some retirement accounts, all of which Josh is the beneficiary. But it would still be in HIS best interest if we had wills, I know.
So Friday wasn't the best day of distance learning. Josh would NOT sit down and pay attention. He kept pushing the chair pad onto the floor, then standing up and dancing around, stomping on it, etc. I had the teacher "pinned" (so we could see only her), forgetting that our video was still running on her end, and I finally got so mad that I picked Josh up and made him sit down, pushed in the chair, and he got the heavy-death-metal voice from me, "SIT. DOWN. AND. PAY. ATTENTION." Not to mention that he simply does NOT want to do the assignments that the specials teachers send. I'm exhausted by 3 p.m. - and I haven't even done anything!
Saturday morning we had a very early soccer game (9:30). Josh wasn't with it. He just stared at the ball until it rolled by and we yelled to him to kick it. He's learned how to "trash talk" and he keeps pointing at kids on the other team, telling them "You're going down." I don't know where he learned it. He also does this interesting thing with his arms when he runs...all I can see in my mind's eye is George Jefferson. He does a George Jefferson strut. But when he winds up to kick the ball, he does this little dance that is 100% "the Curly Shuffle" from the Three Stooges.
After soccer we stopped around the corner to buy mums and pumpkins. I think we robbed the place...we got 2 mums, a large pumpkin, a smaller one, a small/medium white one (I always paint a Jack Skellington face on a white pumpkin), and 5 gourds for only $31. Then we had to run home, quickly change and head back out to get Josh his flu shot. He whined and cried and complained the whole way there. The doctor's office was doing them outside under a tent in the parking lot - they were out of the car and back in literally 30 seconds. He admitted that it didn't hurt at all!
In the evening we went to his friend's house for another outdoor movie night. This may have been the last one, it was so cold! There was only one other couple there with their twin 4-year-old boys. Josh's friend's 2-year-old sister would NOT stay away from the snack table - she REALLY wanted those Munchkins! She's so cute...she and her big brother look so much alike, they really could be twins if it weren't for the age difference. I love her name, Aberdeen - I know it's from Scotland, but I never thought about it for a child's name. So pretty! We watched The Sandlot, which the boys really liked. Josh is now asking me to buy it on DVD for him.
Today he's at his grandparents' house with DH. I'm trying to take a break.
Now I tell them to make sure they split things up fairly, even dumb things like the things I put aside for their children and such. They just laugh. But I think it's important to talk about these things. I had two young people in the hospital yesterday with tragic circumstances - one my age, and one much younger. Working with this type of thing it does drive home the point that anything can happen. One thing that was really nice when I was making decisions about who would raise them, was that everyone I asked who was in the running, said yes. We were also chosen by people for their wills and that was nice, too. It is peace of mind in a big way. Oh, it cost us about $800 which was money well spent. It also included living wills, health care proxies and some other stuff like POA. 
so I went back the other day and the accounts are closed now so I have to return the check and explain what's going on and try to get it back later. So frustrating. Probably rambling but the point is, the will was good, the POA was so-so, lol, and the other details that pop up can sometimes be downright crazy. Very hard to cover every single base, especially when managing the day to day care of loved ones. I think I mentioned here I was cleaning out my voicemails recently and there were so many from my mother's doctor's offices it wa nuts! Many I hadn't even listened to. Before VNA or hospice got involved she was seeing about eight doctors! Including the foot and eye doctor, dermatologist, PCP, GYN oncologist, GYN oncology radiologist, Brain oncology radiologist and who am I forgetting? Oh yes, the cardiologist for the pacemaker check ups, good grief! There are probably more if I think about it enough.
....I've been there 25 years and I'm just done. 
Its been so nice to have hubby come home everyday but its taking some adjustments to get used to it. LOL Ive had to go to the grocery store more in the last couple days that I have had to in awhile. LOL I used to shopping for just DD and I and hubby likes different stuff than we do so I have readjust my shopping to include more for him. Also now that salons are back open, my friend told me to come in and get my trimmed while he was working. I went end of the day so there wasn't many people in there and he has a private room so we were able to be in the with door closed while he cut my hair. 
