Where in the world?

Earlier this week Roger’s uncle (64) passed away, just a week earlier he had a stroke. It’s so sad. This was Roger’s dad’s brother. It’s a huge family (9 siblings) but everyone is close. With this uncle (and one other one) being closest to FIL’s age, he was closest to them. When we went to weddings, I always danced with FIL and this uncle. They both are/were dancing fools and danced so alike.  The wake was Thursday. I had to work til 6 and didn’t want to ask for time off. My mom watched Bruce until I got home. Friday was the funeral and I got lucky, that’s a day I don’t work. My mom babysat. The funeral was an hour away, with the burial being in their (wife too) hometown), which is 1.5 hours away from there. But kinda the direction of home, kinda. We decided, spur of the moment, "hey lets swing by and get Bruce on the way to the burial but we’ve got to book it!". I called about every 5 minutes the whole hour drive home. My mom must be on a walk. We get home and drive around EVERYWHERE looking for her. Where in the world? Not around the lake, not at big beach, little beach, boat landing. Of course she doesn’t carry a phone. We drove around for an hour! Finally she came home. Turns out she went in the area on the other side of our house, we never go that direction. On a plus note, she found a power wheels (if that what you call it) truck for free, just needs a new battery. Roger went and got it today!

So we grab Bruce and take off. Kinda "grr" because we’re now leaving our house an hour later than we would’ve, now is the time they were thinking the burial would start and we’re almost an hour away. I felt bad since we missed the important part. My plan backfired. There was a gathering at an aunt’s house afterwards. My thought was, if we had Bruce, we could do that and not worry about the time. We caught the very end of the burial (luckily a little rained delayed it a titch). I was in the car, but Roger said he got there JUST in time to touch the casket one last time. Then we went to the aunt’s and it was nice, we got to visit. We stayed til 8:30. We wouldn’t have done that if we didn’t have him with.

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We’re still struggling with sleeping, it seems to be getting worse. I’m sure we need to do something but I’m not really sure what, how, or if we really have the energy to. Naps have gotten bad too. Right now, he’s napping, on the floor of his bedroom. He was asleep in the car, I carried him in, would not lay down in crib. I layed down on floor with him. And there he is.

Lots of things I see states "you need to start right away". Lots of things I see, I DID! I did put him to bed when he wasn’t completely asleep and he’d sleep. That’s one thing that sticks out right now. From 6 weeks old til 5.5 months, he slept thru the night. Actually once he started eating solids, he doesn’t sleep thru the night, except on rare occasion. For some reason it seems like right now, he needs to be touching one of us while he sleeps. Even when I layed down with him now, he kept opening his eyes just enough to see I was right there. I don’t know if he’s afraid we’re going to leave? I just don’t know.

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Seems most of my Favorites have left or are talking about leaving OD. That makes me very sad. I have a blog on blogger. I don’t really use, I write here and try to c/p the entry onto there too. I have maybe 2 readers there. If OD is down/slow, I’ll type there and c/p here. Here has everything! So ANY of my readers that read this, PLEASE don’t leave!