I am amazed at how calm I have been today, facing a 10 day houseguest. It was a busy day, with lots of last-minute running around and cleaning, but I wasn’t hyper.
Then again, I almost forgot to eat lunch. That's rare.
The living room has been been completely rearranged, and Pasha has his own area of it. I hung blue and green sheets over the doorways so he can have some privacy. I SO wish we had 5 bedrooms instead of 4…
Michael asked me if he would get homework help while Pasha was here. I assured him that he would. I hope the kids don’t have too much homework tomorrow, as they are so excited. Regardless, Pasha will just have to relax and read or watch TV or something while Mike does homework. He’s better than he used to be, but he still needs supervision.
Our piano had gotten badly out of tune, we think due to the humidity, and we got a piano tuner out here this afternoon, an older man who was very nice. He reminded me a bit of Burl Ives. He didn’t break into Holly Jolly Christmas, however.
At one point Alesia had just taken a pan of homemade blueberry muffins out of the oven, and I hollered downstairs and told her to offer Mr. C a muffin. “He’s been smelling them cooking for half an hour, so now offer him one!”
It’s not been all blueberry muffins.
I cleaned to such an extent, I had Alesia give Coco a bath. Coco will jump in Pasha’s lap and lick him half to death as soon as he sits down, so we wanted her to smell nice. Her special hypoallergenic doggie shampoo didn’t leave her smelling like clean human hair; we will use something more perfume-y later. Right now, she just looks like a clean mop head…
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Italians have great proverbs. One of my favorites is: “Those who don’t love you make you laugh. Those who love you make you cry!”
Today I read a comment on Facebook and loved it. Here’s what Tony P had to say: “My great grand mother use to say "If you and all of your friends put your problems on a table you would scramble to get yours back'”!
Amen!
