Here\u2019s just a bit of a catch-up; as you might have guessed from my lack of posting, I was away over the weekend, specifically, at my parents\u2019 in Michigan. \u00a0(Note to readers: my parents do not read this blog, nor, to the best of my knowledge, do any relatives, and, since I blog under the name \u201cJane the Actuary\u201d rather than my own last name, I feel comfortable that I\u2019m not indirectly disclosing their identity and invading their privacy.)<\/p>\n
To be honest, it was tiring.<\/p>\n
We got there Friday at lunchtime, having left super early to avoid the Chicago rush hour. \u00a0The good news: \u00a0there was virtually no moldy food in the fridge. \u00a0The bad news: \u00a0there was virtually nothing in the fridge at all. \u00a0So we went off to Noodle & Co. for lunch, then came back, and, well, my husband started sorting through the accumulated mail to find the necessary tax forms, and I started cleaning the bathrooms \u2014 which, to be sure, was a suitably Good Friday activity, being penitential and all, but was not exactly what I had planned on \u2014 along with additional time spent on the kitchen, piles of papers on the kitchen table, and various other projects.<\/p>\n
To be sure, it wasn\u2019t all cleaning. \u00a0We went to church Friday evening, grocery-shopped Saturday morning and went with the youngest to a local science museum and planetarium Saturday afternoon, while my husband and older boys went on a long hike in their ongoing Philmont (Scout Ranch) conditioning efforts. \u00a0Saturday night we played a game of UNO, and Sunday we had a nice though simple\u00a0Easter Dinner before packing up while supervising the kids following Grandma\u2019s instructions on where to put the freshly-folded laundry, then heading home.<\/p>\n
So all those thoughtful posts about Easter by my fellow Patheos bloggers \u2014 yeah, I missed that. \u00a0Maybe they all missed that, too, and their posts were all written in advance, but I was irritated that Easter just didn\u2019t feel very Eastery.<\/p>\n
The good news was that my husband was able to find all the tax documents, so their taxes are done for another year. \u00a0And Dad also voiced a feeling of being ready to start at least looking at some sort of \u201csenior housing,\u201d in part because his older brother has now done so. \u00a0Mom, unfortunately, is another story.<\/p>\n
Part of the trouble is that it\u2019s not so easy to figure out a way to \u201ctry out\u201d senior housing living. \u00a0There is one CCRC around us that offers a 90-day trial, but only with the smaller units that they\u2019d find \u201ctoo small.\u201d \u00a0Maybe there are other places that are more purely rentals, where they could sign a short-term or month-to-month contract? \u00a0 Maybe even a \u201cregular\u201d rental (e.g., an apartment in a suburban \u201cdowntown\u201d area) would help them get a feel for how much they would really miss not being in \u201ctheir home.\u201d \u00a0Conceivably in such a case they could pay the rent for a couple months without selling their existing house; perhaps for a longer term they could rent out their home, though this would require a lot more work than even selling it \u2014 that is, they\u2019d have to downsize and discard or place in storage much of their belongings in any case, but if they sold their home we could all decide together whether to remodel or sell as-is, whereas if they rented it out it\u2019d require a major overhaul to find tenants (bathroom remodel, new flooring, remove the wallpaper, etc.).<\/p>\n
So we\u2019re still stuck.<\/p>\n
Oh, and we\u2019re watching the weather forecast for a planned Cub Scout campout this weekend that we may cancel on account of the forecast unseasonably-cold weather.<\/p>\n
And how \u2019bout that GA-06 special election, eh?<\/p>\n
How was your Easter?<\/p>\n
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