Is It Fair?

Watched my nephew's kids while he and his new fiancee went to dinner.  This is the third time in 6 weeks I have watched the kids while he goes out for a fun outing.

Is it fair?

It's common for a caregiver to feel a bit of burnout. It's a lot to take on, and my mom is .... extra needy.  

So when the young'uns get a night out, I am babysitting.  No one volunteers to take my place visiting mom. Or even just stop in for a short visit. 

So why do I keep saying yes??

I learned today that MrZ is now seeing a therapist.  I'm not sure of the reasons and I don't need to know.  He will struggle because his mom and his dad aren't together, and they have a hard time agreeing on things.  And now they're gonna add in a stepmother situation.   Talk about complicated. I know my kids struggled with some of that, but I was the consistent one, they lived with me and the only sharing was in the summer.  I hope that worked better for them. Maybe I was just as guilty in the raising kids dept.

I know there's a slogan "Just say no." Ok, it was from the 90s, but it still can apply.  Its something I need to apply more often. 

Love to Read

I'm a big fan of reading, and read every day. According to Kindle, 709 days in a row! 

But in reading a series of JA Jance books, my library didnt have the book format for one of my JPBeaumont books. This is book 22 in the series, and sometimes I just skip over. 

Instead, they had the audio book, so I'm trying that.  At first, it was very difficult to listen to someone else read aloud. The second thing I noticed was my impatience. I wasn't content to just sit and listen. I was up, doing chores, and found I had completed all of them - while listening- before 8am!!  lol

And maybe that isn't a bad thing???

New technology stuff is fun to try. It took me a very long time to convert to reading electronically.  Not sure this audio book thing will take, but its not bad from time to time. So far.