Family Visit Today

Weird. But cool, nonetheless. My daughter Evie, along with her husband and two little girls are coming today. For most normal families, that wouldn't be so unusual, but it is a rare occurrence in my life. I live 2200 miles away from them. They live in Oregon, I live in Arkansas. Over the river and through the woods indeed. Many rivers and many woods, in fact. I am beside myself with joy and anxiousness. Joy--well, that's for obvious reasons. Anxiousness...well, that's on several levels. One, it's the first time that my son-in-law has ever been to MY house. And of course, I'm worried that they'll be okay on their flight...that the babies are comfortable and not crying, that they won't tire themselves out, and of course, that that incredibly huge jet will stay properly in the air where it belongs and not fall out of the sky. Yes, I am aware that more crashes occur in cars than in jets but still. It's a long way up at 30,000+ feet.

I've been working hard on retraining my brain. I think it's had some effect. I cannot be certain, but I've sort of felt better about things. It's like my brain has decided that it likes having all its neurons connected and firing once again. I went to check out Lumosity.com and as advertised, it's got some kind of cool games (yes, I know I mentioned this before, but bear with me) and ideas but I'm not going to pay for something that I can do for free on other sites.

A few days ago I found one that seems really great. But it's very difficult, by comparison to the others (like the AARP ones...*smile*). I also found an app for my iPhone that is pretty great. It's almost the exact same games as the ones on Lumosity and it's FREE. Yes, at least most of the levels are free. It's called Kerobics Gym. Try it. You might like it. Then again, you might not. ha.

So anyway, I've been training my brain to grow new connections in its neural net. Hopefully, I'll be back to my normal self soon. (I know some people that might be frightened to hear those words. hahaha.) I am hoping that the episodes of repeating myself due to lack of short term memory will go away. I'm getting really tired (and embarrassed) of hearing the words, "Yeah, Mom...you mentioned that. About a week ago. And twice before that." That's a slight exaggeration, but sheesh! Kids. Gotta love 'em. Of course, I'm the one who raised them to be smartie-pantses. My own bad. hehehe.

Well, I'm going to go grab a cuppa coffee and then get busy. I have to finish vacuuming and dusting. And making sure that there are absolutely no hazards for my one-year-old granddaughter to hurt herself with while she's here. I'm off to crawl around the house on hands and knees, at baby eye-level, looking for stuff. I believe I've heard this particular trick called CHILD PROOFING. *grin* It's gonna be GREAT.

Until later, I remain,
Grammy J.