It’s been another family filled weekend! It seems like pretty much since mid July we’ve had family visiting or staying over every week! No wonder I’m feeling run down!
My husbands uncle isn’t doing so well these days and about a week ago, his family (the uncles) called to ask if Chris could spend the weekend looking after his uncle while they went out of town to a wedding.
Chris was up for the task, but we knew his uncles health was failing and I wasn’t sure if my husband really knew what he’d just agreed to! I mean taking care of a person who needs just about everything done for them is taxing and stressful. As it turns out his uncles daughter didn’t feel all that great about leaving her father for the weekend either so my husband and his cousin decided to take care of him together.
As things go in my husbands family the plan changed and his cousin and her husband did the main care taking duties over the weekend. In the meantime though … my husbands mother and another aunt decided to come down for a visit (and to see the sick uncle). So I’ve had a houseful of in-laws all weekend.
As I’ve mentioned over the last few weeks my Crohn’s has really been acting up so I didn’t go with the gang to visit Chris’ uncle (for hours and hours at a time!) as my stomach was just hurting too much.
Chris and I are going to go for a visit this evening though – just the two of us … more my style anyways.
Now that the weekend is just about over and Chris’ mother and aunt have returned home I think it’s safe to say that we’ll be relative free for a few weeks! I hope! Of course, if Chris’ uncle gets sicker that may not hold.
Have you had a busy “family” summer too? How do you handle it?
Every weekend these seems to be something on! Haven’t managed to find much time at the weekend for just me and the wife in months!
My family always lived far away from the rest of the extended family and I am the youngest of all my cousins so I haven’t been expected to do very much which has been fine by me. My family is pretty mellow which is also fine. Does get a little boring. I need some outside time or room to go walk around by myself every once in awhile. I always avoid being at a table or couch hemmed in on all sides and prefer to entertain the animals or kids that are around.
You’ve been having a busy summer!
Hehe, must be really hard to keep on posting on a blog actively while having such a great family.
Yes sounds as though you’ve had a hectic summer so far!
My summer was far from quiet too, my brother is a servicemen and it’s great when he comes home, trouble is everyone gets so excited and so they should, as he’s a servicemen and he deserves credit although i think at times he needs the quiet time.
A good beer and a chat with his brother sorts everything out
I find that i need to walk the dogs to free my ears from the sounds of 4 children, just every now and then.
Natural endorphins rock, they are free and in abundance
Stay chilled on those summer hols
Hopefully you had another break over labor day, that would be great! I know we took it easy and didn’t work on Monday which was a huge relief!
How could you manage the houseful of In-Laws in your house for a week.? Its really a tough.
Celt it was only for the weekend … that’s long enough! However my brother was here for the whole week before that so we had more than a week’s worth of house guests.
No more house guests for us for a while … I hope!