Month: June 2020

My Third COVID-19 Tears

I had a good cry out this morning. With the, “Stay-at-home” orders being lifted soon, plans are being solidified for graduation commencement for Sean. They are still in the early stages but what I have learned today was then we will have a, “Socially distanced ceremony” in August. This fact made me cry. What this, “Socially distanced ceremony” will entail is to hold commencements on the football field and NOT the high school auditorium as it has always been.

What this means is that it will be outside. In August. In the heat. Having had MS for 19 years, I KNOW that I will not be able to handle that! I also think that my tears were because I have worked so hard and sacrificed A LOT to put him through 12 years of Catholic education. The commencement was supposed to be the icing on the cake! The cherry on top! We were supposed to reenact my graduation photo:

I am just about positive that I could NOT sit there and smile in the heat! My Mom saw my tears and told me that we would work on getting me there if I wanted to go. Well, OF COURSE I do! I’ve earned it! She talked about having a cooler and bringing a cooling vest or cooling beads for me.

I couldn’t think too much about this because I was overwhelmed but we have time to figure it out and in that time, I will pray for a cool day in August. It really stinks that 20 years later, it is STILL super obvious that graduations and me do not mix! But, if I think about it too much now, I will cry again…!!!

June 2020 Faves

I didn’t post these yesterday because, I don’t know, I was busy doing nothing with my long hair and bushy eyebrow! Last night my brother, Jimmy, stopped by and we had a socially distant pizza party. With my Mom and I in the house and Jimmy sitting in a chair on the porch. I told my Mom right when the, “Stay at Home” orders came that if this lasts a long time, I will relax my diet which I have because it is STILL a thing. I haven’t been listening to music but rather, I am glued to the TV. Occasionally, U2 songs well show up in my YouTube feed and here are the last two that I shared on Facebook:

And sometimes when this all gets too stressful, I turn the TV off and jam to my Sara Bareilles playlist. I never hear this song at all and it’s my favorite so I will put it here so I can listen to any one of these three songs whenever I want to:

Excitement!

I received an email today that my Chewy package had been delivered:

It was only a partial order but I got super excited when I saw this email! I told my Mom that some of her toys had arrived and she laughed at the excitement in my face and went outside to disinfect the package and get the toys.

This is the first one I gave her:

She was really into that for a while! But, alas, a peanut butter flavored chew toy is NOTHING compared to her own buttt!!! 😂😂😂

The second item that came was meant for outside but my Mom gave it to her anyway:

She liked this because she could dig chewing a tennis ball but when my Mom squeezed one of them in the kitchen, Leia’s ears perked up and she got excited! Then my Mom walked over and squeezed the ball in her mouth. Again, her ears perked up and she got excited! She only could get a little baby squeaks out for a while but now she has mastered it! Right now, I think it is adorable but I wonder how long that will last!

I think I am getting the rest of my order tomorrow so I get to be just as excited tomorrow as well! Many of my Facebook friends and fellow dog owners told me that Nylabone is a good chew toy and Kong is a great toy! They all were DEFINITELY correct!!!