FEB from Janet -Ordeals pt 1

 

Nice one from Janet. Charming card - to my teacher. Technically, we met through my teaching adult classes in lettering. Janet arrived as a fully developed artist and I'm not sure I can detect a single thing in her work that was influenced by me. Since she lives 17 miles away, we sometimes get together - so next time I see you Janet, I'll ask her if she ever does something and thinks, "Oh, that's that thing I picked up from Jean." Or she might answer me in an April envelope. March sure flew by.

Janet's designs often wrap around - such a nice touch.

 

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Three topics to cover - (1) getting ahead of the curve as soon as an ordeal starts (2) settling the stomach and (3) patience.

My daughter has been learning on all of her trips that the new normal for travel is that you might get one leg of the trip to go smoothly - but never both legs. An ordeal on both legs of a trip is not out of the ordinary - so just take each new ordeal as it comes - as if you were expecting it. Or as Mel Brooks suggests: Pray for the best, expect the worst.

Staying ahead of my illness ordeal that started while I was the adult on duty for 4 days - was calmly telling the grandkids that as 4th and 6th graders - they really didn't need me to do anything - they just needed to know that I was quarantined on the lower level and they could call for help if there was an actual emergency.

They were amazing. They didn't take advantage of the situation - unless a smoothie every day is against the house rules.

Getting ahead of the illness ordeal was only possible because my poor daughter who had told me about a miracle cure that followed her battle with a stomach *bug* a couple years ago. Maybe I'm the only person who has never. heard of Zofran. Details tomorrow.