What's Important

Georgia is flying in tomorrow from Oregon to spend a week with Dolly. Her daughter Pip has been visiting Dolly every day since she was moved from the hospital back to the retirement community, (which is what "they" call it). Pip and I took Dolly for a wheelchair ride around the place, and it is more like a college dormitory/swanky European hotel. Dolly wasn't all that interested in the pool when we reached the lower levels, but Blue and Pip and I want to jump in the beautiful blue water and do water aerobics! Three times a week!

Georgia and Willa's daughters, Pip and Blue, have been so capable and competent during Dolly's health crisis. Blue is the organizer, with notebooks and file folders and questions for the doctor. And Pip's no-nonsense get-in-up-to-your-elbows style is great. She gets close to Dolly, and isn't afraid to interact with this new person.

The next week will be busy. Grades are due, it is the end of the 1st quarter already, and next week are the dreaded P/T Conferences, of which I have written horror stories in the past. In the past. Now is the present, and I don't want to miss it.