The Mom Crowd

As you can tell I didn’t get my post up about financial goals today. I have them written (really I do), but I just couldn’t make a cohesive post last night or even tonight for that matter. My mom broke her hip and had surgery to place a pin in it yesterday.

On Sunday my 56-year-old mom got stuck in the hallway and couldn’t move while we were making the four hour drive home to San Antonio from visiting my parents for Christmas. Apparently she had fallen about 2 weeks ago and didn’t tell anyone and she was finally in severe pain. Luckily my brother and sister cajoled her to go to the Emergency Room Sunday night. Turns out that it was broken and she had surgery. We drove back to Houston the next day.

Before I even knew about the hip stuff I had planned on coming back to Houston to clean my parent’s house before I gave birth. I just didn’t know it would be so soon. Today is the only day that my Super Duper Cleaner Sister-in-law was able to help clean the house. My mother is a pack rat and her ability to adequately clean after three inside dogs, three cats, four fish tanks, and one bird cage has waned over the years. We attacked today. I threw out tons of garbage and stuff I hope my mom doesn’t miss. She is also diabetic and I had at least one garbage bag full of sweets. She may buy them again, but at least it will be fresh sweet stuff.

My mom is doing well. She refused therapy this morning, but did get up for physical therapy this afternoon. It will still be a while before she is home and walking. She thinks she is going to be home in a couple of days. I am not looking forward to the fight about going into the inpatient rehab facility. But that is for another day.

One more thing, did I mention that my family has lots of family drama and I am the only one that everyone is speaking to? I get to be a peacemaker and go-between in all of this. Oh, and I am 30 weeks pregnant and I have a toddler with me. Needless to say, I am exhausted.

Thanks for letting me whine a little here at The Mom Crowd. I am sure I am not the only child to have to start caring for a parent or has to do their own version of Clean Sweep on their parents house.

I am taking a break from visiting and cleaning tomorrow afternoon and I am looking forward to finishing up my goals series. Please come back soon and check them out!