Memorial Day

Tomorrow is Memorial Day so I have the day off, at least from my library jobs. I have a ton of work to do at home. I love to go to work for many reasons, one of which is to rest up from the work at home. My husband is an OTR trucker and comes home every other weekend. He also has multiple allergies so he is probably the only trucker out there that doesn't eat truck stop and fast foods. The weekends that he is home are spent getting him ready and stocked to leave again. That means lots of cooking and laundry and shopping. He has a little home on wheels with his cooler and crockpot and his pantry of home canned meals and safe snacks. All our kids try to stop in on those weekends to visit with the grandkids. The weekend passes in a blur.
On the weekends when he isn't home I do all that home canning so that he has allergy- and gluten-free meals. Forget housecleaning. Besides taking care of the feeding and cleaning of the two kids I still have at home, I also make a run to the natural foods co-op and other specialty stores so he can stock his pantry. I see the grandkids, too, when he isn't home. I spend time with mu kids and I help them take the kids to their check-ups and help them shop and garden and all sorts of other chores. And, of course, I babysit, in fact, that's what I'm doing right now. My daughter has a computer and when I babysit, the kids get to bed on time so I can work on my "Things." For these particular grandbabies, I'm the tough grandma compared to their other ones.
So, tomorrow is a holiday. I have to get some groceries in the house. My last two babies are 18 and 20. One's a high school athlete and the other is a bodybuilder. I need those groceries. I also have more babysitting duty. It's a lot of work, tougher now than when I was younger, but grandchildren are a wonderful thing to have and they seem to like me even though I'm the tough one.