This was certainly an action packed week. I started Monday off with a phone call at work  from my mom's apartment complex letting me know that she was in the hospital. She had gone down to lunch and was throwing up. They were checking her out to see if she'd had a heart attack or stroke or was dehydrated. After spending the entire day with her in the ER and waiting for them to run lots of tests, they decided she had a stomach virus. They pumped her up with IV fluids just in case. I took her home, helped her get a shower, a sandwich and sent her to bed. They kept her locked up in her apt for a few days just in case.

As soon as I got home Monday night,  the phone was ringing. The boy scouts were looking for Scott for their Sr Patrol meeting. Back in the car. Scott has been running around about as much as I have. He did a terrific job running the Halloween boy scout meeting last week, and this week it was an Open House for the cub scouts with lots of work stations. I have been busy collecting permission slips and checks for the boys upcoming rappelling and zipline camping trip(which we are all skipping this year). Too many other activities. He also has to make phone calls and set up guest speakers for each meeting to present scout badges. It is keeping him on his toes. Plus his video club is participating in a county wide tournament at his high school this coming week. So he needs to send out fliers. And robotics is kicking it up a notch, planning each week in the evening for this year's upcoming tournament. He has also been working at the roller rink consistently every weekend and is really enjoying it. Oh yes, and in his spare time he does his homework. He is so happy to have survived his first semester which ended last week.

I also spent all day Friday assisting my mom with her finances. Pretty much every financial disaster that could occur did. I started the morning off with the IRA account for my dad from Charles Schwab. Mom and I had spent over an hour filling out paperwork two weeks ago to switch the account to her name. Guess it did not work. They screwed up the whole transaction and still wanted more ID on mom. After multiple phone calls(and advice from our broker), we straightened it out. Then it was on to their Huntington account. They just now switched the address(I requested the switch over a year ago). No one answered their phone. Next disaster. They have been overcharging my parent's account at the Sunrise apt complex. So much for automatic deduction. I was on the phone over an hour with their billing office. Needless to say, they owe mom quite a bit of money. And last but not least, we spent another hour at Bank of America, still trying to close out my Dad's account and switch it over to my mom only. Unfortunately most of these offices don't have the authority to do anything and the large corporation offices(mostly in Texas I found out) can't keep track of all the data. So you spend the entire day on the phone and pushing papers. Only a year and a half and I have not yet gotten my parent's business finished. Guess I never really will.

I was also busy making family dentist appointments and a PT appointment for my mom's arthritic knee.  At least I got in a water exercise class Friday morning. And I ended the day on a high note playing BUNCO with the neighborhood girls. On Saturday, Tom and I dropped Scott off at work and picked up my mom to go see the new James Bond movie Spectre. It is a full 2.5hrs long. Mom seemed to really enjoy it-it was loud and full of action. So it did not matter that she chatted away the entire movie. I don't think anyone could hear her! After picking up Scott from work, we all headed out for dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse. It was a great day to spend at the movies since it rained.

Friday the temp jumped up to 80! Tom was able to get outside and cut the grass and mulch the leaves. On Sunday I spent some time shoveling up the leaves while Scott was at work. It was a bit chilly, but very sunny. A good day to take Cookie for a walk too. Only after I did all my shopping errands. I am getting a head start on Christmas shopping! And I still have some Halloween decorations to put away and finish putting up the Thanksgiving knick knacks(before the Christmas decorations come out!). And our Girl Scout choir has started up another season of singing. I did not make the Monday night performance with the Pride of Baltimore Sweet Adeline singers. Fortunately they had lots of girl scouts singing. I have been too busy to make all the practice sessions too. I should be ok on the Christmas songs at least.