Summer Is Almost Over?

This summer has gone by way to fast. All the grandkids are back in school and Tristyn has been in Provo for almost four days now. It seems like just a few short years ago that I was up there going to school too. I was twenty when I was there and she seems like a baby having just turned eighteen last week. I spent lots of hours making a memory quilt for her. I used a lot of her t-shirts and game jerseys to make it, and I'm pleased with how it went together. I didn't do very well being away from home when I was there. I'm trying to be positive with her because I don't want to project my feelings on to her, but it was really hard for me to be so far away from my family. I did have a favorite cousin and his wife who picked me up every Friday night and let me stay at their house, do laundry and go to church and have Sunday dinner before taking me back to school. No wonder my social life was so terrible there. I will always be thankful for his kindness towards me. Lately I've been in a funky mood. I'm worried about my Mom who is alone in her home. I feel like my Dad is disappointed in us kids for not taking better care of her. I have offered to put her in my home now that we have a spare room, but she doesn't want to leave her house. I'm wondering at what point she doesn't have a say in where she lives? Last Sunday night Mindi and I took her back to Scottsdale and got her settled in. On the way home we stopped and went Pokémon hunting so we were gone a little too long.  She was hunting me down wondering if something had happened to us. When I told her what we were doing she said, "What are Pokemons, and how do you catch them? What do they look like?" I tried to tell her a little bit but she didn't understand, heck I need help from the grandkids when I'm trying to play myself. Anyway, I've made it to August and in a couple more months it should start cooling off, but I love the monsoon clouds building up in the afternoon and even though it makes it humid as heck, I still love to hear the thunder and rain but I'll be glad when the hot weather is finally over.