The Daily Hailey

My mom has been staying with us for a while now, which has been such a blessing to every member of our family. She makes it possible for me to go to the hospital as often as I do. I tried to list out all the tasks she accomplishes, but there were FAR too many. Most importantly, everything she does, she does willingly, warmly, and lovingly.

Uprooting her life and taking us on isn’t necessarily an easy task. Save for the obvious – five grandchildren and one incredibly emotional child to care for. Beyond that, my mom keeps her house COLD and I do not! We’ve turned the temperature down, but she still closes her bedroom door and opens her window up in the evening to positively BLAST her room with the cold! 

And then last night, it finally happened. Her window froze. Open. 

Resigned, she texted me and asked me up in my room and asked if I could come help her try and close it. 

I imagine it was quite a sight, my mom in her shorts and t-shirt, me in my shorty robe, trying desperately to loosen the window. We could neither close it, nor open it further. I called Brady and put him on speaker so he could be part of the chaos. He was stumped, too. All four corners were loose, so we started to worry that is was just jammed. Open. In cold weather. 

Finally, we solved it. Mom had the answer. 

She took her hairdryer outside with an extension cord, and blowdried the track while I reefed on the window from inside. We belly laughed the entire time, and finally, the window slid just a little. I reefed on it one more time, effectively slamming it right in my moms face, but she understood. We celebrated, and her room was freezing, just like she likes it, hahaha! 

Aaaaanyway, we had a laugh. It was nice to have Brady along, too. Felt almost normal. Almost.