Leimamo’s Life

Kamalani phoned home yesterday morning to tell her mom to tell me not to go there to pick her up. I was crushed. How could she stand being away from me for this long? I got over it about as quickly she did the night before. It gave me and Meg time to clean the room we use as our home office. It was cluttered with papers that needed to be filed away. Hubby was worried that I wasn’t able to keep my records straight but it was an organized mess and I knew where everything was. But as usual, he was right and things just needed to be put away. We even had our ironing board packed with booklets and pamphlets and other junk mail stacked on it because we ran out of room on the makeshift desk.

I had attempted to straighted out that room a few times but everytime I started to do something, Kamalani or hubby would ask me to do something for them and it broke the momentum *coughbullshitcough*. The truth is — I can’t stay focused long enough.

So anyway, I finally filed things away and everything looks so nice and neat in there except for the file called “Warranties”. Holy crap Batman! I have warranties in there that are older than a few of our kids. Some of the items have long since died and went to small appliance heaven. Yep, I think it’s time I weeded through that file, it might take me a week though at the rate I move.

Back to Kamalani. I called her lastnight just to talk to her because I missed her so much. When she’s with us she’s so rotten and she can press all of our buttons but when she’s gone the house feels so empty. We talked for a few minutes and she told me she wanted to spend the night there again so I said ok. Then she wanted to talk to hubby then to her mom. After talking to everyone she hung up then called back after a few minutes to ask if we could go pick her up. She said she thinks she should come home. I told Meg to make sure that’s what she wants because I didn’t want to go all the way out there (about 4 miles away) only to find out she’s changed her mind again. Megs called her back and I spoke to her. She was sure so we went to get her. She’s so damned cute. She was ready at the door with her jacket on and okana in her hand. When we got home I had Meg give her a shower, she fell asleep soon after then Meg brought her to my bed.

This morning, our friend Kim called to say she’s bringing over some jam she made with the plums that I gave her from the mysterious tree in my backyard. There was a time when I didn’t know if it was a cherry tree or what. I found out after the fruits had ripened that it is cherry plums and they are excellent for canning. When Kim brought over the jam, she asked if Kamalani wanted to go to McDonalds with her and the children she does day care for. Kamalani said “Sure” and off she went — again. I’m gonna have to start keeping an appointment book for her just to schedule my time with her. Where was everybody when she needed to be potty trained?