This Grandma is tired tonight. The two grandkids came out early afternoon and we just got back from taking them home. Oh what fun we had though. I fixed bacon, eggs and pancakes for lunch for them when they got here. Both ate really good. I had baked cookies this morning and they enjoyed them. We baked cupcakes this afternoon. Fixed hot dogs, corn on the cob and green beans for dinner.
Tagen ran the sewing machine for me to help me make some more face masks. Ellexia played in the sprinkler for a bit to cool down. They helped me do chicken chores and played with the dogs and cats.
I had forgotten how many dishes I can dirty when the kiddos are over. The third dishwasher load of the day is running now. The kids were so good and it was so nice to spend the day with them. Tagen is four inches taller than I am now. Oh my how he has grown up over the last six months.
I am washing the bedding for the two beds upstairs today. The washer and dryer have been running all day and I am not done yet. Tomorrow I need to wash the rugs in the two bathrooms upstairs and then get started on linens from the three bedrooms downstairs. It is time to do my spring cleaning and detail clean each room of the house. I hate doing it but love how it feels when I am done.
I haven’t had a chance to sit down much today. It has been a very busy day. But my tired tonight is a good tired and hopefully I will sleep well tonight.
Had a Crisis Text Hot Line Shift last night. I only took two calls. Both were fairly easy calls. I wanted to send one of them a link and my new computer wouldn’t let me copy and paste the link. I had to rope my supervisor into the call and ended up transferring the call to her so she could paste the link. She then transferred the call back to me and I finished the call up. The link had really helped the client so I am glad we figured out a way to get it to her.
I messaged a different supervisor later to ask how I copy and paste on the Apple. He gave me a new way to tried and it worked. I had switched to my old computer for the second call as it is common for me to send my clients referrals to links. I’ll try it out on the Mac tonight and hopefully will be able to make it work. I have another shift at 10:00 tonight.
I leveled up to a Level 3 Counselor last night. I have handled 30 calls so far. The next level up requires 30 more calls so it will be a bit before I become a Level 4. Level 9 is as high as they go. I have no idea how many calls it takes to get that high.
There are now over 10,000 counselors and last month we handled 105,000 calls. They are working hard to spread the word about the Hot Line as they have so many counselors now and can handle a much higher volume of calls. They have more than doubled the number of counselors they have since six months ago.
This has been a busy but good day. Got a lot of house work done but most importantly spent time with my two grandkids. It did all of us good to spend some time together.
Grateful for the time I got with my kiddos today, grateful for the cleaning and laundry I got done today, and grateful for the opportunity to be in service again tonight.