Category: Me

It's been long enough! I went with Aiden to his fall field trip this last week, we had a blast!  We went to Living Planet Aquarium this weekend too.  It's VERY dark, so very hard to get interesting pictures that aren't blurry. [gallery link="file" columns="2"]

It's been a big one.  On Friday October 16th 2009 our lives changed forever.  Things had been changing in little ways for a long time, but this was a freefall kind of change. Kevin's blogging over on his blog about it and I'd like to invite you to go read.  I think I'll be blogging in the near future on my thoughts and feelings on our experiences too, but it's kinda a big thing that can be easy to talk about or very hard, I never know until I get into it.

I'm now on day 10 of my weight loss plan, this is the most direct I've been able to be since I was a teenager dealing with my eating disorder. I'm using a free application on my iPod that Kevin gave me. I'm kinda embarrassed to have such a nice toy, but it just worked out to come to me when Kevin needed to upgrade for school, he was going to give me his old one, but it wasn't working right, we took it into Applecare, and it had something fried, so I got a brand new hand held mini computer. Anyway, back to the reason for this post... I'm trying to lose weight. Whoah, I said it. It's something that I avoid. I pretend that people see the person…

1 My Sweet husband 2 His hand on my back 3 Watching Michael intently draw 4 Aiden trying to make everyone around him smile 5 Joey's kisses and innocent "I wuv you!" 6 Long drives when everyone's asleep 7 Rain, the harder and colder the better 8 Sunshine with a perfect breeze 9 Singing a happy hymn 10 Getting home after church having "made it" 11 A late night movie in bed 12 My big soft turquoise bed 13 Cuddling with my warm hubby in that bed 14 When Kevin feels good 15 Remembering my babies and their births 16 The silence of an empty van 17 When I get tired of that, singing at the top of my lungs in my van 18 yummy smells in my kitchen 19…

Kevin has recovered pretty well from his surgery. He's doing OK, but he's being slammed at work. They have two others guys out on long term sick leave, so on top of being in the middle of busy season and changing their methods, their work load is growing twice as fast as they can get things through the system. Kevin has to stay late as often as he possibly can. He's muddling through alright. We got back Saturday night from a family Reunion at a little ranch house in Southern Idaho. It was wonderful! I LOVE my Mom's family! Lets see what else… OH YEAH! As of today, our house is back together!!! YAY!I We still haven't gotten the go ahead replacing from the insurance, other than the dryer, but…

Kevin had another surgery on Thursday.  We knew it was coming, he had an obvious Umbilical Hernia (Hernia through his belly button, which was part of Octobers scar tissue), The surgery turned out to be more extensive than planned, instead of one hernia, he turned out to have two, and a weak spot.  So it was a bit more intrusive than planned, but it was a very good thing that we got it taken care of now.  He's only got a two inch incision, so that's good news.  He however is in a lot of pain and needs a lot of rest and pain meds. On the home front, things are going slowly.  We have carpet and paint colors picked, we finished the carpet planning on our way home from…

We're going home today.  Things are not all put back together again, but I'm tired of feeling out of control.  The basic needs are finally all working, so other than torn up walls and bare floors (which are being tackled ASAP), we're good for go.  We will finally have all of our belongings again, and our own beds, which I think will go miles in feeling normalcy again. I can finally focus on putting things back together regarding both the yard which needs grass seed, mowing and some serious weeding, and the inside of the house which still has stuff scattered about from the first wave of flood damage rescue.  I'm just excited to have some privacy again and control of the homefront again. Not to mention no commute to…

I'm just having a hard day, it's been a crazy month, and I'm tired of a lot of things, not being home, not having privacy, worrying about money, worrying about Kevin, just not having my comfort zone. So we've been hoping to go home any minute, but we realized last night that the water heaters need fixed and replaced (one of each) and we're not going home without hot water and the phones internet and gas turned back on.  Cold showers in late June and July, no biggy, not being able to sterilize dishes, not going to happen, not with Kevin's health.  More than half of our square footage is torn up from 2 feet down.  We can put up plastic or a baby gate and keep people upstairs, but…