The news is much more hopeful this morning. Mom is doing better, awake and talking. All the vitals are looking better. Still a very long way to go, still not out of the woods, but much better news than we dared to hope for.The kids are playing video games, the sun will come up in another hour ..
November and December were tough months for us. Mark deployed for a year, Thor and Zach were dealing with lots of school work and tests and big projects in high school and college respectively, and in the last two weeks my Mom has gotten progressively worse health-wise. She's in the hospital ..
This is fireweed. It grows all over the place. When the blossoms reach the top, it means summer is over...And when it turns red, it means 6 weeks until snow. This photo was taken on September 19...so we should have snow any time now. (I think we should have already had snow, last year our ..
Let's pretend that I am not a horrible blog owner who neglected you all shockingly for months, in favor of writing very short and not incredibly interesting tidbits on FaceBook (shoot me an email if we are not already friends and you want to rectify that...). I would also like to pretend that I ..
That's all. I am just tired. I have a stupid cold that is dragging on and on and on, which means I don't get to use my CPAP machine because I can't breathe through my nose, which means I don't get a good night's sleep, which means my immune system gets even wonkier, which means my cold drags ..