Dad Update
My dad is NOT having surgery on Tuesday a.m. He had a root canal last week and got an infection. They will not do a bone surgery (don't think they'd do any surgery) while you have any sort of infection. He is scheduled for next Tuesday at 5 a.m. He sounds more upbeat today.
They did find a lawyer that seems to be reputable and ethical.
Prayer requests:
1. His spirits to be buoyed
2. Protection for the one lone broken screw in the next week
3. Continued healing of the bone
4. All the Workman's Comp stuff
Monday, October 16, 2006
MONDAY
As Mondays go - it was a good one. We plan Mondays and Tuesdays to be our HEAVY school days. We got a late start today because I was EXHAUSTED.
I had been studying I John and was determined to lead a more disciplined life. I may write more about that later.....but time is of the essence here. I'd been thinking and praying about that for over a week. I had even told some friends that I needed to be more disciplined in my time management (eating, exercising and such too - basically I'm a MESS with Mike gone...weee...live for the moment :::snort:::). I found it ironic that *my* computer crashed. That certainly helped me with computer time management. I don't remember enough blog addresses to visit the blogs I tend to visit after the kids are in bed, email is a pain and so I'm doing little, I set all lists to no-mail....wow I have time again.
SO...armed with new-found determination, and no TV or computer time available, I headed to the kitchen table with my Bible and notebook. I had a great couple of hours and was just heading for bed when I heard Stacia cry. Zander had woken her up. ::::Grrrrrr:::: It took me a full hour to get her back down. It was now 11 p.m. and I wasn't in bed. I got to bed and laid there....good prayer time, however. Finally drifted off at about midnight. Stacia woke up at 1 a.m. and would NOT go back down until 4:30 a.m. I left a note on the table telling the kids not to wake me up at 6 but to try to get started on table school. I woke up at about 8 and they had done well.
I went to Netflix to reserve movies. We have 5 of them that we want for school for this week and next. I went ahead and upgraded how many movies we can have out at a time while we are needing so many for school. It certainly is cheaper than renting or buying them.
I decided that I will not go into depth with WW 1 for Arielle and Nolan. With Mike deployed, I don't think this is a good idea. We read War Games last week and we all cried ....and they've had many questions. I decided to spend this week focusing on other events in the same time period...briefly explaining WW1 - and they'll see the movies...but not dwelling solely on that. We finished up "Looking For a Home" (Orphan Train book) and may begin the second one. I had bought DK's 20th Century for children...and Jared prefers "The Century for Young People". I was glad to have it though, because I simply pulled it open - went through some pages with the younger two and we picked out some events to cover. I plan to cover the San Francisco Earthquake, Building Mt Rushmore, Wright Brothers and the Titanic. I have another DK type WW1 book that I'll pick and choose some things out of for them.
After school Zander, Arielle and Nolan and I tried to head to the library and Hobby Lobby while Stacia napped. She only napped 30 minutes. {sigh} We did go to Hobby Lobby and found a model of the Wright plane, the Titanic and an electrical car that is supposed to "go". We'll see. I'm not sure that the three of us can put them together...and it is quite apparent that the older three boys are skeptical...but it's SCHOOL so maybe if we work at it a bit...we'll succeed. :::snort:::
I came home and made Enchiladas, rice, corn, salad, fruit plate.....and Arielle and Nolan thought I was terribly mean because I gave them each 1/4 of an enchilada, 3 corn kernels and 5 grains of rice and told them to eat it. They kept saying, "is that enough" and I kept saying "Don't ask me - are you finished?". They are slowly working on earning their tickets but at this rate it will take them much more than the 3 - 6 months I anticipated to earn their goals. It gets discouraging to cook for folks when they are to busy to eat or picky to eat what you fix. At least STACIA will eat anything....including food from the garbage. UGH.
We read 40 pages in Pinocchio - we are really enjoying this book and getting quite a lot of laughs over the discrepancies between the original and Disney.
Well - that's the day. Hopefully, I'll have my computer back "soon" and be able to visit you all. I did remember Jodi, Kelly's and Lisa's blog URL. LOL
As Mondays go - it was a good one. We plan Mondays and Tuesdays to be our HEAVY school days. We got a late start today because I was EXHAUSTED.
I had been studying I John and was determined to lead a more disciplined life. I may write more about that later.....but time is of the essence here. I'd been thinking and praying about that for over a week. I had even told some friends that I needed to be more disciplined in my time management (eating, exercising and such too - basically I'm a MESS with Mike gone...weee...live for the moment :::snort:::). I found it ironic that *my* computer crashed. That certainly helped me with computer time management. I don't remember enough blog addresses to visit the blogs I tend to visit after the kids are in bed, email is a pain and so I'm doing little, I set all lists to no-mail....wow I have time again.
SO...armed with new-found determination, and no TV or computer time available, I headed to the kitchen table with my Bible and notebook. I had a great couple of hours and was just heading for bed when I heard Stacia cry. Zander had woken her up. ::::Grrrrrr:::: It took me a full hour to get her back down. It was now 11 p.m. and I wasn't in bed. I got to bed and laid there....good prayer time, however. Finally drifted off at about midnight. Stacia woke up at 1 a.m. and would NOT go back down until 4:30 a.m. I left a note on the table telling the kids not to wake me up at 6 but to try to get started on table school. I woke up at about 8 and they had done well.
I went to Netflix to reserve movies. We have 5 of them that we want for school for this week and next. I went ahead and upgraded how many movies we can have out at a time while we are needing so many for school. It certainly is cheaper than renting or buying them.
I decided that I will not go into depth with WW 1 for Arielle and Nolan. With Mike deployed, I don't think this is a good idea. We read War Games last week and we all cried ....and they've had many questions. I decided to spend this week focusing on other events in the same time period...briefly explaining WW1 - and they'll see the movies...but not dwelling solely on that. We finished up "Looking For a Home" (Orphan Train book) and may begin the second one. I had bought DK's 20th Century for children...and Jared prefers "The Century for Young People". I was glad to have it though, because I simply pulled it open - went through some pages with the younger two and we picked out some events to cover. I plan to cover the San Francisco Earthquake, Building Mt Rushmore, Wright Brothers and the Titanic. I have another DK type WW1 book that I'll pick and choose some things out of for them.
After school Zander, Arielle and Nolan and I tried to head to the library and Hobby Lobby while Stacia napped. She only napped 30 minutes. {sigh} We did go to Hobby Lobby and found a model of the Wright plane, the Titanic and an electrical car that is supposed to "go". We'll see. I'm not sure that the three of us can put them together...and it is quite apparent that the older three boys are skeptical...but it's SCHOOL so maybe if we work at it a bit...we'll succeed. :::snort:::
I came home and made Enchiladas, rice, corn, salad, fruit plate.....and Arielle and Nolan thought I was terribly mean because I gave them each 1/4 of an enchilada, 3 corn kernels and 5 grains of rice and told them to eat it. They kept saying, "is that enough" and I kept saying "Don't ask me - are you finished?". They are slowly working on earning their tickets but at this rate it will take them much more than the 3 - 6 months I anticipated to earn their goals. It gets discouraging to cook for folks when they are to busy to eat or picky to eat what you fix. At least STACIA will eat anything....including food from the garbage. UGH.
We read 40 pages in Pinocchio - we are really enjoying this book and getting quite a lot of laughs over the discrepancies between the original and Disney.
Well - that's the day. Hopefully, I'll have my computer back "soon" and be able to visit you all. I did remember Jodi, Kelly's and Lisa's blog URL. LOL
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Sunday - guess I'll keep blogging while my computer is possessed...shouldn't be able to infect other computers via a blog....and this way I will be able to copy this to word on my hard drive when I have access to it again.
Today was a typical Sunday. Nothing else to say.
OH - I had to run by Mike's office to pick up a couple things for him. I took Stacia and Zander with me. We opened the door and Zander said, "Where is he? Are we taking him home now?" :::gulp::: I guess he's figured Mike was at work all this time...which may be why he doesn't like to talk to Mike very often.
We had a rainy day today. Jamin, Jared, Arielle, Stacia and I took a mile long walk in it...fun. The weather changing may be a bit of the reason that the younger boys have been "off" today - fighting and such.
Life must go on even with computer stupidity so here's our menu for the week:
Enchiladas (which we didn't eat last week after all), rice, salad
Baked Penne/Zitti, garlic pull apart bread, salad
"Shake and Bake" chicken, corn, rolls
Taco/nachos/taco salad type night
Encore Presentation
Pizza
Tortellini if needed to fill in gaps somewhere....
Today was a typical Sunday. Nothing else to say.
OH - I had to run by Mike's office to pick up a couple things for him. I took Stacia and Zander with me. We opened the door and Zander said, "Where is he? Are we taking him home now?" :::gulp::: I guess he's figured Mike was at work all this time...which may be why he doesn't like to talk to Mike very often.
We had a rainy day today. Jamin, Jared, Arielle, Stacia and I took a mile long walk in it...fun. The weather changing may be a bit of the reason that the younger boys have been "off" today - fighting and such.
Life must go on even with computer stupidity so here's our menu for the week:
Enchiladas (which we didn't eat last week after all), rice, salad
Baked Penne/Zitti, garlic pull apart bread, salad
"Shake and Bake" chicken, corn, rolls
Taco/nachos/taco salad type night
Encore Presentation
Pizza
Tortellini if needed to fill in gaps somewhere....
ARGH - my computer has gone crazy!!!!
It was frozen and wouldn't do a thing. I tried the soft start and then hard crash thing. Finally Igot it to shut down but when I restarted it.....everything is gone. My tool bar is gone.
I did find the documents on the hard drive.
Outlook says "there are no current identities". It doesn't give me any old ones to click on. I can't access any of my outlook files, emails for orders that I'm trying to compile for today, newsletters I was working on etc. Also no email addresses.
When I use explorer, it has no favorites,my home page is gone etc. In fact now it says it can't establish a connection with Verizon...but the computer next to it can.
In other words all my settings seem to be gone. Does anyone have a clue what I should do? I have two projects I was working on today (a spice order and a co-op newsletter). I have a zillion emails waiting to be answered.
It appears to me that somehow it got messed up and logged on as some "generic user" rather than me...but in the start up screen I put in my old password to get it to load....I have no clue what to do or how to find my old outlook and explorer files....
help?
It was frozen and wouldn't do a thing. I tried the soft start and then hard crash thing. Finally Igot it to shut down but when I restarted it.....everything is gone. My tool bar is gone.
I did find the documents on the hard drive.
Outlook says "there are no current identities". It doesn't give me any old ones to click on. I can't access any of my outlook files, emails for orders that I'm trying to compile for today, newsletters I was working on etc. Also no email addresses.
When I use explorer, it has no favorites,my home page is gone etc. In fact now it says it can't establish a connection with Verizon...but the computer next to it can.
In other words all my settings seem to be gone. Does anyone have a clue what I should do? I have two projects I was working on today (a spice order and a co-op newsletter). I have a zillion emails waiting to be answered.
It appears to me that somehow it got messed up and logged on as some "generic user" rather than me...but in the start up screen I put in my old password to get it to load....I have no clue what to do or how to find my old outlook and explorer files....
help?
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Saturday - another one DOWN!
The day began with Jamin running through the neighborhood. He loves to do this on Saturday and check out the garage sales. He found a set of weights that was on sale for $35.00. He only wanted the weights, but they said if he’d take the bench and bar they’d sell it for $20. He did. I drove him back to pick up his purchase. He asked about putting the bench in Nolan and Zander’s room. What a hit that is. I need to watch and see if this is going to work. {g} All day Zander has been saying,
Jamin and I had a bunch of checks we needed to cash at the BX. We’re allowed $100 a day. We took a jaunt to base to do this. Our plan was to meet up with some friends we’ve been missing all week. We weren’t able to pull that off….so we headed for a park in the area.
Big Brothers are so much fun!
Arielle, Nolan and Zander have been trying to learn how to skate. Our homeschool group has skate day on Thursdays – which is the same day that the big boys are at House of Faith. I’ve told them that we can’t go if I have to wear Stacia and try to teach 3 how to skate. We may be able to do this if they keep working at it. They would really like to, but I know my limitations. It’s really sort of sad because the older boys would love to come with us – the timing is simply off.
We were about to give up on making connections with our friends when they drove up. We brought Cian (Jared’s friend) home with us.
In AK many of the Harvest things are impossible. It’s hard to visit a pumpkin patch or an apple orchard, bob for apples or visit a farmers “hay maze”, when the ground is covered with snow and fall lasts 2 weeks in late August/ early September. I’ve been looking forward to these fall activities when we moved back to the lower 48….but guess what? My searching produced nothing! There are no pumpkin patches or apple orchards in W TX. Duh!!! :::snort::: We did the next best thing. Emily on SHS shared a cool object lesson that I want to do with the kids…..problem is that I don’t think I’ve EVER carved a pumpkin. We’ll figure it out.
Here’s the popular “pumpkin patch” at the Methodist church a mile from our home.
Nolan said he felt like he was "pregnant Mom" as he carried this one. :::snort:::
Of course, Zander had to carry a pumpkin if Nolan could. . .
Back at home, Nolan wanted a snack. We turned it into an impromptu “tea”. I went with manly mugs and fish platters that Bre had made. We had crackers, cheeses and halibut salad along with our tea/hot chocolate.
Stacia wants only the finest things in life….
Cian and Jared went off to play a game that Jared created. Nolan and I played Uno. After a few rounds I decided it would be fun to teach him the wild version that we used to play with college friends (ah the memories of being newly married couples in Eugene). This drew Arielle to our table. Then Cian and Jared joined us too.
The day began with Jamin running through the neighborhood. He loves to do this on Saturday and check out the garage sales. He found a set of weights that was on sale for $35.00. He only wanted the weights, but they said if he’d take the bench and bar they’d sell it for $20. He did. I drove him back to pick up his purchase. He asked about putting the bench in Nolan and Zander’s room. What a hit that is. I need to watch and see if this is going to work. {g} All day Zander has been saying,
“C’mon Nolan, C’mon Jamin – let’s WORK out!”.
Jamin and I had a bunch of checks we needed to cash at the BX. We’re allowed $100 a day. We took a jaunt to base to do this. Our plan was to meet up with some friends we’ve been missing all week. We weren’t able to pull that off….so we headed for a park in the area.
Big Brothers are so much fun!
Arielle, Nolan and Zander have been trying to learn how to skate. Our homeschool group has skate day on Thursdays – which is the same day that the big boys are at House of Faith. I’ve told them that we can’t go if I have to wear Stacia and try to teach 3 how to skate. We may be able to do this if they keep working at it. They would really like to, but I know my limitations. It’s really sort of sad because the older boys would love to come with us – the timing is simply off.
We were about to give up on making connections with our friends when they drove up. We brought Cian (Jared’s friend) home with us.
In AK many of the Harvest things are impossible. It’s hard to visit a pumpkin patch or an apple orchard, bob for apples or visit a farmers “hay maze”, when the ground is covered with snow and fall lasts 2 weeks in late August/ early September. I’ve been looking forward to these fall activities when we moved back to the lower 48….but guess what? My searching produced nothing! There are no pumpkin patches or apple orchards in W TX. Duh!!! :::snort::: We did the next best thing. Emily on SHS shared a cool object lesson that I want to do with the kids…..problem is that I don’t think I’ve EVER carved a pumpkin. We’ll figure it out.
Here’s the popular “pumpkin patch” at the Methodist church a mile from our home.
Nolan said he felt like he was "pregnant Mom" as he carried this one. :::snort:::
Of course, Zander had to carry a pumpkin if Nolan could. . .
Back at home, Nolan wanted a snack. We turned it into an impromptu “tea”. I went with manly mugs and fish platters that Bre had made. We had crackers, cheeses and halibut salad along with our tea/hot chocolate.
Stacia wants only the finest things in life….
Cian and Jared went off to play a game that Jared created. Nolan and I played Uno. After a few rounds I decided it would be fun to teach him the wild version that we used to play with college friends (ah the memories of being newly married couples in Eugene). This drew Arielle to our table. Then Cian and Jared joined us too.
We all had a lot of fun.
Arielle and I hung our Thanksgiving Tree. Years ago I decided that Thanksgiving is skipped by most to slide into Christmas. We decided to skip Halloween and focus on Thanksgiving. Fall/Harvest season naturally lends itself to this.
We hung a Thanksgiving Tree and it’s already beginning to fill with leaves.
On each leaf someone writes what they are thankful for and attaches it to the tree. It will be fun to watch the tree fill out as Thanksgiving draws closer.
Cian had to go home. We grabbed some dinner – Encore Presentation - and then settled in to watch *Iron Will*. This is another Netflix movie and was one recommended by TOG for school. It is a GREAT movie.
I had the start of another migraine today. Darshia, I remembered to start a log of these headaches. I noted the time I saw the floating dots and 30 minutes later I was home and noted the level of pain. I then followed Sgt. John’s neurologist’s advice and took 3 naproxen…since the Malox made me ill and didn’t work…AND I believe gave me the rebound headache I had on Wed. So far – so good. The pain was about 5 and now is about 2….I noted it all…..and will for a month and then will go back in again to visit the PCM.
I am hoping to get a co-op spice order together by the end of the weekend. We’ll see how that goes. I’m wondering if the essential oils they sell at Monterrey Bay Spice are the kinds that would be good for homemade cleaners.
**All the bold text goes with pictures…OK using BOTH IE and FF I was able to get all but one photo to load. {g}
Arielle and I hung our Thanksgiving Tree. Years ago I decided that Thanksgiving is skipped by most to slide into Christmas. We decided to skip Halloween and focus on Thanksgiving. Fall/Harvest season naturally lends itself to this.
We hung a Thanksgiving Tree and it’s already beginning to fill with leaves.
On each leaf someone writes what they are thankful for and attaches it to the tree. It will be fun to watch the tree fill out as Thanksgiving draws closer.
Cian had to go home. We grabbed some dinner – Encore Presentation - and then settled in to watch *Iron Will*. This is another Netflix movie and was one recommended by TOG for school. It is a GREAT movie.
I had the start of another migraine today. Darshia, I remembered to start a log of these headaches. I noted the time I saw the floating dots and 30 minutes later I was home and noted the level of pain. I then followed Sgt. John’s neurologist’s advice and took 3 naproxen…since the Malox made me ill and didn’t work…AND I believe gave me the rebound headache I had on Wed. So far – so good. The pain was about 5 and now is about 2….I noted it all…..and will for a month and then will go back in again to visit the PCM.
I am hoping to get a co-op spice order together by the end of the weekend. We’ll see how that goes. I’m wondering if the essential oils they sell at Monterrey Bay Spice are the kinds that would be good for homemade cleaners.
**All the bold text goes with pictures…OK using BOTH IE and FF I was able to get all but one photo to load. {g}
Dad Update
My dad was told yesterday that he needs to have the surgery again. They will go in, remove whatever they put in during the second surgery, put a rod through the bone - up his leg and do a bone graph. I guess this is the only option. All the doctors at that practice have been consulting....guess all the doctors in that town work out of one office.
Dad has surgery on Tuesday.
My dad was told yesterday that he needs to have the surgery again. They will go in, remove whatever they put in during the second surgery, put a rod through the bone - up his leg and do a bone graph. I guess this is the only option. All the doctors at that practice have been consulting....guess all the doctors in that town work out of one office.
Dad has surgery on Tuesday.
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