If You Give Molly a Pooper Scooper

If you give Molly a pooper scooper she's going to go outside and clean up after her dog. While she's out in the yard she'll notice that the tomato plants have frozen and are in need of being taken to the yard recycling. While she's tearing out the tomato plants she glances up and sees that the telephone line to the neighbors house is a lot lower. Upon investigation she sees that the Elderberry tree has grown over the wire and is weighing it down. She then goes over to the elderberry tree and trims the branches. While picking up the branches she pulls up a weed in the 3 seasons garden. One weed leads to three, ten and twenty weeds. While she tkaes the weeds down to the side of the road she discovers that the wheelbarrow has a hard time getting through the tall grass. She grabs the lawn mower and begins to mow the yeard. The lawnmower wheel rolls over a turd that was buried in the tall grass. Where did Molly set down that pooper scooper?

Nate Update

It's already been two months gone since "The Incident" or "The Stroke" or whatever it is you'd like to call it. Since that time we've been constantly reminded of the miracle that occured. Nate's recovery has been an interesting one. We were coached on what steps to take for his physical recovery but no one really talked us through the mental recovery. That has been the hardest. Everything is starting to mellow out now but in the weeks prior Nate was found to be goofing around one minute and extremely somber the next. He still needs his 12 hours of rest in any given time frame of the day. Since naps have been hard to come by he usually sacks out around 8 pm and wakes up very reluctantly at 7:15 am.

One other thing we realized is that the doctors warned against Nate drinking beer but they never specified why. Now we all know how much Nate loves his beer but unfortunately he learned on two seperate occasions that blood thinners and Coumadin do not a match made in heaven make. To put it nicely, Nate becomes a mischievious little devil and then doesn't remember anything once the beer buzz subsides. I remember it all too well and don't appreciate being the one to apologize for his behavior nor do I enjoy babysitting a 37 year old. I have since put forth an alcohol ban on poor Tro. Thankfully, he has agreed and has adjusted his drink palete to include O' Douls and Coors Cutter.

We are both seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as far as catching up with Don's Plumbing work. Nate has noticed that the doctor bills are going to be the easy thing to take care of as it's the plumbing bills we've gotten behind on that are a titch worrisome. We're working hard though to get caught up on it all.

So that's about it. Sometimes I forget that this thing even happened or maybe it's because I want to push it out of my mind, then we'll come across someone who didn't know the story and we find ourselves reliving it again through the retelling.

I need to make the appointment to see the neurologist in Boise in November, this will consist of another CT scan. Poor Nate, I'm sure we'll need to worry about what all this radiation has done to his body at some point but that's for another time. I'm so glad he's doing well and that he is here. He is too.

Summer 2010

I've been so incredibly lame about blogging. Life has been busy but there hasn't really been any big news. Then our world was rocked on Saturday, July 24 when Nate suffered a stroke. His story is told on the Caring Bridge website. I've been placing his updates there as well as the Caring Bridge site. I've also sent an enormous amount of texts an phone calls. I should paste the journal entries here as well but I think that would be overkill.

We feel so blessed to be surrounded by so much love and the St. Alphonsus staff is incredible.

It's Happening Again

Yikes! Only 5 posts this year after I swore I'd write more????? I have to say I have not been motivated to do much this year. I think I may be putting too much pressure on myself to go all out in every aspect of my life and when I don't attain a certain goal I give up on everything. So now my new mantra is "baby steps and little bites". Let's see how well this works out.

Pants on the Ground

Before I go further I want to share with you this video clip from American Idol where this guy auditioned with an original song called "Pants on the Ground" . Now I am going to share with you all, because I have no shame and am full of humility, my own personal 'pants on the ground' story.

We went to the movie Avatar this afternoon. It is a long one, clocking in at just under 3 hours. About halfway through the film my tummy decided to not feel well so I alleviated the discomfort my unbuttoning my button and unzipping my pants. I completely forgot I did this as I became so engrossed in the movie and the battle scenes. When it was finished something didn't feel right but I didn't clue in to what that was. We gathered our things, walked down the stairs of the theater and got to the door when I realized my pants were falling off of me. There was a crowd of people behind me so I couldn't just stop and adjust myself. We walked out of the theater and I'm doing all I can to keep my pants up, while holding my pop, jacket, purse and popcorn. It was hilarious! I did my best to conceal my problem while giggling the whole time. Josie and Annabelle were yelling at me to tell them what was so funny but I couldn't just blurt out that my pants were falling off of me. I finally made it to the car and told them what just happened. They had a good laugh then serenaded me with the "Pants on the Ground" song.

Quote of the Day

I came up to Nate with the nose hair tweezers as he could almost braid his. He looked at me scared and said, "I don't want to cry right now, I just put my contacts in."

Foiled Again!

I should know from the past 10 years to not fully activate New Year's Resolutions until February. My reasoning? We usually spend January sick and it throws me off for the remaining 11 months. I lose all of my momentum and then don't want to do anything until the following January.

This happened to us again for the beginning of 2010. I was so excited to start feeling quasi-normal after surgery. I was going to get back into the gym and then.....Josie and Annabelle came down with the stomach flu which kept them out of school for a week. I was able to start the Wii Fit program and made my come-back to the gym and then I got hit with strep throat. I've been out for 7 days now. I'm super tired from sleepless nights and have no motivation to even get out of PJ's.

So I'm resolving to start my resolutions in February from now on so that should thwart getting foiled in January.

2010 Resolution #1

Facebook Less......Blog More

In 2008 I wrote 75 entries and in 2009 after signing up for FB I only blogged 37 times. Ouch! My goal is to write on our blog 80 times! The entries might be boring, lame, mundane and pointless but I'm going to do it!!!!

2 down and 78 more to go.

Funny Quotes by Josie

Josie was in the middle of reading one of her stories she'd written in English class when mid-sentence she says, "What Mom, is my breath burning your eyes?" I asked her what in the world that meant and she said, "Well, I was in the middle of reading this and you started squinching your eyes. I thought maybe my breath was burning them."

This morning, I informed Josie that my friend Jeannine would be spending the night tomorrow night after we scrapbook late at the office.
"Well, that's weird." She says.
"Why?" I asked her.
"I didn't know that old people could have sleepovers. I just thought that was a kid thing."