End of May

Well this will be a general update on the last couple of weeks.

Darius continues to recover. He has a small hole in the repair, but ViviAnne was looking in his mouth yesterday and commented that it looked better than it had earlier in the week, so maybe it is zipping up as the doctor suggested it might do. Still I have been worried about needing to do a repeat surgery next summer.

Speaking of Darius, he has been such a trooper. We have been blending up food for him and thank God, he is eating it. I was telling Liam the other day that if it was him that was on a liquid diet, he would be starved because he is such a picky eater. It always seems like the one kid that has to cope with a disability is the one that is able to do so. Honestly, when we blended up the lasagna for dinner last night, it looked like vomit. But he ate it, I am amazed still!

We have done a fair amount of home improvement over the last couple of weeks. First we covered the driveway with 5/8 inch rock, so it is nice and smooth. We also added some parking off the driveway. This will later turn into one of our planned out buildings, but that is a way down the road. The same people that did our driveway also leveled out a 100 by 60 foot field in back of the house. We had hoped to put grass seed down before this big rain hit, but didn't quite make it. So now we are waiting to get it dried out enough to spread seed and then roller it out so it is nice and smooth. We will also have to keep the dog off it somehow until the grass get up. I have been tiling the basement shower over the last two weeks. It is almost done. An other day of tiling and then grouting and sealing, so if I stay diligent about another week and we will have a 3/4 bath in the basement! After that is all done, I will move into the bonus room and begin a slight remodel of the ceiling rafters and electrical wiring. After that is finished we will insulate and sheet rock the walls. Our hope is to get the bonus room turned into a pseudo-master bedroom by winter.

Chickens are out in the yard now. I installed the fence two weeks ago and it is working nicely. I have a little shoring up to do and I would like to also put fencing across the top, but so far it has been unnecessary.

With the three day week starting tomorrow I am sure I will get some more done on each of these projects.