Well, three months have gone by and nothing to write about. Just kidding, we have done plenty, perhaps that is why I haven't been able to blog, to busy with life. School is starting up again, so I have some time in front of the computer to write. Sounds good to me. But where should I start, maybe with a recap of the summer...
Darius has for the most part recovered from his surgery in May. He still is not allowed to eat things that are really hard or sharp. Like apples, crackers, chips, stuff like that. He doesn't miss it though, so that is good. In the next couple of months he will have no restrictions at all, so I look forward to eating some chips and guacamole with him. There is still a small hole at the surgery site, but it may close, or it may not. We have to wait, in the mean time, he will do some speech therapy to see if that helps. Fingers crossed.
We spent much of the summer at home during the week and off on adventures during the weekends. Bahai Summer Camp, Cabin, Silverwood, Cabin, Seattle, Friend Visits, Cabin. There is a wedding coming up too, so, in a word, we have been busy!
ViviAnne and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary this Aug 4. Had a wonderful time at Schweitzer Mt. and I feel more in love than ever. This past week we committed ourselves to a three week elimination diet, cutting out sugar, dairy, wheat, eggs and several other things, like coffee. I have lost almost 6 pounds in one week, and I think ViviAnne has lost 4 or 5. I haven't felt hungry at all, just had cravings for all of my favorite things, like cookies and cheese and bread and coffee. Well, two weeks to go, then I can start adding foods in one at a time and seeing how it affects my body. Should be an interesting experiment, and I will write more on it here.
There is still a little bit of summer left, and I plan on using it up. I would like to head back to Lake Wallowa for a weekend with the kids and some fishing. We are also going up to Schweitzer again for Labor Day weekend, the kids and I will fish on the boat in the lake. Speaking of the boat, I need to convince my dad to bring it down home in the winter, so we can fish on the river for steelhead.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Frustrated
I am pretty frustrated right now about Darius's recovery from his surgery two weeks ago. He is back to his usual self, but he repair has a hole in it. The doctor say there is still a good chance that it will heal back together, but she also said to prepare yourself for it not coming back together fully.
So there is now a real possibility that we will be going through all this next summer. What really makes me sad is that Darius will have to endure it all again as well. Plus, his recovery out of OR was fairly intense, so I am not looking forward to having to endure all of the what-ifs that will pop into my mind if he goes under again.
Till next time...
So there is now a real possibility that we will be going through all this next summer. What really makes me sad is that Darius will have to endure it all again as well. Plus, his recovery out of OR was fairly intense, so I am not looking forward to having to endure all of the what-ifs that will pop into my mind if he goes under again.
Till next time...
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