Absenteeism

Sorry fans! I've been under the weather, really under :((

But before that, here are some things that were happening around here:











I should have reversed the pics, oh well! I'm doing good to get this posted.

Cozyflier

Fatigued!

So, I probably would have said exhausted, but AJ is having words of the day and he came home saying fatigued in every other sentence!!!!

Yes, I AM fatigued!!!!!!!

I'm running back and forth to the hospital, thank heavens Kev has been home for 4 days, what a shock.

We worked on rebuilding the shed.... we still have a roof to do. Also, Kevin and I have been painting the fascia and eves of the house where the gutters go, so that the roofing company can put up new gutters! There is blue paint everywhere and I do mean everywhere!! I need another project, right??? Don't know if I'll ever get AJ's dresser and desk stripped, sanded, and spray painted!

The vertical blinds came in for the game/sun room and the living room. The Company messed up and shipped one set incorrectly. That project can't be completed.

Oh, and Mom's sweet dachshund, Elke, can't come to our house because the kitties and she don't get along. So we are running to her house to walk, water, and feed the dog!

Mom was suppose to move to rehab today, if they had a room available. I sure hope the pain subsides and she can start walking.

Thursday we are suppose to finish the roof of the shed and the doors. I really hope we can. The rest of the house outside painting will have to wait to life is less busy. I don't have time to post any pictures. It does look nice if I do say so myself! Pics later!

Kev returns to work tomorrow night, maybe he can teach me to edge the grass before he leaves, I did get it mowed! Man, chores never disappear.

Trying to keep the faith~

Cozyflier

Worried

I'm stressed..... Mom is NOT working with the Physical Therapists. I understand that there is a lot of pain, but if she doesn't put in some effort, she won't ever walk again. I've never seen her act like this with pain.

I need all to pray for her. She is suppose to be moved to rehab on Wed. This could be interesting if she doesn't make any progress.

Cozyflier

Here We Go Again!

Oh NO!!!

Scene 1: Saturday, house full of people, actually, yard full of people re-building shed, Tyler and Ashley had left to take Grammie back home. 1st, quick stop at grocery store for some cookies for Church.

Phone rings, Tyler - Heads up, Grammie just fell. Will call you back.

A few seconds later we hear a lot of sirens.....

A minute later phone rings, ambulance is taking Grammie to hospital for X-rays, she thinks her leg is broken!!!

3 hours later, the ER doctor calls tells my husband, a doctor, femoral bone (thigh) is broken, being admitted. Tyler & Ashley had already gone back up to the hospital.

Act 2, Flashback, L hip was broken at Easter, 6 mos prior, just recovering and starting to get around from that.


Act 3, During the day we had had 2 sprained ankles working on the shed.


Act 4 Grammie calls friend to come pick up cookies and take to church. She comes into house, steps off the step down into sun room and falls!!!!

HUGE Goose egg on forehead, bleeding cuts on both arms from blood thinners. Doc has to come in from building shed and put on steri strips and bandages!

Finale Cookies are cursed! Time to shut down and have a glass of wine!

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Cozyflier

Love Thy What?

OK, I know I'm suppose to Love Thy Thy Neighbor, and Do Unto Others...., but as you know if you have been reading my blog, I have an obstinate neighbor! We have lived in this house for 15 yrs, this woman has lived next door to us for 14 months.

Please refer to Shed post.

So, I want to show all my blog friends how Kevin and I spent 9-11-09, remembering the bombing of the Twin Towers in NYC. I thought it was ironic when we were Memorializing (word?) the mass DESTRUCTION of 2 ICONS of our culture, Kevin and I were destructing our shed! The husband comes up and says, "wow, it sure is coming down fast"! Kevin, brilliantly says, "Destruction is faster than Creation".






My yard, after the fence has been torn down, the yard tilled, and everything exposed to the public!


Staking out the ground, the shed, at the current size, 10x12' is NOT going to fit in this yard!


We need more muscle to move this wall in 1 piece! It is the only wall we can keep intact and not have to rebuild.


The old concrete from the fence post footing. Great brotherly teamwork!


Digging out the trenches for the runners of the floor railing.



Sorry, but REVENGE is SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not 1 hr after we went from this.....



We started this....





The end result? Lots of HAPPY kids, hooting and hollering, loud music, and jumping higher than the fence line!!! The witch might regret the day she complained about about a roof line that after all we were willing to lower!




This baby isn't going anywhere!!

Happy day!

Cozyflier

Stay at Home Mom, Really???

OK, I've probably discussed this before, and it is mostly my own fault, however I'm a SAHM who is HARDLY ever home!!! the name escapes me, but there is a Jim Carey movie where he says 'YES' to everything. I need a course to learn to say NO!!!!!

I have board positions on 2 PTA's and 1 on Council. Add school meetings for kids, extracurricular activities, AJ is still begging for Tennis, taking my Mom to the stores and her errands, and yikes! I need a calendar for my calendar!

Kevin was looking in the closet yesterday for a shirt to wear that wasn't a scrub. Most of them needed to be ironed, he said, maybe I should take them with me to some of these slow ER's, I would have more time to iron than you!!!! BLESS HIM!

Can you picture it? The doctor in his little call room with an iron, ironing shirts on the bed and the beeper going off. OR, the headline in the paper, hospital fire started by unattended iron!!!!

Well, I've vented, I'm just tired from 2 weeks of meetings, roofers, and painters.

Kev said it best, I need a T shirt that says, Help, Stop me before I Volunteer Again!

Cozyflier

09-09-09 We're Still Here!

Just a quick note, we are still alive! I heard on the radio this morning that dooms day sayers were predicting that this too would be the end of the world, gee when and where have I heard that in the last 9 or so years????

Sorry friends, you have to pay your bills.

Cozyflier