There’s been quite a bit going on so hopefully this post won’t be short and boring. For starters, we had a snow storm here on Monday
night! Actually, it turned out to be a lot smaller than they were predicting.
They said we were going to get 8-12 inches Monday night and an additional 3-5
inches on Tuesday. As it turned out, we actually got about 6-8 inches Monday
night and nothing really on Tuesday. We got more freezing rain / rain mixed in
with the snow than I think they expected, which probably accounts for the lower
snow accumulations. Still, there was no school on Tuesday. Our first snow day
this school year! I shoveled our front walk and that was probably the wettest,
heaviest snow I have ever encountered! It was pretty simple to shovel, though.
Only took me a few minutes. So our crazy winter continues—hardly any winter to
speak of, and then we get snow in March! We never know what to expect. The
roads were pretty cleared up by Tuesday evening but it was really cold on
Tuesday and Wednesday so we had 2 hour delays on Wednesday and Thursday because
the roads got icy overnight. Today was the only “normal” school day we had this
week. Yesterday and today were a bit warmer so the snow is starting to melt.
There’s still a lot out there, but our front yard is completely melted in the
middle.
Our flower bed on Monday:
Our flower bed on Tuesday:
Snowy front yard:
Snowy street:
Last Friday I got an evening out—two of my friends decided to have a “girls night” so we had a potluck dinner and watched a movie afterwards. I sort of liked the movie although it
wasn’t my favorite, but the food was really good and it was fun to spend an
evening with friends. Sam came for the weekend, so he was here when I got home
that night.
Saturday was typically busy—as usual, I did some Cub Scout
planning and cleaned the kitchen floor. I also worked on the FAFSA for Tanner and
went to the store to get more yarn and to the library to get some books for
Seth for a report he is doing at school. They are all doing a report on an
artist and he is doing Diego Velazquez. I was really surprised on Sunday
afternoon to find him totally engrossed in one of the books I got (a book of
paintings). I didn’t think he was that interested in art!!
Sunday was the day we went onto daylight savings time, so
we’ve been trying to adjust to the time change since then. Frank wasn’t feeling
well at all on Sunday so he stayed home. (He’s feeling better now). I had choir
practice on Sunday night as usual and it was a really good practice. I feel
like I am finally starting to get all those songs down! I practiced them a
bunch on Tuesday and I only have a few places here and there in some of the
songs that I’m struggling with a little bit still. We still have 3 practices
left so I think I will get everything down solid before the performance. I
really LOVE singing songs from the Messiah!! They are challenging to learn, but
so amazing once you learn them. I really feel the spirit when I sing them.
Monday they had school scheduled to start two hours late for
a teacher work session, which I thought was kind of weird. I kept busy all
day—I finished up the FAFSA for Tanner (other than the signature part, which we're still working on. It's complicated since Tanner isn't here to do it himself). I also
ordered sheets for Jared and had them sent to his mission so they’ll be there
waiting for him when he gets there. I had to get a few groceries and the store
was a mad house because of the snow storm predicted for that night—it always
annoys me when my regular shopping day falls on the day before a storm so that
I have to compete with all the unprepared procrastinating people!!
Tuesday may have been a day off for Seth, but I was busy all
day. I cleaned the bathrooms (I even mopped the floors!) and practiced choir
songs and spent way too much time trying to communicate with everyone to find
out if we were having Cub scouts that night in spite of the weather (we did).
Some of the boys didn’t make it, but the ones who came had fun. We started
working on an adventure called “Marble Madness” so we played marbles all
evening.
Wednesday ended up being kind of a crazy day—I feel like I
spent the day driving to the vet and back (I actually only made 3 trips there
and back, but it’s a pretty decent drive so 3 trips added up to quite a bit of
time.) Snickers had his ultrasound that morning, so I took him over for that.
Originally, I was going to stay there until he was done but since the schools
were on a 2 hour delay, I had to get back home to get Seth ready for school and
then take him to school. Then I went back over to the vet to pick Snickers up,
thinking he’d be ready by then. Well, the ultrasound was done but since it
didn’t show anything obviously wrong with his liver, the vet recommended they
do another test on him which would help narrow down what might be going on with
his liver. They had to test him once, feed him, wait two hours, and test him
again. So I ended up leaving him there and having to go back later to pick him
up (the same time I picked up Seth from school). We’re still waiting on the
results of that test to figure out where we need to go from here. Meanwhile,
the ultrasound DID show something going on with his bladder—he has a kidney
stone. This explains why there is blood in his urine. The vet said it is quite
large and she is surprised he hasn’t been asking to go out a lot and / or
peeing all over the house. I’m happy to say he hasn’t been doing either of
those things!! The stone does need to come out, though, and he will need
surgery for that. They have decided to postpone his teeth cleaning and they
will do that at the same time they do the surgery to remove the kidney stone.
Depending on what the test on his liver shows, they may be doing surgery on his
liver too. Ugh!!! I feel bad for him and I’m not looking forward to the
boatload of money this all is going to cost but we want him to get better, of
course. He is also going to start taking an antibiotic which he will be on for
a few months.
All the trips to the vet really broke the day up, and I
don’t feel like I got much done on Wednesday besides Wal-Mart shopping. My
visiting teachers came to visit me that evening. I always enjoy their visits! I
had book chat on Thursday evening and it was fun as usual. We enjoyed
discussing All the Light We Cannot See. A lot of the women agreed with me—they
liked the book, but felt like the ending fell kind of flat. Now we are reading
a book called Rebecca, which is a classic and some of the members of our group
have already read it, but I haven’t so I’m looking forward to reading it.
This morning Frank had another cortisone shot. This may be his
last one. His appointment was at 7:30 and for some crazy reason neither of us
woke up until 7:09! I woke up first and when I saw the clock, I woke Frank up and
we just threw on some clothes and went over to his appointment. I was half way
there when I remembered it was St. Patrick’s Day and I hadn’t put on any green.
Oh well! I have green on now—I put on a green shirt later, after I exercised
and showered. Frank worked from home today and we went to lunch together. So far,
this shot isn’t bothering him too much although tomorrow will probably be worse
than today. At least we know now that after a few bad days the shot will start
to work and he is likely to feel better than he did before the shot. We have
the carpool boys over to play again this afternoon, so it is very noisy in here
right now! They are having fun, though.
Frank hit a milestone this week--he has now been working for Marriott for 5 years. He got a certificate and a pin:
He also gets to choose a gift from a catalog of options and he got a certificate which is good for dinner for two at any Marriott hotel. It will be fun to use that--not sure where we are going to go yet!
That wraps it up for this week.
1 comment:
I'm not jealous AT ALL of your snow storm. And poor dog with such a big kidney stone and other problems!
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