This is truly my sluff post – and on the last day of NaBloPoMo, too! I did it (posted every day in November), with varying degrees of quality. I plan to do a better recap on Sunday or Monday. I’m off in 30 minutes to visit my mom for the weekend (who had oral surgery [...]
Jim made it through the first critical 24 hours and is now coherent, off the ventilator, and down from 13 (!) IV drips to 5. Thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers. Velma was concerned because the first time she visited him after they “woke him up” (took him off anesthesia), he seemed [...]
…the questions were and are a bit more complicated. The angiogram revealed that Dave’s dad had only 5% of heart capacity (much less than the doctor thought). Apparently he had two previous silent yet massive heart attacks. As we all went about our lives, as Jim played Solitaire on the computer, as Nana played puzzles [...]
I know it’s NaBloPoMo and all, but I’m going to have to take the night off. Dave’s dad is in the hospital. Not the ER, but the hospital. He’s been having some breathing difficulties. Tomorrow he has an angiogram. Parents are supposed to be invincible. Even when they’re 78. Please keep him in your prayers.
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King Herod and the Baby Jesus Death Squad Golgotha – Complete with Pre-and-Post Crucified Jesus (small holes in his hands allow him to pop on and off the plastic cross) Christmas Shopping Smackdown – Contains: sharp-elbowed-red-eyed-laser-focus Mommy with lead handbag, bewildered-looking-stand-in-line-Daddy with Circuit City ad, stack of mystery “It-Toy”-of-the-year boxes, plastic credit card statement (in [...]
[...]And after trimming the tree, we got out the nativity sets. Peter immediately engaged his Playmobil Mary in a swordfight with a Playmobil wiseman. Henry had Playmobil Joseph riding a Jetski. Dave kept introducing the robber into the scene. I finally compromised and had them get out the Roman soldiers and let them be as violent as they wanted because they were working for Herod and wanted to kill Jesus and later did kill Jesus and tried to kill Paul so of course they were bad. But they weren’t allowed to slice anyone in the nativity story not even the cow because Mommy said so. The End.[...]
I keep wondering about this NaBloPoMo thing: if each of us is trying hard to keep posting every day, how do we have time to read each other’s stuff? I have run across some cool people at the NBPM site (Hi Stella, Sweetisu and Mad Goat Lady!) and wish I had time to visit their [...]
We started the day off with a wonderful thankfulness yoga workshop and ended it with a lovely meal with our family and good friend. I basked in the wonder and glory of the day: beautiful sunshine outside, that bracing make-you-grateful-to-come-indoors cold outside, amazing smells as we cooked and finished preparations. I truly love having Thanksgiving [...]
Dave stirring the brine Brined turkey is awesome! Brined turkey is fabulous. Ours is sitting in the cooler, awaiting tomorrow’s firey fate. Check this entry for the recipe. It appeared in the Seattle Times a few years ago, and is from Chef Greg Atkinson. I would link to his site, but he took the recipe [...]