Three Weeks!!!

Oh my.......it's hard for me to believe it's been three weeks since my last post. Can you tell I've gotten out of bed for good?!!

Let's see, what's been going on......maybe you don't want to hear about it....then I don't have to play catch up......hmmm. I guess I could just give you the highlights.

Mom had her surgery, she is doing great, recovering well. Maybe not as fast as she'd like, but still doing well. The pathology report was negative for any cancer, they removed it all when the did the colonoscopy, but there is no way to know that they got it all in the colonascopy for sure without the surgery. The negative results were wonderful and we feel very blessed to know the Heavenly Father is looking out for us.

Kathy was here for two weeks and that was so wonderful. She took complete and total care of Mom, my only concern was finding time to visit at the hospital! We were very sad to send her home, but Kathy's social life just wouldn't allow her to stay! Trent, her son was married over the weekend, and this week she and Larry find out about a surgery for Larry.

While Mom was at the hospital we got to spend four days at the local resort, we had a minor smoking incident with the furnace on Sunday afternoon, and we wanted to test whether the house was actually affecting us or not. As we still hadn't had a day where all eight of us were healthy since June 12th. The only one it made a difference for was Brent and we're pretty sure it was allergies for him, not a mold or other issue in the house.

I also went back to the Dr. to get lung x-rays again, as I thought I had pneumonia, again. But thankfully I didn't. The boys all came down with a virus right after I got out of bed in August, so that contributed to my illness. I was very, very good and took it easy for weeks after I got out of bed, so it was frustrating to be so sick again!

While at the resort, we had people come in to fix the furnace, which was a motor on a fan, and we had some people come in to see if they thought we had a mold issue. They didn't think we had a mold issue, but we do have a water issue in both bathrooms. So now we're waiting on insurance to see if it will pay for replacing the floors of both baths and the kitchen, as the water is a couple of feet into the kitchen. They have a nifty little gadget that tells them these things. It's not standing water per se, it's that the underboards are damp/wet.

The first week of Sept. Amanda went back to school, the boys started a more structured routine again, and Brent worked 12+ hrs a day doing a work week. Can I say how happy I am that he's not doing that anymore!! This was just a fill in for his former department, while they trained a new guy.

Last week Brent took the week off, except Wed. and we worked on winterizing the cabin and farm. You can see some of what we did over at Mom's blog. (Grandma Cancy's blog, in the side bar) At the farm we FINALLY made progress on the garage. Just one large pile of stuff in the middle and then some boxes on the shelves to go through!! YEAH!!! That was driving me CRAZY.

And during that time we had fifteen new baby chicks hatch out and added four more hens to the nesting boxes to sit on four eggs each.

We still have things to do, but we're hopeful we'll be able to get them done, as they will not take as much time as the stuff we got done last week. We need to get them done quickly as you never know when the weather will turn cold, and then it's miserable to work in. One year we had snow in late Oct.!

So this week we're back to real life. Brent is off to work, and we're back into the structure of a routine.