My mom went and had hip replacement surgery. Which puts her pretty much in recovery mode for the next several months. Right now she can't even be left alone.
Her SO's daughter is an RN and came to stay to help out.
Only her father ended up in the hospital with Ecoli bacteria in his blood stream the day after my moms surgery.
So I've been making a daily trek to my moms so Carole can go see her father.
He should be coming home today with a pic line so he can get his meds.
I now know what people are talking about when they say they are trapped between their kids and their parents being the care giver. Lucky for me 2 of mine are adults and the youngest is 16.
Although she has had some where she has had to be dropped of at or picked up from almost every day since this has been going on.
I think I have developed a permanent headache.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
How would you survive?
I just finished reading a 2 book series called Last Light, Night Light By Terri blackstock.
If you've never heard of her, she is a Christian Fiction writer.
Basically the story is about the earth being hit with an EMP pulse. That lovely little thing that would knock out and destroy all of our electronics. Only in this story they determined that the pulse is coming from a star that died back in 1998 and has just now reached us. The real downer is as the star is spinning in space it keeps on hitting us with these pulses as it rotates. We can't even build new stuff and have them work.
The story follows one upper middle class family.
It totally gives you something to think about.
Have city water?
Well that won't be working.
Have a well water?
Nope not working either because of your pump.
Do you live any where near a body of water?
One that you can walk to? Because your car is no longer working.
Your neighbors are more then willing to kill you for your bicycle if you have one.
See where this going?
Can't count on any government help. They are all in the dark too. In fact the whole world is.
It also pointed out a few terrifying things for us parents.
What if your at work 10 miles away from home and your kids are at school 5 miles from home in the other direction? That is a 15 mile walk just to get to them.
How long would it take an out of shape 35 year old woman to walk 15 miles? Worse yet what if she still had a baby she had to bring with her?
Then there is the fact that you can't get to a hospital or the police can't respond.
Oh and just hope you weren't in a plane because they all fell out of the sky.
If a loved one was away traveling, don't plan on them getting home at all.
These books instantly throw you in to survival mode.
If you enjoy a good story that makes you think. I highly suggest these books.
If you've never heard of her, she is a Christian Fiction writer.
Basically the story is about the earth being hit with an EMP pulse. That lovely little thing that would knock out and destroy all of our electronics. Only in this story they determined that the pulse is coming from a star that died back in 1998 and has just now reached us. The real downer is as the star is spinning in space it keeps on hitting us with these pulses as it rotates. We can't even build new stuff and have them work.
The story follows one upper middle class family.
It totally gives you something to think about.
Have city water?
Well that won't be working.
Have a well water?
Nope not working either because of your pump.
Do you live any where near a body of water?
One that you can walk to? Because your car is no longer working.
Your neighbors are more then willing to kill you for your bicycle if you have one.
See where this going?
Can't count on any government help. They are all in the dark too. In fact the whole world is.
It also pointed out a few terrifying things for us parents.
What if your at work 10 miles away from home and your kids are at school 5 miles from home in the other direction? That is a 15 mile walk just to get to them.
How long would it take an out of shape 35 year old woman to walk 15 miles? Worse yet what if she still had a baby she had to bring with her?
Then there is the fact that you can't get to a hospital or the police can't respond.
Oh and just hope you weren't in a plane because they all fell out of the sky.
If a loved one was away traveling, don't plan on them getting home at all.
These books instantly throw you in to survival mode.
If you enjoy a good story that makes you think. I highly suggest these books.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
I own it, yet I don't
My lovely youngest child is entering the world of driving.
As we did with her older siblings, we are giving her a car.
In this case the best choice was our company owned vehicle.
So yesterday we bought back our car, from our company, so we could give it to our daughter.
I don't know about any one else, but to me this is wrong on "oh" so many levels.
Yet another good screwing from our lovely government. It just maybe time to send them some flowers :P
As we did with her older siblings, we are giving her a car.
In this case the best choice was our company owned vehicle.
So yesterday we bought back our car, from our company, so we could give it to our daughter.
I don't know about any one else, but to me this is wrong on "oh" so many levels.
Yet another good screwing from our lovely government. It just maybe time to send them some flowers :P
Saturday, May 17, 2008
The Best Water Filter ever...NOT
About 10 years ago, we invested in a Rain Soft top of the line water filter with a reverse ozmosis system for the our drinking water.
$5000.00 financed dollars at loan shark interest rates.
Took us forever and a day to pay off.
We did this because we live in a small town, who's idea of keeping the water clean is to add chlorine to it.
So for the sake of having clean soft water and because I was tired of having my washing machines and dishwashers rust out on me, we went ahead and put our selves in major debt that we couldn't afford at the time and bought it.
Now it's many years later it's paid off and we own it.
Since we have paid it off and the warrenty has expired every once in a while this thing loses it's little electronic mind. Today is one of those days. It has kicked in and backwashed it self 4 times to far. Which I am sure is doing lovely things to my water bill.
Unplugging it does no good. It just continues on with what it is doing. So right now I'm sitting here waiting once again for it to stop. I'm hoping unplugging it while it's not doing anything will stop it from starting back up again. Because when you cut the power to something electric it's suppose to stop it from being able to work, right. RIGHT?
At this point I'm not so sure and I have no freaking idea what so ever how one un-possesses a possessed water filter.
If you can't tell the fact that it still runs with out power to it, has me we bit freaked out.
This is one of those blog posts that will require an update at a later time.
$5000.00 financed dollars at loan shark interest rates.
Took us forever and a day to pay off.
We did this because we live in a small town, who's idea of keeping the water clean is to add chlorine to it.
So for the sake of having clean soft water and because I was tired of having my washing machines and dishwashers rust out on me, we went ahead and put our selves in major debt that we couldn't afford at the time and bought it.
Now it's many years later it's paid off and we own it.
Since we have paid it off and the warrenty has expired every once in a while this thing loses it's little electronic mind. Today is one of those days. It has kicked in and backwashed it self 4 times to far. Which I am sure is doing lovely things to my water bill.
Unplugging it does no good. It just continues on with what it is doing. So right now I'm sitting here waiting once again for it to stop. I'm hoping unplugging it while it's not doing anything will stop it from starting back up again. Because when you cut the power to something electric it's suppose to stop it from being able to work, right. RIGHT?
At this point I'm not so sure and I have no freaking idea what so ever how one un-possesses a possessed water filter.
If you can't tell the fact that it still runs with out power to it, has me we bit freaked out.This is one of those blog posts that will require an update at a later time.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Lifes Mysteries
I walked in to my daughters bathroom this morning and found this
If your wondering what "this" is. It's what's left of a tubeless roll of toilet paper, sitting on top of the empty tube.
How does this happen?
Really, don't bother to answer. Because I'm sure I don't want to know.
Jake
He is turning 5 this summer and starting kindergarten in the fall.
If you know Jake at all, then you know he is a very old soul in a very young body.
When you look in to his crystal blue eyes, you can see the depths of his mind working.
He is also a master manipulator. He threw me in to a guilt trip a couple of weeks ago and melted my heart at the same time.
One of my favorite things about Jake is he is much like talking to a small adult. He has the vocabulary of one and his range of topics are way above his age level.
I think the one thing that I admire most about him is, he is highly organized.
I was warned by many a mom to avoid Play-Doh at all costs.
That even having him sit at the table I would still be peeling it off my drapes.
Well not with Jake. The Pay-Doh has always stayed on the table on the mat I provide, with the colors separated.
In fact he is like that with everything I give him to play with.
The problem I do have with him is his self imposed goal of perfection. If he sets out to do something he wants to do it and he wants to do it well.
If it doesn't turn out well, we risk melt down.
Like the day we gave him a kite to fly. There was no wind, but he tried. He ran the length of our field until he couldn't run any more. He wasn't to happy when he had wore himself out and still hadn't gotten the kite to fly.
I think one of my most enjoyable days was when I went to watch him play soccer.
Maybe I should say when I went to watch him check out the grass growing on the soccer field.....lol
He had no interest in the sport at all. Plus he was a foot shorter then every other child on the field. As much as he tired, he spent most the day running towards his team mates because he just couldn't keep up....lol After a while he completely lost interest in the game and found interesting things on the ground and in the sky to look at.
It was a total delight watching him be a 4 year old, while watching his father slowly figure out that Jake was not going to be the next Beckman.
This year I believe it will be T-Ball. Maybe Jake will be a little more focused. I doubt it, focus is not his problem. In fact he doesn't have a problem. Jake is artistic like his Grandfather and his Aunt Libby. Give him some paper and something to draw with and then sit back and watch the magic happen.
Magic happens when you give him anything he can create something with.
Beautiful things come in little packages.
If you know Jake at all, then you know he is a very old soul in a very young body.
When you look in to his crystal blue eyes, you can see the depths of his mind working.
He is also a master manipulator. He threw me in to a guilt trip a couple of weeks ago and melted my heart at the same time.
One of my favorite things about Jake is he is much like talking to a small adult. He has the vocabulary of one and his range of topics are way above his age level.
I think the one thing that I admire most about him is, he is highly organized.
I was warned by many a mom to avoid Play-Doh at all costs.
That even having him sit at the table I would still be peeling it off my drapes.
Well not with Jake. The Pay-Doh has always stayed on the table on the mat I provide, with the colors separated.
In fact he is like that with everything I give him to play with.
The problem I do have with him is his self imposed goal of perfection. If he sets out to do something he wants to do it and he wants to do it well.
If it doesn't turn out well, we risk melt down.
Like the day we gave him a kite to fly. There was no wind, but he tried. He ran the length of our field until he couldn't run any more. He wasn't to happy when he had wore himself out and still hadn't gotten the kite to fly.
I think one of my most enjoyable days was when I went to watch him play soccer.
Maybe I should say when I went to watch him check out the grass growing on the soccer field.....lol
He had no interest in the sport at all. Plus he was a foot shorter then every other child on the field. As much as he tired, he spent most the day running towards his team mates because he just couldn't keep up....lol After a while he completely lost interest in the game and found interesting things on the ground and in the sky to look at.
It was a total delight watching him be a 4 year old, while watching his father slowly figure out that Jake was not going to be the next Beckman.
This year I believe it will be T-Ball. Maybe Jake will be a little more focused. I doubt it, focus is not his problem. In fact he doesn't have a problem. Jake is artistic like his Grandfather and his Aunt Libby. Give him some paper and something to draw with and then sit back and watch the magic happen.
Magic happens when you give him anything he can create something with.
Beautiful things come in little packages.
Wash with like colors
In cold water, no bleach.
The shirt is white, with Red, blue and pink lettering on it.
So do I have to find other pieces of clothing that are white, red, blue and pink?
Can I just find some thing that is white, some thing red, some thing blue and some thing pink?
Lets face the ugly truth here.
First the shirt is mostly white so every fiber of my being wants to toss it in hot water and bleach with the rest of the white cloths.
I can't do that.
Because the shirt is mostly white if I toss it in with the colors, even in cold. It' s not going to white for to long.
So the fact is. The assholes that made this shirt. Also made the 4th pile of laundry.
Whites
Darks
Lights
This shirt
The shirt is white, with Red, blue and pink lettering on it.
So do I have to find other pieces of clothing that are white, red, blue and pink?
Can I just find some thing that is white, some thing red, some thing blue and some thing pink?
Lets face the ugly truth here.
First the shirt is mostly white so every fiber of my being wants to toss it in hot water and bleach with the rest of the white cloths.
I can't do that.
Because the shirt is mostly white if I toss it in with the colors, even in cold. It' s not going to white for to long.
So the fact is. The assholes that made this shirt. Also made the 4th pile of laundry.
Whites
Darks
Lights
This shirt
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