Our crazy life

Once again, we've had a wild week. In no certain order, here is what we have been doing.
1. The bathroom is almost done. Yeah, I know you've heard that before. Really, we are almost done. All that is left is having the glass door for the shower installed (it has been measured) and completion of the mirrors (also measured). That's really it.
2. I finished my last ER shift, but more importantly, got paid for the work I have already done. That paycheck was an odd moment.
3. I get to start my real job Monday. Yea!!!!! Long time coming.
4. Porter has strep throat. Fever started Tuesday and has been pretty hard to treat. Motrin and Tylenol every 4 hours didn't even cut it last night. Diarrhea started late yesterday afternoon. Red sore hinney. We saw Dr Eldridge today and got him fixed up, so hopefully we are on the road to recovery.
5. Nannie and I have been sewing and have been experimenting with her new software and have some exciting stuff to show off soon. Here are some pictures of porter at nannie's this afternoon. He felt a little better after a good nap, but still has a ways to go.
Popsicles were a staple in our diet today.





Watching nannie do her thing.


Eating with papsie.





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Meat sticks

Taddy and Chris (my aunt and new uncle that live in Atlanta) gave us some elk meat and meat sticks while we were there this weekend. We thawed some out this afternoon and Jared and I eat got one. Porter took mine and just started eating it. I took a couple pictures and sent one to taddy since she's not a blog stalker.



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Quick trip to Atlanta

We bought tickets to the Jack Johnson concert in Atlanta months ago. We realized the beginning of last week that he concert was Friday night. We have had such a rough week with the lightning strike problems an trying to get this bathroom project finished we almost didn't go. Plus my parents are in Alaska on vacation and they are our regular babysitters. My nannie is so good to us though and kept porter last night so we could come. We really needed a break to do this and I'm glad we did, even if it was a quick trip and we got stormed on at the concert. Yes. It was at Lakewood amphitheater and we had uncovered seats. It rained as we got there and we got pretty wet, but stopped before jack j started playing. It started agin probably 45 minutes into his set and was a serious thunderstorm. We gave up and headed to the car, and were soaked all the way through. Porter got a t-shirt out of it though. Today we swung by the mall to pick up a couple of things we have been needing/wanting, and now we are headed home.
What we saw of the concert was great.





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St Agnes Resort and Spa

Some of you may have heard that Jared's sister, Dana, has recently been diagnosed with a rare cancer and I have been getting lots of questions about her progress and treatment. She has had one surgery, and is about to leave for Baltimore for further treatment. She has started a blog for updates, comments, and encouragement. It's always good to know you are cared for and loved, so I'm sure she would love to know about all the people I have talked to that are praying for her. The address is www.stagnesresortandspa.blogspot.com
I will post a link as soon as we get our Internet back up and running at home.

Porter and Aunt Moth Ball, as she is affectionately known, at disneyworld last September.



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Somebody's gonna be jealous!!

I'm talkin' to you, Brookie. Look what we made today!!!






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Porter's shirt

This is the other shirt we did at nannie's yesterday.



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Innnnnnteresting occurrence

This morning porter asked to go "tee tee" so Jared took him to the hall bathroom and sat him on the potty. Nothing happened, so he took him to his bathroom to sit on his potty, and he tee teed. A lot. We haven't really been pushing the potty, so I don't know where it came from, but we will certainly be talking about it more now. Veeeeeerrrry innnnnnteresting.


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Sewing at nannie's

To stay out of the heat today (at our house) I went up to nannie's to "play" in her sewing room. We did some towels for our bathroom and stole this idea from etsy for porter. His new formal wear....






The cutest one is still at nannie's. I had to leave in a hurry to run some errands--one of which was to let the A/C man in (hallelujah!!!!) and another was to be picked up by the rental car people to hitch a ride to enterprise. I'll post a pic of the other shirt tomorrow.
I am now the proud driver of a gmc terrain, and I must say that this is the nicest rental I've ever driven. I'm very much a crossover fan at this point. I would even consider the swagger wagon. I just said consider.
We also have the correct shower part installed and we can finally use the shower. Eeeeeee!!! Can't wait to use it. I've never been this excited to take a shower. Can't get too excited yet because it's not officially finished. They are coming tomorrow to tile the doorway and finish the trim around the outside of it and do a couple of other minor things. Nannie is coming to help me clean the whole house really good and get rid of the construction dust. By Friday it might actually be done (on the inside). I will be unpacking our remaining two boxes and have eveything in the bathroom tomorrow too. I finally wont have to dig through 2 boxes of junk to find the advil or a bobby pin.
Ok, porter is in his toddler bed, so I better try to get some sleep before he starts getting up for the night. Boy things would really be looking up if he would only get up 4 or 5 times tonight. I don't know if I could handle myself if he did any better than that.
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Voo Doo, Omens, and the Devil

Well, I was going to post one piece of good news/progress, but I see Jared has beat me to it by posting pictures of our "lawn feature."
So here is the latest. I feel like I should start my posts with "once upon a time" these days. Monday afternoon it was looking like rain, but big deal, it rains all the time this time of year. I was at Marvin's getting grout sealer for the shower when a little ligtning storm came through. Jared called to inform me that lightning had struck the house and got the computer and all things plugged into that power strip. Great--what can I do about it at Marvin's??? So I get home and I'm sealing the grout when I realized I was going to need more. I sent Jared to run back to Marvin's, but he came back in the house and said that the truck wouldn't start and all of the lights inside and out were on--including all of the lights on the dash. And the big pine tree beside the truck looked as if someone had stripped off a bunch of the bark all the way down. Apparently lightning had also struck our truck after it came down the tree. Great. We called State farm and got that ball rolling. A little later in the afternoon we noticed that it was a little warm in the house, so Jared went to "bump" the A/C down. No A/C. The ligtning got it too. The only good news so far is that it didn't get the computer, but all of the other stuff that was plugged in with it--cable modem, and the apple airport (our wireless network). I worked Monday night, so about the time we were trying to deal with that and feed Porter, I had to go to work. Jared got the A/C man to come out and look at it, and said that he could order parts early Tuesday morning and have them installed Tuesday afternoon. Jared and Porter stayed at my parent's house while they are in Alaska on vacation. I would rather be in Alaska too than in our house without A/C. Tuesday morning I turned all the fans on high and it was at least tolerable for me to take a nap, but by Tuesday afternoon it was miserable. Porter and I went to Catherine's soccer practice for some cool air--ha! We went home briefly to get clothes and went back to Mama's. No A/C man ever showed up. This morning I called and the part is supposed to be here by lunch today and it will be installed this afternoon. The truck was picked up by Enterprise Toyota yesterday afternoon and I hope they are busy at work on it. Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going to come pick me up this afternoon and drive me back to Enterprise to pick out a rental. So much for a relaxing week to recoup from my shift work hell of last week. Oh, and when we went to put all the shower fixtures on after the grout was sealed we found out that one of the parts didn't fit and we have had to order the right part, which is supposed to also be in by lunch today.

Almost done with one side

I've been working on the largest flower bed in front of the house. Tara is providing direction, of course. I'm almost done!





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