Happy birthday Grandma Sharpe Sept. 11th 2009

My mother in law will be 86 years old today. We will have her over for dinner tonight. 8 years ago on her birthday we called her up after we got our eldest off to school. As soon as she picked up the phone we began a rousing chorus of birthday. As soon we stopped singing she said turn on the TV! turn on the TV! a plane has hit some buildings in New York! So of course we did and then stared awestruck as we watched our country be attacked. Paul couldn't turn off the the TV for days. He stayed up late (well he always does but even later) and watched everything he could about what happened. Myself after a day or so I just wanted it to stop. I didn't want to see those building going down anymore. It was a very sad day indeed for our country. Praise God we have had no further attacks like this. God Bless America

Well, Natalie's EEG came back normal, that is good thing, so it doesn't appear she is having seizures. The next test will be an all night sleep study. It is possible she isn't restfully sleeping and that could be a cause for her chronic tiredness lack of focus etc. The chiropractor has her on a few new vitamins and she said give them at least a month or so to see if we notice improvement.

Already getting her up this week for school has been a challenge . (except the first day)

I just discovered their is a canned pumpkin shortage. Who knew? I went to two stores this morning in search of this and none to be found. I asked and was told they haven't had any for a awhile and didn't know when it would come in. I use this in a quite a few recipes, and wanted to make a birthday cake with it today. Oh well on to plan B.

We went to 9Th grade open house last night. We managed to find all the classes without getting to lost. Her teachers seem pretty nice and all seem excited about what they are teaching.

updates, labor day school and whatever else

I am doing very well after my hernia repair. Very little pain and I was able to move around by Thursday. My ear surgery was a much harder recovery.

Now I have what I think is an abscess tooth. I believe I had had at least one root canal on this tooth already. I think that will make 3 or more of these in the past year or so. The dentist seems puzzled as why I keep getting them. I brush regularly, I have 2 check ups a year etc. since it was the holiday weekend I will be calling to have a look see on Tues.

It has been a nice long weekend. We watched Kit Kittredge (An American girl) Although it was a kids movie it was actually quite good. Since it relates to the depression there were many things that we could relate to what is going on currently.

We also went to visit our small group friends and had a nice afternoon eating and talking.

Yesterday we went out to Irish Hills after church to my sisters lake house. We had some good food and my brother in law took us on a nice pontoon boat ride around the lake. We enjoyed some nice weather for a change too.

Today Labor day, the rest of the family will catch up on a few remaining outdoor projects. Although the house could use a good cleaning again a quick touch up by the kids will have to do for now. So not so much labor going on around here.

Natalie has been sick again all weekend, sore throat just generally feeling blah.

We are still trying to get some natural remedies from the chiropractor. We just want our old Natalie back. She really hasn't been herself or felt well for months and months.

I have not started sorting pictures as I had planned, maybe later today.

Tomorrow is a big day around here. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Natalie will leave about 6:20 on the bus, the other two will follow about 7:30. It will only be half day so they will all be home by noon.

Surgery tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning (bright and early I might add) I will have a hernia repaired. This is it I am done with surgeries! I have had enough, thank you very much.

Hopefully all will go smoothly. They a real hard time getting the tube down my throat when I had my ear surgery. I should be home by 1 or 2 in the afternoon, and then I will probably just sleep.

Everything is good to go. The house is clean, meals are in the freezer, the kids know what they have to do. Hopefully I can restrain myself from over doing. I may have said once or twice, I do not make a good patient. I do not like lying around doing nothing for days on end.

My youngest borrowed the movie Coroline from the library tonight. Weird movie, it was supposed to be for little kids. I think most kids under 9 or so would be scared by this movie, it was kind of creepy. I keep trying to get New in Town from the Library but it's newer movie so you can't reserve it and it is hard to catch it when it is turned in. I have a couple of other movies on request that should show up in the next few days. I plan to sort pictures for scrap booking and watch movies over the next few days.

Happy Labor Day weekend everyone.