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Autumn update
Where to start. My faithful readers know some of this already, so I'll try and be concise.
I was diagnosed with Cushing's Disease in February of this year. Thankfully, I have a family physician who took my complaints and symptoms seriously. After testing and re-testing, I underwent surgery in June to attempt a removal of the pituitary gland tumor ( Read more... ) -
Long overdue update
I'm maintaining a vigil over CD's being imported into our iTunes library (Keith and I got an iPod Classic and a really sweet Altec Lansing speaker system for ourselves as our Christmas gift this past year), so I figured I'd update the neglected blog. I've been avoiding Facebook lately -- though I'm not sure why. I really like all the people I'm ( Read more... ) -
Vacation and other adventures
I am feeling like a negligent pet owner. Not only did we lose Mika a couple weeks ago, we found our middle cat, Vito, very very ill a week ago from this past Sunday. Of course, there are no vets open in town on Sunday. We knew there was something wrong when we found Vito under our travel trailer, howling and drooling thick mucus from his mouth ( Read more... ) -
RIP Mika-Moo
Our 17+ year old cat was euthanized last night. It was such a tough decision. She didn't seem to be in pain or suffering, but it was so hard to watch her health fail. She had lost weight and muscle mass to the point of being only 4 pounds, she was drinking way too much water (a sign of kidney failure and/or diabetes) and missing the litter box ( ( Read more... ) -
One more in the family
Well, I need to change my blog name somehow. We now have 4 in the basket. Camille was born near the end of March, four weeks past her original due date, and three weeks past her "revised" due date. Labor was 7 hours, pushing was about 10 minutes and our beautiful new daughter, who weighed 10 lbs, 1 oz and measured in at 22 inches or so, was born ( Read more... ) -
Winter update
I know it's the middle of winter, not because of the piles of snow in the parking lots or the deer desperate for something to eat, but because Nadia has been begging to go camping. She sees our trailer in the backyard and wonders when it is we can use it again. Me too. How to explain to a girl of almost four that it has to be warmer before we ( Read more... ) -
Made it!
Elise and Nadia made it until 9:30 last night, Alina until 11:30 (we think -- she was downstairs reading). My mom stayed to watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars with us (better movie than I thought it would be, although it took a while to get into it), then Keith and I spent the rest of the evening by ourselves watching Vantage Point with Dennis Quaid ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
While Keith wrestles with the dishwasher (which Elise kinda did a job on when she accidentally fell on the open door), I'll try and pretend he's not swearing in his head and write this update ( Read more... ) -
Ready to get ready for Christmas
The family spent Sunday afternoon up at the cabin (or "camp," as those from the UP would call it; 10 acres about 25 minutes north of town that has a garden, orchard and one-room cabin that was recycled by my dad out of a 100 year old grainary). Back when Alina was a year old my dad planted dozens of pines, one of which we choose every year to cut ( Read more... )
