My extended break from posting
I wrote my last post minutes before I got the call from Mac about Tess. Most people follow on Facebook, so it isn’t brand new news that my SIL Tess is in ICU at KU Med because of acute liver failure. It has been 8 emotional days, most of it was getting one piece of bad news after another. It wasn’t until a couple of days ago that we got our first good news that it looks like her liver is starting to produce healthy cells instead of constantly dying. She is currently on dialysis and a ventilator. She’s still at great risk for infections and bleeding, but the news of her liver repairing itself was the first time we heard that she can have a full recovery instead of the news to prepare for the worst. She has a long road to a full recovery though.
I decided to have the kids open gifts early due to the snow reports. We decided to abandon Lawrence so we could be close to KU Med. We got a suite so the kids had room to romp. The hotel shop had Toblerone, so on Christmas Day while every one was snoozing, I went down and picked one each for the kids so they woke up with a Santa gift beside them in bed. I’m glad we did leave because the blowing snow was difficult to travel in, and having to only go from the plaza to KU Med was easier than Lawrence to KU Med. When we got home, the snow at the bottom of the driveway was almost one foot deep, and the drift up by the garage was above my knees. You couldn’t tell our porch from the front of our garage. It was just a wall of snow.
We are fortunate for our friends who immediately jumped to help, whether it was to bring food to family, support Mac at the hospital when I couldn’t be there, offers to watch kids and actually watching the kids so I could be there with Mac.
There has been no cooking since this happened. There has been no photographs (except for yesterday). Tonight will probably be my first cooked meal in awhile because I have to cook the meat that I got for Christmas Eve dinner within the next couple of days. I am looking forward to cooking a meal.
The kids are driving me completely crazy today. I want to get some more house chores done, but I need to get the kids out of this house to do something besides bicker and hang on me everywhere I go. I know Ada would love to build a snowman with me, but I have no appropriate snow wear. I still haven’t managed to replace my boots. Perhaps I should just bundle them up in their snow gear and boot them out the door. Or we could go shopping. I have about $40 in Build-A-Bear gift cards, and a $5 off coupon. And I could get some boots. And a friend of mine went to Lush yesterday, and now I’m jealous.
The recent good news is that Mac was finally able to go pick up the new car yesterday. We traded in the ailing Mazda for a 2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. It was a program car, so it is the very base model without a lot of fancy extras. Mac is happy to have a convertible again. I wanted to take a photo, but he got back really late. It won’t be as shiny since he drove it to work, and it will still be dark when he gets home. I might have to go ahead and do a garage shot instead of a nice outdoor one. Now I have to learn how to pronounce Mitsubishi correctly.
I am looking forward to you cooking a meal too. Yum!