Day 12

Today I’m thankful to be able to express my feelings and be alive. I’ve had a wide range of emotions in the last week. IT’s been crazy being away from my family, being with girlfriends, fun with the kids and the ups and downs of cancer.

Today Josh has chemo, but first we went to school mass while Max was in school. Then we stopped off for coffee before spending almost 4 hours at the clinic. I hate when they can’t get an iv started right away on Josh. Then he got fluids ebfore they made the choice if he would get chemo. Nothing like keeping us on the edge of our seats.  We then went to lunch when it was all done and Kohl’s after that. This girl is on the mission to find new boots, and not having any luck.  We got home in time for me to head to work. Max was napping so I didn’t get to see my little guy all day. Work was ok. My mom picked up Bella and spent time with the kids. I got home and hung out with the kids . We did a movie night of Max and Ruby while gearing up to go Purple.

Pictures from the last week

Josh has done all of these except Clinical trails and Chemo and Surgery have been twice. We would love to get into a trial, but so far he’s not qualified for one. We are keeping a look out for one that would be better then chemo for Josh. Josh said he would do surgery again as it was a quicker recovery then chemo. I’m personally happy that the chemo is just helping to keep Josh alive a little bit longer. We find out in a couple weeks if it’s still working to kill the cancer cells.

happy halloween

So I’m happy I took pictures of the kids in their costumes on the one warm day we had this month. I didn’t get a shot of them together on the one time we went trick or treating and then Max refused to go trick or treating today.

We never got our pumpkins carved because they went moldy on us and the chickens got most of them, except for the little pie pumpkins that the kids got from school.

Trick or treating in watertown was pretty chilly so we only went to a couple house but got a lot of candy in the short time.

Sept 3rd

Welcome to Thursday, the day before Friday...lol I can see the heat and work is getting to the three of us. The kids are tired and cranky at home, I woke up with a head ache, guessing from lack of fluids and just ready for the weekend.  I took the kids to school, where drop off went well. Matter of fact my kids really didn't seem to care if I was there or not. Love that they love thier school and teachers. Also happy that it's a safe place that I do to have to worry either.  I was able to talk to some of the staff, checked in on Bella, before I walked out and got a phone call. Love being able to catch up with friends while in the car and not at the expense of my kids or husband. 

By the time I was done chatting it was time to head off to joshs doctors appointment and chemo. The appointment went well. Joshs bloodwork looks good and his doctor seems positive about how things are going. More on the details on caringbridge. The wait for treatment was long as normal. My mom got to pick up max from school. 

From mom, pick up went well, then she got him lunch and a nap :-) josh and I went to lunch post treatment since it was after one. We got home in time to wake up my little guy. It was nice to spend some time with him. He was upset though when I had to leave. That's what makes work the hardest. My mom took me to work and then picked up Bella. 

Work went ok. It was hot but the kids were good. Josh picked me up from work since mom stayed with the kids. We hit up the grocery store before coming home to start supper. 

Supper was nice. I love being able to sit around and hear about both kids days. Max mostly tells us "I don't member " but still it's cute. Bella is loving the new stuff in 2nd grade, but manged more injuries (blisters and scraped on the knee.) 

Then it was bath and reading. I started reading to max and then he went out by josh and started looking at tractors online. He knows his older john Deere tractors really well. 

Once the kids were in bed, josh and I watched the packer game. Fingers crossed for a good season

Happy Birthday Balin!

Happy Birthday Balin! Can’t belive it’s been a whole year since you were born! I got to see him just 24 hours after he was born. I missed a bit the beginning but in the last few months he’s really be come by buddy!

 

We all decided to go to Ebert’s the pumpkin patch for his birthday and then out to eat supper. The big kids had fun at the patch.

Balin’s 12 month pictures

Then out to eat, which was sure interesting. The restaurant was slow, which made for whiny kids. Then we dropped our kids off at my mom’s before joing everyone back at Nikki’s for cake and presents.

Good Bye Lancaster House

Today we officially closed on the Lancaster house. Kind of bittersweet, even if I haven’t lived in the house in 6 years. It was my first house and I always loved it’s location. It as a whirlwind day to say the least.

We left home late, and got to the house, which we had to disconnect the ac/furnace from it, and a friend wanted some stuff out of it too. We also had to go to the library, lunch before Max’s 3 year pictures at 12:30. We also had to go to Walker’s to get Josh’s pants fixed for Jeremy’s wedding and naturally the bakery for goodies. Last minute we squeezed in a stop at some friends house for a visit.  It was totally crazy.

The Library was nice and I’m going to miss it. We ended up with Lunch at Happy Joe’s were we ran into friends and a teacher’s aid of Bella’s from her old school. Somehow we made it on time for Max’s pictures and to my surprise he did great. We even got in outside pictures. Then we hit up Walker’s and the bakery, max wasn’t as good there, as he was tired! But after Bella got new boots and everyone got sweets, we headed to our friends where Max had fun playing outside.  Finally it got late and we knew we had to get home.

About two months after we bought the place, before it’s torn down maybe I’ll get another picture here. Totally had no time on friday

The kids have always loved running around this place

Max boycotting pictures until he found the trains

Pretty flowers from my wonderful husband

Bella’s “horses”

A trip to the pumpkin Patch

So Bella’s school had a field trip to the pumpkin patch. I asked my mom to watch Max, so that I could go with Bella's class. We went to a patch that I’ve not been to before and I had two other girls to watch over. It was a lot of fun and the girls had a blast. They were all over the place. Only downside as the bees as we were eating lunch.