FarmFresh

Halloween

The oldest and his best buddy?
Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro

The youngest?

Where To Begin

Updates are in order, but where to begin?

Do I talk about the hospital rooms many hours were spent in, waiting for my father-in-law to get better? The hours driving back and forth to town, hoping that today was the day his fever would cease or that today was the day we would have answers? The shuffling of children and their activities and their schoolwork?

Or do I cut to the chase, and let you know that Bob is home, beginning the slow recuperation of someone who has been at the hospital for 2 weeks. The regaining of strength and energy. The healing of a kidney, burned by radio waves to remove cancer. The slow leak of color back into his face.

Over here, life is at a stand-still. Over there, life flows on. Costumes must be planned. A baseball game is played. A trip to College Station, groceries bought, piano lessons, church activities, six-weeks tests.

There really is no proper place to begin, no definite ending. It all slides together, eases from one reality to the next.

Gobble Gobble

It's Friday, and time to loosen the tie, untuck the shirt, and kick off your shoes.

After that, please, please, please click on this link that will make you laugh.

If it does not, you need to pour yourself a glass of an adult beverage of choice and relax. Then click on

this link.

I need either of these for Thanksgiving. Don't you?

Happy Birthday Tripp!

My nephew Tripp is 3 today. Happy Birthday, dude!

Long Week

I cannot recall the last time I was this thrilled that Friday has finally rolled around. Long, long week.

To recap:
*Jon's dad was put in the hospital, thinking perhaps a kidney stone.
*While eating lunch with Jon, learned Janie wasn't feeling well and "called the emergency."
*A particular volunteer position is sucking the life force right out of my happy place. The drama! The angst!
*Baby J was on the verge of imploding in school. Grades were plummeting.
*Meetings with teachers to determine cause/course of action
*Bob did not have a kidney stone, and several days of not knowing. Seems to be a kidney infection.
*PTO meeting, church meeting, JLCC meeting
*Already scheduled appointment with Baby J's neurosurgeon
*Orthodontist appointment for Payne (really - he has no teeth. What is there to check on?)
*Nephew's football game

Plus all the other stuff that fills my hours and days and weeks: the mom stuff, the taxi-driving, the farm stuff, the baseball stuff, the Jon stuff, etc. It just added up this week.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere, right?

Nothing Important

This is a picture from our vacation this summer. Not a particularly outstanding photo, this one is. But it does remind me of how quickly the boys have grown and changed. Jackson's face does not look a thing like this anymore due to braces.

Life, Again

I've mentioned Life before. You have seen it, right?

Damien Lewis (of Band of Brothers fame) is Detective Charlie Crews. Quirky. Zen-ish. Fruit-lover.

This season, he has a new boss. Donal Logue, a favorite of ours from The Tao of Steve.

It will not be an hour you wish you could have back, unlike that time you sat and watched American Gladiators. Not that I ever did...but people in my family have.

Trying to Find My Groove

Yes, we are back from vacation. Yes, I have boring vacation photos. Yes, we had mucho fun. No, my Spanish did not improve. Yes, we caught a boat-load of fish. No, I did not drink any tequila.

What? Did you ask if we saw Sammy Hagar? Why yes we did somehow stumble into a private party at Cabo Wabo with the Mr. Hagar himself.