Groneman Family

We were notified today that we were not chosen for the Medford job. Very disappointing. Back to square 1 in job-finding. Last night after my 2 girls had a bath I put a shirt on Lydia that kiera recognized as a shirt she used to wear. Kiera said "mommy-- pretty soon I'll grow out of all of my close and Lydia will wear them and I'll be maked (naked)?" She seemed pretty concerned. I assured her that we would always have clothes for her to wear. It has been HOT here lately. We went swimming last night at 6:30pm. My girls love swimming. My little patient who has been in the hospital for nearly 2 months now might get out this week. I'm praying for him to get better.....but not too much better because there is a chance they could take him off of the TPN which would make it so he doesn't need a nurse anymore. I've been job hunting. pickings are slim and even more slim when you don't want to put your kids in day-care.

Google caught Marilyn working in her flowers in our yard:  http://tinyurl.com/marilyn-in-yard  and to think she didn't even see the Google camera car go by.  BTW, if you have 3D glasses, you can select 3D mode and see it in 3D.  (We have 3 sets of glasses in the Spy Kids 3D movie)

Anyone remember me talking about a Halloween Party HERE ?  Put October 15th on your calendars.  It's the time the parents of the grandkids could come.  Brett has to work :'-( but if we put it another day, someone else has to miss it.  I hope Katie can come tho.  Brett: remind me next time we plan something, it's YOUR turn to have it on YOUR day off.  That link above has info about Halloween food .  I wanna make the cheese stick fingers.  You choose something you want to bring. I figure a snack/dinner/whatever...you won't starve.  Halloween seems like a great time to make DEVIL'd eggs (hint hint).   You decide if you want kids/adults to be dressed up.  Each family plan ONE game the little'uns will enjoy, will ya?  I'll plan some fun stuff for adults unless someone else has a fun plan.  I'm jus' wingin' it here.  We'll have fun and food, that much I know.

FYI if you folks want to save your own blogs electronically for posterity sake, click on the MONTH you want to save so you can save a month at a time. (on this blog, left column at the bottom)  What I've found best is to use Internet Explorer 8 and on the menu bar click PAGE then SAVE AS then WEBPAGE, COMPLETE.  As far as I know, it's the only way I've found to save the entire blog with links, pictures, etc.   If you don't want to save your blog electronically, move along...nothing here to see.  I print ours AND save it electronically to be sure we don't lose any of the jokes and puns.

I swear...one of these days I'll be able to relax and have fun.  I will.  I took Thurs/Fri off this past week.  I was going to do a solo ATV ride, but I was kind of not feeling like it so Marilyn announced Thursday morning that we needed to do peaches, pears, and raspberries.  We did.  Fun [not].   Friday we went to the mountain and spent most of the day winterizing the place.  I reached under a piece of rubber and didn't realize there was a hornet nest under there.  It got me.  Ouch!  Luckily, I had a beautiful and charming girl to feel sorry for me and put soda on it.  Saturday morning we loaded the Jeep with the generators (mine and grandpa's) and all the food and freezables from the mountain and headed for home.  We were going to pick up Emmy but our Jeep was too full (it also had a wheelchair in it for Grandma).  When I got home, I looked at that dead ugly tree that we pampered but it died on us anyway in front...

My dad fell down 2 days ago. He was standing on top of a chair in the bathroom looking for mom's glasses on one of the high shelves. He had no warning whatever, but he passed out and fell on the bathroom floor. He awoke laying on the floor with his legs draping over the tub and wondering how he got there. He was in pain, but he managed to get himself straightened up and he got up. Despite his pain, but he got himself into the TV room to lay down. He hadn't been there long when Anne came along, and Keith called. Dad was taken to the hospital where they did x rays to determine if he had any broken bones. No ribs were broken at least not that they could see, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have fractures. He is still in a lot of pain today. But he is on prescription pain killers and with that he can move very carefully and slowly...but he is still in a lot of pain. This presents new challenges of course. Dad has been mom's best support down at her place....

We had another ultrasound today to see if my subchorionic hemorrhage was heeling, which it is (it's still there, but it's getting smaller and is pretty tiny). I'm fine with it, because it means we get to see the baby again. It looks like a more featured blob than two weeks ago, with stubby arms and legs, it twitched a couple times, and it's heart beat is still good. We'll have another ultrasound in a month to make sure everything is still going great - yay!