August 31, 2010

WOW, it has almost been a month since my last post. I really fell behind. So what has been going on in the Walker Compound.

Jim is slowly be surely recovering from his surgery. Is allowed to be up and moving more but also still spends time in his chair with the leg up. This week he wants to go to the Farm Progress Show on Wednesday, (which I am against because it will be too much walking). He hasn't decided yet whether to go to the opening ISU football game on Thursday night (that will probably depend on how he feels after Wednesday). His Birthday is Friday and he's thinking he'll just sit on his ars, but I want to either go to the I-Cubs game or drive to KC to a Royals game(they both have fireworks afterwards). Check back to see what we decided.

Me....well I don't remember what all I've done. Payton and Finley stayed overnight with us on the 14th. They slept on the blow-up mattress and I slept on the couch beside them. I went back to school for teacher in-service on the 16th and students started back the 23rd. I am at a new building this year, not as in newly built, but new to me. I was involuntarily transferred from my K-2 position to the 6th grade building. This is the first year for a sixth grade building in the district. It is called Spring Creek. Spring Creek holds 500 6th graders in the old Junior High building. The Jr. High is now in the newly remodeled old Sr. High and the Sr. High is in its 2nd year new building. It now only takes me 10 min. to get to work. If you're driving down Hwy. 163 you can see my window from the highway, wave at me :).

Leah had her wisdom teeth out last Friday. She was out of it and actually got sick from the laughing gas so I had Caleb for about 25 hours straight. He has trouble sleeping at night although it went better than I thought it would. He slept for four hours (10-2). Then drank a little milk and went back to sleep until 4:30. The problem was, I didn't go back to sleep, so when he woke up at 4:30 and wanted to cry for awhile, I was ready to go back to sleep. There is a reason young people have babies. He went back to sleep at 6:30 a.m. and Caleb and I slept in one lazy boy and Jim slept in his until 9:15. That was nice.

Guess I forgot about our 9 inches of rain that one week. Mike and Leah had water in their basement and no ac so they slept here one night. We had minimal water in our basement, all absorbed by the carpet, so I ran the extractor over the rug. The last two weeks have been pretty crazy.

Looking forward to superb weather this weekend and a 3 day weekend. I'll try to get some pictures uploaded. Been busy adjusting to my new job!! At least the grass has slowed down and I can miss a week mowing.

August 7-8

Got to enjoy a couple of nice weather days this week. Of course, I used one of them mowing lawn but I noticed the water grass may be starting to die off, there were even some brown spots in the yard (hard to believe with all the rain) without the humidity for a couple of days the clippings were actually dry when they blew out. Made mowing a much more enjoyable experience.

Payton turns six on August 10 and that brought a party this weekend. That was held at Thomas Mitchelll Campground. Payton is anxiously awaiting the start of Kindergarten this year. I can't wait to hear how he likes it.

Caleb got to stay with Grammy for several hours on Saturday also. He loves to sleep with his hands over his head. Not my position of choice.

This is Jim on day 4/21 sitting on his ars (I don't know how to spell that). He had skin graft surgery on his burned leg again. He is already bored. He's only suppose to be on it to get up and go to the bathroom. Of course, as his nurse maid/Toby, I am always on him about being on it too much. I hate to say it but I might actually have to be glad I'm going back to work. We're going to need a break from each other by the end of another week. He goes back to the doctor tomorrow to get the dressing changed. Hope the doc will say it's looking good. Jim's decided it's too hot to be outside anyway and the garden is a disaster of weeds from the rain, the tomatoes are probably like all of yours, rotting because of rain. I think we've officially given up on it.

Last week of freedom for me and I already have one meeting this week and the rest of the week is filled with last minute appointments, it will fly by.