Sewing Project completed

One sewing project completed

With several interruptions due to holidays, sick days, etc. each of the kids have completed their lounging pjs. We are now branching out with each one doing their own thing. A couple are making a dress, one is making a skirt and the young boy is making shorts. A brief introduction to a serger was made this week. We will incorporate it into some of our next projects. There is a great deal of excitement when they arrive each time for our class. Everyone is talking at once. A couple of them brought garments that they have been working on at home. It is so neat to hear a couple of the girls singing as they are cutting their patterns out. A tiring but rewarding two hours. Josiah is all boy! He brought a bow that he had made out of a stick and a headband he had salvaged from a scrap of his Indian costume he is working on at home. Great kids! Great fun! Pictures to follow!

What goes around, comes around!

Be careful how you react to the older folk in your family or circle of friends!    I am finding myself reliving many of the things that I thought was ridiculous and avoidable.  My own mother passed away when she was 66  years old so many of the things I experienced with my mother-in-law (who was 89 when she passed away)  were not things I saw in my mother.  I can remember being annoyed when Grandma told me the same things over and over and I had to come up with a new reaction to her story each time.  That's hard.  Now Wayford and I are doing the same thing.

 Then, I couldn't understand why she had so much problem getting her hands to do what she wanted them to do.  Tomorrow I have to have surgery on one of my fingers because I can't get it to do what I want it to do.  Even that surgery won't correct the arthritis that I have in my hands.

One year Wayford and I stayed with Grandma a couple of weeks and did a thorough cleaning of her house.  We would pick up an item and see all the dust and think "Oh, my, look at all the dust that has collected."  Last week, when the sun was shining, revealing all the dust bunnies in my bedroom, I could not believe how I had let all that dust pile up!  Even behind the pictures on the wall there were piles of dust.  

And then there's the balance thing.  As I age I notice that all is well until something throws me a bit off balance, and then whoa!! I better have something to grab onto.

Oh, and Grandma would buy a pair of shoes and they wouldn't fit right.  Guess who is now having to have really expensive shoes because of problems with her feet???

And, then there is that little problem called shhhhh "flatulence" !  I've smiled a bit at older folk when that problem just happened!!!!  Now I know it is sooooo unavoidable!  I should have been more understanding.  

Be careful what you think of us older folk because "what goes around, comes around"!

Spring Cleaning

          

Ikilled a million dust mites today!  Silk flowers are a perfect breeding ground for the little rascals.  The weather was perfect for drying the silks outside so I just had to get that job done.  Now the big challenge was climbing up and down the ladder a million times.  As you can see, they were not easily reached.  I made sure I did it while Wayford was home so if I fell he could call 911.  But, thankfully, no accidents.  Well, he nearly tripped over the vacuum but recovered quickly.  Tomorrow may be a different story, when I try to get out of bed.  Well, I've already taken a tylenol arthritis and I'm sure that will take care of any lingering aches and pains.

Healing is happening!

You know when you go to the dentist and he had deadened one side of your mouth and then he tells you to rinse, and when you try to spit disaster happens. Well, with Bells's Palsy everyday is like that. When Wayford brushed his teeth this morning he excitedly exclaimed, I could spit just a little with both sides of my mouth! Hallelujah!! Thank God for healing, and for spitting out of both sides of your mouth. The neurologist says the nerve heals one millimeter (however much that is, I just know it is not much) a day. If his face isn't too big, by the time he is 80 it should be completely healed!

Spring trip to Oklahoma

Our week passed wayyyyy too fast.  We had two days which were warm, then the cold wind blew in on Friday.  Then the day after we left, it began to get warm again.  In spite of the cold weather we had a great time.  We were able to share Lita's birthday with her once again.  That makes two years in a row that we have been able to do that.  Lita and I took turns coughing.  Finally on Saturday my coughing began to subside.  Lita was still struggling with a bad throat.  Lita and I went on a shopping spree.  We were able to buy camera's at a yard sale at a bargain price.  Now we are each trying to figure out how to operate them.  I also bought a photoshop program to help me edit my photos.  It is harder to figure out than the camera.  

We loved seeing Jacob and Lauren again.  They are such sweet kids.  

A light at the end of the tunnel

A viral infection just about got the best of me.  I feel more "alive" today than I have in several days.  I'm sure a bird flies over and sprinkles those germs all over.  So many people are experiencing the same problem.  

I have coughed so much that I'm sure Wayford wants to put me in the garage.  He has been very patient with me though because he want me to be there to put ointment  in his eye at night.  I would say these are the joys of growing old but these things are not limited to people our age.

When I would lie down my bronchial tubes were playing an orchestra.  One night I almost got tickled because it sounded like a dove cooing.  I tried every home remedy I had ever heard of. I even put Vicks on the bottom of my feet!  Why? I had heard that would help.   Nothing worked.  I now am taking an antibiotic, which is not supposed to work for a viral but either it is working or time is working.

About the only thing I accomplished this week was to get some reading done.  Feeling better sure is sweet!!

MRI day

Wayford experienced his first MRI today.  When he was finished he said "Well that was a new experience!"  Marcia was a bit jealous that he was not claustrophobic.  He nearly went to sleep while they were doing the imaging.  Linda and I just went along for the lunch.  Many people are saying they see an improvement in the Bell's Palsy.  We are encouraged by those comments.

These pictures are comparison shots.  The  first one was taken in November(the one that has a date on the photo).  The second two were taken this week.  We think you can see a significant difference.  The eye is still not completely closing at night so we still have the regimen of putting ointment in his eye.