I'm am too busy again!
Today I sat down and tried to categorize my lists. So I have one list for the birth center (about 40 items long) one list for spring cleaning (incomplete as this would be very long) one for calls, things to print (as the printer has been broken) One for repairs on our home, one for the Dakota house, this one is long and hard. Hard because I'm not experienced in remodel and construction. So it's hard and stressful, even though I enjoy it. Plus I have about 15 midwifery clients. Those are the easy jobs. It's fun and enjoyable to help mom's have great pregnancy's and births.
Then there is the teen age children. This is stressful right now in my life. This goes up and down like waves on ocean, changes by the day. Sometimes it's a bed of roses, the next day it's the thorns and oh can it hurt!
Just to give you an example of one of the lists:
weed front flower bed
Weed and feed lawn
till and replant skimpy grass
rip out plants and/or trim front bushes
replace outside light s with motion sensors
clean front bedroom and remove extra stuff
clean out closet
rearrange, label, and hang brochure holders
wash all shelves
wash windows
Wash carpet
wash couch
wash or replace table cloth
finish cleaning lab closet.
finish painting outside trim
fix baby pictures
clean and dust everything
clean kitchen
label cabinets
sprinklers fixed
paint ceiling leak
rake back yard
stack fire wood
fix sign above the door
Well this list alone is longer still, but it gives an idea.
It was good to get it on paper and get it off my mind.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Dakota house
Well this is my new little project.
The pictures are not in order
Here is the back of the house, with a nice storage building.
One of the bedrooms.
This room I will probably drywall,as the walls are made of this weird stuff, like a fiber board. Except for a couple beautiful pine walls.. I'm going to have to put new carpet into both bedrooms.
Gas heat, It's a pretty little fire place that heats the whole house.
Here is the front of the house.
It's a cute little house.
Kitchen,
Has no counters
This is the hole that goes down to a little basement thing. It's not as bad as it looks.
beautiful claw foot bath tub.
the back of the house.
The pictures are not in order
Here is the back of the house, with a nice storage building.
One of the bedrooms.
This room I will probably drywall,as the walls are made of this weird stuff, like a fiber board. Except for a couple beautiful pine walls.. I'm going to have to put new carpet into both bedrooms.
Gas heat, It's a pretty little fire place that heats the whole house.
Here is the front of the house.
It's a cute little house.
Kitchen,
Has no counters
This is the hole that goes down to a little basement thing. It's not as bad as it looks.
beautiful claw foot bath tub.
the back of the house.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Turn of events!
Well life has a way of throwing curve balls doesn't it.
We were having our nice time in Seattle. We planned on going somewhere on Sunday. But Rick wasn't feeling good. He had this strange low stomach pain. So we just hung out, relaxed at the motel. We were going to go out to eat, but he didn't even think he could eat. So we actually both walked to the store, hoping the walk would help his stomach. But it didn't.
The pain was gradually getting worse as the night wore on. All night long he was in horrible pain, getting worse not better. By about 4 am I said something about calling Maria. She said it sounds like his appendix. "You got to take him to the hospital mom" Oh dear! How do we get there, how do we pay for this.......His insurance was gone as of 12 days before! Is this a joke? Couldn't this have happened at home at least?
Well I got a taxi and off to the hospital we went. They had to do a Cat scan, and found it was his appendix and it had 4 blockages. He had to be scheduled for surgery right away. They gave him something for the pain and he was so relieved.
The Dr said when she got in their that it was in horrible shape. It already was perforated, and it fell apart when she went to remove it.
We left the hospital the next day, but he is not in any shape to head home yet. So we are in a motel.
It's a nice motel, with a kitchen. I walked to the store today and got about 4 bags of grocery’s. A little hard to carry home. But good exercise. :)
We found out that we can reinstate our insurance! The Lord is good! the bill will be somewhere around $15-20,000. a little scary.
Doesn't life get interesting at times! :)
Happy Anniversary!
It was our 32nd anniversary on Wed. I didn’t think we would be able to go somewhere, because I knew my mom with twins would be having those babies anytime. She wasn’t due till May 4th, but she was measuring 54 and so uncomfortable. Well she went into labor on Sunday night. Had beautiful baby girls, and I got home about 3 am. About 9 am I headed to Kalispell. I had an appointment to fix Rick’s car, and I already canceled it once. So I drove down and turned in his car. June picked me up and we met Martha, April and Mishael for lunch. Then we went on a house tour.
Martha moved into her new house, Mishael and Miriam also moved into new rentals. Philip bought a house. So we made the rounds and saw everyone’s houses. It was so much fun. Next time maybe we can have a progressive dinner.
Well Rick’s car didn’t get done, so I had to spend the night on Tue. Wed I had appointments, Thur. we had lessons, appointments and Miriam came up to visit. It was another crazy day.
So Fri I finally had time to think about planning a little trip since “my mom” had her twins.
I looked on line and saw last second deals. I found one going to Seattle for $312, included both our flights and motel too. So hear we are in Seattle. We have no car, but there is a kitchen in the motel room. So we walked to Wal-Mart, it was a good walk.
I thought I would look at the homes for sale in the newspaper. In 1986 we bought a brand new home in Bothell. (East side of Seattle) It was a very nice 3-bedroom home on a pretty piece of land with forest behind the house. We lived in it only a year when Rick’s job transferred to Portland, and we hated living in a neighborhood. This neighborhood was like a family. You had to let all your children play together; you had to have your beauty bark and your front yard exactly perfect. Every weekend you were expected to be out there fixing your yard. Well we just didn’t fit in. We couldn’t get our lawn mower to work half the time, we planted fruit trees and we wanted chickens. Once one of our chickens got out and “scared” our neighbor’s dog. The neighbor was so mad; he threw our chicken in the front door. We were zoned for chickens, but we had to give them away to keep peace with the neighborhood "family". I never wanted to live in a neighborhood again.
We bought this house for $80,000 and sold it a couple yr later for only $118,000. Well it can make a person a bit sick to think of what we should’ve, could’ve, would’ve done. Now these same houses are selling for about $500,000. Wow! Just think! Or maybe we shouldn’t think. It’s too sad. Well it’s best just to use our experiences and go on, not look back at what we could’ve, should’ve………
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
missing pictures
I was waiting to publish some posts to put the pictures in. Well my cord is missing. So I'll add my pictures later. Here are some misc. pictures I had on the computer already.
I noticed on some blogs they take beautiful pictures of food they fixed, or a flower or something very basic, but beautiful.
Well here was a beautiful breakfast. Scambled eggs and hash browns. Jon has been in the business of hash browns lately. He sure makes good ones.
Jon and James
Prissy and her new batch of kittens.
2 white ones and 2 gray. They are so cute.
This was the reunion picture. It was great to have everyone together with my mom still here. We were only missing John and his family.
I noticed on some blogs they take beautiful pictures of food they fixed, or a flower or something very basic, but beautiful.
Well here was a beautiful breakfast. Scambled eggs and hash browns. Jon has been in the business of hash browns lately. He sure makes good ones.
Jon and James
Prissy and her new batch of kittens.
2 white ones and 2 gray. They are so cute.
This was the reunion picture. It was great to have everyone together with my mom still here. We were only missing John and his family.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Financial freedom course
I have been taking the Dave Ramsey Financial freedom course. It's a 13 week course. I didn't miss a class! I loved it. I really haven't been able to apply a whole lot yet so I can be financially free. But I have the vision, and even though it will be a slow process I'm working towards it. Freedom from financial worries! Can't wait!
Last night was the last class.
Each week they have been giving away $50 and one book.
This last week, if you made it to at least 11 classes you were put in the drawing for $1000.
I never did get my name picked, but last night I did win a book because they gave away about 10 of them.
Then the people that won the $1000 happened to be the one couple that I would visit with each week. She told me before they left home they had decided if they won the $1000 that they wanted to share it with me. So they gave me $200!
I came away feeling so blessed. Just that feeling that the Lord is with you and just wants to bless you for fun. That was a fun night.
I would highly recommend that class to anyone. I think it should be a requirement for the high school children to go through too. It would be so much easier to start out right, rather then having to fix all the problems afterwards.
Last night was the last class.
Each week they have been giving away $50 and one book.
This last week, if you made it to at least 11 classes you were put in the drawing for $1000.
I never did get my name picked, but last night I did win a book because they gave away about 10 of them.
Then the people that won the $1000 happened to be the one couple that I would visit with each week. She told me before they left home they had decided if they won the $1000 that they wanted to share it with me. So they gave me $200!
I came away feeling so blessed. Just that feeling that the Lord is with you and just wants to bless you for fun. That was a fun night.
I would highly recommend that class to anyone. I think it should be a requirement for the high school children to go through too. It would be so much easier to start out right, rather then having to fix all the problems afterwards.
Playing Monopoly
I got my 1st rental house. It finaally closed today.
Monday they fix the bump in the floor, and I'm thinking by next week I'm going to try to sell it. Or should I rent it out?
I woudl like to sell it right away, because I'm not really going to make money on renting it, and if I can make $25,000 on it right away, I could get out of debt and conintue to play monopoly. It woudl be much better then making $50 a month on rent. With the economy the way it is, I doubt it will go up in value much by next year anyways.
Monday they fix the bump in the floor, and I'm thinking by next week I'm going to try to sell it. Or should I rent it out?
I woudl like to sell it right away, because I'm not really going to make money on renting it, and if I can make $25,000 on it right away, I could get out of debt and conintue to play monopoly. It woudl be much better then making $50 a month on rent. With the economy the way it is, I doubt it will go up in value much by next year anyways.
Chocolate and Gallbladders
Last Friday I woke in the night with a familar pain. a horrible dull ache. I used to battle with this pain about 15 years ago. Back then it would wipe out nights, or possibly days. It had increased from once in a while to 2-3 times a week. I went to Chriroprator that gave me some weird pills and the pains went away! It was amazing and so freeing. ONce in a while I would get a slight attack, but nothing like the real attacks.
Untill Friday night! Ugg. well by morning I was feeling fine again. So I went ahead and ate normal. We had tacos for lunch, with corn tortilla that you fry. Boy was that the wrong thing! I was moaning in pain the rest of the day.
Now I was a afraid to eat anything.
I read much about gall bladders and found if I stay off of eggs, keep diet very low in fat including, no meat, no beans, no eggs, no dariy I can keep the pain away. I've started to eat a bit of lean meat here and there and I'm hanging in there.
This brings me to chocolate. I heard chocolate is a no no. Rick was given this chocolate from a customer that bought a chocolate factory. It was incredible! It had a very different flavor. It might be worth some pain :)
Untill Friday night! Ugg. well by morning I was feeling fine again. So I went ahead and ate normal. We had tacos for lunch, with corn tortilla that you fry. Boy was that the wrong thing! I was moaning in pain the rest of the day.
Now I was a afraid to eat anything.
I read much about gall bladders and found if I stay off of eggs, keep diet very low in fat including, no meat, no beans, no eggs, no dariy I can keep the pain away. I've started to eat a bit of lean meat here and there and I'm hanging in there.
This brings me to chocolate. I heard chocolate is a no no. Rick was given this chocolate from a customer that bought a chocolate factory. It was incredible! It had a very different flavor. It might be worth some pain :)
It's supposed to be spring but it's still winter
Melting a little
Our porch, still has a ways to go!
Well at least it isn't snowing today. It was still snowing April 2nd!
We still have a lot of snow on the ground.
Our porch is till covered although we are seeing a little more every day.
With the melting of the snow, I also see a messy yard. That's one nice thing about the snow, "white as snow" Snow so easily covers up every yucky thing, or mess in the yard.
I will be glad for spring. It's time for picnics and BBQ's.
Our porch, still has a ways to go!
Well at least it isn't snowing today. It was still snowing April 2nd!
We still have a lot of snow on the ground.
Our porch is till covered although we are seeing a little more every day.
With the melting of the snow, I also see a messy yard. That's one nice thing about the snow, "white as snow" Snow so easily covers up every yucky thing, or mess in the yard.
I will be glad for spring. It's time for picnics and BBQ's.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
TV and ER
I'm afraid I'm addicted to ER.
I don't think I've ever wanted to watch this much TV in my life.
I was born in 1961, so TV was pretty simple back then. Growing up my family used to watch TV in the evening. I remember waiting for Thur night to watch Bewitched and That Girl. (Bewitched wasn't too Innocent) Brady bunch and Partridge family on Fri. My parents were pretty careful , I remember we watched "Laughin" once, they said never again.
When we got married we had a hard time gong without a TV. We watched it every evening. I planned my week around TV programs. I started my day with exercise show, then it went off during the day except sometimes for lunch I would watch Mash. When I really started serving the Lord, I began to pray he would take away my desire for TV. He did! We began having bible studies 2 times a week. college students at our house almost every other night. We were having fun with people and lost interest in TV. It was no big deal to just get rid of it. So we went about 20 years without TV. I am so glad we did that. It's a great way to raise children. We did a lot of reading, and writing letters. The girls had pen pals, I wrote journals. We did lots of stitching, sewing, cooking. I think TV takes away a lot of time spent on healthier things.
Over the years, at times we would watch videos now and then. But about 4 yrs ago Rick wanted to get cable TV. We tried it for 6 mo. Didn't like it at all and got rid of it. About 2 yrs ago we got Dish. We had a DVR this time. We really liked it. We would tape only the good shows, never watch commercials. It was good, and we found ourselves spending too much time on it. So after a year we got rid of it too. Just too much time in front of the thing watching good shows.
But we are getting older and began to enjoy the evening, relaxing in front of the TV. Well that brings me to the present. We borrowed ER from Mishael and I'm addicted!
I really like the medical stuff, plus it has it's love story and the getting to know the people and their lives.
Well I'm sure this phase will pass. When spring/ summer really comes no one wants to sit in front of a TV.
I don't think I've ever wanted to watch this much TV in my life.
I was born in 1961, so TV was pretty simple back then. Growing up my family used to watch TV in the evening. I remember waiting for Thur night to watch Bewitched and That Girl. (Bewitched wasn't too Innocent) Brady bunch and Partridge family on Fri. My parents were pretty careful , I remember we watched "Laughin" once, they said never again.
When we got married we had a hard time gong without a TV. We watched it every evening. I planned my week around TV programs. I started my day with exercise show, then it went off during the day except sometimes for lunch I would watch Mash. When I really started serving the Lord, I began to pray he would take away my desire for TV. He did! We began having bible studies 2 times a week. college students at our house almost every other night. We were having fun with people and lost interest in TV. It was no big deal to just get rid of it. So we went about 20 years without TV. I am so glad we did that. It's a great way to raise children. We did a lot of reading, and writing letters. The girls had pen pals, I wrote journals. We did lots of stitching, sewing, cooking. I think TV takes away a lot of time spent on healthier things.
Over the years, at times we would watch videos now and then. But about 4 yrs ago Rick wanted to get cable TV. We tried it for 6 mo. Didn't like it at all and got rid of it. About 2 yrs ago we got Dish. We had a DVR this time. We really liked it. We would tape only the good shows, never watch commercials. It was good, and we found ourselves spending too much time on it. So after a year we got rid of it too. Just too much time in front of the thing watching good shows.
But we are getting older and began to enjoy the evening, relaxing in front of the TV. Well that brings me to the present. We borrowed ER from Mishael and I'm addicted!
I really like the medical stuff, plus it has it's love story and the getting to know the people and their lives.
Well I'm sure this phase will pass. When spring/ summer really comes no one wants to sit in front of a TV.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
what a day!
Wow, it was one of those days!
I didn't have a huge list of things I had to do today. I was actually thinking of doing a few jobs that normally get put on hold, and then maybe taking the children to lunch with their "book its". So it was going to be a slow day for once. Well life never seems to go that way for me. It's ok, because I do like to be busy, and if life does slow down too much, I tend to create projects or something that pretty quickly creates busyness.
So 8 am I get a call from Sherry that her client is in labor. Well it was a good day for me to be able to leave.
I got to Bonner's about 10 and the mom was moving right along. The dad was doing well as a coach, so Sherry and I had lots of time to visit and catch up. I was really looking forward to this. I think that's one of the things I love about midwifery. It gives you a good excuse to put everything in life on a back burner, and just have some time helping someone with pain, serving them, and sitting around visiting with friends. What a fun job! Everyone knows that babies being born is a high priority and life can be put on hold for a day. For instance the real estate lady called and needed papers signed, but when I told her I had a mom in labor, she figured out a way we could do it with a quick fax. Babies take priority! So it gives me a break from normal stressful life and puts me in another world for a few hours.
So in between checking heart tones, and keeping mom comfy, Sherry and I discussed a thousand different ways to make the job of midwifery a money making proposition, (which it's really not), or churches and their problems, or teen agers and how we wish we could just sleep until they are past this stage, our grown children worries., and running large households (sherry has 12 children)
It was about 1 or 2 pm that she was already dilated to 8. But when hours were passing and their was no change, and labor was slowing down, we began to wonder if we had a stuck baby. Since we were 1 hour from the hospital in either direction, we thought it best to transport rather then waiting till we had a baby in distress.
Well without giving too many details and breaking confidentiality, I will end it with saying she had a C section, about midnight. Baby was not going to make it through her pelvis. 150 years ago both she and baby would have died, but it's so nice we have hospitals for the few times it's needed.
Sherry dressed up to go into the C section
he last time I transported to this hospital it ended in a C section too. That trip was a bit more exciting though. Our "scary" birth, to say the least. It was a home birth way up by the Canadian border up from Bonners. Making a trip to any hospital that could help us was 90 min away. Birth was going great. Mom had dilated to 8 and FHT were fine. For some strange reason after only 10 min of checking baby, I checked again. What I found was FHT of 70. Changed positions, but this drop was in between ctx. No difference no matter what position. Then I couldn't find heart tones. ( thats a scary monment!) When you are in this situation you have to decide how much time you want to take looking for heart tones, or getting on the o2, or seeing if you could deliver the baby in less time then it would take to get to the hospital or do you just want to jump in the car or do you call an ambulance ? It's a terribly long drive without knowing how baby is doing! By the way this was one of my 1st births of being without supervision.
This is a classic example of how someone could easily loose their baby with an unassisted birth too. Everything looked really good, she was dilating fine, but it was a cord issue. So we stopped in the Bonners hospital, and all they could do for us was get us a ride in the ambulance to Sandpoint. It was nice though to stop there so we could hear FHT, get an IV in her. The heart tones were there, but still dipping seriously at times.
So we ended up in the Sandpoint hospital and within 10 min they had the baby out. She had a very, very thin cord. It was like a pencil. This couple is always telling people I'm the best midwife, but I'm sure any midwife would have done the same thing. I'm just glad they had a midwife, and they have a beautiful little girl now.
So back to my day:
I left the hospital about 1 am. I am of course very very tired, and of course I am seeing deer almost constantly, I hit 2 snow storms where you could hardly see the road, I saw oodles of Elk. One time there was a whole herd right in the road. We also had to throw in some fog on this dangerous drive home.
At least the roads weren't icy!
My keep alert drinks: I got one cup of coffee with a packet of hot chocolate in it and one cup of green tea. It worked too, enough caffine to keep me awake.
So I got home at 3 am to that very familiar horrible smell. A skunk must have been under or very near our house again. Oh it's so bad that it hurts your eyes and makes it hard to sleep. Yuck!
So then I climb into bed, but I'm quite awake from coffee and adrenalin.
Before you know it, it's another day starting again where I left off..............
I didn't have a huge list of things I had to do today. I was actually thinking of doing a few jobs that normally get put on hold, and then maybe taking the children to lunch with their "book its". So it was going to be a slow day for once. Well life never seems to go that way for me. It's ok, because I do like to be busy, and if life does slow down too much, I tend to create projects or something that pretty quickly creates busyness.
So 8 am I get a call from Sherry that her client is in labor. Well it was a good day for me to be able to leave.
I got to Bonner's about 10 and the mom was moving right along. The dad was doing well as a coach, so Sherry and I had lots of time to visit and catch up. I was really looking forward to this. I think that's one of the things I love about midwifery. It gives you a good excuse to put everything in life on a back burner, and just have some time helping someone with pain, serving them, and sitting around visiting with friends. What a fun job! Everyone knows that babies being born is a high priority and life can be put on hold for a day. For instance the real estate lady called and needed papers signed, but when I told her I had a mom in labor, she figured out a way we could do it with a quick fax. Babies take priority! So it gives me a break from normal stressful life and puts me in another world for a few hours.
So in between checking heart tones, and keeping mom comfy, Sherry and I discussed a thousand different ways to make the job of midwifery a money making proposition, (which it's really not), or churches and their problems, or teen agers and how we wish we could just sleep until they are past this stage, our grown children worries., and running large households (sherry has 12 children)
It was about 1 or 2 pm that she was already dilated to 8. But when hours were passing and their was no change, and labor was slowing down, we began to wonder if we had a stuck baby. Since we were 1 hour from the hospital in either direction, we thought it best to transport rather then waiting till we had a baby in distress.
Well without giving too many details and breaking confidentiality, I will end it with saying she had a C section, about midnight. Baby was not going to make it through her pelvis. 150 years ago both she and baby would have died, but it's so nice we have hospitals for the few times it's needed.
Sherry dressed up to go into the C section
he last time I transported to this hospital it ended in a C section too. That trip was a bit more exciting though. Our "scary" birth, to say the least. It was a home birth way up by the Canadian border up from Bonners. Making a trip to any hospital that could help us was 90 min away. Birth was going great. Mom had dilated to 8 and FHT were fine. For some strange reason after only 10 min of checking baby, I checked again. What I found was FHT of 70. Changed positions, but this drop was in between ctx. No difference no matter what position. Then I couldn't find heart tones. ( thats a scary monment!) When you are in this situation you have to decide how much time you want to take looking for heart tones, or getting on the o2, or seeing if you could deliver the baby in less time then it would take to get to the hospital or do you just want to jump in the car or do you call an ambulance ? It's a terribly long drive without knowing how baby is doing! By the way this was one of my 1st births of being without supervision. This is a classic example of how someone could easily loose their baby with an unassisted birth too. Everything looked really good, she was dilating fine, but it was a cord issue. So we stopped in the Bonners hospital, and all they could do for us was get us a ride in the ambulance to Sandpoint. It was nice though to stop there so we could hear FHT, get an IV in her. The heart tones were there, but still dipping seriously at times.
So we ended up in the Sandpoint hospital and within 10 min they had the baby out. She had a very, very thin cord. It was like a pencil. This couple is always telling people I'm the best midwife, but I'm sure any midwife would have done the same thing. I'm just glad they had a midwife, and they have a beautiful little girl now.
So back to my day:
I left the hospital about 1 am. I am of course very very tired, and of course I am seeing deer almost constantly, I hit 2 snow storms where you could hardly see the road, I saw oodles of Elk. One time there was a whole herd right in the road. We also had to throw in some fog on this dangerous drive home.
At least the roads weren't icy!
My keep alert drinks: I got one cup of coffee with a packet of hot chocolate in it and one cup of green tea. It worked too, enough caffine to keep me awake.
So I got home at 3 am to that very familiar horrible smell. A skunk must have been under or very near our house again. Oh it's so bad that it hurts your eyes and makes it hard to sleep. Yuck!
So then I climb into bed, but I'm quite awake from coffee and adrenalin.
Before you know it, it's another day starting again where I left off..............
Saturday, March 22, 2008
crazy weather/ garden time?
It's beautiful and sunny today. Yesterday we had a huge snow storm. We still have snow covering most of the ground. In some places there is a foot of snow still and then where the snow plow made a pile it's still 6 feet high. I wonder if it's not going to sill be there end of April. I remember at Martha's wedding 1996 the yr we had another snowy year. We still had patches of snow in April. This yr seems like it will be more then patches.
My car smells like rotten milk!
I know that smell well! Why do I know that smell so well? Too much experience with that one. The most memorable time was being at the Chupps house on Pinkham road. We were getting some fresh cows milk from them in a gallon jar. Their drive way was a steep hill up. The milk jug being in the middle of the 2 seats in the VW van, when we went up the hill the jug tipped, lid came off and the milk spilled not only all over all the carpet, but all into the heater too. It was awful! We never really did get the smell totally out.
Well I better go clean my car. I'm hoping it's not spilled milk but just a glass of sour milk that I can just throw away.
Well this sunny weather makes me want to plant a garden again. Every year it's a waste of time. Nothing really grows. But this year I have an idea. Last year Michelle Martin grew a very small garden and had tons of vegetables. We all asked her "how did you do that?" She said in that little plot she put 3-4 bags of some sort of fertilizer. Well this made me realize that the reason my garden never makes it, is because the soil is sand and washes the nutrients away plus all our big trees have roots that eat up what ever they can get. So my idea this yr is make some raised beds, and use a bunch of fertilizer. Plant less but concentrate on getting more from what I do plant. I'm always wanting to garden this time of year, we will see if this ends up a better year for us. With the price of food it would be great to grow enough to save a few bucks.
My car smells like rotten milk!
I know that smell well! Why do I know that smell so well? Too much experience with that one. The most memorable time was being at the Chupps house on Pinkham road. We were getting some fresh cows milk from them in a gallon jar. Their drive way was a steep hill up. The milk jug being in the middle of the 2 seats in the VW van, when we went up the hill the jug tipped, lid came off and the milk spilled not only all over all the carpet, but all into the heater too. It was awful! We never really did get the smell totally out.
Well I better go clean my car. I'm hoping it's not spilled milk but just a glass of sour milk that I can just throw away.
Well this sunny weather makes me want to plant a garden again. Every year it's a waste of time. Nothing really grows. But this year I have an idea. Last year Michelle Martin grew a very small garden and had tons of vegetables. We all asked her "how did you do that?" She said in that little plot she put 3-4 bags of some sort of fertilizer. Well this made me realize that the reason my garden never makes it, is because the soil is sand and washes the nutrients away plus all our big trees have roots that eat up what ever they can get. So my idea this yr is make some raised beds, and use a bunch of fertilizer. Plant less but concentrate on getting more from what I do plant. I'm always wanting to garden this time of year, we will see if this ends up a better year for us. With the price of food it would be great to grow enough to save a few bucks.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
day by day
Kendra and James made the cake together this time. Here is a picture of their master piece! They both love cooking. I have so much fun teaching them too.
This is going to be a very impressive skill for James to have. I know Michael has surprised some girls with his baking ability. Teaching them how to make a pie or cake from scratch.
The ice cream creations!
Rick bought ice cream ("for the children"lol) He has a terrible addiction to ice cream. It take great effort for him to stay off it, but once in awhile, "the children need ice cream"!
Well they made these wonderful creations. Miriam gave me a ice cream Sunday set for Christmas, and it makes the nicest looking Sundays.
Gina is home for spring break. I caught her off guard with the camera.
Gina decided to doll Monica up. She played with her hair and had fun being a photographer.
Kendra and Nettie are spending their spring break with me. We have had a great week. Kendra was explaining why she likes it up here, "the trees, and no neighbors squished right up against each other, fresh air, and a big house that's clean" (clean! At least she thinks so! :)
Makes me glad we live up here.
Sometimes we get tempted to move to Kalispell since our children are all moving down there for work. But it's nice to have a wonderful place that they can come home to, or grandchildren can come and see us . It make it special.
This is going to be a very impressive skill for James to have. I know Michael has surprised some girls with his baking ability. Teaching them how to make a pie or cake from scratch.
The ice cream creations!Rick bought ice cream ("for the children"lol) He has a terrible addiction to ice cream. It take great effort for him to stay off it, but once in awhile, "the children need ice cream"!
Well they made these wonderful creations. Miriam gave me a ice cream Sunday set for Christmas, and it makes the nicest looking Sundays.
Gina is home for spring break. I caught her off guard with the camera.
Gina decided to doll Monica up. She played with her hair and had fun being a photographer.
Kendra and Nettie are spending their spring break with me. We have had a great week. Kendra was explaining why she likes it up here, "the trees, and no neighbors squished right up against each other, fresh air, and a big house that's clean" (clean! At least she thinks so! :)
Makes me glad we live up here.
Sometimes we get tempted to move to Kalispell since our children are all moving down there for work. But it's nice to have a wonderful place that they can come home to, or grandchildren can come and see us . It make it special.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
tired tonight
I was sleeping very soundly at 1:30 am when the phone rang. It was a mom with twins. She is only 33 weeks and having contractions. I had to ask her to hold on a minute while I took a few deep breaths to wake up. It's hard to be so logical and remember everything when your sound asleep. I told her to try drinking a few glasses of water and take some calcium magnesium and try to sleep. I prayed on and off through the night, and praise the Lord, it all stopped.
So today I was determined to change my bedroom around. I do this every once in a while. I suppose I do it more because it's the best way to clean my bedroom. When I'm done it's really clean. There are really only 2 ways to put the bed in this room. I've lived here in this house for 19 yrs. I've had 4 of my children in the bedroom. It's funny how when I think of their births I can always remember which direction the bed was in at the time.
So it's done, and it feels so good to have a nice clean bedroom, with a fluffy king size bed. KING size!!! If we only had a king size bed when the children were babies and little enough to climb in bed with us. No we had a double till about 7 yrs ago when we got a queen. Then a couple of years ago we got this King bed. It's so roomy, almost too much room.
I painted my bedroom a couple of years ago. I didn't mean for it to be pink. I just wanted a tint to my white. But it's pink. I figured I would add a reddish maroon with some glaze, so the pink will be the back ground color. But it's been awhile and it's still pink. Well it does match my comforter and I got some deep red towels for the bathroom too. I guess I really don't like painting!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Catch up time
This is our basement. It's not a nice basement, so I don't usually show it off. But I thought for memory sake we should have some pictures of it.
This is the Pellet furnace with James on top of bags of pellets. It's been great to have a furnace. A thermostat! Such a life of ease!!!! :)
We still have to get pellets (in my van) and keep the furnace loaded up (it holds about 5 bags and eats about 1-2 bags a day) But it's soooo easy compared to wood. We buy pellets for $160 a ton. It looks like we will have used 5 tons this winter. We still have to use some electric heat upstairs too. Our electric bill is about $170 a month. Outrageous isn't it! We only pay about .05 cents a kilowatt here too, so it shouldn't be so bad, but ....
This is Mark my very Italian looking son, eating a favorite Italian meal. My kitchen turned out pretty Italian looking too so it all fits well!
I got ground beef on sale this last week. I actually bought 85 lbs of it. I fried up a bunch and put it in the freezer for tacos and such, and then I made 10 lbs into meat balls and meat loaf. We ate half the meat balls one night and I have 2 meals in the freezer. My children LOVE meatloaf. My older children didn't, but this bunch sure does. So I made 2 loafs for one dinner. It's pretty fatty ground beef too so I have to plan on shrinkage too. I put many 2.5 packages in the freezer and I hope this will last a little while!
It's been so long since I've had a chance to get on here so I have lots to catch up on.
I get so busy, stressed, and running around trying to get priority's straight. Do I really get much done? I hope so, but some days I just am recovering from the other days.
So whats going on?
Well just life and a little more.
I've been taking "financial freedom" classes every Thur night. I've really enjoyed them. I certainly don't have freedom from financial worries but at least I'm enjoying the class! I actually worry a lot about money. I do have to wonder if this is just my personality or if there is really need. We have a nice steady income for the last 3-4 years. Rick is a manager and tech support at an Internet company. We are thankful for a job, as in this small town it's really hard to have work. But I guess we are still on the poverty level according to the government. Maybe according to me too, unless I compare with other country's. Then I see how terribly rich we are. Well if I can ever get out of debt and stay out, maybe it will be easier to make it on our pay check.
I have been working on real life monopoly. I always loved monopoly was I was young. I was really good at it too. I wish I could be good at monopoly in real life. So I just bought a little house, it hasn't closed yet. But it's a little 2 bedroom house with a huge bump in the middle of the house. The house is so uneven that one end of the kitchen table is on the floor and the other end has about 2 inches of shims under the other side. Can you imagine eating dinner in a house like that! Well, I had to get an engineer, a house mover, and lots of estimates etc to find out if this house was going to be fixable and pay. We rephrased our deal many times. I ended up buying the house for $69,500. It's going to cost me about $3000 to fix it and that includes fixing drywall that gets messed up, plus insulating an area under the house that doesn't have any. The only other thing I will have to do to fix up the house is put a shower in it and add some kitchen cupboards. It has a beautiful claw tub bath tub in it. But it has no shower, so I will get one put in. I would like to add a dishwasher and some base cabinets too. After that I'm hoping the house will be worth at least $90,000 or maybe even $100,000. I will have to decide if I should turn around and sell it this summer and make a bit now (to help me get out of debt) or should I hold on to it for a yr or two and make more. Monopoly!
So I have also been working on Mishael and Cody's house. Not really working on it, but being the contractor. I enjoy that part too, but I have lots to learn and it's very time consuming. We had an electrician that was doing a bad job, plumbers that were fast and did a great job, drywall put up that had to be taken down 3 times! Well we are putting it up for sale this week without it being quite done. but the money I had to help them is gone, and they moved to Kalispell. Hopefully they will still make a good amount and I also will get a good return on the money I loaned.
So besides playing monopoly, I have midwifery, homeschooling, being a good mom and wife. Plus all my grown children . Grown children still take a lot of time, either on phone just keeping up, encouraging, advising, or asking advise, or if they need rides, or help with something plus there are birthdays. Lots of birthdays! We are all still involved a lot in each others lives. I love that our family is so close.
I got a home school CPR and 1st aid class together this week. Here they are practicing on their dummy's in this picture. I was happy they all picked it up really good.
Monica in her new glasses. Isn't she cute!
Midwifery has picked up business again. I have about 13-14 mom's now. My Wednesday appointments are getting to be a very full day!
Well a little catch up time.
I'll post pictures of houses as soon as i get some.
This is the Pellet furnace with James on top of bags of pellets. It's been great to have a furnace. A thermostat! Such a life of ease!!!! :)
We still have to get pellets (in my van) and keep the furnace loaded up (it holds about 5 bags and eats about 1-2 bags a day) But it's soooo easy compared to wood. We buy pellets for $160 a ton. It looks like we will have used 5 tons this winter. We still have to use some electric heat upstairs too. Our electric bill is about $170 a month. Outrageous isn't it! We only pay about .05 cents a kilowatt here too, so it shouldn't be so bad, but ....
This is Mark my very Italian looking son, eating a favorite Italian meal. My kitchen turned out pretty Italian looking too so it all fits well!
I got ground beef on sale this last week. I actually bought 85 lbs of it. I fried up a bunch and put it in the freezer for tacos and such, and then I made 10 lbs into meat balls and meat loaf. We ate half the meat balls one night and I have 2 meals in the freezer. My children LOVE meatloaf. My older children didn't, but this bunch sure does. So I made 2 loafs for one dinner. It's pretty fatty ground beef too so I have to plan on shrinkage too. I put many 2.5 packages in the freezer and I hope this will last a little while! 
It's been so long since I've had a chance to get on here so I have lots to catch up on.
I get so busy, stressed, and running around trying to get priority's straight. Do I really get much done? I hope so, but some days I just am recovering from the other days.
So whats going on?
Well just life and a little more.
I've been taking "financial freedom" classes every Thur night. I've really enjoyed them. I certainly don't have freedom from financial worries but at least I'm enjoying the class! I actually worry a lot about money. I do have to wonder if this is just my personality or if there is really need. We have a nice steady income for the last 3-4 years. Rick is a manager and tech support at an Internet company. We are thankful for a job, as in this small town it's really hard to have work. But I guess we are still on the poverty level according to the government. Maybe according to me too, unless I compare with other country's. Then I see how terribly rich we are. Well if I can ever get out of debt and stay out, maybe it will be easier to make it on our pay check.
I have been working on real life monopoly. I always loved monopoly was I was young. I was really good at it too. I wish I could be good at monopoly in real life. So I just bought a little house, it hasn't closed yet. But it's a little 2 bedroom house with a huge bump in the middle of the house. The house is so uneven that one end of the kitchen table is on the floor and the other end has about 2 inches of shims under the other side. Can you imagine eating dinner in a house like that! Well, I had to get an engineer, a house mover, and lots of estimates etc to find out if this house was going to be fixable and pay. We rephrased our deal many times. I ended up buying the house for $69,500. It's going to cost me about $3000 to fix it and that includes fixing drywall that gets messed up, plus insulating an area under the house that doesn't have any. The only other thing I will have to do to fix up the house is put a shower in it and add some kitchen cupboards. It has a beautiful claw tub bath tub in it. But it has no shower, so I will get one put in. I would like to add a dishwasher and some base cabinets too. After that I'm hoping the house will be worth at least $90,000 or maybe even $100,000. I will have to decide if I should turn around and sell it this summer and make a bit now (to help me get out of debt) or should I hold on to it for a yr or two and make more. Monopoly!
So I have also been working on Mishael and Cody's house. Not really working on it, but being the contractor. I enjoy that part too, but I have lots to learn and it's very time consuming. We had an electrician that was doing a bad job, plumbers that were fast and did a great job, drywall put up that had to be taken down 3 times! Well we are putting it up for sale this week without it being quite done. but the money I had to help them is gone, and they moved to Kalispell. Hopefully they will still make a good amount and I also will get a good return on the money I loaned.
So besides playing monopoly, I have midwifery, homeschooling, being a good mom and wife. Plus all my grown children . Grown children still take a lot of time, either on phone just keeping up, encouraging, advising, or asking advise, or if they need rides, or help with something plus there are birthdays. Lots of birthdays! We are all still involved a lot in each others lives. I love that our family is so close.
I got a home school CPR and 1st aid class together this week. Here they are practicing on their dummy's in this picture. I was happy they all picked it up really good.
Monica in her new glasses. Isn't she cute!
Midwifery has picked up business again. I have about 13-14 mom's now. My Wednesday appointments are getting to be a very full day!
Well a little catch up time.
I'll post pictures of houses as soon as i get some.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
James
James is such a funny boy. He keeps us smiling. He's almost 9 now. He's growing up so fast.
In this picture he "died" because I cut his show lace. His shoe laces were so long he was tripping over them. But for some reason he liked his shoe laces long. Well I took out the scissors and took a good bit of shoe lace off. Poor James fainted immediately to the floor and was as if dead.
So dramatic!!!!
In this picture he "died" because I cut his show lace. His shoe laces were so long he was tripping over them. But for some reason he liked his shoe laces long. Well I took out the scissors and took a good bit of shoe lace off. Poor James fainted immediately to the floor and was as if dead.
So dramatic!!!!
Visits
Paul and Hans got to come up for a visit last weekend. The Uncles and Nephews love being together. They are the closest friends.
Paul, Mark, Hans and James.
We also had Chris White visit. Chris is a friend of Ricks from Jr high and high school. The stories are great when Chris comes to visit. I made a pizza dinner, and this was one creation with a bit of spinach on it. It was surprisingly good. I am really surprised about how many places you can eat spinach.
Paul, Mark, Hans and James.
We also had Chris White visit. Chris is a friend of Ricks from Jr high and high school. The stories are great when Chris comes to visit. I made a pizza dinner, and this was one creation with a bit of spinach on it. It was surprisingly good. I am really surprised about how many places you can eat spinach.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Jon and Monica
Monica and Jon passed hunters safety!!!!
Sherry gave me some great sausages. They are really good. Maybe we can have some extra meat next fall!
Jon is really into skiing this year.
He has the helmet and goggles to hopefully stay in one piece. Unlike last year with a broken nose.
Sherry gave me some great sausages. They are really good. Maybe we can have some extra meat next fall!
Jon is really into skiing this year.
He has the helmet and goggles to hopefully stay in one piece. Unlike last year with a broken nose.
Chiffon cake
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| James 8 yrs old made a chiffon cake |
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| Mark 10 yrs old, made peanut butter bars |
This morning I was working on the computer when James came in to ask me something. Most of the time kids ask " can I play on the computer" or "can I go outside and play" But James says, "can I please make a Chiffon cake" James is 8 yrs old! As you can see they turn out great. This is the 3rd time he has made one.
Mark made Peanut butter bars! yum.
I love Chiffon cakes. I feel like it's a pretty healthy dessert too. It has about 10 eggs in it. No butter, a little oil, but it's pretty low in fat, and it's got the protein from all the eggs. So for cake, it's a good one.
So James has learned to separate eggs, they have all learned what soft peaks, stiff peaks etc are.
This is one thing that I've noticed about homeschooling. When they were in school no one wanted to cook. There just isn't the time. They come home from school at 3:30, we clean house and everyone wants a bit of free time. I cooked dinner and they did very little cooking. With home schooling there just is more time to learn real life, cooking, projects. Jon learned drywall and taping this year. We've also been going though a scenario with Jon. 15 yr old will often say stuff like "I'm going to move out when I'm 18". so I said, lets go though the steps. How do you move out? How do you get a job? How do you get an apartment, pay bills, etc.
It's been an interesting school yr. Not very typical and not what I planned exactly. But everyone is defiantly learning and that's what is important. Anyways, any son that can make a chiffon cake will be very impressive to any wife.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Not too much going on
Jon and Monica are in hunters safety. I'm glad they are getting it over with now. Last year Jon missed it and it was sad he couldn't hunt. The meat would have been nice, but also the experience for him too.
I've placed an offer on a little investment house in town. It's a cute little house. 2 bedrooms 1 bath, laundry. It's in great shape with new wiring, new floors, new roof. Many upgrades. The problem is.......in the middle of the house is a huge bump. The foundation was just fixed up and redone by the EPA. But the foundation is lower then the beam in the middle of the house. So the whole house is drastically bumped up in the middle. I was told by one contractor that it would be a simple fix. But another contractor explained it differently. thought it would be quite complicated and would break drywall and such. Well I offered $71,000. I think if it's fixed and the market goes back up a bit, it could easily be sold for $100,000 this summer. But now I don't know if it's going to cost me $1000 to fix or $10,000.
I'm getting a bit more involved in Mishael and Cody's house flip. they moved to Kalispell and now I got quite a bit of money tied up in it.
I would like to buy a four plex, but that takes lots of money down. There are two for sale in Kalispell area for $300,000. The great thing about it is that it will actually bring in a monthly income in. The rents are about $800 above the payments. That would be really neat.
Lots of decisions.
So my day yesterday:
Jon had to be at the shooting range by 8 am. So we left the house at 7:30 am, I ran back home for a few minutes and to get Monica who had to be back there at 10, went to the Amish store, and back home. Left to get Monica and head to Kalispell. Mishael and I spent about 3-4 hours at Lowe's picking out cabinets, carpet, doors, light fixtures, etc. then we headed over to a party at the Gym. Martha and Moriah had a birthday party for Paul, Hans and Eric. Mishael and I missed most of it, but the children were there. We had a quick visit because everyone had to go home, and we went back to Lowe's to finish up paying. I took Paul and Hans home with me, and left Jon with Cody and Mishael. Got home about 11 pm. Long day. I was so tired. I just rushed all day. Even visiting at the party was rushed. I haven't seen every one for so long, it seemed I had so much to say and not enough time.
So today is a relaxing day, I think I'll go make some pizza and just keep doing nothing.
I've placed an offer on a little investment house in town. It's a cute little house. 2 bedrooms 1 bath, laundry. It's in great shape with new wiring, new floors, new roof. Many upgrades. The problem is.......in the middle of the house is a huge bump. The foundation was just fixed up and redone by the EPA. But the foundation is lower then the beam in the middle of the house. So the whole house is drastically bumped up in the middle. I was told by one contractor that it would be a simple fix. But another contractor explained it differently. thought it would be quite complicated and would break drywall and such. Well I offered $71,000. I think if it's fixed and the market goes back up a bit, it could easily be sold for $100,000 this summer. But now I don't know if it's going to cost me $1000 to fix or $10,000.
I'm getting a bit more involved in Mishael and Cody's house flip. they moved to Kalispell and now I got quite a bit of money tied up in it.
I would like to buy a four plex, but that takes lots of money down. There are two for sale in Kalispell area for $300,000. The great thing about it is that it will actually bring in a monthly income in. The rents are about $800 above the payments. That would be really neat.
Lots of decisions.
So my day yesterday:
Jon had to be at the shooting range by 8 am. So we left the house at 7:30 am, I ran back home for a few minutes and to get Monica who had to be back there at 10, went to the Amish store, and back home. Left to get Monica and head to Kalispell. Mishael and I spent about 3-4 hours at Lowe's picking out cabinets, carpet, doors, light fixtures, etc. then we headed over to a party at the Gym. Martha and Moriah had a birthday party for Paul, Hans and Eric. Mishael and I missed most of it, but the children were there. We had a quick visit because everyone had to go home, and we went back to Lowe's to finish up paying. I took Paul and Hans home with me, and left Jon with Cody and Mishael. Got home about 11 pm. Long day. I was so tired. I just rushed all day. Even visiting at the party was rushed. I haven't seen every one for so long, it seemed I had so much to say and not enough time.
So today is a relaxing day, I think I'll go make some pizza and just keep doing nothing.
Friday, February 15, 2008
My busy week
I knew this week would be busy. Tue is our "town day". The children have piano lessons, so I try to do all my errands, spend time with them at the library, and all the regular errands: post office, pellets, bank, etc. I try to stay out of the stores which seems to save a lot of money. I do my monthly shopping in Kalispell at Costco, and try to go to other stores as little as possible, watching sale ads for meat. I hit the Amish store once in a while, and order for Azure about every 3 months. It still totals about $700 a month, but really we eat pretty good, I think. We have plenty of cheese, milk, and usually enough meat.
Jon and Monica are going to hunters safety next week, so next year maybe we can save a bunch on meat.
Well back to my week:
so Tuesday was a very busy day. I ended up with an appointment at the birth center, for a new mom. She was 12 weeks, but I couldn't get a heart beat. Well that does happen once in a while, but usually by 12 weeks you can find the little one. So I told her not to worry and plan on coming back next week when we will listen again.
Then I went over to MT sky net, where Michael helped me put the web site up. Monica and I have been working on getting a web site made. If you want to look it's familymidwives.com.
So we got this up, and I went next door to the real estate agent and made an offer on a house. I've been looking at this house. thinking about it, looking at other houses, thinking of duplexes, fourplexes, and coming back to this same house. It's a great house. Very clean, lots of new stuff. It had a major fire about a yr ago, so they replaced a bunch of plumbing, all the electric, a new roof, new floors, and it even has a new foundation. the list goes on for all they have done to it. So I offered really low at $71,000. I didn't expect him to take it, but he did! So in my regular busy day, I also bought a house! Wow, could that really be.
Well Wednesday I had my regular day of prenatals. It was another busy day with one mom emotionally struggling, and going to an ultra sound with my mom with twins. It was great to see the 2 separate bags. One baby is head down, and one breech. I'm really praying for baby A to turn around, or the doctor is going to want to do a C section.
I was home most of Thurs thankfully. When I called the bank about the home loan I was informed that interest that had been down to 5.5 just went up to 7.5! oh dear. If it stays that high I will have trouble renting the house for enough to cover the payments, which is a must. I think in a few years I'll be able to make a lot of money on this house, but it has to pay for it self in the mean time. So I hope it will go down. I was starting to think maybe I should chicken out, but as I think about it, I think I should take the plunge. Interest will probably go down, maybe I can get more rent or refinance it quickly as soon as interest goes down. I could put more down too, and then I wouldn't pay mortgage insurance. That can save $48 per month. I got to do the math on that one!
So Friday. Sherry has 4 clients in Bonners Ferry. So I thought I better make a trip there for prenatals. Before I left the mom I had seen Tue called and said she was spotting. I offered her a ultrasound and told her to call me later. So we left early, all the children too, and spent the day in Bonners doing prenatals. It was a busy day, and in the midst of prenatals the one mom called and said she got the ultra sound and there is no baby, it was a blighted ovum. This is one of those times in Midwifery that it would be nice to know how to be a counselor too. I just wish I knew how to help people more. I suppose God knows how to use us, and we can be his tools. Sherry has all sorts of things going on. It's so sad and it's so hard to know what to say.
So I got home about 7 and we made a quick hamburger dinner, fixed the heater and sat down to relax from the busy week.
And guess what! It's snowing again.......
Whew it's the weekend, and time to take it easy......
Jon and Monica are going to hunters safety next week, so next year maybe we can save a bunch on meat.
Well back to my week:
so Tuesday was a very busy day. I ended up with an appointment at the birth center, for a new mom. She was 12 weeks, but I couldn't get a heart beat. Well that does happen once in a while, but usually by 12 weeks you can find the little one. So I told her not to worry and plan on coming back next week when we will listen again.
Then I went over to MT sky net, where Michael helped me put the web site up. Monica and I have been working on getting a web site made. If you want to look it's familymidwives.com.
So we got this up, and I went next door to the real estate agent and made an offer on a house. I've been looking at this house. thinking about it, looking at other houses, thinking of duplexes, fourplexes, and coming back to this same house. It's a great house. Very clean, lots of new stuff. It had a major fire about a yr ago, so they replaced a bunch of plumbing, all the electric, a new roof, new floors, and it even has a new foundation. the list goes on for all they have done to it. So I offered really low at $71,000. I didn't expect him to take it, but he did! So in my regular busy day, I also bought a house! Wow, could that really be.
Well Wednesday I had my regular day of prenatals. It was another busy day with one mom emotionally struggling, and going to an ultra sound with my mom with twins. It was great to see the 2 separate bags. One baby is head down, and one breech. I'm really praying for baby A to turn around, or the doctor is going to want to do a C section.
I was home most of Thurs thankfully. When I called the bank about the home loan I was informed that interest that had been down to 5.5 just went up to 7.5! oh dear. If it stays that high I will have trouble renting the house for enough to cover the payments, which is a must. I think in a few years I'll be able to make a lot of money on this house, but it has to pay for it self in the mean time. So I hope it will go down. I was starting to think maybe I should chicken out, but as I think about it, I think I should take the plunge. Interest will probably go down, maybe I can get more rent or refinance it quickly as soon as interest goes down. I could put more down too, and then I wouldn't pay mortgage insurance. That can save $48 per month. I got to do the math on that one!
So Friday. Sherry has 4 clients in Bonners Ferry. So I thought I better make a trip there for prenatals. Before I left the mom I had seen Tue called and said she was spotting. I offered her a ultrasound and told her to call me later. So we left early, all the children too, and spent the day in Bonners doing prenatals. It was a busy day, and in the midst of prenatals the one mom called and said she got the ultra sound and there is no baby, it was a blighted ovum. This is one of those times in Midwifery that it would be nice to know how to be a counselor too. I just wish I knew how to help people more. I suppose God knows how to use us, and we can be his tools. Sherry has all sorts of things going on. It's so sad and it's so hard to know what to say.
So I got home about 7 and we made a quick hamburger dinner, fixed the heater and sat down to relax from the busy week.
And guess what! It's snowing again.......
Whew it's the weekend, and time to take it easy......
Monday, February 11, 2008
our poor porch
Well we woke up this morning, and went to dump the garbage when we noticed our porch was gone!
Well not gone, just collapsed. We were afraid of the weight of the snow, and it was true. It just couldn't hold all the snow that came off the roof.
Well we can see out our front window again.
I suppose we needed another project, right?
Mishael and Cody are moving back to Kalispell. He got a job offer down there. We're going to miss them hanging around. It's been fun having a grand baby around, and Mishael cooking dinner with me.
We've got a really busy week. Tomorrow we have the piano guy coming at 10 to hopefully fix our piano, then I have an appointment at the birth center, and the children have piano lessons, then we have to rush home because a guy is coming to fix the dishwasher. Wednesday I have a bunch of appointments, and Thursday I have to go to Bonners Ferry for appointments over there. Plus all the normal stuff, dinners, trying to keep the house clean, and school.
I usually only have appointments on Wednesdays, but we ended up with some special circumstances.
Well not gone, just collapsed. We were afraid of the weight of the snow, and it was true. It just couldn't hold all the snow that came off the roof.
Well we can see out our front window again.
I suppose we needed another project, right?
Mishael and Cody are moving back to Kalispell. He got a job offer down there. We're going to miss them hanging around. It's been fun having a grand baby around, and Mishael cooking dinner with me.
We've got a really busy week. Tomorrow we have the piano guy coming at 10 to hopefully fix our piano, then I have an appointment at the birth center, and the children have piano lessons, then we have to rush home because a guy is coming to fix the dishwasher. Wednesday I have a bunch of appointments, and Thursday I have to go to Bonners Ferry for appointments over there. Plus all the normal stuff, dinners, trying to keep the house clean, and school.
I usually only have appointments on Wednesdays, but we ended up with some special circumstances.
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