Wow! Time gets away from me! It seems like I just wrote on my blog a few days ago, and it was really 3 weeks ago! I have to pay better attention!
It’s happy May now and I love it! I would love it more if we were having spring-ish weather, but oh well. Have to make sure Tina leaves a minute or two early for church today as she is going to have to scrape snow off her car! This is crazy!
It’s getting to be another busy, wild time at school for me. In the next 26 days we have to do year-end evaluations, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts and cards, and caps and decorations for graduation and autograph books. Whew! That’s quite a bit of fun for me and a bunch of 5 year olds!
Rick is doing great. He is still using oxygen during the night, but that’s about all. He mowed the lawn last week. Using the riding mower was easy for him, but he couldn’t do the edges and ditches with the regular mower, of course. Way to much exertion. Luckily, there’s a young man in the neighborhood who does yard work, so I guess we’ll be inviting him over.
Our summer project this year is to do some remodeling/redecorating in the basement. It’s not huge remodeling, thank goodness. We took our a wood burning stove and Jeff started working on removing the rock wall that was along the back and side of the stove. It’s been quite a process! Jeff says it wasn’t too hard to get the rocks and mortar off, but cleaning up the rock pile and debris is a difficulty! Rick can’t help at all because there’s so much dust that would cause lots of problems if it got into his lungs. Richard can’t help because lifting anything heavy or working hard makes his heart rate soar and then his defibrillator shocks him. Since Tina is finishing up her senior year, along with working 3 jobs, she’s not home much. I can help with picking up the little pieces and vacuuming up the dust, but poor Jeff has to do all the hard work. Those rocks are heavy and they all have to be carried upstairs and out to the side yard! My friend Lori is going to see if her group of MIA Maids wants to help us as a service project. That would help a lot! I better be thinking of some yummy treats to entice them! :)
Our ward is going on a Pioneer Trek in July and we went to a meeting to find out the details a couple of weeks ago. It sounds pretty fun and I’m sure it will be a great experience for those who go. I’m not sure the Morgan’s will be among the “trekkers”. As we sat in the meeting, I was thinking that Rick and his not-yet-functioning lungs will have a hard time walking something like 10 miles. Oxygen anyone? I can’t walk very far these days because I have plantar fasciitis in my left foot and both of my knees are painful and creaky. And Richard…well…you know. The possibilities of problems with him are endless…heatstroke, heart difficulties, seizures, etc. As we were sitting there, thinking about the difficulties vs. the fun of the experience, Richard had a seizure and fell off the bench. Maybe that was an indicator of what our decision should be. We’ll see.
So speaking of seizures, Richard had one in the shower last night. Rick and I were watching a movie and heard a crash. We ran into the bathroom and found Richard sitting on the floor of the shower with his back against the shower door and his left leg twisted around and wedged under Rick’s shower bench. Rick was able to slide the door enough to reach in and turn off the water, but while we were waiting for him to “come out of it” enough to help him get up he got cold and started shivering so hard he was shaking. We finally got him out and wrapped him up in towels until he could get dressed and go to bed. Amazingly, his only visible injury is a cut and scrape along his left shoulder, but it isn’t bothering him. I can’t see any swelling or anything, so I guess he’s OK. He’s right back to normal this morning. He’s a good boy.
Well, it’s 10:00 and I’m playing the organ in church today, so I better go get ready. Off for lots of big fun today1
You may want to put this on the Babystepping blog since that’s the one people read.