Good morning Cheryl, Rooney and everyone else
My morning started a lot like Cheryl's. I slept until 8:00!!! I have been dealing with a Crohns flare off and on all weekend and the medicine I take for intestinal cramping knocks me on my hiney. I had to take another dose around 4:am so I slept until 8 and I have been playing catch-up ever since. Whew!!
Let's see if I can give everyone a nutshell version of my summer since I've been MIA.
Caylon~~She has been involved with custody issues all summer with Evan's father. They have FINALLY got the custody decided with Caylon having Evan around 80% of the time. Now they're beginning the child support stuff and it's probably going to get ugly. Ugh. On a more positive note, Caylon bought a house and she and her two moved into it around late July. It is a really cute house and it's about 5 minutes from my house, 2 blocks up from my parents. It was a really good move for her and she loves having her own space.
Aaron~~Aaron has been awarded sole custody of Holden and Holden's mother has no visitation rights whatsoever. She has some mental issues that prohibit her from seeing Holden and hasn't seen him in a year. Holden is thriving with us full time and is the sweetest little 2 year old....if there is such a thing.
Whew, he's all boy and wears this Nan out. Aaron is also in the process of buying a house 5 mins from us in the other direction. They've hit a bump though, the house he is wanting to buy was deeded to 5 siblings when the parents died. One of the siblings has had liens filed against her by about 6 different companies and that wasn't known until the lawyer did the deed search. Now the siblings are working with the lawyer to get the liens lifted so the house can be sold but it is a very slow process. Aaron is kind of in limbo at the moment until all the legalities are figured out. My house looks like a storage unit because Aaron had started accumulating things for his house but now has no where to put them. They were suppose to close on the house Sept 15 but here we are...still waiting.
My mother had a total knee replacement mid July and then August 1 she was in a car accident and broke her neck. She has no paralysis thank heavens but has to wear a cervical collar for 3 months and has very strict limitations on what she can do so I've been helping her with chores and errands. Between her knee and her neck, it's been a very long summer for her.
Sam has taken on a second job of being a bail bondsman. He passed his classes and state licensing test and has gone into business with a veteran bondsman that we've known for years. He is still working at his factory job on second shift and is doing bonding in the morning. The plan is for the bonding to replace his factory job in about 18 months and he just work from home. That will be sooo nice!!! That will be a dream come true. We joke and say that Aaron puts people in jail and Sam gets the out...we've got it wrapped up.
I think that about wraps up our summer with the normal gardening, canning, animal chores (we've added a few turkeys to the cast of characters in the barn) thrown in.
Let's see...today I am going to be working on catching up my housework that got pushed aside over the weekend and my Crohns mess, I need to make bread, I also need to make syrup, BBQ sauce and figure out what type of beans to cook. Sam and I are trying to eat whole foods with minimal ingredients so that has added to my kitchen chores. I try to cook a pot of beans on Monday so we can eat on them during the week. I think I'm going to cook Great Northern beans and then use them in some White Chili later on in the week. There's the normal straightening up and laundry to deal with. Aaron has qualifying tonight so I'll have Holden from 12pm-10pm. I think that wraps up the day.
I hope everyone has a blessed Monday and it is really nice to be back. I've missed everyone.
Beth
