Yummy

I made a very yummy dinner this evening and thought I’d share the recipe with you all.
I found it at this website, which has oodles of yummy recipes that we are trying out this week. I served the pepper steak over brown rice, and used a lower sodium soy sauce and beef broth to [...]

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She’s Home!!!

Yay! My mom came home on Tuesday afternoon from her stay in the hospital. She still tires really easily and is very sore from the bruising from the heart cath., but otherwise feels good. She keeps saying she just feels “lighter”, like weights have been removed from her body. We’ve had [...]

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Update on Mom’s Health

Well, she’s still in the hospital. She had initially gone there just for a ct scan, with dye, of her carotid arteries and her kidneys, but because of the allergic reaction, she ended up staying. Now, they’ve performed the heart cath., and inserted a stent somewhere in her heart, as they found somewhere [...]

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In Other News…

F3 needs braces. She’s only nine. The orthodontist wants to put on what he calls a 2×4. There will be a brace on her four top front teeth, with brackets around the six-year molars for stability and of course the wires that run between. She has what they call (I think) [...]

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Mom’s Health Problems

Sigh.
On a Saturday mid-October, my mom and I were just sitting around at the old house (where she is still living until her rooms here at the new house are completed) chatting, when she suddenly grabbed her head, then slumped to the side in her chair, unconscious and jerking while making odd, guttural noises in [...]

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Another Year, New Goals…Sort Of

Last year, I posted this, outlining my goals for the year. I only chose three things to do, believing that it would be very do-able. Sigh.
I did join a book group at the beginning of this school year - it is with other homeschool moms (there are four of us in [...]

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