This could actually be a reference to our weather here in Pennsylvania lately, but life at home between hospital stays is quite valuable at this point. There is a fair amount of simply sitting around, reading, playing games, or staring into space - all healthy for the soul and brain in my opinion.
Christie is also recovering well from her gallbladder surgery, though finding safe food to eat is challenging. Super low-fat is recommended, which makes proteins difficult - no beans, no dairy, no red meat, chicken, or pork. We're eating a lot of seafood but those options start to run out quickly. For people who love food and cooking so much, this is going to be tough. Hopefully she heals up quickly and can back to a more balanced diet. We have a lot of concerns about "low-fat" foods since they usually replace the natural fats with all kinds of chemical crap that's actually more unhealthy for you. But the digestive system wants what it wants, and right now, fat is persona-non-grata.
Our friends, Marc and Ellen Gecker, brought groceries the day after Christie's surgery, as well as
strawberry shortcake with low-fat Kool-Whip since she can have all three ingredients.
Marc played his increasingly popular "Birthday Song" for Christie (who has requested that any pictures of her be left out of this post, in view of having just had an organ removed)
The rest of the week has been pretty lazy. Eating leftovers an trying to avoid going out into the Antarctic temperatures.
The boys decided they are definitely fans of strawberry shortcake
Epic battles of Indigo, Settlers of Catan, Carkasonne, and Ticket to Ride were waged (we pulled the card table into the living room so Christie could sit in the recliner).
Blitz is happiest when everyone is home.
Rich decided to hand-sew a stuff animal/octopus/one-eyed squid thingy, and with a little help from mom, finished it in a day. Read more HERE on his blog.
The picture is blurry because Brennan is beating all of our tails in Livingstone so quickly, the camera can't even capture it.
In between, the boys have spent the afternoon with a group of friends across town playing Dungeons and Dragons, we've watched the Jackie Robinson movie (42) accompanied by much discussion about the civil rights movement and Jim Crowe, Rich learned to grill tilapia, and they're both eyeball deep in the Game Maker program, coding some simple games. I love that they're learning this stuff. We have more time since we dropped Cyber school at the beginning of the month (more on that HERE at our homeschool blog).
Next storm due the last week of March. We expect a visit from my parents, about which we're very excited. Rumor has it they may stay a few weeks, giving us plenty of time to fatten them up and wear them out.
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