June 29, 2009
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I didn't do much since my last post on Saturday.
I started to have a bit of bone aches - NOT PAIN (!!!), just aches; so, I took it easy on Saturday evening and Sunday and used my pain killers. It was definitely bearable considering what I went through two weeks ago! I hope to never go through that kind of pain again! Only two more treatments with this new drug and I'll be done with chemo. YAY!!!!
I watched "Hello Dolly" with the girls yesterday, in the late afternoon. We all piled in our king size bed and enjoyed the music. I probably haven't seen that play or movie in 20 years and still remembered all the lyrics and lines. I'm a hopeless entertainer!!! Jesse called when dinner was ready and we had a delicious fruit salad, baked beans, and charcoaled chicken meal. We had just enough of that cinnamon coffee cake left for our dessert.
Saturday night brought a few rain showers and a reprieve from the 100+ temperatures. The cooler temps weren't "cold," but they were definitely 10 - 14 degrees cooler than what we have been having for over a week. Before that we were keeping the blinds closed and drapes pulled until it felt like we were living in a dark tomb!
Seriously! Annamarie and Luci's bedroom was one of the brightest! That's because I've never chosen curtains for their window!
Rissy has the room darkening curtains and they definitely did the job! I still haven't purchased a rod for her new curtains, so they are thrown over the rod that holds the lace cut-out curtains. Dark is definitely more important to her than attractive rods! If you remember, she asked for the room darkening curtains after the neighbor across the street installed a huge motion detector light on the front of his house!!! He goes off all night long.
With the camera's flash. Without the flash! This is how it really looks! DARK!!!Playing in the pool in the backyard left the girls tired and hot several times last week.
Under my nightstand, a patch of sun comes in every afternoon. Chirper discovered it and is usually found sleeping there each afternoon. Guess who else discovered that spot and fell asleep on the telephone? She definitely loves our cats!One other day, last week, they came in from the pool totally exhausted. It takes a lot out of them to splash and scream like little girls, I guess!!!
Three of them climbed in the king size bed in the girls' room to watch a movie and we lost two of them to sleepyland!
Luci and Abreeana were out like lights!Anyway, today is a busy one for me. I've done quite a bit of housework. I swept and spot mopped the kitchen floor this morning before most of the family was up. JoAnn worked so hard last week to mop the entire kitchen and Sushi has shed hair here, there, and everywhere, since then. I was trying to get it cleaned before JoAnn woke up, as I felt sorry for her having done such a big job and it already being dirtied!
I also did Jesse's and my laundry, all small baskets of the 3 girls' laundry, and now all that's in the washer is the girls' whites being bleached.
I have a new dessert in the oven. Carmel bars, from a carmel cake box recipe. They sound good. We'll see. At least they are bars and not individually placed cookies. I love the cookie bar idea. Just mix them up, spread them in a pan, and cut them later into individual portions. Easy, schmeazy!
I'm waiting for Jesse to get home early. He had to meet with one friend and pick up something from another friend's house. Then he was on his way out to the other side of town to pick up some mowers that had broken. One mower he had back from the repair place for less than a week before something else went wrong. What a pain!
I have ground turkey and ground beef out for dinner and haven't a clue what I'm going to turn it into. Maybe cooked with a brown sauce over white rice. Another thing that is easy.
Wouldn't it be nice to take a chill pill, like Abreeana, forget about all else, wake up, and find that someone has your dinner cooked and waiting for you . . . with carmel bars for dessert????Time for Jeopardy! I think I'll take a little chill pill time for myself!
Be Blessed ~
Comments (7)
Oh yeah! I would like that a lot! Hubby has pulled something in his back, so he is resting quite a bit and I am doing his work as well as mine. Caramel bars sound good! I just found a recipe for an orange cake I am going to try soon. I'm so glad you are almost done with the chemo!
So glad you are nearly finished with the chemo. I'm sure you're relieved. The girls are precious. I haven't scrolled back in your blog to see if they are yours or a friends but they are precious! May the Lord continue to give you His strength as you travel this difficult road.
I echo the above comments...so glad to hear that chemo treatments are coming to an end.
I love it at the end of the day and I walk into the house and I can smell supper cooking...it doesn't happen very often but boy oh boy when it does....what a treat!!!!
Enjoy Jeopardy...we watch it just about every night!
@georgene -
The littlest girl (Abreeana) isn't mine, the others are. My dh's sister is here from Tacoma with her youngest granddaughter (Abreeana) to take care of me. Her older granddaughter (school age) will be here Saturday to stay the rest of the summer with my sil and Abreeana. A friend of theirs in Tacoma is flying out with my sil's older granddaughter on Saturday but will only stay here for about 8 or 9 days.
My children are ages "almost 7" to 31yo. Five daughters.
Thank you for that update. That helps clear it up.
Wow! 7 years to 31? Do you have grandchildren? You are blessed!
You have a great family, Cherylyn, from your husband down to the youngest great-niece (or however it fits into the family tree!). I can just tell how much they all love you by how they treat you. I think it's funny how your girls all look different, and yet alike in some ways also. My middle daughter, Meredith, is darker like my husband's side of the family (the Italian side), and I have the fairest skin and strawberry-blonde hair, so I always said there was a mix-up at the hospital and yet, put her next to a family picture from HIS side and she fits right it. Genes are a funny thing! I'm glad somebody else closes shades on an overly sunny day! It seriously heats up my house in the afternoon when they're all open and the a/c runs twice as hard it seems like. Take care ~
We've enjoyed the cooler temps here too...that 90+ thing in June was NOT appreciated!
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