June 20

I am a little behind on the blogging as I try to do it on Sundays.

Bob has been home this last week and just left again this time for Utah. He was supposed to be in Nebraska last week and in fact left to go last week, but was felled by an especially nasty kidney stone that required ambulance and emergency room time. He got well, but drugs were utilized.

Baby Cash also went to the emergency room. Since it was a weekend, and he had thrush(basically an infection in the mouth) Rachel's regular doctor insisted that she come in merely to get a prescription. Of course then she had to wait for six hours with a sick baby, unable to give him any medicine. They only worked with her AFTER she got up and said she was leaving. Cash is fine now. Huge. He is one month old.

Rachel is well and very busy. She is taking four on-line classes. She was a huge help to me this past week with some of my own responsibilities.

Veronica is finishing up summer school this week and staying with her daddy. She is still just a joy to be around. Rach might argue that when it comes to the non-stop whistling.

Drew is flying and working. All is well for him, although he misses some of the friends he has made at college. He wore his suit this past week and it always still surprises me to see him look like the man he now is instead of the boy I remember.

Ryan just finished Driver's Ed. I think he enjoyed it and learned a lot about driving. His teacher is such a nice man. He spent some time over at his friend, Ethan's house last weekend riding a four-wheeler.

We spent Sunday with Bob's parents for Father's Day. Bob's mom was getting around better. We also brought home their tiller for some work, but as yet it is not ready.

I am working on my two college classes and being as successful as I can be given the challenges of my everyday life.

The most significant news of the past week is our family friend Frances Osborne passed away. Frances truly was my second mother and she and my friend Robin have been a part of our entire family's life as long as I can remember. Although she was ill and we are happy her pain has ended, she will missed. I am so grateful we were able to take Baby Cash to see her in the week before she died. Frances just loved babies and I think it was one of the last joys of her life to be well enough to sit up and hold Cash.

I am also grateful that Robin's family was able to come all together at the end to be with Frances. I hope despite their differences they will be able to come together without her.


And of families, all of mine was very helpful to me. I was over the line of stressed and they helped me however I needed! It's a good thing when we work together.