So it's the Holiday Season, and I (Jess) just have not been 'feeling' it. I wasn't sure if it was because Dave isn't here much because of work or because I'm not decorating for the holidays. Well today I bit the bullet talked to Dave about buying a small tree and just a few minimal decorations. So I did, and it's been nice to look at, except I forgot to get ornament hangers. LOL, oops! Why don't they sell ornaments with hangers? I don't get that!
So Dave has been at his new job for four weeks now, and is really enjoying it. It is a challenging job where he has a lot of paper work to do at home, and physical type work to do in each store. He is a Territory Manager for Valspar Paints (Lowe's paint brand). He has 7 stores he has under him and has to visit each week. He does all of the ordering, straightening up (if they Lowe's employee's aren't doing it), changes out signs (and light blubs) in their show cases, and pretty much anything with their name on it, if it needs to be done he has to do it. The Lowe's employee's aren't expected to do it, but sometimes they do see things that need to be done and do it, but ultimately it's his responsibility.
Thankfully he's able to live with his parents during the week and he comes home on most weekends depending on what is going on. It's been hard being away and alone, but I keep reminding myself he has a great job and I'll be joining him in June. The plan is for use to buy a house next summer in the Savannah area. I'll be searching for a job after the new year. So keep me in your prayers to finding a job. The education departments all over GA are all dealing with budget cuts, and so I'm afraid that finding a job might be rather difficult. Thankfully I do come with 5 years of experience, so we'll see.
I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season, and We're sending you all our good Blessings!
We Love and Miss you all!!
Dave and Jess
(~Peace Out)
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
It all just falls into place...
Hey everyone!!
So like I said in my last blog things just seemed to be going great if only Dave could find a job. Well... the time has come for Dave to get his job!! We got the news on Friday afternoon, that he was offered and accepted a position with Valspar Paints (Lowe's) as their Territory Manager in Savannah, GA. Yes, I know, FAR from home!! It's just something we had to take though giving the prospective jobs in Atlanta. We will be moving closer to his family. They are all in the Savannah area. This also helps out with him working now and me staying to finish out my contract in Atlanta. He is going to be moving down to Savannah and staying with his parents. Then after I finish my school year I will be moving down to join him. It only took a little time and faith that things would work out for the best. We're so grateful for all the thoughts, wishes, and prayers!! I'll be in Atlanta until June of next year (come and visit) and then after that we'll be in Savannah. You all know its a beautiful city that you want to come and see!! Now is (well next years) your chance!! Hope everyone is doing well and having a great week. I'm off to bed and ready to celebrate my 3rd furlough day of the year. It was going to be a paid teacher work day with no kids tomorrow, but they decided to make it a non paid furlough day, so at home I shall stay!! Well OK so I'm going to lunch with some good friends and getting a pedi too.
Take care and...
Peace Out... for now...
Dave and Jessica
So like I said in my last blog things just seemed to be going great if only Dave could find a job. Well... the time has come for Dave to get his job!! We got the news on Friday afternoon, that he was offered and accepted a position with Valspar Paints (Lowe's) as their Territory Manager in Savannah, GA. Yes, I know, FAR from home!! It's just something we had to take though giving the prospective jobs in Atlanta. We will be moving closer to his family. They are all in the Savannah area. This also helps out with him working now and me staying to finish out my contract in Atlanta. He is going to be moving down to Savannah and staying with his parents. Then after I finish my school year I will be moving down to join him. It only took a little time and faith that things would work out for the best. We're so grateful for all the thoughts, wishes, and prayers!! I'll be in Atlanta until June of next year (come and visit) and then after that we'll be in Savannah. You all know its a beautiful city that you want to come and see!! Now is (well next years) your chance!! Hope everyone is doing well and having a great week. I'm off to bed and ready to celebrate my 3rd furlough day of the year. It was going to be a paid teacher work day with no kids tomorrow, but they decided to make it a non paid furlough day, so at home I shall stay!! Well OK so I'm going to lunch with some good friends and getting a pedi too.
Take care and...
Peace Out... for now...
Dave and Jessica
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Finally... all settled...
Why helloooo...
So the last post was a bit of a stress/vent relief for myself! LOL! Yes the appraisal went through and we sold the house!!! We were out house hunting b/c we were hoping to get the tax credit for first time home buyers since I would be a first time home buyer. Well no... they look at the entire household and with Dave having bought a house, we weren't considered first time no matter how we 'signed' the paper work and all. So that did put a kink in our thoughts... With Dave not having a job, if we bought a house that would put him as HAVING to get a job in the Atlanta area. We went apartment hunting and found it to be cheaper, large enough, and some had garages for us to store our things in that wouldn't fit into the apartment. We found that renting an apartment would be the better way for us to go and it would also leave Dave open to find a job anywhere. He's been looking anywhere in the South-East area. (MS, AL, FL, TN, GA, SC) We also found a great one bedroom apartment with an attached garage. We went ahead with just a one bedroom (it was cheaper and it had the attached garage) because we said if for some reason Dave did get a job else where we would need to possibly be able to afford two apartments and doing a one bedroom is the cheapest way to go. Honestly now that we're moved in we aren't cramped at all (except for our closet!!). It's been great, our living room furniture is all up here and spacious. The only thing we wouldn't mind having is two bathrooms (LOL), but that's it!! It's been nice. We do not have anyone living above us, and we live above our garage and our neighbors garage, so we do not have anyone living below us either. It's a very nice apartment complex too. We were even able to bring up the futon for any guests that we might have. We might only have a one bedroom but we do still have room for guests!! AND I'm about 30 minutes CLOSER to work!! Ahhhh that's been nice!! We were living 45 minutes away from my work. So with that said... works been going... and we're finally all settled in. Now on to getting Dave a job!!! It's all finally falling into place!! Thank God!! Hope everyone is going great. Come and visit anytime!!
Peace Out!! For now...
Dave & Jess
So the last post was a bit of a stress/vent relief for myself! LOL! Yes the appraisal went through and we sold the house!!! We were out house hunting b/c we were hoping to get the tax credit for first time home buyers since I would be a first time home buyer. Well no... they look at the entire household and with Dave having bought a house, we weren't considered first time no matter how we 'signed' the paper work and all. So that did put a kink in our thoughts... With Dave not having a job, if we bought a house that would put him as HAVING to get a job in the Atlanta area. We went apartment hunting and found it to be cheaper, large enough, and some had garages for us to store our things in that wouldn't fit into the apartment. We found that renting an apartment would be the better way for us to go and it would also leave Dave open to find a job anywhere. He's been looking anywhere in the South-East area. (MS, AL, FL, TN, GA, SC) We also found a great one bedroom apartment with an attached garage. We went ahead with just a one bedroom (it was cheaper and it had the attached garage) because we said if for some reason Dave did get a job else where we would need to possibly be able to afford two apartments and doing a one bedroom is the cheapest way to go. Honestly now that we're moved in we aren't cramped at all (except for our closet!!). It's been great, our living room furniture is all up here and spacious. The only thing we wouldn't mind having is two bathrooms (LOL), but that's it!! It's been nice. We do not have anyone living above us, and we live above our garage and our neighbors garage, so we do not have anyone living below us either. It's a very nice apartment complex too. We were even able to bring up the futon for any guests that we might have. We might only have a one bedroom but we do still have room for guests!! AND I'm about 30 minutes CLOSER to work!! Ahhhh that's been nice!! We were living 45 minutes away from my work. So with that said... works been going... and we're finally all settled in. Now on to getting Dave a job!!! It's all finally falling into place!! Thank God!! Hope everyone is going great. Come and visit anytime!!
Peace Out!! For now...
Dave & Jess
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Here's to the future...
Oh goodness what a school year and a week!!! Where to begin...
So we start out our new school year, my 5th year teaching in GA, with 3 furlough days. UGH, that means, we had 3 working/paid days taken away from us. The first two, were our preplanning days. No Gov. Sonny we don't have ANYTHING to do in our classrooms those two days, we'd gladly stay at home and not work. Needless to say I was at work b/c either way furlough days or not, my room was expected to be completed and ready by open house Thursdays night. Well here comes Thursday night, I'm all ready to go, I have 15 kids, I'm waiting at my door to greet my new students, and here I get my 'new' class list with 23 students. Yes, 23 is our maximum this year. So the night continues and we can't give anything out to the parents b/c we were basically told to tell them that they might be in my class but then again they might not. My parents were so kind to me, but not happy about the situation at all!! Well also by the end of the night I had one more special ed. students so now I have 24 students in my room 5 of whom are special ed.
We are now in week 4 and we were told since the beginning of school, yes we see you need another teacher.... ok... so you see we need one school board, now what are you going to do about it? And we hear nothing.... then we hear, yes you should get one... then we hear no you might not get one... then we hear no you will not be getting one. I am freaking out. My class is FULL FULL of talkers and distractors for my special ed students. I have too many students!!! So we move four students out. I am now down to 20... ahhhh nice!! Then the VERY next day we were told move a teacher out of 2nd to first grade. OMG why couldn't they have done this 3 or 4 weeks ago??!?!!! Oh well... so I did get to move 4 more students out as well as other teachers that were maxed out. I am now down to 16 and it has been great!!
Then this past week... we were called up and said hey we want to show your house. Dave and I are like ok... whatever, this has happened about 3 or 4 other times, but we don't think our house has ever been showed. So we straighten up, and clean a bit but we don't go out of our way for anything. Go figure when we clean up like this we get an offer. Wow!! totally wasn't expecting that! What do we do? Man I have prayed so much this past week!! We didn't really care of the buyers offer, so we counter offer. His offer was a fair offer to begin with, but it's not what we wanted. He then counter offered again. We then sat down and really hashed out the pro's and con's or moving/selling and where would we go. Dave doesn't have a job. What do we do. We decide to reject the offer and possibly pull the house off of the market. We're good to go right? WRONG!! 10 minutes later the realtor calls back with the original counter offer!! We feel that this is a sign from God saying hey this is your last time, take it. I have given you 2 options to take it already, this is your 3rd and final chance. So we take it. Dave signed the papers and if the appraisal goes well it's a done deal. Closing will be on September 25, and we'd have to be out by the 29th of September.
OMG I'm freaking out!! We went out house hunting with Jon and his realtor yesterday around Newnan. Dave and I drove around to some area's that we thought might have some possibilities that we'd like. Who knows where we'll actually end up. We're looking at foreclosures mainly but there are houses out there in our price range too surprisingly. Please pray for us that we are heading in the right direction and find the house that is right for us!! We know we won't be able to find a house and sign on one before we close on our house, but we're hoping to possibly have something in mind by the end of the month!! We'd really appreciate the prayers right now!!
Peace Out!! That's about all for now... hopefully I'll be able to update again sooner with more information.
~Dave and Jess
So we start out our new school year, my 5th year teaching in GA, with 3 furlough days. UGH, that means, we had 3 working/paid days taken away from us. The first two, were our preplanning days. No Gov. Sonny we don't have ANYTHING to do in our classrooms those two days, we'd gladly stay at home and not work. Needless to say I was at work b/c either way furlough days or not, my room was expected to be completed and ready by open house Thursdays night. Well here comes Thursday night, I'm all ready to go, I have 15 kids, I'm waiting at my door to greet my new students, and here I get my 'new' class list with 23 students. Yes, 23 is our maximum this year. So the night continues and we can't give anything out to the parents b/c we were basically told to tell them that they might be in my class but then again they might not. My parents were so kind to me, but not happy about the situation at all!! Well also by the end of the night I had one more special ed. students so now I have 24 students in my room 5 of whom are special ed.
We are now in week 4 and we were told since the beginning of school, yes we see you need another teacher.... ok... so you see we need one school board, now what are you going to do about it? And we hear nothing.... then we hear, yes you should get one... then we hear no you might not get one... then we hear no you will not be getting one. I am freaking out. My class is FULL FULL of talkers and distractors for my special ed students. I have too many students!!! So we move four students out. I am now down to 20... ahhhh nice!! Then the VERY next day we were told move a teacher out of 2nd to first grade. OMG why couldn't they have done this 3 or 4 weeks ago??!?!!! Oh well... so I did get to move 4 more students out as well as other teachers that were maxed out. I am now down to 16 and it has been great!!
Then this past week... we were called up and said hey we want to show your house. Dave and I are like ok... whatever, this has happened about 3 or 4 other times, but we don't think our house has ever been showed. So we straighten up, and clean a bit but we don't go out of our way for anything. Go figure when we clean up like this we get an offer. Wow!! totally wasn't expecting that! What do we do? Man I have prayed so much this past week!! We didn't really care of the buyers offer, so we counter offer. His offer was a fair offer to begin with, but it's not what we wanted. He then counter offered again. We then sat down and really hashed out the pro's and con's or moving/selling and where would we go. Dave doesn't have a job. What do we do. We decide to reject the offer and possibly pull the house off of the market. We're good to go right? WRONG!! 10 minutes later the realtor calls back with the original counter offer!! We feel that this is a sign from God saying hey this is your last time, take it. I have given you 2 options to take it already, this is your 3rd and final chance. So we take it. Dave signed the papers and if the appraisal goes well it's a done deal. Closing will be on September 25, and we'd have to be out by the 29th of September.
OMG I'm freaking out!! We went out house hunting with Jon and his realtor yesterday around Newnan. Dave and I drove around to some area's that we thought might have some possibilities that we'd like. Who knows where we'll actually end up. We're looking at foreclosures mainly but there are houses out there in our price range too surprisingly. Please pray for us that we are heading in the right direction and find the house that is right for us!! We know we won't be able to find a house and sign on one before we close on our house, but we're hoping to possibly have something in mind by the end of the month!! We'd really appreciate the prayers right now!!
Peace Out!! That's about all for now... hopefully I'll be able to update again sooner with more information.
~Dave and Jess
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Summer is almost over...
So nothing much has happened, changed, or occurred since my last post. I (Jess as usual) am just really bored at the moment and procrastinating from doing school work. School work you say? Yep, I'm trying to get as much done ahead of time as possible. They (the evil Government/School Board) took two of our pre-planning days (of course the first two days, Monday and Tuesday) which means I have two less days to get everything ready for open house Thursday night. My room is pretty much ready to go, but now I'm just trying to get everything ready for the parents and the first day/week of school. Oh well... life goes on.
Mom is still improving and doing great. She's driving now and has her last week of therapy ahead of her. Her sister and niece from Baltimore are coming down Wednesday for about two week. I'm super excited for her to see them. They're going to all come up to Auburn one weekend and we're going to meet them there as well. Her sister has lost a lot of weight (80lbs at least) and has been my motivation since I put a lot of my weight back on.
Speaking of weight, Dave and I have been going to the gym strong and faithful now. We're getting back into the routine of going and eating right. I asked him to make me go every day even if I say that I do not want to go. LOL, He has made me stick to it, and I thank him for that!! I might not thank him on the way there, or while I'm there, but usually on the way home he gets a thank you! :-)
Nothing is new in the job world for Dave at the moment. Keep us in your prayers that something comes up soon. I am so ready for some sort of 'vacation/travel'. Well I'm off to maybe stop procrastinating.. ha ha ha
Peace Out! Until next time...
Mom is still improving and doing great. She's driving now and has her last week of therapy ahead of her. Her sister and niece from Baltimore are coming down Wednesday for about two week. I'm super excited for her to see them. They're going to all come up to Auburn one weekend and we're going to meet them there as well. Her sister has lost a lot of weight (80lbs at least) and has been my motivation since I put a lot of my weight back on.
Speaking of weight, Dave and I have been going to the gym strong and faithful now. We're getting back into the routine of going and eating right. I asked him to make me go every day even if I say that I do not want to go. LOL, He has made me stick to it, and I thank him for that!! I might not thank him on the way there, or while I'm there, but usually on the way home he gets a thank you! :-)
Nothing is new in the job world for Dave at the moment. Keep us in your prayers that something comes up soon. I am so ready for some sort of 'vacation/travel'. Well I'm off to maybe stop procrastinating.. ha ha ha
Peace Out! Until next time...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Back together in Georgia!!
So I (Jessica) am back home in Milner, GA. I have to say I did miss my bed (more than I really thought I did) and my husband!! I have a meeting with work this week, so I needed to get back home, and get ready for that. Mom is doing great, and is really independent now, so it was a good time for me to leave her too. She is officially walking with no assistance (no walker/cane), except every now and then when she feels she needs something, she can use her cane. She has been doing great from what I can tell, especially from where she was before the surgery. I'm really proud of her for finally going through with the surgery and am so happy to have been able to be there to help her get back to 'normal' afterwards!!
We had a great 4th of July weekend! We started that Friday, the 3rd, going to Ocean Springs, MS, to visit family. My cousin has a beach house there and they were in town with their 3 girls as well as my Aunt and Uncle. Her brother, wife, and one month old baby were coming into town too. Of course I wanted to see the new baby, and play with my cousins 3 young girls!! They were so much fun, and of course the baby was absolutely adorable!!
Saturday the 4th, we got up and loaded the car, and headed to Auburn, AL to meet up with Dave. We just hung out at the trailer for the day. I cooked dinner and we had our good family friends over from Opelika. They are so fun!! We just enjoyed the evening eating, talking, and eating some more. We were so busy talking that we totally forgot about maybe going to see fireworks. We heard them though, LOL!!
Sunday the 5th, we loaded up and headed home. Mom and Dad headed to Mobile, and we headed home. It was good to be home, however, now 'the real world' hits. Bills, laundry, cooking... it's all good though!!
Peace Out!! Until next time...
We had a great 4th of July weekend! We started that Friday, the 3rd, going to Ocean Springs, MS, to visit family. My cousin has a beach house there and they were in town with their 3 girls as well as my Aunt and Uncle. Her brother, wife, and one month old baby were coming into town too. Of course I wanted to see the new baby, and play with my cousins 3 young girls!! They were so much fun, and of course the baby was absolutely adorable!!
Saturday the 4th, we got up and loaded the car, and headed to Auburn, AL to meet up with Dave. We just hung out at the trailer for the day. I cooked dinner and we had our good family friends over from Opelika. They are so fun!! We just enjoyed the evening eating, talking, and eating some more. We were so busy talking that we totally forgot about maybe going to see fireworks. We heard them though, LOL!!
Sunday the 5th, we loaded up and headed home. Mom and Dad headed to Mobile, and we headed home. It was good to be home, however, now 'the real world' hits. Bills, laundry, cooking... it's all good though!!
Peace Out!! Until next time...
Friday, June 26, 2009
The waddle is almot gone!!
Hey everyone, so it's been awhile since we had a post on here. We have had a lot going on here lately...
Thursday June 11th my (Jessica) parents drove up to Auburn. That Friday they rode with some very good family friends over to Montezuma, GA where Dave and I met them to go eat at Yoder's (YUM!), pick blueberries, and strawberries. We had a great day together. We all went back to Auburn for the evening. Where Dave and I raced on 4-wheelers for a good hour or two. (Man, I didn't realize that it would make my arms so sore!!)
Saturday, June 12 we all separated. I rode home with Mom and Dad, and Dave went back home. Sunday was my Goddaughters 4th birthday party. It was great to see them again (they have finally moved back to Alabama after being in Maryland for 4 years). We had a great time and a good time catching up that evening in the pool when the kids were in bed.
Monday morning is the first day to the real reason that I came to Mobile. It's has been about 8 years coming. 4:30am... I'm all packed as well as Mom too, and we head to Springhill Memorial Hospital. Mom is FINALLY having hip replacement surgery at 7am. I must admit I was super excited for her, but nervous too. I don't deal well with hospitals and/or doctors of any sort well.
10:00ish am the doctor comes out and said that surgery went great, and not a lot of blood lost either. (This is supposedly one of the (if not the) bloodiest surgeries, and she was happy to not have to get a blood transfusion, even though the blood donor is a great family friend.) We were able to see her finally around 10:30 and she was up and awake and in such high spirit! I was RELIEVED and super excited now for her road to recovery! She was even excited that she was already able to move her feet (both legs) some too.
Surgery day was good, she wasn't able to get out of the bed, slept a lot, in good spirits, was on a liquid diet, and had no appetite. I had planned on staying with her (well once I saw they only had two strait upright (hard to get comfortable in) chairs, I kind of had to retract on my commitment to staying every night LOL!!) I started to sleep in the chairs bumped together, but turns out a WONDERFUL nurse brought me a couch that pulled out into a bed after seeing me all crunched up into those two chairs. It wasn't my bed, but it was good enough for me to stay every night with mom. (She didn't ask me to but I volunteered and I know it was comforting to her to always have someone to talk to when she was awake or help when she needed something).
Tuesday... the next day after surgery... they had her get out of bed already that day and walk. She was so nervous, but she did great. She managed to walk half way down the hall too the 2nd time walking. Each day after that the added different exercises and she walked a bit farther.
Thursday she was released to come home, a bit nervous about it, but she chose home versus a therapy center. Her therapist and nurse came out right away Friday. They both come 3 days a week and are wonderful ladies. They each come out 3 days a week (tomorrow MIGHT be the last day for the nurse if all goes well in her follow up appointment with the doctor on Monday 6/29)
Each time the therapist would come out it would be the same thing... she's doing great, keep doing your exercises... well one time she changed her exercises and had her doing them standing up instead of sitting down because it was easier for Mom to do.
Here is the absolute exciting news!! Today, 6/25, 10 days after hip replacement surgery, Mom was pretty much walking on her own!! She had a cane/folded up walker beside her for security. She got up and sat down in her rocking lazy boy chair ALONE!! Neither of those has she done before today. She's doing great. I'm super proud of her, and just wanted to share our joys!! We all have appreciated all of the prayers, calls, concerns, flowers, and cards. They have really helped to keep Mom's spirits up. I know in the hospital everyone said that we had the prettiest room for all the beautiful bouquets.
I know many might remember how she walked (or as some of us called it waddled)... it's almost gone. It's still there a LITTLE bit but that's only out of insecurity in walking, and still a habbit from before too.
SO that has pretty much been my past two weeks. It's been hard, I'm not going to lie, Mom and I are usually ALWAYS going and doing something somewhere!! However, to fight the cabin fever boredom, I brought home enough school work with me to be content for however long I needed to stay and that has kept me pretty busy. I met up with my best friends Casey and Mandy last night for a girls night. We played on the Wii and watched a movie. It was great!! Then next week I'm going to escape to the beach with Casey and Mandy for a day. All and all I'm super proud of her and I'm just thankful that I was able to come home and help her. I know Dad would have taken vacation, but that's truly not a vacation, and I'm sure Mom and Dad both would rather use that vacation time to go somewhere and show off that new hip later on this year!! I have even surprised myself in what I have been able to do to help her. I've been changing her surgery dressings. (It's NASTY gross, but I haven't gagged yet! and the STAPLES, not stitches, come on Monday hopefully).
Anyways I've been meaning to post this, but haven't yet. Bless you and thank you if you were able to read all of it!
Peace our for now!! Until next time...
Thursday June 11th my (Jessica) parents drove up to Auburn. That Friday they rode with some very good family friends over to Montezuma, GA where Dave and I met them to go eat at Yoder's (YUM!), pick blueberries, and strawberries. We had a great day together. We all went back to Auburn for the evening. Where Dave and I raced on 4-wheelers for a good hour or two. (Man, I didn't realize that it would make my arms so sore!!)
Saturday, June 12 we all separated. I rode home with Mom and Dad, and Dave went back home. Sunday was my Goddaughters 4th birthday party. It was great to see them again (they have finally moved back to Alabama after being in Maryland for 4 years). We had a great time and a good time catching up that evening in the pool when the kids were in bed.
Monday morning is the first day to the real reason that I came to Mobile. It's has been about 8 years coming. 4:30am... I'm all packed as well as Mom too, and we head to Springhill Memorial Hospital. Mom is FINALLY having hip replacement surgery at 7am. I must admit I was super excited for her, but nervous too. I don't deal well with hospitals and/or doctors of any sort well.
10:00ish am the doctor comes out and said that surgery went great, and not a lot of blood lost either. (This is supposedly one of the (if not the) bloodiest surgeries, and she was happy to not have to get a blood transfusion, even though the blood donor is a great family friend.) We were able to see her finally around 10:30 and she was up and awake and in such high spirit! I was RELIEVED and super excited now for her road to recovery! She was even excited that she was already able to move her feet (both legs) some too.
Surgery day was good, she wasn't able to get out of the bed, slept a lot, in good spirits, was on a liquid diet, and had no appetite. I had planned on staying with her (well once I saw they only had two strait upright (hard to get comfortable in) chairs, I kind of had to retract on my commitment to staying every night LOL!!) I started to sleep in the chairs bumped together, but turns out a WONDERFUL nurse brought me a couch that pulled out into a bed after seeing me all crunched up into those two chairs. It wasn't my bed, but it was good enough for me to stay every night with mom. (She didn't ask me to but I volunteered and I know it was comforting to her to always have someone to talk to when she was awake or help when she needed something).
Tuesday... the next day after surgery... they had her get out of bed already that day and walk. She was so nervous, but she did great. She managed to walk half way down the hall too the 2nd time walking. Each day after that the added different exercises and she walked a bit farther.
Thursday she was released to come home, a bit nervous about it, but she chose home versus a therapy center. Her therapist and nurse came out right away Friday. They both come 3 days a week and are wonderful ladies. They each come out 3 days a week (tomorrow MIGHT be the last day for the nurse if all goes well in her follow up appointment with the doctor on Monday 6/29)
Each time the therapist would come out it would be the same thing... she's doing great, keep doing your exercises... well one time she changed her exercises and had her doing them standing up instead of sitting down because it was easier for Mom to do.
Here is the absolute exciting news!! Today, 6/25, 10 days after hip replacement surgery, Mom was pretty much walking on her own!! She had a cane/folded up walker beside her for security. She got up and sat down in her rocking lazy boy chair ALONE!! Neither of those has she done before today. She's doing great. I'm super proud of her, and just wanted to share our joys!! We all have appreciated all of the prayers, calls, concerns, flowers, and cards. They have really helped to keep Mom's spirits up. I know in the hospital everyone said that we had the prettiest room for all the beautiful bouquets.
I know many might remember how she walked (or as some of us called it waddled)... it's almost gone. It's still there a LITTLE bit but that's only out of insecurity in walking, and still a habbit from before too.
SO that has pretty much been my past two weeks. It's been hard, I'm not going to lie, Mom and I are usually ALWAYS going and doing something somewhere!! However, to fight the cabin fever boredom, I brought home enough school work with me to be content for however long I needed to stay and that has kept me pretty busy. I met up with my best friends Casey and Mandy last night for a girls night. We played on the Wii and watched a movie. It was great!! Then next week I'm going to escape to the beach with Casey and Mandy for a day. All and all I'm super proud of her and I'm just thankful that I was able to come home and help her. I know Dad would have taken vacation, but that's truly not a vacation, and I'm sure Mom and Dad both would rather use that vacation time to go somewhere and show off that new hip later on this year!! I have even surprised myself in what I have been able to do to help her. I've been changing her surgery dressings. (It's NASTY gross, but I haven't gagged yet! and the STAPLES, not stitches, come on Monday hopefully).
Anyways I've been meaning to post this, but haven't yet. Bless you and thank you if you were able to read all of it!
Peace our for now!! Until next time...
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Lost at home...
So... I (Jessica) just got off of the phone and SO have to blog about this conversation...
Dave: I have no idea where I am
Jess: What?!?!
Dave: Yea, I'm past the barb wire fence (which is the farthest point of our 2 acre lot, by the way). I thought I was headed home, but no, I'm not.
Jess: Do you need me to go outside and scream for you to follow my voice?
Dave: nah, I think I know where I am now
Jess: (Thinking, oh lord... who knows what direction he's going into now!) Ok well... call me if you need me to come out and find you!
LOL!! He must have been so into his spraying the brush in the woods that he didn't have a clue which direction he was going. He's doing an awesome job by the way. Here is a before pic of the back yard,
When he's finished I'll post an after. We're clearing out the weeds/brush/vines/baby trees out until the BIG tree line in the back. Right now the yard pretty much ends at the shed, but he's taking it back to the tree line.
PS: He just came home!! YAY!!! His first words said with a grin "It's easy to get turned around out there!"
Peace Out! Until later...
Dave: I have no idea where I am
Jess: What?!?!
Dave: Yea, I'm past the barb wire fence (which is the farthest point of our 2 acre lot, by the way). I thought I was headed home, but no, I'm not.
Jess: Do you need me to go outside and scream for you to follow my voice?
Dave: nah, I think I know where I am now
Jess: (Thinking, oh lord... who knows what direction he's going into now!) Ok well... call me if you need me to come out and find you!
LOL!! He must have been so into his spraying the brush in the woods that he didn't have a clue which direction he was going. He's doing an awesome job by the way. Here is a before pic of the back yard,
When he's finished I'll post an after. We're clearing out the weeds/brush/vines/baby trees out until the BIG tree line in the back. Right now the yard pretty much ends at the shed, but he's taking it back to the tree line.PS: He just came home!! YAY!!! His first words said with a grin "It's easy to get turned around out there!"
Peace Out! Until later...
Our FIRST blog...
Well... what should I (Jessica) say? I'm actually not even sure if I'm doing this whole 'blog' thing correctly. LOL! This is just a test run obviously, but I might as well make some good use of it if you're going to read this. I don't want to waste your time.
Since the wedding... WOW, it's already been 7 months! We spent our honeymoon in beautiful Negril, Jamaica! I didn't want to come home. I'll go tomorrow if someone will send me!! I LOVED it there!
Other than that our life has been pretty smooth. I just finished up my 4th year of teaching. I'm still in the same school with the same WONDERFUL team members! We have put the house up for sale. (ha ha I know!) We are not contemplating about taking it down, but we're going to wait until Dave has a job first. If his job has a long commute then we'll leave it up and hope it sells. If not then we're going to take it down, fix it up, unpack wedding gifts, and enjoy it for a few years to come. (We'll see... I just want to know if we're leaving it up or not?!?!!)
Dave is still searching for a job, anyone know of anything?!?! We're open for suggestions and contacts!! We're staying positive and taking it all one day at a time. If anything this has brought us closer. We have become more inventive of how to spend our weekends together and have entertaining cheap/free fun too. I am cooking more!! :) We really needed to become more frugal with our spending a while ago, but never did. Now we HAVE to! :)
Well I going to get some sleep now. We had a very productive day of lawn mowing, house cleaning, grocery shopping, and laundry!! I love productive days!!
Peace Out! Until next time...
Since the wedding... WOW, it's already been 7 months! We spent our honeymoon in beautiful Negril, Jamaica! I didn't want to come home. I'll go tomorrow if someone will send me!! I LOVED it there!
Other than that our life has been pretty smooth. I just finished up my 4th year of teaching. I'm still in the same school with the same WONDERFUL team members! We have put the house up for sale. (ha ha I know!) We are not contemplating about taking it down, but we're going to wait until Dave has a job first. If his job has a long commute then we'll leave it up and hope it sells. If not then we're going to take it down, fix it up, unpack wedding gifts, and enjoy it for a few years to come. (We'll see... I just want to know if we're leaving it up or not?!?!!)
Dave is still searching for a job, anyone know of anything?!?! We're open for suggestions and contacts!! We're staying positive and taking it all one day at a time. If anything this has brought us closer. We have become more inventive of how to spend our weekends together and have entertaining cheap/free fun too. I am cooking more!! :) We really needed to become more frugal with our spending a while ago, but never did. Now we HAVE to! :)
Well I going to get some sleep now. We had a very productive day of lawn mowing, house cleaning, grocery shopping, and laundry!! I love productive days!!
Peace Out! Until next time...
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