Thank you to everyone for your continued prayers & good thoughts.  They are really appreciated.

He had surgery yesterday.  It was more complex than the doctor expected.  They removed his spleen, gall bladder & half of his pancreas.  They couldn’t get all of the cancer as some of it was wrapped around an artery.  But he got everything else he could see.  They will start chemo in 3 weeks.  They haven’t met with an oncologist yet but will soon.  He has been sitting up today and had a bath.  The nurses are impressed with how well he’s doing.  He should be out of ICU tomorrow and out of the hospital this weekend.

Thank you for all the comments, e-mails & prayers.  They meant so much to me.   They met with the surgeon today.  He isn’t sure they will be able to remove it because of its size & that it is wrapped around some arteries but they are going to attempt surgery on Monday.

Elizabeth slept 10-5:30 without ANY wake ups last night!!!  I hope this is going to be a new trend!!!  OTOH, after she woke up at 5:30, she didn’t go back to sleep! LOL  Jim is home for the weekend, so if she’s up that early tomorrow, he’s on duty. …….I was interrupted while writing this by a vomiting baby.  *sigh* I guess tonight won’t be a good sleep night!  She’s already vomited three times in the last 90 minutes.  She’s sound asleep now but probably not for much longer……I was interrupted again writing this by vomit.  Morning now and she was up about every two hours to vomit.  There was nothing left in her stomach after midnight.   She’s taking a bath right now, so at least she won’t reak of vomit anymore.

I don’t even remember what else I was going to write about last night.  If I remember, I’ll be back.

Say THAT three times fast.

Anyone have any idea why my stupid blog won’t keep its theme?? It keeps defaulting back to the default one. Ditto with our family blog. Very annoying! It started when I put up the fall templates a couple months ago. As far as I know, I didn’t change any settings at that time.

I’m not usually a fan of fiction but I’ve read two books by Cassandra King over the holiday that were so enjoyable.  Nothing deep but they held my attention.  Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife.  I want to read Making Waves but I have to go to another branch to get it.  And its cool to read stories that take place near where I live!
Things are starting to come together around the house. Unpacking is 95% done but some of those things are sitting around waiting for a home. Its all driving me nuts. After living with so little for so long, I got used to having a house that could be picked up entirely in under 30 minutes and that was when it looked BAD. Our apartment is finally looking like a home though, which I love. We need to hang more pictures this weekend. That will get them up off the floor and make it look homier. And I need to straighten the bookcases in the living room so I can finish unpacking one more box of books. I also want to finish the bedroom this weekend. Once I get those things done, I’ll feel even better.

We came back from IN with colds. DH is over his but I’m not yet (not sleeping well). Thankfully, E seems to have avoided the worst of it this time.

We got E moved into a twin bed today. She looks so tiny in it!!! We don’t have a headboard or a comforter set yet. My first goal is a comforter. I found two that I love. They are similar in design, just different in colors. This one I like but this one I love. They are simple in style, not too juvenile but still cute & girly. (They have a couple more boyish ones I love too.) Perfect, eh? But check out the price—$1100 for a duvet, bed skirt, sham & bolster pillow. I choked when I saw the price!! We paid less than $100 for *our* comforter, no way I’m paying more than 10x that for DD’s! Shipping IS free though. LOL

Boxes are like rabbits.  They multiply & multiply & multiply.  For every box I unpack, I swear five move reappear in that same location in the time it takes me to walk to my doorway, break the box down and stack it.  Each room is *mostly* unpacked.  But several of the remaining boxes are full of random things that are going to really force me to think about where to put it, do I really want it, etc.  Ugh.  I love unpacking the boxes that are easy to do like clothes & dishes.  Plus, I’m feeling a bit annoyed that we didn’t look harder for a 3-bedroom.  I’d really like to have that third bedroom for an office, someplace to do crafts & for a little extra in-house storage (v. our storage closet off the patio).  If I had a 3rd bedroom, I think I could get the rest of the boxes out of the living room.  Most of the downstairs is put back together but since I still have many boxes sitting around, it doesn’t *look* settled.  And I can’t really relax b/c the boxes are always in my sight.

On the up side, I’m doing REALLY well getting rid of stuff!  After eight months of living with very little, I’m able to look at things with a more objective eye.  I have gotten rid of more than 160 pounds of stuff already!!  I need to find my notes from our April non-move so I can see how much stuff we got rid of then.  And that wouldn’t include the massive amount of stuff we purged in the last moments before the packers came.  I’m really proud of us for being able to let go since that isn’t in our nature.

And in the midst of unpacking, Elizabeth has come down with yet another cold.  And my body is having a tug-of-war trying to decide if it’ll get sick or not.  How many more days until Saturday??!  Jim has been in the field for two weeks, so I haven’t had him to help me destress on the phone each  night.  But Saturday he is home for more than TWO WEEKS!!  Yahooo!