Still Alive... Mostly

When I wrote my last post I thought Chris was doing well. He seemed to be doing well. But then he kind of relapsed. He was doing great, getting better, but then we got a little too excited and he went back to work. The next day he went to work as well, but then he came home before lunch time, and has been home all week as well. It's been a solid two weeks since our initial doctors appointment, which means it's been about 16 days since his crazy symptoms started appearing. In those 16 days he's been feeling kind of awful (or incredibly awful, depending on the day, and the time). In those 16 days I haven't done a whole lot. I've been busy keeping our house clean and trying to help him get better. When the doctor told him to increase his sodium, we realized we needed to change some of our meals, which meant several trips to the grocery store.  He's finally getting to the point where we think he'll go in to work on Monday. That's the goal. And I'm hopeful. It's been really different having him home for just about two solid weeks.

We've watched a few movies (random urge to watch Harry Potter anyone?), several episodes of TV shows (thank you, Big Bang Theory, White Collar, and various Food Network Shows for giving Chris the chance to relax), and done quite a bit of online research (on a whole slew of random things.... some kitchen items, kindles {do I want a kindle? maybe}, wedding gift shopping, reading random electronic reviews and demos) and done some reading. I've done most of a Sudoku book (thanks, Mom), mowed the lawn for the first time in my life, and done some coloring. We also fell in love with the America's Test Kitchen Mexican Rice recipe. YUM!  Here is some of our rice along with a fajita that I had taken a few bites from.

In the almost two years that we've been married we've had our eyes on what things parents bring to church for their kids to help keep them reverent, we've also noticed that some things are fine depending on the age of the kid (two year old with little cars=ok, but his 4 year old brother was a lot louder and out of control smashing his cars into everything and everyone around him). This is not an announcement, but over the last few weeks we've noticed some pretty sweet quiet books that look like they would be great for our future kids. And I've realized that by the time we have a kid who needs a quiet book I won't have as much time to make a quiet book. So while it's crazy I'm working on a quiet book as well as some File Folder Games even though we have no clue when we'll be needing them. Here are some of the file folder games I've been working on I'm obviously not done... there is lots of coloring, cutting, gluing, laminating, and more cutting to be done, but here is what I've got so far!

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