Wednesday-11am

Well, I just spent half an hour trying to load pictures onto my blog and Blogger just won't let me. Keeps saying errors and/or internal errors? I even went completely out of Blogger and came back in just now--and nope--same thing. So--no pictures today.

Yesterday was a busy day. Dagan and Leah came by for a visit. He has this whole week off because he thought his surgery was today instead of tomorrow--hehe! Only one extra day off, actually, because everyone was off on Monday at his office due to the holiday, of course. Today is his pre-surgery routine--this afternoon--so they took off early this morning for Minneapolis. Surgery tomorrow at 8am. They are replacing his leads, too--so he'll be staying overnight and coming back on Friday. They'll stay at a motel close to the hospital tonight.

He'll be at Children's Hospital, so Leah can stay on a cot in his room overnight with him tomorrow night. Yup! Children's Hospital. :) They have so many kids who have had such complex, cutting edge surgeries that regular hospitals don't know much about and who have survived and grown up into adults that Children's had to dedicate a floor to the "older" patients years ago. There are people older than Dagan who show up at Children's every so often for surgeries and that still get their yearly checkups with their pediatric cardiologists like Dagan does. Children's is connected by underground tunnel to Abbott Northwestern Hospital, also. So if they need equipment that Children's doesn't have they can share Abbott's facilities. They use Abbott's cath lab, for example. Good thing! Dagan outgrew the children's hospital gowns many, many years ago--hehe!

Anyways, Dagan and Leah came over--and first blew bubbles for Karma. :) She is getting better and better about being more social. (We never knew what changed her attitude when she hit adulthood in the first place?) While they were here, Caroline showed up to clean--came and went. Leah sat and trimmed up that whole stack of card parts while she was here! I have pictures--maybe tomorrow Blogger will let me put them up? I forgot to take pictures while they were here, tho--duh! Rather chaotic--hehe! So it's just pictures of what Leah worked on.

Let's see...what else? I caught up on blogs. Seems like it is often either or with me. Either blogs or emails--hehe! I can't ever seem to get to everything in a day--or often even in a few days. Oh--and there's Flickr and Facebook....etc. Too many cyber irons in the fire--hehe! I try to get to everything at least once a week, put it that way. And now I have gone back on Sparks, too, as of yesterday. Decided to keep track of foods again. They have an online way that is free--keeps track of calories, carbs, fats, and proteins for you--nice! I started up again back in January--but Sparks got lost in my online shuffle. I'll see if I can keep up with the tracking now this time?

Leah and I will work on the scrap cards next week. I think we will probably rotate weeks from cards to papermaking. We both do sooo enjoy making these particular cards. I don't know why, but we just love these cards! We love putting them together, choosing embellishments--the variety and yet the similarity of style--and we just love the end products. They equally appeal to both of us, I guess. Oh--and then there's the fact that we are recycling paper scraps from my bookcard covers in such a wonderful way. :) I know--us crafters can be a little weird--hehe!

Today 70's and sunny! Pause day between storms they say. I am washing clothes. Karma is sleeping--big surprise. I will be writing up more descriptions for Leah for some items for Etsy--emailing them to her. And thinking good thoughts. :):)