Wow! Its been over a month since my last post. First of all Happy New Year to all. I hope everyone had a great Christmas Holiday. The holiday celebrations were postponed around here because it was just too crazy trying to help take care of dad and everything to do the traveling, cooking, baking, etc. Besides, its sort of hard to cook a big celebration dinner and such when you know how bad dad wants to eat but can't. So we have decided that we will have a big get together and celebrate when he can eat and enjoy everything with us.
I am finally at home for the time being. He and mom are doing pretty good with his care now that all of the surgery sites have healed and the trach is gone. The only thing left now is the feeding tube which is about to drive him nuts. I know that he can't wait to get rid of that thing. Unfortunately, the speech therapist said it would have to stay until he can safely swallow enough to maintain his weight and nutritional needs. Hopefully it won't be too much longer.
I am trying to get motivated enough to get back to the shop and get some jewelry pieces made. The stress and physical demands of caring for dad and being away from home for over a month  has really got me down physically. I am really exhausted and my arthritis and colitis are both flaring up really bad. Maybe I will be able to get back on schedule soon. In the meantime I appreciate everyone's kind wishes and prayers. Hope to talk to you all again soon.

Still On The Mend

Good Morning,
I hope you all had a very pleasant weekend. We had some really great weather. I think it was the first weekend in over a month that we didn't get any rain. Of course, it was just my dumb luck that my foot was all swollen and hurtin. I still went to the Craft Fair which in hind site was probably not a very good idea. Oh well, I really wanted to scout it out though. I just wrapped her up good and popped a few extra Ibuprofen and went for it.

(not my actual foot but you get the idea)

I should post a pic of my poor little foot but its not for the sqeemish so I will spare you all. I will tell you its still pretty swollen and it has this big lump right on the top of my foot where a lump should definitely not be. It looks pretty deformed. Ew! Ok that's enough of that.

We didn't stay long, just long enough to do a quick walk through. Of course I was really interested in the jewelry. Since I started making my jewelry I have had many friends and family members tell me that I should try to get a booth for the fair. I just don't know if it would be worth it. I spoke with a friend of my dad's who was selling (she also makes jewelry) and she said that there were 40 vendors in the jewelry category this year! That is really alot when you consider that the entire fair is probably only 150-175 vendors max. Well at any rate it is something to think about for next year.

Well, I guess that is all for now. Ok, have a great day and I guess I'll catch ya on the flip side.