Saturday, April 12, 2008 - Spring Fever

I feel like I'm flitting around like these silly birds outside.  I've been rearanging things again, trying to figure out how to fit 9 people's stuff into this little farm house.  With school and office, it's a circus around here.  I need to get the baby out of our room so we can start encouraging her to sleep through the night.  Before I can do that, I have to move all Papa and the Boys' stuff out of this little 9 1\2 x 9 1\2 room next to ours.  So, the boys' stuff went upstairs.  Well, I got into all kinds of trouble for that one.  The girls had gotten used to  having the big 20 x 20 something room to theirselves.  It's sad that the largest room in the house is upstairs.  I guess it had actually been 3 or 4 rooms at some point in time...  I was planning to put up a curtain in between, but I might just see how this goes for a while.  I may end up moving the boys back down.  There is also a little room upstairs that is used for a closet and storage.  We need new windows in there.  I'd like to make half of it into a bathroom, but I don't know if that will ever happen.  I thought I might be able to get around to painting that half boy colors and put them in there.  I just hate that they'd have to walk through the girls' room to get to the stairs.  The little room downstairs is already decorated for the boys, I just don't know that I have room for the bed and crib...  The window and doors all seem to be in the wrong spots...  Plus there is Papa's recliner.  Well now I need to get Papa's stuff out and put some plywood and sticky tiles down on the floor before I can move the crib into the little room.  It will just all take time.  Maybe the baby will start sleeping through the night and can go upstairs with the girls soon.

We have made more progress as far as the Papa situatoin.  We haven't had him home for the weekend yet.  We all had a nasty respritory virus right after cleaning out his trailor.  It lasted for more than 3 weeks.  He had broncitus at the same time.  He started feeling lots better about halfway through the month and was really trying to push us to bring him home.  I talked to him and told him that my health needs to be taken care of first.  Then we're going to just try some weekends and a few camping trips to see how things go.  Hubby has arranged that we can use a neighbor's camper.  It can be put ground level at our front door.  It has a little living area big enough for his recliner and a card table and it has a bathroom with a shower.  Hubby will have to unhook the stove.  I feel pretty good about this plan.  It will give him a place and give us some space.  I'll have to lock the house while we do school and Hubby will have to lock the buildings to keep him from rescattering everything again.  But I will be able to see him come and go from the big dining room window.  Our only other propblem is that his legs started bleeding again.  Our original deal with him was that he had to be well for a whole 30 days before we would consider bringing him home.  That was November and he just hasn't.  I know the swelling and the pnemonia are simptoms of a much bigger problem.  Either his heart or his kidneys are giving out, or both.  He wants to come home to die.  I understand and respect that.  When he gets to the point that he's terminal, if we can, I'm fine with having him here with nurses.  It's the in-between that is the problem.  He feels good enough to get himself or someone else hurt, but is still needing lots of medical attention.  We'll just have to see how his attitude is when he gets home for a weekend.  The nurses are spoiling him rotten, letting him eat icecream for supper then feeding him sandwiches at midnight and giving him his baths at 1am.  I told him that won't happen here.  We'll just see what the Lord's plan is for him. 

As far as my health.  My ultrasound and all seem to be fine and I haven't had any problems for over two weeks now.  I'm feeling good and have been active.  We'll see how the next few months go...

Saturday, April 12, 2008 - more space