Ready or not

Josh and I are in Halifax. It is supposed to snow tomorrow so Doug brought us in tonight. We'll get a taxi to the IWK tomorrow before noon. We are just getting ready for Josh to go for a swim, I've got a cold that I'm trying to get rid of so I'm not swimming tonight, maybe Friday. So we are on our own till Tues. when Doug will come in when he gets Breanna on the bus, Josh will be in the OR by the time he gets here. He's going to stay in for the night and go home on Wed. Then he and Breanna will come back in on Friday for the night. Well Josh is ready for the pool so off we go.

Pictures from the weekend

Yesterday blogger was cranky and wouldn't let me upload my pics, so I'll give it a try today.

The Monday after a busy weekend

Well Breanna made it through the competition and did very well. She did a wonderful job on her solo. She brought home 2 bronze medals! She was a little upset because last year she got silver in her elements but like I told her, last year the stuff she did was easier. I don't want her getting upset over stuff like that, it will take the fun out of it and when it's not fun anymore, she won't be doing it.

The count down is on till Josh and I head to the city. Only 6 more days, it's going so fast. He has surgery a week from tomorrow and we'll keep our fingers crossed for a fast recovery so we can be home again soon. I've got stuff all over the place that needs to be packed. Tomorrow once I get my skating stuff done I'll make a list, at 36 I have to have a list for everything. LOL

Anyway, time to finish the laundry and figure out what's for supper, I have to work tonight.

This is what we woke up to this morning.

Here comes a Nor'easter

And it sounds like our first big storm of the year is on it's way. We've been very lucky so far. Between tonight and tomorrow we could get 10-30 cms of snow, the forcast keeps changing so we don't know for sure what's coming. I'm off today, well except for skating this afternoon. I'm spose to work tomorrow night but that will depend on how much snow is down. One of my co-workers lives a little closer and is right on the main road so she'll probably go in for me if I don't want to go out in it.

Our baby girl is at the vet waiting to have her operation today. I'm sure she's not a happy campper at the moment. Snowball is wondering around the house looking like he's lost. I think he misses her even though she bugs the crap out of him. Josh has pics of the cats on his blog, the addy is over there ---->

For anyone that has been reading but doesn't know what Josh is going to the hospital for, it's called Bladder Augmentation. They will take a piece of his bowel and patch it on to his bladder to make it bigger. Right now his bladder can only hold 3oz. So even though it's going to be hell to get through, it will be worth it in the long run. Right now it's just hard for him to look past the 2 weeks in the hospital.

Well I should go have a nap now that the kids are gone to school, LOL. My back has been bothering me the last couple of days, probably due to the storm that's coming, for God sakes I sound like my Grammie. LOL

Stay tuned, I'm sure tomorrow I'll have some storm pictures to post.

Back at em!

The kids are back to the grind this morning, after having a snow day yesterday. They went out to play for awhile and then came in and worked on school work. Josh has 4 tests this week so the extra study time was a good thing. Wait till next year, he'll be doing exams! That will be fun, NOT! He's also trying to get 15 reading assignments ahead before he goes in the hospital. I know the first week he won't get any homework done so that will be one less thing to worry about.

Doug is still trying to switch his vacation around to get it to work out best. He's going to take floaters for the day Josh has surgery and the next day, since Josh will be in the ICU for at least that long. Then he'll go back to work for the rest of the week. The following week he'll take his vacation and with any luck we can get Josh home before the end of that weekend, if not I'll have to come home and take the van back in so I can bring him home. I can only have 2 weeks off before the computer at work decides I don't work there anymore, so I will come out and work a short shift and then go back in. I'm still waiting on the call from the nurse to tell us what time we have to be there on Sunday. Sunday and Monday are going to be long days, even longer for Josh, he'll be doing the bowel prep and can't eat after Sat.

Well I should go try and have a nap, I didn't sleep too great last night, nerves are shot and I'll be glad when this is all over so life can return to it's somewhat normal state. But then again, normal is just a setting on your dryer. :)

Monday blahs

What's worse than Monday? A cold grey Monday with 5-10 cms of snow in the forcast. Uckk, we are so spoiled by the winter we've been having. Oh yea, and I have to work tonight too. Uck! LOL



Breanna skated yesterday, she's busy getting ready for the competition on the 5th. She loves skating, so far, but if some day she decides it's not fun anymore, she'll be done. There's times I wish I could have kept going when I was younger but you know it got to the point that it cost more than a 40ozer and Mom decided I was done. LOL I only wish it was that cheap now! I'm still not getting very good pictures at the rink, I'll take the camera with me again tomorrow and keep tying with different settings. I know I haven't had any pics of Josh with the new camera but believe me you will see plenty when we are in the hospital, I'm taking the camera with us, along with the other 1000 things on my list. I think I'll need a truck.

If you want to be added to the email list for when we are in the hospital let me know. As long as the compter is working okay in there I'll be sending daily updates to friends and family, well, most of my family. LOL

So I guess it's time to go finish the laundry and watch the weather network. Later!