Dry Socket.

Yep!  You guessed it!!  My sweet boy was

recovering so nicely and wow . . . he 

developed unimaginable pain . . . 

dry socket.  We met our wonderful

doctor at 10:30pm tonight at his 

office.  I am praying that we all can

rest after the procedure that he

performed on our boy tonight!!!

Big Project.

 Our beautiful California Pepper tree had

to come down today . . . 

 I was much sadder than I thought when

we looked at the blank spot in our

yard . . .

Luckily, I always have PLENTY of

willing helpers!!!

We were left with just this stump.

Luke and I have plenty of great ideas . . .

Can you guess what that might be?!?

Tweet. Tweet.

Seriously! Really?!? This is the picture

that my sweet boy put on his Twitter

page . . . Needless to say, he had about

a bazillion comments.  Holy smoke!  

God has been so great!  Sam is doing

wonderfully well and we are excited

for our weekend of hanging out,

snuggling, movie watching, finishing

up our Olympics, Taco Bell runs,

chocolate chip making, and perhaps

I can squeeze in some writing.

Wisdom teeth removal certainly tugs

at the heartstrings of good old Mom!

Onward.comrades.

Rite of Passage.

My sweet Sam had his wisdom

teeth out today!!  Goodness!  The ride

home was pretty rough . . . let me 

just say that we will be having the

car detailed in the morning!  Other

than that, God has been merciful!  It

has been up, up, up for the past

several hours.  I haven't left his side

for more than an inch or two and

he is eating and laughing.  We are

getting ready to watch our Olympics

and a couple of flicks!!!

Thank the good Lord that I only have

one more boy to go through this

with.  These are pretty rough and

it is hard to watch them in 

such pain . . . we are thankful 

that he is doing so well!!

Strippin'!

Woohoo!  My new vintage CHRISTmas 

fabric jellyroll strips arrived today!!  You

can just imagine the little peck on the

cheek that I gave my FEDEX guy after

he delivered this bundle of joy right

to my doorstep!!  In between my other 

quilts, caring for hubs and the boys,

writing that dissertation, and caring for

our home . . . I am goin' to be strip piecing

a CHRISTmas quilt that will adorn our

home during the holidays!  CHRISTmas is

only 138 days away for those of you

who aren't counting!!!

Hubs had day one off today from our

clinical trial.  Tomorrow we will 

celebrate day number two off and then

on Friday we will resume the fun

with our five days on again.  I do

so love the five on two off schedule.

It allows us to catch up on all that we

missed while Dads was sleeping.  We

are thinking that the tiredness may have

subsided a tiny bit and are praying that

next week only gets better.  We are

more than grateful that his blood

pressure is now under control, allowing

us to participate in the clinical trial.

My Little Reward.

After spending twelve hours with my

sweet husband in the chemotherapy 

infusion room . . . you betcha . . . 

We are excited and cannot wait for

the results.  We are having a

scan the end of this month to 

check our progress!!!

Onward.comrades.

Salsa Time.

 Luke and I invaded Cathy's kitchen and

brought tons of tomatos, jalepenos, 

Anaheim peppers, onions, cilantro, and 

GARLIC with a mission of canning salsa.

 Cathy took cilantro duty . . . 

 Luke hooked me up to blend millions

of tomatos at once with my food 

processor . . . 

Yummy, yummy goodness!

Oooohlala!!  Here they are sitting on our

own kitchen counter ready to be devoured

by all of the boys!!!!

We had tons and tons of fun, plus

accomplished a BIG job!!!