November 2014
As
we have moved from Halloween to Thanksgiving and are now approaching Christmas,
we find ourselves catching our breath from a pretty quick month and decorating
our house in preparation for the holidays.
Debbie’s
foot has been healing well, she has been doing a good job of icing her foot,
doing her exercises and also keeping up with the girls and all the different
things we are doing with them. She has
started to feel a lot more mobile and is also starting to wear tennis shoes and
wean out of her boot. She has taken on
some additional responsibilities at work and will be the director of the
north-side clinic starting January 1st. These additional responsibilities will be
similar to some of the work she has done it the past, but also some management
work that will allow for her to help with some business decisions to help
improve the clinic and also keep it running smoothly on daily basis.
I’ve
been busy at work also, as our fiscal year-end is October 31st and
we have been short-handed for this time-frame. We have someone helping out
internally and he will be transferring to my department in December which will
start to help ease the burden. Of
course, I can’t let a fall go by without talking about the leaves and cleaning
up the yard! This year wasn’t as bad
except that is snowed on November 16th and I was still waiting for
leaves to fall! So, I’m still working
cleaning up leaves as we still have some leaves that haven’t fallen as of Dec.
1!
For
Thanksgiving, we traveled to Charleston, WV to visit with Randy, Anna, Kyle,
Julie and their daughter Olivia. It was
my first opportunity to meet Olivia so I enjoyed what moments I could get with
her as Sarah wasn’t keen on my holding another child. I hadn’t seen Kyle or Julie since early May,
so it was good to catch up with them.
Randy and Anna have kept many toys from the past, so we were able to get
those out and Allison and Sarah really enjoyed playing with the “Little People”
sets from the 1980’s (and to be honest, I had some fun with them also). We went to a Christmas show that that Allison
really enjoyed and Sarah did OK for half of it.
Kyle and Julie had a friend that hooked us up with tickets so we were
able to sit close to an exit so Sarah and I could make a quick get-a-way if she
melted down. Overall, the weekend and
travel went very well for us and minus the typical melt-downs amongst our
daughters in regards to sharing and eating meals, we had a really good
time.
Sarah’s Things of the Month
Since birth, Sarah has had a blocked tear duct that we
have done a few procedures on (including a surgery in mid-June). During this month, as the cold season has
started, her left eye has gotten swollen a few times and we don’t know what
else we can do. We are looking forward
to talking to her eye doctor in December to see what she thinks.
Allison’s Things of the Month
Allison has gotten into the Christmas spirit by
finding the “pretty lights” as we drive around town and when we got home from
WV after Thanksgiving, the weather was great so she and I decorated the
house. She kept saying how “beautiful”
the house was, and believe me, I didn’t do much. We are going to drive around at some point to
find some of the better light displays on the north-side some evening after it
gets dark. She also watched “How the Grinch Stole
Christmas” and was confused on why the “green guy was so mad.”
A few more items from this
month:
- Deb went to a girl’s night at Tracy’s house.
- Deb went to a girl’s night of wine tasting in downtown Carmel.
- I went to celebrate Uncle Frank’s Birthday at Pucchini’s with Beth, Matt, Mom, Jan and Mark.
- I went to the Colts vs. Patriots with Brandon, Tom and Diane.
- We are getting estimates to get a gas fireplace installed.
- Beth and I went to the Thanksgiving lunch at daycare. I was hoping this would be the year when Allison would just say goodbye and not cry. I was wrong. I knew Sarah would fall apart, but I thought Allison would hold it together.
- We had a play date at our house with Evan, an almost 2-year old little boy that is the son of one of my high school friends.
