A week of service

Monday - Got Pappy off to the VA dentist in Sheridan - he will come home through Billings and bring Paul home with him for the week, yay! I worked worked on the file folder games for one of our humanitarian projects - mostly laminating the folders and making sure I have glue, markers, scissors, and paper for them for our enrichment meeting tomorrow night. One of my respite clients was having a hard day at school so I picked him up for the afternoon. I spent an hour or so practicing the new chior piece on the piano.


Tuesday - The fabric arrived to make the backs for the quilts we are tying for a humanitarian project - I made backs for all four quilts. Took care of Merilee's kids while she was at school, made chicken and wild rice soup to take to enrichment meeting, loaded all the stuff in the car, unloaded it all at the church then reloaded it all when we were done. Nine people came to the meeting and we tied 2 of the 4 quilt tops I had sewn and got a lot of cutting and coloring done on the file folders. Brought all the stuff back home, unloaded it and put it all away. Practiced chior number


Wednesday - Today I put handles and velcro on 35 school bags (humanitarian project again) and took lunch to a sick friend and her family. Made a sample cot sheet for a day care in New Mexico - they want 100 of them!! Went to enrichment planning meeting. Practiced chior number.


Thursday - Finished up the other 30 school bags, folded and boxed them all. Respite client arrived at 3 and stayed until 10pm. Refilled prescriptions - argued with workers comp and doctors office (very time consuming and frustrating.) Practiced chior number.


Friday - Made more chicken and wild rice soup and took it to another sick friend; continued working on file folder games; another hard day for respite client - picked him up at 9:00. Practiced chior number, gave John a haircut, met with respite case worker.

I need to get the file folder games orgainized and ready for the next meeting instead of doing them all my self - (sometimes that is the fastest way to get things done) and do the binding on one of the quilts we tied - maybe tomorrow.


Tonight we are off to the Stake Valentines Dinner - and John is taking me!!! Paul and Amanda are going with us - should be fun.

Socks and Scissors

Last week when it was so busy around here, Merilee brought me two of my favorite things. She picked up 2 packages of socks and a cadbury egg for me just because. I love new socks, I ration them to use on days on know I will be on my feet all day; and cadbury eggs, YUM! What a sweetheart.

On our way home from Salt Lake we stopped in Billings to pick up some stuff from Nathan's and see if we could get Heather to laugh and squeal. Nathan had heard about Merilee's good deed; so not to be out done, he had a gift for me. He bought me 3 packages of socks and a whole box of whoppers!! What funnee kids. I love them all so much. I will have enough brand new socks to last me a couple of months, and you can bet I will think of those kids every time I put a new pair of sock on my feet (and every time I get on the scale too!)

So, with my new, cuddly socks on my nice warm feet, I got out another of my favorite things, SCISSORS. They are part of my Therapy. I will spend the evening with my feet up, in front of the TV, clipping this huge pile of bibs. Most of them need to be ready to send out when the check clears in a few days and the others will add to my stash of bibs ready to sell.

You can check out my bibs and other fun things I sell at my website

www.drycreekdesign.com

Superbowl and Time Out for Fun

The week of the super bowl April and Steve and their family visited - John White came up from California for a few days. Merilee and Eric spent some time here to so we had a full house. On Sunday, Steve put on a fun super bowl party.

Yummy Food with Football Theme Super Bowl Watchers

John White made some new friends,
Seth and Brenna

I took some time to play with the kids - we learned to build log cabins from Lincoln Logs

And bounced a ball up and down the stairs until we couldn't laugh any more!

But kisses and snuggles are what I like best.

Brenna Brandon

Trip to VA Hospital in Salt Lake

Wow, I just caught up on everyone's blogs. I haven't had access to a computer for 4 days and was having withdrawals, but all is well now.

We are at my mother's home in Idaho Falls, it is so good to get to visit with her. I put a link on her computer so she can read all your blogs, I hope she will do it once in a while. We got to see my brother Scott, he was nice enough to take me shopping. Tom Hamilton was in the hospital with some nasty rash so we had to visit him there. My brother Dan and his wife Pauline came over to mom's to visit and last night Ruth came. On the way home we stopped to see Kaycee in Bozeman and checked out his new house. It was sure nice to see everyone, don't have any pictures tho - left the camera on the charger at home.

The appointments at the VA went well but of course we won't have the results for any of the tests for at least a couple of weeks.

We had good roads and good weather up until now. Looks like it is snowing so we better get going.