Good Morning…..Happy Monday!   I am hoping life is starting to settle down for us.  Things are starting to get better and hope they continue to improve.   I am trying to get caught up at home and work as that makes me feel so much better.   I did work for about 7.5 hours on Sunday at the office and accomplished alot.  So things aren’t so bad when I came in this morning.  

Hubby was great while I was at work on Sunday and ran some errands for me and took the dog to be groomed.  I really appreciated that!   We didn’t get around to putting up our Christmas three this weekend, which we always do right after Thanksgiving.  I am sure we will get to it this weekend.   We had a very quiet Thanksgiving, which was very much needed.  Hubby is feeling good since getting out of the hospital and returned to work today.  He still has to see a hematologist to investigate why he got the blood clot. 

My parents came and helped out alot when hubby was in the hospital.  Bless my mother, she got me pretty caught up with laundry.  I am so far staying on top of it.  Hopefully I can keep that up. 

We went to the movie Flushed Away on Saturday night.  It was alot of fun.  We rarely get to the movies so it was a real treat.  Tommy loved it!   I am working all this week and then this weekend a childhood girlfriend is coming into town and I hope to get time to visit with her.   Friday night I am hoping to go to movie night at a friends house as well.   Otherwise our weekend is pretty quiet.  

I have been revising my weekly schedule at home again and have decided that I really like the week at a glance format so below you will see the draft of the new Weekly Schedule I will be testing out until the end of the year.   I am hoping to take some time off in January so I want to keep caught up around the house so that the time I take off can be to do things I want.  

I have been reading a number of website about living plain and simple.  I am so intrigued by the lifestyle.  It must be amazing to live off the land and home school your children.  I found a few people who have their own homestead, very interesting.  I was always interested in the hutterites back home so it still seems to interest me.  Maybe I am just dreaming of a simpler life!

MENU FOR THIS WEEK:

MONDAY – Sloppy Joes and Vegetable

TUESDAY – Tater Tot Casserole

WEDNESDAY – Beef Stew (crockpot) I have been planning to make this for weeks!

THURSDAY – Cheese Beef Macaroni and Vegetable

FRIDAY – Pepperoni and Cheese Crescents, Green Beans and Salad. (FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT)

JEN’S WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Sunday afternoon at the office…..I am the only one in this bulilding I think.   But I am getting some more plans/budgets done!

Sunday afternoon at the office…..I am the only one in this bulilding I think.   But I am getting some more plans/budgets done!

My brother warned me the other night, don’t say “what else could go wrong”, which I did!!   Not anything too major I hope, but seems someone has accessed some of my accounts online, mainly Yahoo mail and attempted on my paypal account.   I had an unauthorized transaction on my paypal account which was debited from my bank account.  This is already being credited back to my account.   The person must have hacked into my yahoo mail account as there was a message in my sent folder asking “where is my sons order”.   So I changed all my passwords to a more secure password and closed my checking account and opened a new one.  All new numbers and passwords all around.   I rather go over kill on this and make sure our funds and lives are secure.  

According to Paypal an IP address from the Netherlands was trying to gain access to my account.   It doesn’t seem like they got through.  I get plenty of spoof stuff or fake paypals stuff, but I have never ever clicked on any links so I am unsure where and what has been violated. 

So anyways, I will be changing to a new email account so I will send my new email address to those in my address book!  I should get that all switch over tonight.   What a pain!  So if I don’t respond to an email, know that I have changed it and please resend.

Today we are taking it easy, gearing up for the upcoming week.   I took the younger two boys to church and then came home.   My parents took us out for lunch at Old Country Buffet before they headed back to South Dakota.  I am extrememly grateful for all the help of my parents this weekend.   With them being here I was able to be at the hospital with hubby and make sure he was ok.  My mom caught up all my laundry and they cleaned the living room while I was at church.    I am still feeling pretty overwhelmed, but I know how much work awaits me at the office since I took more time off unplanned since hubby was in the hospital. 

Finished Reading….

Daniel Isn’t Talking by Matri Leimbach  – 4/5

It is a story of a family dealing with the diagnosis of autism and how it affects their family and marriage.  

Well hubby is still in the hospital tonight.   They have not exactly figured out what is going on.  He has a blood clot in his kidney that has damaged his kidney.  I am not sure what will happened….

And of course Erik couldn’t give me one day off from his antics…….not even with his dad in the hospital.  

Well hubby is still in the hospital tonight.   They have not exactly figured out what is going on.  He has a blood clot in his kidney that has damaged his kidney.  I am not sure what will happened….

And of course Erik couldn’t give me one day off from his antics…….not even with his dad in the hospital.  

I went to my in-laws in the morning and met with the social worker from the county.  My MIL was assessed for the Elderly Waiver.  She will beginning receiving some services next week so hopefully that will lighten some of our load.   Then I headed to work for the afternoon. 

I got a few budgets done and turned in yesterday.   I then decided not to go to book group as I was jsut too tired.  So I headed home to sleep.   I had supper with the kids and my parents.  My hubby came home and wasn’t feeling well.  He had severe abdominal pain.   He went to lay down for a bit while Josh and I applied for his student loan.  

I went to check on hubby and he was worse and we headed up taking him to the emergency room.   Josh and I got him in there and then we had to wait for almost an hour for him to be seen.   After first they thought he had a kidney stone.  But that was ruled out.  They ran a lot of tests and we were still at the hospital after 1:00am this morning.   So they decided to admit him into the hospital and run more tests today.   I called this morning and he is doing about the same.  

My parents are going to grandparents day with Tommy and I am going take a little nap before heading back to the hospital.   Life always has it’s struggles……………I am very glad my parents are here to help out a bit. 

I went to my in-laws in the morning and met with the social worker from the county.  My MIL was assessed for the Elderly Waiver.  She will beginning receiving some services next week so hopefully that will lighten some of our load.   Then I headed to work for the afternoon. 

I got a few budgets done and turned in yesterday.   I then decided not to go to book group as I was jsut too tired.  So I headed home to sleep.   I had supper with the kids and my parents.  My hubby came home and wasn’t feeling well.  He had severe abdominal pain.   He went to lay down for a bit while Josh and I applied for his student loan.  

I went to check on hubby and he was worse and we headed up taking him to the emergency room.   Josh and I got him in there and then we had to wait for almost an hour for him to be seen.   After first they thought he had a kidney stone.  But that was ruled out.  They ran a lot of tests and we were still at the hospital after 1:00am this morning.   So they decided to admit him into the hospital and run more tests today.   I called this morning and he is doing about the same.  

My parents are going to grandparents day with Tommy and I am going take a little nap before heading back to the hospital.   Life always has it’s struggles……………I am very glad my parents are here to help out a bit. 

I am safely home from work.  It is about 11:20 and all is quiet in our home.  I just went in our bedroom and Tommy is curled up asleep in his Daddy’s arms.   Too Cute….

I was very tired driving home from work.  I need to get more sleep!  I was whipping down HWY 52 and a patrolman was under the bridge.  He had mercy on me and didn’t stop me.   Did I decide to drive within the speed limit after that??  Nope..I was tired and had the air on to keep awake on the drive home.  I wish I had a shorter commute home!   So I am blasting down the freeway and it is under construction and of course there are two patrolman sitting in the dark waiting to catch speeders in the construction zone…yep…where fines are double!!   God again smiled on me and I didn’t get pulled over.   I never have seen so many patrolman out this late at night when I am driving home.  

I am trying to post more as I know my mother has been worrying a bit about me lately.  Truth be told, I have been struggling a bit, but I seem to be improving.   I still am under some very strict deadlines at work, which is stressful and I am scrambling to get everything done I need to by the end of the year.  I will be taking a vacation in January!!   But rest assure Mom, when I don’t post I am not in the hospital.  I actually have been in pretty good health this year.  What is up with that???  Life just has been bit much …

I was worrying about money on the way home and to my surprise there was a check from my flexible spending account waiting for me at home.  It was double the amount I was expecting…..God is Gracious.   We have always been provided for.  They finally seem to have my account all caught up.  I am not impressed with the new company that took over our flexible spending accounts at work.  

I am back attending my bible study on Wednesday night and that is such a joy to me.  I always leave there feeling so much better.  What an amazing group of people!   

So how is that….Three posts in one day!!   The grey cloud must be lifting…

I am off to bed….have a great night.  Count your blessings…..I am taking inventory tonight and I am truly blessed in many ways!