how we live

Before school



After dropping Denali off



Elsie gets to blow a wish

Denali, Whittier harbor

Elsie and Sandia showing off the face paintings

Sean patrick and his ladies

Elsie, I know its fuzzy but I love this shot of her.

Denali in the park yesterday afternoon

Sandia spying on a bench in Whittier

These are some of my favorite pics from the past few weekends. Its getting to be fall around here so I guess its time to start this up again. I decided on photos for the most part, letting them talk. Anything I have to say you can see in most any picture.

update

So its been longer than I thought. today is march 16th. this is just to update everyone on the happenings around the whalen compound. We have all been very busy, the girls all got extremely sick. Denali was running about 101.5 - 102.5 for almost a week straight, sandia had a Little temp but seemed not to notice it. Elsie started to get sick and we noticed some wheezing so we brought her in and its a good thing because she had the beginnings of pneumonia. Yesterday was her last day of antibiotics and we are happy to have our crazy healthy babes back. We have also acquired another cat. He really is like Garfield's real twin. A big orange speed bump on our floor that is a bit of a priss. The girls and I love him already, Sean does too but he'll never say it. As many or all of you know I have been in the hosp. quite a bit trying to figure out whats up with the tummy. They did and endoscope and found h. pylori, a bacteria that causes ulcers and some cancers. they also believe I have already had one or more ulcers that have healed up. How I didn't notice those is a mystery. They also took something like 8 biopsies which I go in to hear the results of tonight. I would be lying my ass off if I said I am not the least bit nervous because I am, about now I am wondering how much of a sadist life is. I also have to remind myself that no matter the outcome this evening I have to remain as positive as possible, what is life if your unwilling to fight right. The only thing I know for sure is that they will have to treat the bacteria, and at least they found it and we can treat it and go on from there. So everyone keep your fingers crossed for me, hopefully tomorrow I'll be laughing at how silly I was about it all right! Big hugs and love.
Typical, a few hrs later I hear form the hospital that my results aren't back yet. So now we wait til Wed. the 16th.

A gray day

Not in emotion mind you just physically. We are again all alittle on the sick side of things so its time for mama's special juice and soup, which as luck would have it the girls LOVE. The snow is blazing around outside, Mt. redoubt is set to blow any minute and I am trying to remember the last time it did, late 80's early 90's, it seems to have been going off forever. Anyways soon to happen again. Things are just kinda plogging along right now which is okay sometimes when there needs to be a slower pace or you just hit that mid winter lethargy and all you want to do is lay under the covers with all your babies and read books, watch movies and in general not move around much. So I'm fine with slow for right now, all warm in my cozy little house with warm colors on the walls that remind me that I used to spend a decent amount of time in Spain. Love that, much like my father I believe, a bare white wall drives me bizerk.
Monday I went to the hospital to have my stomach sort of checked over. If my symptoms don't stop in the next 2 weeks I guess they will be going in to check out my stomach lining and what various forms of bacteria there maybe in there. This of course scares the shitake out of me because as many of you know my mother died when I was 14 from stomach cancer, so I get freaked out by stomach issues. Anyways its probably just some funky bacteria so whatever, I'll know more in 2 weeks.
Denali can now get around the computer fairly well, Elsie is at the stubborn crying for everything stage, sandia is a master puzzler and they have all been very whiny lately. We maybe have some cabin fever going on here. I'm sure we do. That momentary warmth that sprang thru and melted everything got me prematurely thinking about summer and all the things we'll be able to do in our yard and the park down the street that we can bring the girls to. I am very excited indeed. This is enough and possibly way to much for now so I'll sign off as I have ladies to make cookies with. Big Love everyone.
Sarah

Meh......meh MEH!

Oh buckets! I guess it has been awhile since I have posted anything. Well we made it through the holiday season relatively unscathed so thats good. Xmas was wonderful. The only suck part was Sean having to go in and push dumpsters around like he does EVERY holiday. I would like to crush these people or tie them all up to dumpsters that have been sitting there for a week and have a nice pile up of trash ( all not bagged of course, CIHA stopped giving out trash bags to the elderly 2yrs ago.) You can imagine the havoc this reeks. Now past that. I just found out today that by tomorrow I have to write a testimonial for these people and have the whole family in for a picture. Oh the fun. Currently though the house smells of country pork ribs with homemade barbecue sauce, homemade bread and oatmeal cookies that the girls helped make. So things are swell, swell until I have to go out into the -18 night and go to work. It has been like this for 2 weeks or more and we are all cursing the weather men/wm though really they have no part in it. As the saying goes though if theres no one else to blame, blame the messenger. Kidding of course but come on already. I miss you all. Things really, really are going well here no matter. Love love and more love. The girls are all screaming and I most go. I'll write sooner than later with pics.