Charlotte

 Has decided I am on guard duty while she takes naps... She's had me up every hour to walk outside with her and then she of course goes right back to sleep.This is the second day in a row the winds are howling both last night and tonight plus it's raining tonight and I know that triggers her pacing since the basement flooded. Better me to stay up then her wake Hubby since he is on a bipap.

Son2 mentioned to his fiancee that he didn't know how to handle the stress of not knowing if the 5 yr old was going to come home changed or not come home at all. She told him she imaged their mothers probably understood that as both of them served in Army and deployed. She was in Iraq 6 months. He was there 2 years. The only time he could come home was for the funeral of Daughter 4's daughter (born without spleen and bad heart). He was home 3 days. He told me what he said to her and I told him NO he would not come home the same and it's in GOD's hands if he comes back to them or goes to Heaven. Right now he is still not waking up, has fluid on the brain and spinal cord and infection. GOD only knows where they will come up with the money to pay the copay.

Nephew will know in two days if he is rejecting his lungs transplants or if he had some bug. A super bug is going around that antibotics is not helping. Son2 came down with it, 4 Urgent care visits later they figured out it was what he had.  Can go into walking pneumonia .

Hubby's Uncle and brother both on meds and seem stable.

E's dad and the family that went with him to Mexico are heading home. He will have to go back for the knee replacement in a month as he had more than one issue . The metal plate that he has had for years had caused some of the problems with not letting him bend his knee correctly.E said they had to use a chisel to get the plate out as it attached to the bone where it wasn't suppose to be. 

It was warm yesterday so I washed all the bedding, furniture covers and throw blankets and dried on clothes lines. We let the fire go out in the wood stove so I  cleaned it today since it's to be close to 80 today. We refilled wood racks Saturday. Hubby was glad I insisted we get 3 more racks. We can pretty much go a solid week without needing to refill. I told him just to plan on refilling on Friday or Saturdays. 

The other day we got calzones and popcorn chicken for our one meal out. I took the leftover popcorn chicken, reheated it and layered it with corn that E gave us and I froze, leftover mashed potatoes and brown gravy for a mock KFC chicken bowl.  I split a bag of meatballs I had froze. First round was with ziti and tomato sauce, second round was with cream of mushroom soup as the sauce and rice and asparagus. I did a meal of biscuits, eggs, hash brown patties and bacon. I cooked pot stickers and egg rolls from the freezer and used the leftovers for lunch the next day. We had chili I had canned for the next meal. 

I paid this month's bills, was not easy with the $4200 truck repair bill on the credit card. I don't carry balances as that's a fast way to the poor house. Pretty much wiped out savings and low in the checking.  I am thankful I have a solid pantry. I pulled shelf stable milk out of pantry as it was the only thing we needed. I will go to store for it on Thursday after our doctor appt. 

Hubby had one doctor that called and wanted to go over final test results. Since we live 2 hrs away he offered to do a phone call as going over the results only takes about 15 minutes. I had changed another doctor appt from this month to Dec so it's good I did that as we know that doctor will want to go over those results also.

For the next 3 months we have at least 5 if not 6 appts a month so I will need to put aside extra fuel money. 

I will be redoing 2025 budget today.