Ethan’s Journey

​We are in the in between phase of fighting off turning on the heat and freezing to death. The house sat between 62-66 degrees at various times throughout the day. When it started feeling cold I did a couple sets of my physical therapy exercises to warm up. Being stubborn is really stupid and annoying. I only blame myself for this, ha ha. Ethan has plans after work tomorrow and he got the text to pick up his prescriptions about 15 minutes prior to closing. He asked if I could pick up his medications for him. I absolutely can and will. 2 years ago, Ethan would have chosen his plans over the prescriptions and not had the thought to ask for help. This is progress.  We are still seeing progress from him. I love watching him grow. He is setting things up for himself and making things happen. I am sitting back and watching to see, quietly and loudly cheering him on.  This week Ethan had to make a decision about accent color specks for his epoxy floor. He made his decision. He asked ...

​Paul asked me to help him prepare the driveway to be sealed. My assigned task was to trim flowers around an island in the driveway and move rocks (small hand sized rocks) away from the from the edge of the driveway. He totally knows better and knows that I excel at other things. I laughed when he said that was what he needed help with. I gave him the old “we’ll see if I can do that.” I wanted to give him grim hope in case my back was uncooperative. I started working on it after work. I probably completed 85% of the job. FAR more than I ever expected. Physical therapy is such a game changer. I couldn’t have done that two years ago. I stopped when it started to bother me and made myself useful by having dinner ready. Seems like a fair trade. Paul noticed the camper was sitting a bit odd. He found that there was something wrong with a brace blah blah blah and the axel. I wasn’t paying that close attention to the fine details. I asked if it was significant enough to cancel the trip. He sa...

​This morning I was able to book tickets for girls weekend (5 days) in Florida in March. It’s one of those 5 day weekends. Phew! I have a few trips to look forward to once the weather gets cold and crappy. Avery and Kendall came over to have a day fire and enjoy the fall air. We had the dogs out, Ethan joined us and I threw together a half assed lunch. We all enjoyed the half ass lunch of frozen pizza and frozen breaded chicken. We had some tunes on and we had a 30 second sprinkle that resolved so fast.  I was able to get a few more bags of sticks cut and stored for our kindling wood this winter.  Paul brought the camper home and will be moving it in a day or so to Ethan’s driveway. We are sealing our driveway this week. I say “We”.  I am not overly involved in this. I do have to trim some plants around one portion of the driveway, but that is the extent of my role. We prepare for one last camping trip of the season. We are getting our money’s worth out of this camper. I ...

Ethan and I went to go get donuts, cider and apple fritters this morning. The apple fritters were still warm. Yum! Fall goodies! Diabetes here we come! I did some meal prep this morning…well…I cheated. I had two crock pots going to make two different meals, chili and Beef-and broccoli. It yielded 19 meals all together. That will keep some men bellies full. ​I had a van full of donations today that I dropped off in various spots. Some at the clothing closet and some at the thrift store. It felt good to purge the house. I have more purging to do over the next few weeks. Ethan and I were laughing at the dogs tonight. They were being either goofy or angelic. You figure out which is which. Jiminy looks a little robust in this picture. It is most definitely that camera angle.

​it was a bit drizzly this morning. Little Jiminy curled up and napped on the Fall decor pillows. He was warm and cozy, exuding Autumn spirit. He looked like a fall croissant. Ethan came home in a hopeful mood. He was chatting about his next career moves and ideas for himself to graduate into something else. It’s always good to brainstorm and get those ideas out and explore them. Paul is closing camp up this weekend. Boo! I decided I didn’t want to be there. I am not much help AND it makes me sad to see the docks come out….along with the other obvious…it is chilly out and I want to get cracking on getting our house ready for the winter months.  I did a small meal prep today. I have bigger plans for tomorrow. Maybe some crockpot magic. I did some PTO planning for the rest of the year. I set that up and got my back up’s in place when I am gone. That felt good. I started picking away at my extensive list of chores this evening. I looked at flights and rental cars for my girls trip nex...

​I did a little bit of going through my clothes that I don’t wear. I am setting aside the ones I haven’t worn in a while. I have plans to donate them. I like to take them to the local clothing closet so that people don’t have to buy them. If they are in need, they can just take them.  I was teasing Ethan when he got home from work. He thought I was losing my mind at first. It did ultimately result in his crooked half smile and he even gave out a laugh. Mission accomplished. Avery was featured on the Brockport college website with her picture as well as a write up of how she spent her summer internship. https://www.brockport.edu/live/news/13961-interning-at-the-laser-lab My cute little scientist!