MIA Again...

I know, I know, I have been a bad blogger again. It's been hard to get back into the swing of things with everything else in life going on. The day after I posted last my summer class started and it was math, need I say more? Anyone who knows me, knows I don't do well with math and it was a horrible 7 weeks, but I am proud to say that I got through with score in the 80's and 90's (the class was Pass/Fail), it took a village of patient friends and a lot of late nights and my poor hubs who had to watch me through tantrums and all, but I did it! I have to take one more math class before I can take the one I need for nursing, probably won't take it till next summer since I plan on only taking A&P I and II fall/spring. I will be glad to get back to biology. I have one more torture class to get through other than math, and that's chemistry...yuck.

We had a fabulous 4th of July despite staying home this year instead of heading up to my families place in WI. We went last year, as we do every year, but it just wasn't the same with the rest of the family up there, so we stayed home and had a great day with our friends and their family. It was a good day with good food and friends.

After spending two hospital stays on my floor at work, Dad is doing well and has managed to stay out of the hospital for over a month now, the longest in the last year that he has been home. It's been a long year, even longer if you add in the chemo. We are just happy to be in this place of healing right now, last August we never thought we would be here. Big thank you to my co workers for taking extra special care of my Dad while he was on the floor, we all felt the love. 

I celebrated my birthday with my friends and family and a trip to D.C. with my Mom on my actual birthday. Had a lot of fun and I am forever thankful for those in my life right now. 

The day after my birthday Logan started 1st grade (year round school) it was bittersweet watching him get on the bus and head off to school. He has adjusted well to being at school all day and taking the bus. So proud of him.

So in the mix of all this craziness I had to have a "procedure" done, nothing serious, but it added in a teaspoon of annoying to my life for sure. All is well. 

So you would think with all of this going on I would put my projects on the back burner, but no, I can't do that. So we jumped in and started working on the back splash in the kitchen. It's almost done, we just have to do behind the stove. Which we were waiting the hubs to get done with his summer classes to do. I have been impatiently waiting, but now that our microwave died (oh yea our microwave and our a/c broke with in a day of each other, the a/c got fixed last Monday just in time for it to be fall in Chicago *eye roll*) we have to take the old one down and it will make getting the rest of the back splash on much easier. So you see something good did come out of the microwave breaking...

So this is what we have done so far...

I also did a chalkboard wall in the kitchen, we just need to find a piece of molding that can act as the ledge for the chalk and the eraser. Everyone has been having fun with it, especially when we have people over!

I have some more post ideas rolling in my head, maybe I will manage to get another one up today...