Hi all,
Sorry I wasn’t able to come around before the holidays to wish you all well for the holidays, but I hope all of you were able to make the most out of your celebrations.

The last few weeks turn chaotic to say the least. CAW did move back in the weekend before Christmas. That Monday, I had surgery to remove some cancerous skin on my left cheek and then a reconstructive procedure so I was left with a crater in my cheek. Last Wednesday, I had the stitches removed and all is healing well, but is still a bit unsightly.

With moving CAW back in, Christmas kinda snuck up on both of us and it was a scramble to get the house in order and decorated for the holiday. We both still had some last minute shopping and wrapping to do. Then Christmas morning at 4:00 am I woke deathly ill. CAW woke soon after feeling the same. We tried to push thru with opening the presents for D11’s sake, but it took most of the morning, but we had to cancel Christmas dinner and retire to bed where we stayed the entire weekend. In the aftermath, CAW has been suffering some heavy cramping (that time of the month) and I caught a head cold right on the tail of the other illness.

… but despite all this CAW has been more upbeat than I have seen in years and on top of that has been very reassuring of her own accord and very endearing … almost too good to be true. I’m just afraid of it all crashing down again.

Anyway, just a quick note to say all is going well enough and no doubt will get better once we feel more like ourselves again (I guess in more ways than one?) . Also, another reason for being so scarce lately is because I’m in between ISP’s again at home … thinking of biting the bullet and going cable.

‘til later,
KAW