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March 21 Long time, no updateHi to everyone. It's been a while since I've blogged but I always do keep up to date on on my CDH and other online friends. Belated birthday wishes to Jackson, Drew and Avery!!
We've been busy with our new business!! I've been pretty stressed about it, but so far we've survived and can afford to eat. I work 3 days a week in the office and lots of stuff on the side. We think about Jolee everyday, but it's difficult being around so many people who don't have any clue what we've been through this past year. The worst are the people we bought the business from. We told them and basically got no response and they have been so selfish and unhelpful through it all. They signed in the closing papers that they would provide assistance for 3 months and every time I've asked for something, they just give some lame answer that usually never helps. I just have to gripe about them!! I guess everyone has some amount of buyer's remorse - we just got stuck with a lot of their leftover junk that they just didn't deal with because they knew they were selling. We have to be thankful that we have their old patients still coming in though.
Other news, Blake is getting close to being potty-trained. For awhile we thought it might never happen because he just didn't want to slow down. So hopefully he is completely trained before August because that is when we are expecting a new baby! We've been really slow to tell everyone but the 12 week ultrasound looked normal and my next is on April 3rd. It's hard not to have mixed feelings about being pregnant again. But it's never going to feel right that Jolee is not here! We can't replace her and we're not trying. We and Blake just want another addition to our family and we'd like him/her to be closer in age if possible.
I can't believe we've already come a full year on other CDH friends' births and Jolee's is less than 2 months away now. I really don't know what we'll do to make her birthday special. We've thought we'd like to provide a meal at the Ronald McDonald House. We'll have to see what that involves and what's available that works with our crazy lives right now. One family provided an easy but tasty meal while we were there - roasted chicken, potato salad, carrots, rolls, strawberries and pound cake - all from Costco. Let me know if anyone wants to contribute in anyway. It's something that would be neat to do once a year because RMH is such a blessing for families in the situation of having a child in the hospital. I always thought it would be revolve around McDonald's but the one in Portland was great. Lots of food and resources and just one statue of Ronald on the playground.
Happy Spring!  Krista |
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