Had a nice relaxing day to recover from the party. Pottered around – which was nice after such a busy week. Did some washing, ironing, reading blogs and e-mail, attended to the chooks, watered the veggie garden – which is growing rapidly after some rain last week, had a swim and enjoyed a lesiurely lunch at Mums. I’ve just tidied/cleaned up the pantry in preparation for starting my pre-op diet tomorrow. Don’t want any leftover chocolate, chips, etc tempting me. Tomorrow I need to go do a veggie shop so I can make up salads and veggie soup – which I can have in addition to Optifast shakes, soups and bars. I know nearly everyone finds the diet awful (the reason for it is to shrink the liver and make surgery and recovery easier) but I’m actually excited to get started on the weight loss journey – lets see how I feel tomorrow night. Kevin said the first 4 days were very hard and he was very tired. Lucky I’ve got a nice quiet week ahead.
Category: Life
2007 Halloween Party
Well, our second annual Halloween Party was a huge success. Most people got into the spirit and dressed up. Kevin went as a patient (pretty appropriate I thought), I was a gypsy, Amy a Flapper and Christy a doctor. Even my Mum and Dad got dressed up which I thought was pretty cool. Like last year all the kids loved their parents getting dressed up.Everyone seemed to have a good time – the kids spending much of the evening in the pool. I asked everyone to bring a plate of food, which they did, but we did run out of food – the kids seemed to be especially hungry after all the swimming (NOTE to self : have more standby food in freezer next year). At least I don’t have to worry about having a house full of leftovers – not when I start my pre-op diet tomorrow. At about 9pm my feet were killing me and I realized I hadn’t sat down since 4.30pm. Poor feet – they were rather swollen and are still sore today. But it was a small price to pay.
Kevin’s home
Picked up Kevin from the airport this morning. He’s doing really well now and already antsy to get back to work. I’m glad I don’t have to drive up Sydney again any time soon – well, not until my surgery in 2.5 weeks. Tomorrow I’ve got my fortnightly Scrapbook Day – will be nice – haven’t seen some of my friends for quite some time – and I haven’t done my scrappin’ either. Then I need to give the house a good clean for our Halloween Party on Sat night.
EDITED to say I did not pick Kevin up from the airport but from the hospital – though they are both right near each other. Thanks for picking that up Kev 🙂 – we know it’s not been a holiday for you.
Busy days at the hospital
Kevin’s surgery went well on Monday but I feel I’ve been living, not at the hospital, but in my car driving to and from the hospital. It’s just over an hour each way so it’s not too bad but certainly a lot more driving than I’m used to. On Monday we left at 6am and I didn’t get home until 6.30pm. I did use the 4 hour surgery/recovery time to go and do some Christmas shopping so that was good. Yesterday my Mum & Dad came up with me to visit in the morning, then I took the girls up after school. Today I’ve been doing errands this morning, and am going to have some lunch and do a bit of scrapping before leaving at 2pm to up for another visit. I was just reading Kevin’s blog and he sounds a lot better today. Hopefully he’s be home tomorrow, but if not Friday.
Oh, when I was having lunch out with Mum & Dad I was saying how when we go to the UK in 2009 Kevin will fly back after 3 weeks (that’s all he can really have off of work at one time) and I’m going to take the girls to Scotland for a couple of week – my parents were both born in Scotland and I’ve been twice before and am in love with the place. So Mum says maybe Dad would like to go with you (Mum’s scared of flying). Dad immediately says yes and so it’s settled. He will fly over a week before we met up to catch up with all the rellies and then we’ll tour around together for a few weeks. How cool is that? I’m more excited than ever now.