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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Oops, I did it again..

I know, it has been over a month. I had planned on keeping up here, blogging most days.

What happened?

Well, let's start again, shall we?

We spent a few days at our cottage over the 4th of July.

Just Dan and I and our sweet dogs, Bentley and Tucker.

I never get tired of this view!

. We had a good time with our friend/neighbor Rosie. Love here!

We paid a visit to Dan's Uncle Don and Aunt Jewell, while we were up there.

We love them! Such a great couple.

They have been married 69 years.

Uncle Don just celebrated his 88th birthday.

Have a happy & safe weekend!

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Thankful ~healing, grandchildren & sod

Dan is doing well; the incision is healing nicely. He still has restrictions for about three more weeks. If you missed my post on his ICD surgery, here is the link. Very thankful. 💙

Last week, our daughter in law, Emily's friend had a small gathering, a Sprinkle for baby girl due in a couple of weeks. It was very nice, a lovely meal, dessert and presents for sweet baby! I am standing behind Emily in this photo. Our grandsons, Finn and Harrison are in front of Emily. The boys can't wait for baby sister to arrive! I asked Finn, who is 5 years old, if he will be helping take care of the baby and he told me yes!!😀 I proceeded to ask if he would be changing diapers. 😂😄 Of course I was joking, but he took me seriously and told me boys don't change diapers! The look on his face was priceless!! 😅 He was appalled!! 😂 So thankful for grandchildren and the joy they bring. 💚

Things are progressing with our landscaping, sod. We haven't had a proper yard with grass since the fire and rebuilding. If all goes well and the weather cooperates, we will have sod down by the middle of next week!!! Our landscaping company, Cutting Edge is awesome, we are thankful for them and all of their hard work.

I am posting this late on Thursday but hope to make another post sometime tomorrow.

be blessed

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Dan mini update & random questions

Dan is doing well, resting and taking things slow.

I will share another time when things have progressed and improved more.

Check out Tuesday's info post.

Now some random questions to get my mind off things....

I haven't done anything like this

in a very long time.

I thought it might be fun to do it again.

Many of the 'old' bloggers

will remember when we often did this.

I got this from Diana at The Nana Diana 😊

1. Where do you like to vacation? - Destin, Florida for the month of February and we spend time at our cottage during spring, summer and fall.

2. Do you have pets? Yes, we have two wonderful dogs!! We love them! 💙💙

Tucker

Bentley

3. What is your favorite color? - all shades of blue, teal blue especially.💙

4. How many are in your family? - Dan and I, plus several children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.😍

5. What is your least favorite thing to do? - clean floors 😜

6. What is your most favorite thing to do? - spend time with Dan browsing antique stores.👫

7. If money were no object what would you like to do when you retire?- visit Ireland. 🍀

8. What is your favorite season? - Autumn 🍁🍂

9. What book are you currently reading? - The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown📙

10. What time do you go to bed, get up in the morning? - bedtime 10-11 pm, get up 6:30-7:30 am🕙

11. How long have you been blogging? gosh, off and on for many years. I think I originally started in 2008 on Yahoo GeoCities! 😎

It has been raining off and on all day, quite heavy at times! This is putting a hold on getting our landscaping done!! Oh well, it will be finished eventually. 😵

It is a sorrowful time with all that is going on in our country, our world.

I am so very thankful for the Lord.

be blessed

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Dan, sweet Dan

Bear with me, I'll do my best to explain the latest news. 😌

Dan just spent a couple days at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital. He went for a cardiac ablation, this is due to Ischemic cardiomyopathy and frequent PVCs. They also did a programmed stimulation to determine if Dan would need an ICD (permantly implanted defibrillator) in the future. Well, it turned out that for some reason there were no PVCs when they prepared to do the ablation! So, of course they couldn't do the ablation. They went on and did the stimulation testing. This testing proved he urgently needed the ICD. The doctor spoke to Dan prior to this and Dan already agreed to ICD, if it was needed. The doctor came out and spoke to me before they performed the surgery. He explained this device was needed to prevent death if Dan were to have a cardiac episode, that is it's main purpose. There are follow up appointments and other treatment plans, will be made for his original issues.

Dan is home now and doing well. He is sore from the surgery and has to take it easy for a bit. We are both learning about this and writing this post is helping me get things down with links for explanations.

Here is the fascinating thing about what happened. IF Dan had had the ablation, he would be on blood thinners for a while afterwards. And the ICD surgery, that would have to wait!

The doctors, nurses were amazed, they said it is very unusual for things to happen this way.

As one of my close friends said, "Sounds like the Lord was watching over him again by getting him this surgery in place of the other."

Thank God, for watching over my sweet Dan!

Be blessed

Hold your loved ones close.

xoxo

Friday, December 28, 2018

I'm back...with Christmas family pics

I have been thinking and thinking about getting back into blogging again. So, here I am at my old blog, my favorite, Splashes of Joy. I haven't used this blog since early 2015. The links to my other blogs are listed down on the right side of this page. I will keep the links there for reference.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a blessed and fun time with family. Many of our family, including some of the kids and grandkids were out of town this year, but it was still very nice day!

Sharing some pics of our grandkids, taken during the Christmas holiday.

This is Finn!