Advent Calendar from the Mother Land

When we were little we lived in Germany for a couple of years and every year my parents got each of us these advent calendars full of little chocolate windows. You couldn't find them here , so imagine my delight when I saw them in the aisle at Market Street. Yipppeee!!





Straight from the Mother Land...via Jersey?



Emilee with her first advent calendar. Too bad she can't eat the chocolate yet :)

Christmas Decorating - All Done!

This is a lovely Christmas arrangement that David's work sent us after he got out of the hospital. It was great except for the large pine branch that was shoved in the middle. David is allergic to pine and when my house started to smell so nice, I found the culprit and had to unfortunately toss it out.






Took me a while, but the Christmas decorations are finally up. Yea!!

There's no place like home...

especially when the alternative is Presby Hospital in Dallas. David's surgery went really well last week. I was shocked - I had grown accustomed to him being a problem child for the surgeons, so when he was an A+ kid who actually had less surgery time than they anticipated, I was thrown for a very nice loop. Another plus is that they pulled his gross drain (it was draining out the extra fluid his body produced at the surgery site) so I didn't have to deal with it at home. I was not excited about measuring and emptying out his liquid goo.

And if Christopher is reading this blog, I'm sure I just totally grossed him out right now. Sorry :) Here are some new photos from hopefully our last medical crisis - or at least until the next major holiday rolls around.

Before the unveiling...

This is after he had 1/2 his staples removed at the surgeon's office. Congratulations to incision #3. It wins the prize with a record 42 staples!! By the way - totally love the L that it makes. Yeah - I paid the surgeons a little extra to forever mark my man with my initial. That's right ladies - L is for the lovely Liesl - don't touch he's mine!!

Here is a nice shot of what I refer to as the home health care hole. I was tired of his infusion stuff not having a home, so I put it in this lovely basket to make it look a little nicer on the counter. Don't think it really worked, but at least this helps to maintain it all in one place. Dr has him on a new drug for 6 weeks - one that they have to monitor closely because it can inflame all the muscles in your body and require re-hospitalization. Hmmmm...I asked the Dr. if we wanted to tempt fate with this medication - David's history would indicate that he will get this side effect. We're just lucky like that I guess.




And lastly, just wanted to send a very thankful shout out to the wonderful family and friends that have helped us. We couldn't have done it without you...