It's February?! Really?! It can't be!

Another week has flown by and I can't believe we are in February already. Wasn't Thanksgiving just yesterday?!

My grandpa turned 83 on Thursday and I went up to Indiana this weekend to spend some time with he and Gram. (Yes, this means that the doorframe did get fixed last week on Tuesday and all the paperwork has been sent in to the insurance company, so I'm hoping to get the final check in the next week or two). As of the last weekend in January, Gram is back in a health care unit in the main building, but a different one that where she was before, so that hospice will still be able to come. They tried about a week and a half with her in the townhouse, but she is just too weak to stay there. Some days are OK, but others, she was too weak to even get out of bed. Plus she fell again and since Grandpa doesn't have the strength to get her up then he had to call for someone to come out and help her up. No damage or anything broken this time, but is just a really big risk for both of them for her to be home. She had a rough week and was very disoriented and not knowing what was going on. Grandpa said she had a good day on Friday though and was much more with it. However, Saturday when I was there was not a good day. She is physically quite a bit stronger, but though she knew me, she didn't really know what day it was, or why she was where she was. Her sense of time is really mixed up. The little bit of time I spent with her yesterday before I left, she seemed much more with and we even walked around a bit with me pushing her wheelchair. One day at a time, she is at least not in any type of pain right now and that's the good thing.

The best part of the weekend was it began snowing very early Saturday morning and continued through the entire day, then got really cold on Sunday and snowed a little more here and there, but really was more windy and so we had some drifting. There was probably a total of 1-2 inches, but part of it melted away on Saturday as it was still above freezing until late evening. But it was enough that I really enjoyed it a lot!

In other family news, my cousin and his wife have gotten moved to San Antonio and are in the process of buying a house. They have also found out that they are expecting their first child on August 20!

I'm very much looking forward to this coming weekend too. I'm going to a scrapbooking crop at a local high school with some friends of mine in the morning - it's free! And then in the afternoon I'm going to a Stampin' Up party that a friend from Sunday School is having. So I'll be having a very creative and enjoyable day! Then hopefully on Sunday I'll get some more work done on the quilt I'm currently doing. I've got two different colors of border to put around it then the top is done and I'll be able to prepare and start quilting it!

I'm also going to attempt to get my taxes done in the next week or two. A friend of mine was blogging about that very subject on Friday. I do not dread it per se, because most of the time I actually end up with a refund. I just dread the process - I'm not an accounting type person and don't enjoy this sort of stuff. I have to go out and buy the TurboTax and get it put on my machine. Then just make myself sit down and do it. It's just time consuming and I'd much rather be doing something else... sewing... reading... scrapbooking. Oh well, it must be done!

That's really it for now. Happy Monday to all and a terrific rest of the week. Feel free to comment anytime you want, I enjoy hearing from you all!