The Farmhouse Adventures: Keep On Truckin'

Well hi there!

I knew it'd been a while, but I didn't think it was THAT long of a while.

But it was.

And here we are.

Thanksgiving came and went. We ate. We were happy. I made bone broth outta the big ole' bird, and we're still using it. Most likely because I freeze most of the jars down in the basement fridge and promptly forget about them. And also probably because I am not utilizing my crockpot for wintery-soupish-goodness like I should be (and if you didn't get the connection, the wintery-soupish-goodness would most likely use a liquid base, i.e. - bone broth in this house!).

But I DID just pull out some bone broth to have by itself to try to conquer the nasty-ass cold I suffered from the week after Roger got done with his heart shenanigans. I'll get to that in a minute...

First, here's a peek at Thanksgiving (and bone broth!):

RJ's preschool Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving

Small kids' table

The Rogers sharing a piece of pie

Mmmm Bone Broth

So that was November, mostly. We did a LOT of cool homeschool stuff in November, but I am considering making a side blog (linked to here, of course) to post just our homeschool stuff. 'Cuz I know my Mom likes to see that stuff... also because it's nice to have as a reference to look back on, and actually, according to the stats, there are quite a few people who check in here regularly (Hi!). So, if you care about what we're doing over here for school, it'll be there, instead of mixed in with all our family stuff and whenever I decide to rant about things.

Here's some other randomness we did in November:

I made gluten-free sourdough bread! With a starter and all. GF bread just isn't the same as real bread, so I won't be doing this too often. We actually don't eat much bread as a family anymore at all, which I think is a plus.

These sisters got in trouble for still being up when they're supposed to be sleeping.

Chase's 7th & 8th Grade Band had a really cool Star Wars themed concert.

And... we went to Home Depot! Okay, fine, that happens ALL THE TIME.

December was taken up mostly by Roger's cardiac ablation surgery, which, let me sum this up in the shortest way possible, was going great until they found other issues while in there with the catheters, and then so they took an extra long time and eventually decided that they should pass him on to a more experienced doctor down the big ole' city. So the poor guy had 2 separate ablations performed, 5 days apart, with him having to LIE STILL (totally the worst part for this ever-moving guy), BUT... his heart is, dare I say, practically beating normally?? Why, yes it is! It's so weird, actually, because he has always had this wonky, crazy all-over-the-place heartbeat as long as I've known him. We'll see what comes of his follow up testing to get the real picture.

Then Christmas!

Grammy & Grandpop sent Riley and RJ the most fun gift... a book to open every day of December! We had so much fun with this!

Tricker, our Elf, even came to the hospital to watch over Roger.

Look at that regular old boring heart rhythm! Woohoo!

I took a picture of this sign, after traveling up and down by elevator 5 times to the cafeteria in half an hour... once for sushi, and 4 times for the frozen yogurt that my hungry husband kept asking for more of. Not eating for 19 hours does not go over very well with him.