Roid rage at its finest!

Someone's mad that my (veg - which he won't touch) pizza came out before his. He says "This place stinks!"

:)

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a pretty quiet and lazy morning (where I started working on some of Logan's birthday party favors!), caught a new flick at the theaters in the afternoon (The Good Dinosaur - we all loved it!), had a nice dinner together in the evening before settling in to watch another movie at home (MIB3, Logan has been on a MIB kick lately)! :)

Hope everyone had a great holiday with family and friends yesterday!

Day 1, Cycle 5

Yesterday we started another maintenance cycle in Callum's chemotherapy program. We have a (long) week of steroids to administer (and deal with) - yesterday was a day at the hospital full of Dr visits and vincristine via IV. He did fantastic through it all! He's become such a champ with his port access these last few visits - he now tells the nurse he will count to 3 for her before she pokes him, which seems to actually work quite nicely. :)

His counts have continued to risen since the neutropenic episode about a month ago so that is good. And with a week on steroids this week they should go through the roof.

We're all still fighting a bit of a head cold, at various stages, but hanging in there. The boys are both off school all week which makes things a little easier and more relaxed at home. Thankfully we should have plenty of movies, couch snuggling, and food around this week to appease Mr. Callum's mood swings. ;-)

With a full heart

I happened to walk into our kitchen tonight and noticed my older son hanging out on his own, reading a book. I walked back into the TV room to grab my phone because I couldn't NOT capture this moment.

Love this little - now not so little - guy of mine. :)

Way to go Mom!

Callum was explaining to me earlier today about how much this other kid in his class bothers him, "he's mean and follows me around all day." (sadly, it actually sounds like the other kid just doesn't have a lot of friends and really likes Callum, but Callum isn't into the smothering).

So, I told Callum, well, if you really don't want to play with him, then you should just tell him that.

Callum got extremely offended and disgustedly told me:  "Mom! Then *I* would be the mean kid at school!!"

Well shit, I guess that advice just backfired.

Monkey bread!

'Tis the season, and two little rascals in this house know it! 😝

Minion has returned!

(I forgot to post this last week - but I composed it last Thursday...)


Over a week ago, we found Minion was missing. We aren't exactly sure how he got out but with all the workers coming and going and doors and windows left open, I guess we shouldn't have been too surprised. I thought we were keeping a good eye on him but clearly not! And with the trauma of just moving, he was more skittish than usual.

Where we live now has a fair amount of wildlife. I discovered a family of 5 raccoons in our backyard last week late at night, scouring the place for food no doubt. We have deer galore, possums and skunks. And apparently there are mountain lions that will sometimes venture into the neighborhood. So between all of that and it being a new location, we thought Minion was certainly a goner. :(

Last night, Jon was checking out some of the progress in our back rooms and heard a faint cat cry from outside. We went back to look and sure enough, there was scared and cold little Minion perched on the back corner of the fence, crying out at us. As soon as he saw it was us, he jumped down and we brought him inside.

In between his constant gobbling of food, he'd take a moment to walk around our room and rub up on us, the furniture, even the dogs!! It seemed he was just as happy (and relieved?!) to see us, as we were to see him.

Phew!!!