UP DATE

Dear Family,
I hope everyone is doing very well to great.. Mom and I are doing very well.. Mom is working extra hard trying to get the right start in her new position as nurse educator.. but she realy seem to enjoy it a lot.. She went to the Celebrity Concert Series, last night with some friends here in the ward, and saw Romeo and Juliet and Chopiana Ballet, she had a a very good time and really enjoyed her self..
I had my Dr's appointment last Wed. My blood is staying in the low high range, which means that I am almost normal but not quite.. The doctor reduced my one med by one pill, that may not sound like very much but to me it felt like a gaint step.. we are trying to reduce the med very slowly to allow my body to make a slow adjustment.. The last time they reduced my med they did it one lump sum, this made my body start to react funny and I got really sick and my blood went down very fast which caused me to have to be transfused several times before everything started to turn around...
Our weather has spoiled us the last month in the middle 60's, well tonight we are having winds in the 30-45 mile an hour range and bring us some rain and a cold snap.. Reports are that more rain and cold weather is due on sat./sun.. oh well!!we must learn to take a little bad with the good..
My family It would be so nice to have some one beside Jan, and I, do an entry on our family blog.. If you could find the time it would really mean alot to me..
Jan, I really did enjoy the thoughts you shared on you personal blog and on the family blog.. You are very right when you reflect, it is not easy to be a Mom.. there are times when you ask for the wisdom of the ages to help protect your children from the pains of growing up.. Parents would do almost anything to keep them from going through the hurtful things we went through as we grow up.. The one thing I have learned over the many years is, our children often want to expeirence the chance to see if they can do it better than we did.. And sometimes they do because they may have watch us closer than we knew.. As for when our children want to move out on their own I know there was never a good time.. I know I was wrong to feel that way because everyone must learn to make it in this life on the own.. just like you did when you turned eighteen.. I don't think you will ever know how many sleepless nights I had worrying about how you safe you were etc.. but you did great, and learned life was not all fun and games,but also filled with alot of hard work..
Well my special Family, I want to tell each of you how very much you each mean to me, I am so very proud of each of you for the great example you are to me by the way you live your lives... LOVE DAD

Shall we have another?

Ok so here is another update from the Parker's.

Chet is doing really good with his shoulder but his back has been out for over a week. It is finally starting to feel a bit better. I think the cold weather has taken its toll on both of us this last couple of weeks as my knees have been giving me fits when I run for very long.

I have decided that I am going to attempt a 5k sometime this year, just to say that I did it! That is if my knees will cooperate and let me keep training for it. I am up to 3 mile in just under a half an hour, if I can finish the half hour. Sometime my knees hurt to bad and I have to drop to a walk. I will continue to work towards this goal however.

I started another type of manager training this last week, where they actually put me in a school all by myself and told me to manage it. The regular manager is working at a Jr High for the manager there who had knee surgery! I am SO glad they didn't put my in a Jr or Sr high school!!!! There is so much to remember to do just at an elementary school and even more so at the secondary schools! I think I might just have dropped dead of a heart attack at one of those schools. Truly though, that is why they did things the way they did.

The kids at the elementary are so stinking cute!!! I really have enjoyed being there with them. The work isn't hard, just stressful trying to remember everything that has to be done. I spent 4 extra hours of my time there that I will not get paid for as they do NOT give any type of over time. Bummer :(

Megan made it through her interview for the other job and now has to jump through some hoops before she can start working for them. The place is called "Chrysalis" and it is a place the special needs adults who can live on their own for the most part, but still need help with things like shopping and that sort of thing. She is planning on staying with Subway for the time being as well and trying to get some things paid off. (smart on her part)

Ford is still working for Arctic Circle but not many hours at all. He currently has a girl friend that I have yet to meet :/ I am not sure how I feel about this at the moment because all I have heard of her so far is drama!!! I asked him if that was the type of person he really wanted to end up with. He isn't talking to me much about it right now. His grades are still not good, but he is doing some make up stuff in a class he is taking at school. Hopefully he will pull off some sort of miracle and get himself graduated. I decided after all the fighting and stress I had with Megan, and trying to get her through school, that I wasn't going to go through that again with Ford! I ask him if he has homework and encourage him to get it done, but that is the extent of things really. If he doesn't want it there is nothing more I can do to make it happen, and I am too tired to fight with him about it. So I am hoping at some point that he will care enough to make it happen.

As for now, that is the update on things here at my house. I hope to hear SOMETHING from some of you soon! Miss and love you all! Jana & fam