A Year

It has been exactly one year since my last post. I popped on here today to search for my stuffed mushrooms recipe for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow and noticed that my last post was on November 22, 2021, the day before my dad was admitted into the hospital for severe Covid pneumonia. The whirlwind of that experience shut down my decision to start blogging again as I was, instead, posting daily on CaringBridge with updates about my dad. Little did we know that my mom actually had Covid when we took that photo in the previous post. She had mild symptoms. Both my mom and dad were fully vaccinated, in case you were wondering.

The good news is that my dad survived Covid after 11 long weeks in the ICU and then a long-term acute care facility. He was on a ventilator for two weeks in a medically-induced coma and then was put on a trach, woken up, and started on his road to healing. It was brutal on our whole family. Today, however, he is back to living his life, although at a bit of a slower pace.

The bad news is that the whole Covid experience outside of the actual illness was a real bitch, huh? And let's not get into politics and woke culture and all that.

Brighter things also happened in our world. Eli graduated from high school and Dawson and Heather welcomed their baby, Parker Lincoln. We traveled to the west coast and back this summer. Bennett and Bowen started school and played all the sports while Kyndal started her own business and Collin was promoted to a foreman position. Brynne started her senior year of high school. 

There is so much for which I am thankful. 

Maybe, this year, I will actually start blogging again.

By, the way, here is that Stuffed Mushrooms recipe, in case you are interested.