Well I actually worked on my power point slides today. I don’t know if it’s better or worse that I do not know most of the people in my class. There’s Alexis and Kyle and Peter from my other school. There’s a guy named Josh who sits in the back row with me and we try our best to stay present and not look completely shocked at each other when something very outrageous is said. It’s a young class and you’d be surprised.

But these are the ones I’ll be doing internship classes with in the summer and the fall. So you get a better chance to know people then. On the way home from my internship class last night my mom called to say dad had gotten the results from his tests. He’d gone to the doctor last month after weeks and months of having shortness of breath. The anxiety thing runs in our family so you never know. He also then had fluid in his legs.

So he has to have open heart surgery to replace a leaky aortic valve. His current cardiac function is between 25-30%. With the surgery the doctor says is go could up to 50. He also has something like a bulging aorta which is something we’ve known about for a while. He’s planning to have the surgery in Springfield as well as all of his pre-surgery tests and follow-up. I’m glad that he is having it here because that means I can go.

Ethan has a weather shortened track meet this weekend. My tentative plan is to leave between 6-8. I’m staying with the friends we stayed with over the summer. I debated whether or not to ask her because there is that part of me that is fine being a recluse. But I thought I should take her up on the offer since she offered. Josh stayed with them back in January and he had a very nice time and visit with their family and new puppy.

Josh and the boys finished boiling the rest of the sap this week. They took a whole day to be out there taking turns with the fire. Today I was having dreams about the boys climbing trees. I was taking a nap sometime before lunch drifting in and out of consciousness and sleep. It still just amazes me that this is where we’re at, as in how are they growing up and this old. I came out to the couch and told them I loved them.