Well, the beginning of this year has not been the best. Jeff has been hurt since before Thanksgiving. We went to California to visit my brother and do the Theme Park Thing and Jeff was getting over some broken ribs. Then, when we got back he hurt his knee using his foot/leg to try to stop himself. The knee is bad, but if he didn't stick it out he said it would have been worse. I'm not sure how many of you have been in the backcountry of Moab, but "the penalty for failure" can be death. And that is no joke. Needless to say, our charity project was scaled down significantly. I organized (with some help from the kids), before Thanksgiving, a food drive to help our local food bank. It wasn't huge, but between my co-workers and friends we filled the Durango with good stuff - not just canned peas! That happened before I we even discussed the holiday thing. Our original plan (since Jeff was hurt) was to donate $100 per person in our family to our charity of choice. The only stipulation was that it had to be a local charity. There are so many people here who are not as well off as we are. Needless to say, when the bills started coming in for the MRI and the emergency room etc.. etc... we decided to scale down. WAY DOWN. The kids and I have taken two loads of clothes, shoes, blankets and toys to our local non-profit thrift store. We have another load waiting to go in the basement right now. The store is called Wabi Sabi and it was started by local people to help local charities. It works two ways. People make donations of "stuff" to the store - from building supplies to sleds and then the thrift store sells them at very reasonable prices to the locals. The profits raised from the sale go to help other local charities like Seekhaven Women's Shelter and the New Hope Pregnancy Center. There are many more. The cool thing is that most of the people who need these services are the ones that shop at the store! It is a pretty cool concept. Sorry, I wax philosophical. So, that's what we did for our holiday project. Our dear Jeff spends many hours doing community service by way of bike trail maintenance and he also organized a cleanup project for the loop road last summer. Our community is small and we all try to help out where we see a need.
Jeff had his surgery on Monday. They gave him a femoral block before he left there so he was pretty comfortable the first night. Last night - not so much. I stayed home from wok on Tues and today. Must go back tomorrow though. Jeff will be fine for awhile and I can call him to take his meds. I will also come home for lunch and Ian gets home at 3:30. Jeff has a friend with a bum femur who likes to come over and play video games anyway:) We will have some major bills and have put off getting Ian's braces until next year. Our insurance is good, but not that good! I hope that all of you are happy and well. We are happy at least.
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