Mikaela Can Do IT, YES!

Well Mikaela has been on meds. now for about two months, for her mutated genes. I do not know if the meds. are the reason for the following, however I certainly hope they are and that our future is going to shine.

Saturday Dad informed me we were down to 4 bales of hay. So I went in search of hay and found some in Badger Canyon @ Uttley's. So Dad went to hook up the truck and get ready to go get the hay. Mikaela and I had been in the office working on math. As soon as Dad went out the door to get ready, Mikaela wanted to go as well. My response was, "are you kidding, you have two pages of assessments to do." Mikaela asked "if I get it done then may I go?" "if you get it done." Now I have a pretty good idea that she is not going to get it done. After all the day before we spent 4 hours on two pages of math and then the assessment that consisted of about 4 questions. I wanted to beat my head on the wall before we finished that lesson. And this assessment was the unit assessment. It covered 13 lessons, some of those lessons we had to review as we did them in the spring of last year. So I was expecting her to struggle a little bit. So Miss Mikaela sat down and in less than 15 minutes (before her Dad was even done hooking up the truck) she said "I am done." Want to guess how many she had wrong? I didn't tell her how well she had to do on the test, I just said that she had to get the assessment done, and done it was. I was just finishing up grading that last unit, when she said she was done. She only missed one on that lesson. So I checked her unit assessment. How well do you think she did? I was in shock when I found she had only missed 1 on it. WOW!!!!!!!

I am really hoping that her meds. are working and this is the beginning of a very bright future. Yes, I realize we will most likely still have struggles. But won't it be nice if it comes a little easier than it did for the rest of her siblings.

Last Stage of Christmas

Well UPS is full of mess ups. After promises of returned phone calls that never came. After being called a liar by the head UPS man in Kennewick. After a promise to put out a call tag for Kathlen's family Christmas package and forward it on to Ann Arbor and a follow up call to give me the tracking number (which never happened). To top off UPS's flub ups it appears that they never put out a call tag for the package. At least no one ever heard from them about picking up the package. Kathlen's In laws had to deliver the package themselves. The package finally arrived this last week. Can you guess who I am never shipping with again. Alright enough complaining. However I plan on a annual "DON'T SHIP UPS"!!!

Divorce

To all who read my families blog do not alarmed there is no divorce occurring in the family I am simply announcing my separation from this blog I will now be posting on my own blog site and if you wish to read that then here is the site the amzingcrazy adventures of Brad: My life
thanks to all.

Christmas in Stages

Look at those EYES arn't they Beautiful!!! Great Grandpa Star is still shining through. This makes 4 generations of blue eyes defying all the brown eyed or hazel eyed parents.

Garrett's Dr. Seuss hat from High school days. It looks better on Starlynn don't you think?

Starlynn gets lots of help opening her presents. Okay so the present came from Auntie Nea Nea



























What is that?














Oh, you have got to be kidding. This can only spell trouble.















Look at the devil jumping up and down with excitement in his eyes. You know that means trouble for someone. Probably me. I am so not pleased. In case you are wondering, it is a power remote control with 4 control boxes. I can only imagine all the things he will come up with to use those for. But it won't be long before he displays his imagination gone wild.























































Can guess where Heather laid the rug. Thanks Garrett and Leslie.




















Grandma's Warm bear buddy. He has a magical back. It opens only to reveal a heat pack. It is cool , I mean warm. Thank you Leslie, Garrett and Starlynn.































Hey, whats with all the thumb sucking? I thought that you got over that when you were 16?

















Starlynn with one of her many books.

Christmas was great. We did it in stages. We had Christmas day with Grandma and opened a couple of gifts. Then went to the church for a potluck with some of the members who did not have much family with them. Garrett and Leslie and Starlynn came Saturday. Bob worked so we waited until Sunday to open the rest of the gifts. Kathlen and Jon could not be with us this year. But we still mailed gifts. The package from Kathlen did not get here until the Monday after Christmas, Bob worked so we waited until Tuesday to open it. Kathlen and Jon still have not received our gift and do not know when they will get it, as UPS promised it by Wednesday (today) but it won't arrive until the 4th of January, after they have left Sturgis and gone home to Ann Arbor. I am not very happy with UPS.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Sad Day :-*(**

Tomorrow Dad starts back to work. After 3 months of having him home, it will be sad to send him back to work. It makes us look forward to retirement.

Dad will be in the 200 area for the next 3 months, at least. That means further to drive to and from work. Which translate into leaving for work earlier and getting home later. Bummer!

Physical therapist thinks that Dad will have full range of motion by the end of December. Then he will begin strengthening exercises.

By the end of next year we are looking at fixing his other shoulder.

Mean while I am looking at getting my other knee done before the end of December. Hopefully by this time next year one of us will be in working order.

Brad says he will be home by Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Dad is REALLY looking forward to his coming. He keeps saying MY Brad is coming home. If Brad only knew what his Dad is thinking, he just might change his plans. If you think about the workaholic Dad is and how he has not been able to do all that he wants to get done. Then think about Brad, young, strong etc. you get the drift. Lets hope Brad does not read this, Dad's afraid I will scare him off.

Growing Old is Not for Whimps!

Yea! I got my stitches out of my knee today. Dr. Hazel said there was a LOT of scare tissue in my knee. And when the swelling goes down I should have better range of motion.
I look forward to a more useful knee.

I am starting to think I will get the other knee done before the end of the year. I asked the Dr. about the possibility of the same problem with scare tissue in my other knee. He informed me that they are doing studies on preventing scare tissue from forming. He explained that they collect the platelets from a patients blood and using a double syringe they will shoot the platelets and a protein into the knee. So far the studies are proving successful. He told me that I will be apart of that study, when I do my other knee.

Dad's shoulder is doing well. Dr. says that he is on track with his range of motion. We are still looking at December before he can do any strengthening exercises. Dad should be returning to work the 20th of this month, on light duty. Which means he will be traveling to the 200 area for work until February. I think Dad will be glad to be back to work, so he can rest.

Winter in finally setting in, it frosted this morning. They are calling for snow tonight. Burr!! THINK SPRING!!!!!!

Grandpa Bob's BIG BLUE Tractor.

Brett doesn't Grandpa look like he is having fun?

Grandpa Bob really likes playing on his tractor.

Sometimes on his tractor he digs BIG holes in the ground. When he makes big holes in the ground, he puts the dirt on top of the ground and makes Big piles of dirt. Sometimes he uses his tractor to move dirt from one place to some place else. He uses his tractor to help him build fences, rototiller the garden so we can plant seeds and grow food. Sometime he uses it to mow the lawn. Other times he uses his tractor to build roads and move the gravel to make the road smooth.

When he is done working on his tractor he washes it and make it shine. Then he puts it away in a building to keep it safe and dry.


When Grandpa Bob works on his tractor, he has so much fun that it looks like he is playing.

We love you! Grandma Ni and Grandpa Bob




This post is for Brett Robert Wierschke.

Brett has a love for tractors. So much so that when he is asked if he wants to call Grandma Ni, he says No. When asked if he wants to call Grandpa Bob, Brett says No. Then his Mother adds Grandpa Bob has a tractor. Then he responds, Yes!

Sorry, Brett Grandpa's tractor is ___________ what color?