Musings of a Marfan Mom

December 21, 2008
by marfmom
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A New Home!

Today, Mark signed the lease on a new apartment for us! I am so excited about this apartment. Mark is GREAT at picking out apartments. This one has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a great kitchen, and OUR OWN laundry!!! Yes, that’s right folks: our back patio will have a washer and dryer just for us, in an enclosed space. I also love that there is a park in the complex, one that’s big enough for a baseball diamond, tennis courts, and a playground, so I have somewhere to take the baby to play. There are lots of sidewalks for walks around the complex too. The neighborhood is safe, with stores nearby.

I’m grateful for my husband, who works so hard for our family! I know he put a lot of time researching apartments in many cities, checking the distance from those apartments to his job, to the Marfan clinic, and to the baby’s pediatrician, making sure the apartments were cat friendly, investigating laundry options and the amount of stairs I’d have to climb, and whether there were places for me to take the baby out to during the day while he’s at work. Then, after getting up early to clean the church, he spent 2 Saturdays driving all over the bay area to see these places in person and call me periodically with reports on what he was finding. THANKS HONEY! 🙂

December 17, 2008
by marfmom
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Graduation

Here are some pictures of graduation (my brother and in-laws came and then we all had a big dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Yum! Thanks Zimmerman-Fiscos!)

Ellen, Abbie, and me

Belly pic…sort of (it was windy and the robes are big so it’s kind of hard to tell where my belly begins or ends)

And don’t worry about me being bored now that school is OVER! I have a lot of projects to do. I’m currently working on:

  • finding funding sources for the National Marfan Foundation conference and then writing grants for those funds
  • editing some articles for NetWellness
  • finishing an evaluation tool for Columbus Urban League
  • mailing out Christmas cards
  • a baby bib
  • Christmas shopping/wrapping presents

Soon I’ll be starting:

  • the Twilight series (per my promise to Megan)
  • trying out my breadmaker

Of course there are also the more basic tasks of getting ready for the baby, grocery shopping, organizing the apartment for the movers, and eating (yes, some days this seems like a task because I’m not in the mood to cook at ALL).

I am so happy 🙂