I am home! I was definitely tired when I went to work today lol. Here are the rest of the Kansas pics!


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On Sunday, I flew to Kansas City..I watched Bohemian Rhapsody on the second flight, and got Queen songs stuck in my head all day haha. Cindy and mom picked me up, and I *think* we hung out at Julie's house before getting our hotel room (there would be WAY too many people at Julie's house if everyone stayed there). I also got informed on this ( Read more... )

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (Aug 1-4). A novel partly about the Batavia, which wrecked on a reef and the insane commander killed a lot of the survivors. This one wasn't quite as brutal as Batavia's Graveyard, thankfully ( Read more... )

On Monday, mom and I got to Topeka. Amazingly, it was sunny in Seattle! Mt. Rainier looked epic, and the mist among the valleys looked so cool! My window was too iced up to take pictures though. Cindy picked us up..we were tired after flying all night and morning, but we went to grandma's right away (if we had sat down at Julie's, we wouldn't have ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks, grandma has declined rapidly..she became too weak to stand and forgetful. She's now under the care of hospice. Aunt Cindy is there right now, and either her or Julie called mom this morning saying that hospice told her to call family right away. She's so weak now she can barely speak. No one knows how long she has (hours? A ( Read more... )

1. What’s the book you’re not reading? War and Peace..no thanks lol ( Read more... )

On Monday after midnight, mom and I started the journey to Kansas..ugh, redeyes are exhausting haha. On the second flight, when I started watching Thor: Love and Thunder, I 100% did NOT expect to hear "Only Time" by Enya! I LOVE that song, so I was pleased and surprised haha. We got a rental car after we landed, got food at Sonic so we could stay ( Read more... )

On Friday, grandma went to the hospital because she had a fever, was vomiting, and her leg was really red. Aunt Julie texted mom saying something like "I'm no doctor, but I think this is 'it.'" They gave her antibiotics and that seemed to perk her up some, but yesterday morning got worse again. She was diagnosed with sepsis and given more ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas!! Ryan made everyone a fancy breakfast and then we opened presents! Here are pics!


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Before we left on Sunday, we took one last selfie with Cindy and Dean:

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