mamajoan

Thanks everyone for the words of support on my post about my mom. (And if you somehow missed it, here it is.) Sorry to go more than a week without updating...!

Mom got out of the hospital last Tuesday and is glad to be home. She's recovering well from the surgery. She even managed to sing in our choir's concert on Sunday, only nine days after surgery! Everyone was amazed to see her there. :) In case you missed it, here is an article in the local paper about our concert, which explains why it meant so much to me and mom. (we are both quoted in the article.)

Anyway, so mom is on the road to recovery and we are all just trying to gear ourselves up I guess for the next step, which will be chemotherapy. :( Apparently with the type of cancer that mom had, chemo can reduce the odds of recurrence from 40% to 20%, which is a really big deal. But it still sucks that she has to go through chemo. We are still in the process of gathering all the info about that.

In other news, yesterday Isaac and I both had performance evaluations. ;) Well, I had a performance evaluation (my new company does them for everyone in December)(I've been here 3 months now so I guess I can stop calling it my "new" job) and I also had a conference with Isaac's teacher. It was my first parent-teacher conference since the beginning of the school year so I was glad to get the chance to talk to her, although there really wasn't all that much to talk about. I mean, Isaac is brilliant and wonderful, a joy to have in class ;) yadda yadda ;) well, I paraphrase ;) but that is basically the gist of it. So that was good to hear and I was glad that she didn't have any "issues" to bring up, except for the fact that Isaac's homework hadn't been getting done, which is totally my fault. *facepalm* I really slacked off for a while on making sure it got done and turned in. I'm cleaning up my act.

As for my performance evaluation, well it's my policy not to talk about work except under friends-lock, but I think it's safe to say that it went fine. Since I've only been working here three months there wasn't a whole lot to say, but it was good to check in with my boss and verify that we both agree as to how things are going. Also, there's my bonus to find out about. It's complicated the way that works, so I won't actually find out until probably sometime next week how much bonus I'm getting. It should be more than a grand, though, so that will be really nice!

I should round things out here by saying something about Ruthie ;) so I'll say that she is doing very well with potty-training, which I'm very happy about, and also that she can write her name, which proves that she is also a genius ;) and is starting to get interested in letters and words and spelling. Not that she can really spell anything yet, except for her name and STOP -- but she loves to pretend. Actually, today she found a word magnet (from the "motherhood" magnetic poetry set that I got a while ago) and asked me what word it was, and I told her it was "him", and then she went and got the three relevant letters from the fridge letter magnets and spelled "him" on the fridge. So I thought that was a pretty big step! Hey if she acquires some real sight words in the next three months I can still tell people she learned to read when she was 3. ;)

Anyway, needless to say that's only a drop in the bucket, in terms of all the stuff I could be updating about...but that's all I have the energy for right now.