Diaries Of A Trophy Wife

What's Going On

Alot has been going on around here. To start off a couple weeks ago my mom had to start walking with a cain and had to take 10 days off from work due to severe pain in her knee from arthritis. I had to take her up to St. Joseph's Hospital twice, once we got up there and the MRI machine was down, then we had to go back a few days later after it was fixed. But we are waiting to her the results of the test. She will either have to have surgery if there is something torn, or she will have to start getting shots into her knee to give extra fluid in the joint so the bone isn't rubbing together causing the pain. So either way, it's not good. I've been really busy trying to take care of her and dad the past couple weeks.

Yesterday we got some more bad news. The owner of King Kutter, the company Travis makes tillers for, has cut the pay on various pieces. Travis' tillers happens to be one of the pay cuts. So he's expected to do the same amount of work for less money. He's currently looking for another job. But we've been there. There are no good jobs here. Also, we'll be losing our medical insurance in any new job transition for at least a month if not more.

Over the weekend we got some home improvement supplies. We got new railing for our porch at Lowes and some of it at Home Depot. I also bought a new patio set.

The patio set was a great deal! We got four padded chairs and a table, and two matching fold up chairs and a small table for around $200. I really like it.

We decided that before we put up the new railing we should power wash the paint off the house in the front and off the porch itself. I actually did some too.

Here is a "before" picture of the house.

Here is what we've gotten done so far.