Chrissy's Photo A Day

Look who arrived!?!? He found the cat bed :) He reminds me of his mommy when she was this age.  

The wedding is two days a way. Helping mom today with the cake some more. I was tasked with rolling the gummy surface off the cake layers. K...

My mom is working on baking Squirt's wedding cake. She is still in a wheelchair but stands for brief periods on one leg.   

Tonight in class we dyed fabric with indigo. Here are two undergrads really getting creative. It was quite a mess and the stains in the coun...

My mom celebrated her 88th birthday today with her closest friends.  

I did an indigo dyeing workshop for OLLI.  

We celebrated Squirt's 31st birthday today.  

 I am still eating a very restricted diet due to my bladder problem. This is a cookie I created from five ingredients- cashews, coconut suga...

 We spent MLK day in B'ham checking out the historical sites.

Shopping for wedding attire!  

I'm teaching a class on the science in crafts this semester and her my students are processing clay dug up from the pit next door.   

  This is baby Winston. He is very little- only 10 weeks along, which make him only 8 weeks since conception. Look how little and cute he is...

I taught J how to throw on a wheel today.  

New year, new day... visiting with my mom at the hospital.  Squirt and Panda on the first day of the year the get married. Here is our famil...

New Year's Eve 2021 Somebody is ready for dinner!  

J wearing his mommy's nightgown from 1986. Snuggles with Nana in Aza's overalls from 1988 or 1989. Aza's overalls look good on B...

Mom had surgery on her leg. It looks gross, but it sure feels better to her. The yellow is iodine, I think. My sister is in town and we take...

  Aza and Supbra came to town and we went shopping at Target for items for the diaper cake! I got to take a picture of her with the "Ha...

An accidental photo I found on my phone to remember our Christmas, 2021. We went over to Panda's parents' house. I could only eat ch...

We are back in the ER. The leg is really bad off and we just have to get Mom admitted to the hospital so they can help her. We were successf...

 A peaceful moment in the days we spent at home with my mom after her leg break. Note the red sock on her toes to warn us not to bump into h...

My mom fell and broke her leg. This is a photo of her leg right after it happened. We rushed over and found her on the kitchen floor. We dra...

 A student came by today and gave me this blanket she'd made for me. 

Set back today. I had my URJ class at 10am and really wanted to attend it, so just listened curled up in bed with a heating pad. Taking amit...

 I was eating different this weekend and even though I had to take something to sleep each night, I was doing ok generally during the day.

 I took those pills last night and woke up to pee, and next thing I knew I was waking up on the bathroom floor. The next day I was in bed ta...

This was the day that shit hit the fan. Culture negative. Saw gynecologist. Went to ER for a CT scan. Got catheterized. Pain went through th...

 I had a meeting on Zoom today and did OK, but I was not doing well. I was thinking maybe I had an antiobiotic resistant UTI. I decided to c...

 Tuesday, I'd been on Bactrim for 24 hours and was worse. No sleep without a sleeping pill. I was taking cranberry pills and drinking wa...

I unloaded the kiln and took photos today. Went to the family doctor and she said I had white blood cells in my urine, but not nitrites, so ...

 Last night of chanukkah. I was still feeling the sensation of a UTI and treating it with OTC meds and water. Planned to call the doctor in ...