cooking fun

Mom, Ashley, and her kids came out to my house tonight to cook a whole bunch of freezable meals for Mom and Dad. That way, they can have a home cooked meal whenever they want and they don't have to eat so much take out. We made six meals and had a great time doing it, though it got really crazy with four kids running around.

Here is my kitchen at the height of the chaos.

And here's all the food. It was a lot of work preparing six meals in two hours, but Ashley and I were so happy we could do this for Mom. We also feel pretty lucky that, even though Mom's abilities are limited these days, we are still able to get out with her, do fun things, and enjoy her company. We had a lot of fun.

On a different note, the man in charge of Swedish Home Health Care happens to be a friend of my dads. Dad took Mom's latest MRI to him to look at, who noticed a second tumor had developed on Mom's brain which is very likely the cause of Mom's very painful sciatica. This doctor told us that, most likely, with a very strong and very localized one-time radiation treatment, they could probably knock out this very painful and burdensome problem for Mom. She will go in very early tomorrow morning (6am) for another MRI to confirm these findings and then we will hopefully proceed to the radiation treatment on another day. This would be a wonderful solution for Mom, as she has been in an enormous amount of pain from the sciatica, although we are all wondering how in the world she is going to get up early enough to get to Seattle by 6am tomorrow (she is NOT a morning person!)
Megan