Where have you been Tanis?

I would like to apologize to everyone, the emails, phone calls, and Facebook messages have been wonderful and encouraging.

So where have I been? As many of you know I got pretty sick in January. That went in to February but finally let go of me. Never under estimate soup and vitamins.  A special thanks to my family for putting up with me during that time and my friend Jeni W. for the chicken soup idea. I also turned... 40. W0w, 40... Anyway, shortly after my birthday I lost my mother. She had been sick for many years. We lost her on February, 14, 2011. It broke my heart, but it was fitting that the sweetest woman I knew died on Valentines Day. I talked to my Mom almost every week (if not every day some months) and I honestly didn't know how much I would miss her. I have tried to call her several times since. I then fall into feeling horrible because I forget she's gone. I went through all sorts of family drama while in Ohio. It followed me home and still seems to be ugly. The Ohio trip is something I'll blog about later. I did get to take Ian, and I really need to thank a lot of my friends who donated money, and transportation, food, places to stay etc etc while we were there. I'll talk about this more later when I blog about that trip. I really missed my wife and youngest son, Logan. To my surprise I missed Washington and Oregon more than I thought. To top off all of this I got a sinus infection while I was in Ohio, and it went on for four days after my return only to lead to... dum dum dum... Pink eye, yeah... Yay me!!! So now that I'm all healed and feeling better I'm back to work doing what I do...

I'll have a new food blog coming tomorrow and I'll post photos from Ohio later this week. Keep posted and tank you everyone...