Sun, 06 Aug 2006

Camps and visits and hardwood floors.
Nate is off at Camp Okizu this week. 6 days. Without mom or dad. By himself. With lots of other kids that have cancer, or are off treatment. Crazy... 6 years old, and off for a week with strangers. Are we nuts? Probably. Okizu is a beautiful place, where kids with cancer hang out with other kids that just "get it". Bald heads don't get stares. Wheelchairs are fine. Steroid puffy cheeks are normal. Where one minute you're shooting arrows at the archery range, and the next you're getting the bandage on your Hickman changed and the lines flushed. It's a special place, run by special people.

Christa headed to Nana & Papa's last Sunday with all the kids. The, Monday morning she drove up to Berry Creek (near Oroville) to drop Nate off at camp. She said not many kids were there yet (the buses hadn't arrived yet), so he got lots of attention from the counselors. Probably a good thing for the transition. Then Christa went back to Nana & Papa's and has been there all week. Tomorrow morning she'll go get Nate and head home. It's about a 4 hr drive from Camp Okizu to home. She's awesome.

Well, last Sunday after Christa left, Rich came over and helped me move our couches and a big cabinet (thanks Rich!). Then, I ripped up the carpet in the living room and down the hallway, and then cleaned out all the tackstrips and staples. Monday a guy showed up and started the work of sanding, repairing, and then refinishing the hardwood floors. They finished on Wednesday, but I haven't moved much back in, because I was being careful of the floors. Take a look!

Now, I've been slowly working on putting it all back together... the dust is crazy, and gets everywhere. But at least the kids were gone while the fumes from the polyurethane dried.

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Good night.

- Greg
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