SO It Begins

So bear with me as I start this silly thing. Life has been crazy around this house for a couple of months. We always start out the new year wishing it was June already and time for vacation. This year was no different especially with Craig, I think that its the hardest for him because he works so many more hours in a week than I do. So the months flew by and as May's end approached Craig told me one more time that we needed to get the kitty in for a checkup. SO here is an overview of what the two weeks leading up to vacation were like in the Plantenga household...

1. Friday May 23: I take Hobbie to the vets office and we find a tumor on his neck that the vet wants to biopsy. We just want it taken off and she assures us that if she can do that she will.


2. Thursday May 29: Hobbie goes in for surgery, I get a phone call about 3 pm from the vet that she can't do anything with the tumor and we need to take him to a kitty surgeon to have it removed. I call Craig in tears and then call Julie who tells me to do the surgery. So I go pick Hobbie up from the vets office, call Julie and ask her who she would recommend(just in case you don't know my sister-in-law is a vet tech in Noblesville), she calls and gets us in with the best kitty surgeon in Indy.


3. Friday May 30: Craig and I drive to Indy to meet with the kitty surgeon, he informs us that he believes that he can remove the tumor and we agree to have him do the surgery. We leave Hobbie at the clinic to await his surgery on Monday. Only one more week until we leave.


4. Monday June 2: Hobbie's surgery goes well, the tumor is more extensive than Dr. Stephan thought but he was able to get the whole thing( in case I didn't mention this before the tumor was on Hobbie's neck). He is out of surgery and doing fine.


5. Tuesday June 3:my wonderful sister-in-law picks Hobbie up from the vet clinic and takes him to her clinic where Hobbie will be residing while we are on vacation so that he being looked after while we are gone incase something should happen. (God Bless the staff at Parkside Animal Hospital in Noblesville.)


6. Wednesday June 4: Craig, Keagan and I drive down and visit with Hobbie for a little while before we leave. He looked so pitiful but at least he is still alive and starting to do a little better.


7. Thursday June 5: Gearing up to leave tomorrow... I am getting off around 2 to finish last minute vacation things. I get a phone call at work...my grandpa just passed away somewhat unexpectedly. Can I just say at this point I just wanted to crawl into a hole and scream my head off. So I leave work...go pick up Keagan from daycare, I had to wake him up and the poor guy was just so confused, and I drive up to my grandma's house in DeMotte. I spent a couple hours up there with my family before going home to get ready to go on vacation. Parts of me now wish that I would have stayed for his funeral but I didn't and will regret that. I will miss him very much.


8. So onward... Friday June 6: We leave for Minnesota about 7:30 am with my Inlaws. We just happen to meet up with Julie and Kyle on the road in Illinois. During our first stop Steve(my father-in-law) has a flat tire so they change it and we get back on the road. Then the other tire blows out while driving 70 mph on the interstate. No damage done. We finally make it to our hotel for the night. The rest of the trip was good.


9. June 7-20: We had a great vacation. Keagan liked fishing and especially likes playing on the beach with daddy, Kaleb, Korey and uncle Kyle.

You know for a while I thought that I was doomed.