Day 343, Year 10: Home for the Weekend
Date: Friday, September 18, 2015
Weather: Beautiful Summer Weather
Location: Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, MA
Mark’s home for the weekend—hurrah, hurray, woohoo, yay, yippee! I love Windbird, but she is just not the same without her captain. And the Hope Lodge is nice, but it is not home. Tomorrow is soccer morning. First Sam plays at 10:30 and then Jonah at 12 noon. And, of course, they don’t play at the same field. There is also a PTO sponsored school carnival at Sam and Jonah’s school and Heather has to be there manning some of the booths. I guess that her reward for being a PTO officer. So we will help with the soccer shuffle and watch Ollie while doing that. After the soccer games, Jed heads to Maine for a couple of days to help his mother close down the summer house and I think the boys will come home with us and spend the night on Windbird. That will leave Heather with a little well-deserved time to herself. We have thought about going to Newport on Sunday to the Boat Show, but I’m not sure we have the energy. We might just stay right here on the boat and on the beach with the boys and enjoy these glorious last days of summer. It is still in the 70’s and 80’s during the day and in the 60’s at night—a lot warmer than usual. But it looks like starting on Sunday, the temperature will start slowly dropping. Wednesday is the first day of fall, so I guess the drop in temperature is coming right on cue.
I once again spent my day in Heather and Jed’s kitchen. Today I was canning the mineral broth and chicken noodle soup I made yesterday. The oral chemo drug that Mark is on is affecting him more than he remembers it did during the first round of radiation in the spring of 2014. This time his stomach is just not settled and on many days, soup is all he wants for lunch. Thus, the canning/freezing of chicken noodle soup for him to take with him to Boston. I canned some and froze some so I can compare and see which is best. I barely finished in time to head to Boston to pick him up. He took the T out of town to Quincy where I picked him up. There is always a lot of traffic at rush hour on Fridays, but there was more traffic leaving the Cape than I expected. Mark will be here until Monday morning when I will take him back. At the end of this coming week, he’ll be half-way through the radiation treatments. Another big HURRAY.
