Beth had a very successful soup sale in her first show of the season yesterday. It was at a little craft fair in the basement of the Brethren church in town, and one she only found out about a couple weeks ago. So she’s been working diligently to get a good dozen soups of each kind ready to be on hand for the show. And it was a very good show, even better than we were expecting. She sold around $500 worth of soups. Natalie helped her out for pretty much the entire time. She had a pot of soala and a pot of calico bean soup for tastes, so those both sold really well. I thought about trying to get Mom over there to check out the show, thought she might like that, but in the end decided not to. She has been fighting that UTI all week now, been very agitated and delusional. She was refusing to take her antibiotic pills, saying she doesn't need them, and the staff there has called me over a couple times because they can't get her to take them. I came over a few days ago and made her take them, but she threw them up soon afterwards, and was asking why I'm doing this to her. She wants to go see her grandma and is talking to “Mary” in the mirror. And she lately won’t leave her room. She seems to be taking the antibiotic pills now though, as long as they tell her it’s her thyroid medication.

This past week was of course Halloween. Again this year, Alex chose not to go out. Missy didn’t either, but she did go to her friend Abby’s house while Abby’s younger siblings went out. Natalie was planning to go to the Dells to meet her half-sister and her nephew to go around with them. She did colorful zombie makeup and Beth took her there, but they never met up with her. I think she was disappointed but tried to hide it by saying she wasn’t really expecting her to show up.

And this week the check engine light in the van came on! Woo hoo. Like I need this right now. I took it in to Ab & Tom’s and they had it all day but couldn’t tell exactly what was causing it. It was an evap/emissions code, but that can be from a lot of things. But they did a smoke test and find some leakage, and several other things that may be wrong with it now or soon enough. I’m going to bring it in again next week.