Sssshhhh....it's secret

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been out of town.

Now don't tell anyone...cause it's apparently a big secret. My mother's older sister knows but not her mother, younger sister or anyone in my father's family cause they just didn't want anyone to know. Although everyone my father works with and anyone else my mother speaks to on a regular basis knows. I've found it's best not to question the logic of these kinds of decisions at the time but to focus of what really needs to be done.

But now enough time has passed and I've decided to blow the big secret. I was out of town because I was staying with my parents. My father had triple bypass surgery and someone needed to stay home with him 24/7 for the first week he was home. Since, I can really do my job from anywhere I made plans to be there. My hubby took off work and stayed home with the kidos and I went out to Ohio. Oh, did I mention that this was also the week the kids were home on spring break. Hubby loves me for that one.

Dad is doing well. Fortunately, this was all caught in a check up, so there was no heart damage but there is the recovery of general heart surgery. Dad is a trooper. However, he was trying to get up and around on his own the second day home from the hospital, scaring me to death because he was still a bit wobbly at that point. But my family is a fiercely independent bunch, so being dependent on someone else for anything is quite annoying to them. Also, I was sitting out in the dining room working at the time and he didn't want to interupt my work. Now you know where I get my work ethic from too. It's just proof that I come by stubborness and workaholic tendencies naturally.

P.S. For those who are wondering, no I did not go visit my grandmother while I was out in Ohio. Since no one could know why I was in town I couldn't go visiting without blowing the secret. Yes, I'm a wimp.