Focht Family Blog

I got yelled at because I haven’t been updating our blog. :)

So… not too much to share. Samantha and I are catching up with school work. My mom has Timmy reading the Jane and Dick books. Joshua is still trouble. We have them all in swim classes. They are all enjoying them although they only have one class left.

My mom ended up in the local hospital for two days on IV antibiotics. She had been having stomach pains but was trying to ignore them because she had a visit with the gastroenterologist coming up. She finally decided to go to the ER when the pains started causing her to throw up. Ends up she had diverticulitis and her white blood count was very high from the infection so they felt it would be better for her to get the antibiotics in IVs for 48 hours. She is now out but still has to be on the antibiotics orally for 2 weeks. She is ready for them to be done.

For some weird reason I have started having symptoms of hypoglycemia. Unfortunately no matter how careful I am with my eating, food seems to be an enemy right now. No matter what I eat, it causes me to get dizzy. Now I am having bad headaches. I went to the ER a couple of days ago and they said all my blood was normal and sent me on my way. I have an appointment with a doctor today but I am sure they will do the same.

We are supposed to leave Friday for a short trip. We are going to Stone Mountain for the weekend with Nathan’s parents to do a Christmas thing. We usually go to Calloway, but the displays have been the same for the last few years so we decided to try something different. We are also going to try to drive through the light displays at Lake Lanier while we are up there. Then we will visit my brother Sunday-Wednesday and then we will be back in Statesboro for Thanksgiving.

I will take some pictures while we are at Stone Mountain so I can update again. :)

We arrived in Statesboro on Thursday afternoon. We dropped mom’s trailer off at the RV park and headed to Nathan’s parents house. We called to tell them we had just arrived in Atlanta (sitting in their living room) to find out where they were. They were on their way home from Walmart so we headed out to the driveway to welcome them home. Nathan’s mom was trying to figure out who had an RV like Nathan’s coming down their street until she saw the kids in the driveway. I think she enjoyed the surprise! Samantha stayed the first two nights here with grandma so Samantha is happy. Nathan and Samantha are with his parents at the GSU Homecoming game right now.

I am parked outside of a laundromat because we had a LOT of laundry that needed to be done. Mom is doing the laundry and I just finished scrubbing the RV from back to front. Next we will go get some lunch and then I am going to sign the kids up for swim lessons at Splash in the Boro so they will be ready for warmer weather at the campgrounds that have pools. It is very difficult for me to take the 3 kids swimming because Samantha is the only one who can swim and she isn’t a very strong swimmer. I checked the website this morning and they have a class that runs from 10/29-11/15 so it will be perfect for them. The only bad part is that the class for Josh is for the kids and parents so I will have to get in the pool with him. I have lost a lot of weight since starting the RV lifestyle but I am not to the point that I like being in a bathing suit. :)

We made reservations at the Lake Lanier Islands Resort Campground because we are now members of Passport America which gives you deals on campgrounds. We chose this because it was near my brother’s house and because Sawnee the COE campground that we usually stay at was closed for the season. We drove in and had to pay $8 at the gate to get on the island. It was 10pm so they gave us a map to our sites. We drove up very narrow roads in the dark and the rain looking for the sites. It was very difficult for Nathan to keep the RV and the trailer on the road. We got to the sites and decided to look at them before just pulling in. Good thing!

Mom’s site had an exposed wire box. We thought maybe we could just not hook her up for the night and have them fix it the next morning but then we looked at our site next to hers and there was a large branch hanging low enough on our site that at best it would have scraped the coach up and at worst it would have gone through the windshield. Both combined we decided it wasn’t worth the money even with the discount. We drove back out, I got a refund of the $8 and we stayed at Walmart for the two days we were there visiting my brother. My brother was driving to Alabama on Thursday to take a second look at a bus they were considering buying so we decided to head to the Boro a week early and surprise Nathan’s parents.

Mom and I finally found something we couldn’t do with a 40′ RV as your car. While in Boone, we decided we would go to Linville Caverns and then do some gem mining in Linville. We got on the road that it said to take. We made it to Blowing Rock and then turned onto the road and it said not advisable for vehicles longer than 35′. Thankfully there was a parking lot we could turn around in so we made it back to town, had lunch at Ruby Tuesdays and then went back to where Nathan was working and caught up on school work.

The next day, I cured myself of being bothered by driving a large vehicle. Up till then I only drove the RV with the trailer hooked on when we were on the highways. We decided to check out early and planned to drive to Atlanta once Nathan was done with work for the day so we dropped Nathan off and I drove the RV and the trailer to a shopping center parking lot. We did school that morning, then went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch (kid’s favorite). Then I had to find an immediate med center to take Josh to because the night before Samantha had shut his thumb in the bathroom door. I called his pediatrician and they said to have it x-rayed to make sure it wasn’t broken. I had to find a place to park close to the hospital. It ended up not being broken but the doctor said he would probably lose the nail.

Next Nathan started driving but then had to go to the bathroom. We switched at the last light before the mountains. I ended up driving through the winding mountain roads that were a bit narrow and it was so foggy you could only see about 100 feet in front of you. Needless to say, I am a lot more comfortable with driving the RV and trailer together now! :)

We decided to pick a halfway point for our travels from Indiana to North Carolina so we stayed a couple of nights in Berea, Kentucky. it is about 20 miles from my Aunt Beth. We got into town late on Friday so on Saturday we went into town and had lunch at a very nice restaurant called Boone Tavern and then we went in search of a laundromat and a Walmart. After doing the laundry and restocking the groceries we traveled to my Aunt’s house. My Aunt works in the International Affairs office at the local college and she has two borders living with her. One is from China and one is from Ireland. They were both very nice. We had dinner with them and then went back to the campground. We left relatively early on Sunday and traveled to Boone, North Carolina where we checked into the local KOA. We will be here until Wednesday. I will try to update if we do anything while in Boone.