and life goes on and begins again

life has been crazy but I have a resolution to start writing regularly.
so, what's been going on since I last wrote... Not much canning. Baking and cooking yes, and I will gladly share an abysmal failure... Croissants.
I've made them before and they turned out amazing. Just absolutely amazing. Not this time though. They were flat.
seriously flat. They started to rise then boom. Flat. Flatter than a pancake.
Flat.
I don't know what I did to them but there is no way you can call them croissants.
For some reason its not letting me post a pic. Oh well, I tried to share.
since last post we've had a few pretty big things going on.
Bekah moved out, clear to SC. Things didn't work out so she moved home. I missed her and am glad she's home.
Lee had another episode of serious confusion and ended up in the hospital 11 days, then a nursing home for rehab for 11 days. He's much better but still not 100%.
His leukemia is in remission, as far as remission goes for CML. He's having good response to the meds and last genetic testing only showed .0002% of the defective gene causing the leukemia. That is considered remission. We are thrilled. He still has to take chemo meds daily, at least it has minimal side effects.
on to the biggest news yet. I got a new job.
as much as I loved the old one insurance changes made it impossible for me to stay for health reasons.
My new job is AWESOME. I work at a plasma donation center. I do physicals and take care of donor reactions, things like that. It's very busy at times, but that makes the day go fast.
The really negative side of my job is when I tell donors their viral tests came back positive(hep b, c and HIV mainly). It sucks to have to tell someone that.