It's been a very hard year for us, full of trials and challenges. Then, Grandpa Den (my father-in-law who we saved from cancer two years ago) passed away right after Thanksgiving. 

As some of you might remember, my family and I moved two years ago to care for my father-in-law, Den, who had cancer (read more about our mission to Save Our Dad).

Since so many of my friends here are fellow bookworms, I thought I should share this: Amazon is giving a $5 ebook credit to select customers, no strings attached!

I was honestly terrified to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi. As I said when The Force Awakens came out, I've been a Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember, and I also love the books. I was really upset when Disney announced that the existing Star Wars books wouldn't be cannon. So many great characters and stories... But that's a whole other blog post. 

During the Atlas Fire, our family had to evacuate. Our house wasn't in danger, but the air quality here in Fairfield, CA was so bad that ​we had to  evacuate the members of our family who are high risk for respiratory complications.

We went to our church's Halloween party last night and manned the facepainting table.

No, this isn't a scam. And before you ask, I'm not getting paid for this. I just want to be sure you guys get your free movies too!

I got an email from Disney Movies Anywhere today, saying that they were discontinuing their service, but that from now on, I could access the digital copies of my movies from Movies Anywhere. To be frank, I was a bit annoyed. I don't even know how many services all my digital movie copies go through, but trying to keep track of them stinks. But, not wanting to lose track of my Disney digital copies, I decided to jump through their hoops (which ended up not being too bad). Glad I did, because it got me 5 free movies!

We had an epic girl's night yesterday! 

Our weekend took an unexpected turn when this little dog ran into the middle of a busy street. 

There have been lots of good and bad things happening in the month or so since I updated you (read the first post in this series here). But mostly, life has just been crazy weird. I know what you're thinking, when is my life NOT crazy or weird...and you're right. It's always one, the other, or both. This is just crazier and weirder, I guess.

Let's start with the good news. With the new diet plan, I lost 15 pounds in three weeks. Hooray! Also, my anemia is officially gone (but my iron levels are still low so we've gotta keep doing IV iron).