This week kicked off with some devastating news from Italy. Kylie found out that the process for getting a passport and Visa right now is much longer than previously anticipated. She has been in close contact with someone at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) to make sure she has all her paperwork in order and brings what she needs to her appointment in the United States this coming week. It was through this communication that she found out how slow everything is going right now.  Basically, she is living illegally in Italy right now ( NOT on purpose - and covid certainly contributed to her getting stuck over there!), and needs to get her paperwork completed in order to appease all the European Border gods. All roads begin with Kylie getting a government issued passport, which can take from 4-10 weeks, and in some cases up to 12 weeks. Once she has that document back, it will get sent off with her Visa application. That could take up to another 12 weeks before she gets those two critical docum

My sweetheart has been in excruciating pain for the past week. The culprit: sciatica. What an evil and conniving ride it has been for him, too.  We went up to Rigby on Monday so that Scott's dad could give him a priesthood blessing to help with the pain and discomfort. We think it all started as we came home from Washington DC a couple weeks ago. His lower back was achy and cranky for several days, in spite of him exercising daily by bicycling and running. About a week ago, it got really bad in his left buttock/hip area, and then it's been a shooting-down-the-entire-leg sort of pain ever since.  We looked online to find home remedies and Scott faithfully tried almost every single one. He did all kinds of stretches to relieve the pinched nerve, he used heat, ice, took warm baths, cold baths, took ibuprofen, used essential oils (at my insisting), and we even used our massage drill. He went to the chiropractor, but couldn't get in to a physical therapist until this coming Mond