This has been a rather eventful week around here. Aunt Tina came over last Sunday night to stay for a couple days and help out. Monday morning, Dan took the kids to school, then Tina stayed here with the other 2 kids and Dan took me to my Surgery. A few hours later we left with me a bit wobbly, my septum straight and some rather uncomfortable plastic things in my nose. I spent the better part of the next few days dozing and getting some work done on my computer. Somehow between Dan and Tina - they managed to juggle taking care of me and the kids.
Tuesday, Dwayne and Nicole and the kids came over to meet with the missionaries again - and after some wonderful conversation, they said that they wanted to be baptized - we are so excited!! This has truly been a wonderful experience and they are such wonderful people!! We have liked them and had a high opinion of them since we first met them, but since moving out here - they have become like family.
Wednesday, my mom flew in and Tina went home. By then - I was mostly taking care of myself - and my mom helped with the kids.
Thursday was a day full of insanity that never happened - Thursday we had dentist appointments, preschool, school, early out days, piano lessons, taking a meal to a friend who just had a baby and parent/teacher conferences. We took the meal over Wednesday night - we managed the dentist appointment - but then the rain (which has started on Wednesday) became a flood which cancelled almost everything else - after that all we had to do was get the kids from school.
Friday, they cancelled school - because of rain - it sounds ridiculous - but half the town couldn't even get out of their own neighborhood - let alone to school - so school was cancelled - and I got to keep 5 kids who hadn't been outside for the last 2 days - at home and inside with me all day..... I had my post op appointment Friday morning - my mom drove around with the kids for the 20 minutes it took to get in, get the plastic things out and get out of there with a clean bill of health. Then we had get the house mostly straightened up for my birthday party that night. After Dan got home - we got the food going and people started showing up - it was a fun party and a fun birthday - great to have so much family and so many friends around (despite the rain) Evie got to open her birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa Cox early so Grandma Cox could be there - and here's our cute little princess. Grandma took the kids to the dollar store to get mommy a birthday present - Aaron got me growing sponge animals (which he promptly found early the next morning - opened in the bathroom and played with) Evie got me a clapper necklace (which she wore all the next day) Anna got me a pack of pencils and Eileen (who had saved up her chore money to get a specific stuffed animal) got Grandma to take her to Hobby Lobby to get her Ginormous Waddles and a little stuffed Giraffe for me - she spent her money to get me something that she thought of as an AWESOME gift - and I adore her for it! The giraffe has since been clipped to my purse to keep her safe and Eileen talks about her all the time. (she did prove useful in church today as an entertainment for James)
On Saturday - just as I was about to run some chores (for the first time alone in a week) it started pouring again - I started out trying to get gas and ended up back home waiting it out - when the rain slowed - I found this while out running at least one of my errands....
and this in our back yard.... it was so bad that our window wells for the basement looked like fish tanks from the inside - Dan had to go out in the pouring rain and divert the water elsewhere and drain the window wells or we would have had a little flood in the downstairs bathroom.
But we weathered the storm and survived so far - hopefully tomorrow will see the end of this crazy-ness (not the end of the rain - just maybe spread out more..... and less flooding) :) It's actually been really nice having a bit more humidity and more moisture for the plants.
And here I am almost a week after surgery and I am mostly back to normal - no plastic in my nose - only the anti-biotics for medication and just a little sore around the nose - but best of all - I can breathe! :)
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Hooray for breathing! And mothers! And aunts! And wonderful kiddos. :)
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