#1482-1521 of the Gifts the Lord just Keeps Giving
- Aeralind inviting me to play "tickle tickle tickle"
- Two tired sick babies giggling on the bean bag chair
- Girl sleeping the early evening through so I could work on stuff
- Figuring out how to use a Concordance and Greek-Enlish Lexicon
- A & B falling asleep for the 2nd time after Tylenol in our bed snuggled warm
- Derek takin a half-day to go to the ENT with me
- Being celebrities at the ENT because the Dr.'s wife's name is Bronwyn too
- Getting the go-ahead for tubes
- Asking- half joking- if we could do tubes tommorrow
- Being told yes!
- Bronwyn- feverish- taking a long afternoon nap
- Aeralind snuggling with me and playing with her food
- Aeralind and Daddy Jedi-mind tickling each other
- Derek running out to a scratch and dent store to look for washers.
- finding some cheap ones
- Derek gaining the nickname "Rice Man" at our Trader Joes. We buy rice milk 2 cases at a time: enough for 1 whole month.
- The "rice man" bringing home sushi for me!
- Both girls asleep on either side of me when Derek came home. That hasn't happend since before they could roll.
- Soft breathing in the dark.
- Joy found- even in the hardships
- Girls so shocked by leaving the house in the dark that they were no upset by having no food or drink
- Chicken biscuits eaten in the car.
- Laughter when we arrived at teh wrong surgery center
- More laughter as Aeralind, my easy-going child, started screaming everytime she saw the nurse who put on her pulse oximeter and chest wires.
- Aeralind snuggling right up to the anesthesiologist as he carried her to and from the OR
- Bronwyn begging to be held by Dr. Green and all of us laughing at the way Bronwyn's just love him.
- Both girls coming through anesthesia/surgery fine.
- Finally leaving the surgery center!
- Moments after arriving hom seeing a car pull in the driveway and it being my sweet high school friend Heather. I totally forgot she was comming.
- Little girls returning ot normal and showing off with squeals and the stealing of each others' food
- Playing with playdough with Heather and the girls
- Hearing about Heather's life
- Seing Bronwyn play after two day of listless fevers
- Getting in a 20 minute nap before the girls woke up from theirs
- Snugggling with two screaming girls for an hour in my bed
- Tylenol
- Little girls begging for and receiving some of my salmon cake.
- Salmon cakes- mostly dairy free babies have to get their calcium from somwhere and they love salmon cakes (and broccoli!)
- Girls sitting on adult chairs eating snacks (they love it!)
- Little girls holding dolls by the hands and dragging lawn mowers behind them. These truly are girls after my own heart.
- Studying Beauty with Julia
2 comments:
So happy to hear of a successful, safe surgery! I hope your girls continue to feel better and better! My brother had tubes put in when he was little and it made a world of difference!
Wow, sounds like you have a lot going on! Traveling in blogland today, happy to be here...
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