Ups and Downs

Well, instead of going to Indianapolis today for my father-in-law's surgery, I am writing on here. Meaning we don't have to go. Meaning he is doing phenomonally well, and has no need for the surgery after all. Meaning her no longer has need of daily home health care, which frees up an hour or more of my days.

However, my husband has been quite sick the past week and a half, and I've been worried about him. He is doing better, though, and all should be well.

C is LOVING her new softball team. The coaches are SUCH an improvement over her previous year, and she now has FUN again. She will be playing shortstop, and filling in as pitcher, as her wrist permits.

But E's coach...ugh. This one takes second place for worst coaches my girls have ever had. E will be pitching, though, which is great. E is taking this week off practice, due to a nasty bike wreck, which left her with no skin at all on a 2 inch section of her knee.

We haven't done a lick of school in over a month. For the first time ever. And I have to admit it's kind of nice.

April, C, and E bought me the Wii Fit Plus for Mother's Day, which I've been wanting for several years, but never thought to actually buy for myself. I am REALLY liking it, and haven't skipped a single day yet. The girls also enjoy it. Who says video games are unhealthy? Just depends on which games. C also actually wrote me an ESSAY, instead of a card for Mother's Day, about a mother dog we used to have. I was shocked, as this was her SECOND piece of writing she has done on her own, without it being assigned by me. And E wrote me the sweetest card. : )

April had her 21st birthday. Due to her pregnancy, we obviously didn't spend it in the typical 21st birthday style of going out to a bar...instead she requested board games and a badmitton set, and we played badmitton and board games all day. And ate....I would like to put in writing that this young woman ate my WHOLE BOX of Rice Krispie treats in under 5 minutes, yet she hasn't gained a pound yet. She is in her 4th month, and is showing, but weighs just the same as always. LOL And she never got morning sickness at ALL.

I'm probably forgetting lots here, but these are the highlights. Thank you, reader, for the tip on getting this to post in paragraphs...let's see if it works.

Well, it APPEARS I can no longer make paragraphs : (

I had that last post nicely organized into easy-to-read paragraphs, but apparently Blogger wants it to publish in one big, hard-to-read BLOB. Sorry about that...

How are we so busy when we've FINISHED the School Year??

Well, let's see. In the past 4 weeks since I've posted C and E have both completed their school year. One would, naturally, assume that freed up a lot of time for all of us. I suppose it DID....but there have been so many other things going on that I'm more busy than ever, and I'm just thankful that schoolwork was completed just in time for me to be able to get to all the other stuff. My father in law has been hospitalized and had one surgery, and he is looking at another surgery in 3 weeks. In the interim, he is needing a little home health help, and since I live only 6 houses away from him, and have nursing experience, I've been going down there an hour or so each morning. The girls may be officially "done" with their school year, but we are never DONE. I intend to work a day or two each week with E through out the summer. I also signed the girls up for "College for Kids" at our local community college. They will each be taking 3 classes, which I will hopefully write about in a seperate post. Softball season has also begun. C has practices every M,W, and F evening, and E has practice every T and Th. In other words...every single weekday evening we have to rush around figuring out supper and bath schedules. It's also that time again...time for mowing and yardwork. I DID buy a new little push mower, and it makes a wonderful difference. I finish in half the time it took me the past 2 years, AND I have emphatically decided that my knees and legs (and time constraints) can simply not handle mowing and keeping up with TWO yards, and my son-in-law has taken over doing my husband's yard. Praise the Lord, because it was REALLY hard on me physically. April had 2 more doctor's appointments. She and the baby are both doing well. She has not had ANY morning sickness; her only complaint had been being extremely tired and sleeping all the time. She is getting past that phase now, and beginning to "show" a little. The girls and I (mainly the girls) have also been helping an elderly neighbor with her two cats that BOTH just had kittens. We've provided all the litter, food, and supplies, plus the girls clean the litter boxes, feed and water the cats, and sweep for this woman. We have taken one of the cats and her kittens in to the animal shelter we work at, and will soon be taking the second mother and litter in. We will be getting the mother cats spayed as soon as the kittens are all weaned. Between elderly neighbors, elderly father in laws, pregnant daughter and pregnant, nursing cats, plus the yardwork and hectic softball schedule, not to mention my normal chores and pet care at my own house, I have barely seen my poor husband. Some days, I have literally not seen him at ALL. Tomorrow we are leaving at 7 a.m. to go to the Indianapolis Zoo, and won't be home until probably around 8 p.m. April requested that for her 21st birthday present. I pray the weather isn't too awfully hot, and that my poor aching legs hold out, and that we can all just have a fun, safe day. That's life in a nutshell....