Best Wishes for your mom today, Amy.
Sorry, I've been MIA........I'll be MIA a lot in the coming weeks. Not that you guys will have any trouble carrying on without me.
The last week & a half has been a blur and I just realized I missed the entire thread last week.
My mom fell on Thurs (the 24th) and shattered her foot. So I had to cancel Gabe's party (on his bday) since I was running to the hospital so much. My mom was a basketcase - she is ridiculously claustrophobic and being in a cast only sets that off to another level.
So I've been spending countless hours at the hospital, tanks of gas driving between here, my mom's house (cleaning, picking stuff up, etc) and going to the hospital. Just about every spare minute has been spent making Gabe's bday feel special. He's having the world's longest bday, but it's important to me since everything went so crazy just 2 days before his special day. His actual bday was really nice (lots of presents, good food, lots of play time outside, etc), just not quite as much fun (aka party) as I would have liked.
In fact, we had a beautiful day at the zoo on Saturday to make up for his actual bday being a little less than perfect. I'm so glad this was a nice weekend. I needed it since I finally didn't have to spend quite so many hours with my mom (she's in rehab now preparing for surgery, so she's too busy all day for visitors).
We are unsure of how her surgery, rehab, etc will pan out. But we know at some point in time she'll be here for awhile so I can take care of her. Probably for a week or so prior to surgery and for a couple weeks after she's done with rehab.
So obviously, with playing nurse, hospital visits, taking care of TWO houses, and spending lots of quality time with the kids to make up for the craziness, my computer time will be vary scarce. In fact, I'm typing all of this out as I wait for confirmation numbers as I pay all my bills online. It's taken close to an hour to type this.
I know we have a few bdays coming up in the next few weeks......so happy bdays all the way around. And a special
to Bryce.....Gabe's blonde-haired, blue-eyed bday buddy. I certainly didn't forget, just had all this other stuff going on.