5+ Days

I have five days to go until surgery...it is coming quickly now...more quickly than I would like!  It occupies most if my waking thoughts.  I've wondered why that is...don't know...just does.  In the meantime I keep plugging along trying to prepare.

For the better part of a week we've had no Internet or cable.  The first day Rich called them and they told him that there was a "node" they were working on but it should be up and running in a few hours.  The next day they said it had to be our modem...Rich responded that if could possibly be our modem but since we don't have cable either it is more likely something other than the modem.  They said they would send someone out on Monday.  Rich told them to make sure they called our cell numbers as our house phone is a voice over ip.  So by Monday night, when they still hadn't come, Rich called again and they told him that they were sorry that they had missed us but that we hadn't responded to their phone calls!  Ugh!  They had been calling the house phone!!!  So they said they would come the next morning...and they did...and they called his cell number.   An hour later, and lots of rescheduling on our part, the tech traced the problem back to the box...someone had disconnected us and connected themselves...no way to know who but it sure was frustrating!  However, we finally have access to the outside world!  Who would have thought we were this dependent on technology!

Over that nearly week, there were lots of things that happened with the kids and I was feeling a little disconnected, to say the least.  And to make matters worse, our cell phones have been more spotty than usual too!

However, Cherstin managed to get through with the news that Abby had been pushed down at a playground.  She continued to fuss about her arm hurting, rather than getting over it like she normally would have, so Cherstin and Dan took her to the dr. office and discovered that she had a broken collar bone.  The brace is helping but it still has been painful.  It wasn't helped yesterday when Ellie and Emmett were jumping on the love seat that Abby was sitting on and Ellie landed on top of her.  Again, ouch!!!

Cherstin is also reporting that baby Lorenzo is a very fussy little guy.  I've asked about the possibility of reflux since Ellie and Hyrum had it but she says he doesn't show the symptoms like they did.  She has thought that it just might be him...but I see from her blog last night, that she is trying a trial dose of Prevacid to see it might help and he has been much less difficult.  Maybe his symptoms are just extreme fussiness.  I hope, in a way, that it is...it is so much easier to handle a fussy little one if you know what the reason is.

Felicia and Tom have graduated from BYU now - they have their MSWs and have met the licensing requirements as well.  Tom's folks were able to go out for their graduation and I just received a very much appreciated note from his mom, Jean, with pictures and a program.  They are now hunting desperately for a job for Tom as Felicia is hoping to stay home with baby Noah and just work part time for her credentials after he's about a year old or so.  Tome has been putting in applications like crazy and, as I write, they are on the road for some interviews.  Tom had a phone interview with a place in Independence, KS last Friday and he will travel there for a face interview next week.  Yesterday he had an interview with the state of Utah down in St. George as a case worker, and from there they traveled to Gilbert, AZ for another one.  Right now it is just a walk of faith and we keep them in our prayers.

Joey and Carlie are continuing to prepare for their big move next month to Monterey, CA.  The kids have piano recitals this weekend and Gideon has a band trip to an amusement park.  It is also the Fathers and Sons outing but Joey knows they will have more of those but this trip for Gideon will be the last big event with friends that have made his time in Ohio so wonderful.  Toni, Carlie's mom, will be arriving there on Saturday.  She is going to be staying with the kids all next week as Joey and Carlie are leaving on a much needed cruise of the Caribbean on Sunday.  I'm so grateful that she is able to do this, even though it is her and Stephan's anniversary that week!  Joey and Carlie will have the opportunity to visit Kevin Smith and his family on the Sunday morning after the cruise and that will be lots if fun.  Kevin was a great friend to Joey in El Centro and even the best man at their wedding.  Three days after they get back from the cruise Carlie is having some surgery to repair  some of the stresses for child birth.  It will only be a couple days later and they will have packers arrive.  It is going to be a crazy few weeks for them.