I mentioned my mom’s hometown in my last post. I’m not sure I mentioned how small it is. She graduated wtih 55 people in her class. The town has one caution light. You know a town is small when there is a “the” in front of everything. As in, when we stopped to visit Pap today and he wasn’t there, Mom says, “Let’s go to the restaurant and see if he’s in there.” There are a lot of “thes”. The bank. The post office. The dollar store. The school. The light. The train tracks. And my personal favorite from today…my mom asks my grandfather where someone lived and he says, “Down the road.”
friends and/or family
Meme’s house
Today our family had quite an overwhelming moment. Let me tell you about it. [Read more…] about Meme’s house
The view from 40 something inches
Emma has always liked to take pictures with my camera. I’ve realized she’s actually progressed. It all started when she was around 2 and the pictures were all fuzzy and seem to be a result of Emma just being curious and pushing the button in her face.
Dr Visits and Board Meetings
I was feeling better today than yesterday yet still worn out. Pretty normal day today. Two things worthy of note though.
Scott was SO anxious to get back to work that he called his dr this morning to get his visit moved up from this Thursday to today. So at his appt at 11:45 today, he was officially released to return to work. Not even 3 weeks after his surgery. He just can not stand pushing papers in the office. Something really worthy to note though is the fact the dr mentioned that this is considered a loss and he will probably be compensated for it. Knock on wood but that could be cool.
In other somewhat noteworthy news, Scott had his first board meeting with the girls preschool. He was asked this year to be on the Board of Directors. That sounds so funny. But that’s not the news. He spoke with the preschool director and said Lexi was a ham during school pictures today. In fact, I think she said she was like a mini Ms. Hollywood. Which is fabulous. Because last year’s fall pictures, you can tell she had been crying a bit. Hopefully these will turn out really good. I just thought it was funny that someone else noticed that she seems to be coming out of her shell in front of people, especially in front of a camera and/or crowds. As I’ve said before..as long as I don’t see S e x y L e x i in neon lights one day…
Oh and on a side note, I went to the dentist this morning and no cavities, yay!
Do ya think we look alike??
Update on Mom
Mom is doing good so far. She came home from the hospital today. She was a little groggy when we went last night. We had a nice visit though. She had bought the girls toys the other day and had brought them to the hospital so the girls played with those. We ate dinner at the hospital with Dad. For some reason, we all looked forward to eating at the cafeteria there. Everything was salt-free but besides that, it was pretty good.
OK, seeing this post has reverted to such boring things as salt-free hospital food, I’ll move on.
Mom’s surgery
I’m sure this will affect quite a few things in the coming weeks and months so I’m reporting now my mom had a hysterectomy today. I’m not really sure what to expect. They don’t really go over this type of thing in s-e-x ed in middle school. From my understanding of it, we may see some emotional effects–as if she didn’t already have enough. Am I clueless on this process?? I know her physical recoup is less than 2 weeks so that is good news.
Dad called me this morning on the way back from taking the kids to school and said everything had gone fine. We are headed up there when I’m done working to see her.
This morning I was ironing Emma’s skirt before school and I remembered Mom’s surgery. The girls were in the kitchen with me so I grabbed their hands and said, let’s pray real quick for Grandma’s surgery. I said a quick two sentence prayer for Mom and the doctors and Emma says with a smirk/giggle, “We don’t pray now, we pray at night.” I corrected and said, “No, you can pray anytime. God likes it when you pray.” Made me think twice about what I’ve taught her about prayer. The last thing I want it to be is a task on her to-do list at night.
I do know her Sunday School class prays every week and several times she has told us she asked for prayer when one of us was sick or when Scott was going out of town so I know she understands it. I just hope I can relay the verse:
Ephesians 6:18 Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere.
Country talk
I’ve been paying attention to how Southern my little girls and even husband talk. Here are a few that I can recall. I’ve tried to re-spell how they say it.
carntubull – comfortable. As in, “I can’t get carntubull”
stale – still. As in, “Be stale!”
dihent – didn’t. As in, “I dihent do it!”
wahent – wasn’t. As in, “It wahent me!”