Day 75

Happy Friday!  Is it a Friday again already?  I truly feel like someone has hit the fast forward button on my life since Joel started Kindergarten.  Where does the time go?  Most of the time I am running around doing mommy errands and it is a lot slower than it was because I am also trying to recover from not one but TWO surgeries last month!
I am always happy when people ask me how I am doing and they do it with a genuine concern for me and not just "how are you" *cue the eyes glazing over as I answer* and then the typical "oh that's great!" Today one of David's co-workers asked how my recovery is going.  So I told him and then he said "oh, well I guess when someone asks you how your recovery is going, they need to be more specific as to WHICH recovery" it was so sweet...and true lol.  But it is nice to know people care about you and ask how you are with a sincerity of heart.  I try so hard to do that these days with others.  Sometimes people really need a "how ARE you"

Tonight David and I headed down to the VIP movie theaters in town.  It was so great to sit in the front row, prop our feet up on ottomans, and order food via a waitress.  Such fun!  The movie was wonderful, the food, as always, was super good, and it was so nice to sit and watch a movie while holding hands with my sweetheart.  Such a nice, peaceful, happy moment at the end of a chaotic day with noisy children.  I swear they are causing me to lose my hearing!  I don't know how people with lots of kids do it! They are my heroes.  I have TWO and I can barely hear myself think these days.  It is so nice to have those happy, QUIET, moments to look back on when I am in the middle of it all.  KNOWING that I WILL have another one (at least when they go to bed) helps me make it through all of the "NOOOOOO!!" time.

Well, my mother-in-law flies back home tomorrow.  What a pleasure it has been to have her here!  We have had so much fun and so appreciated the help she has given us each day.  Not being able to lift Connor AT ALL would have been impossible this week if she hadn't been here to pick him up when he fell down, or put him in a grocery cart, or change his diaper.  Not being able to do those things has made me appreciate BEING able to do them so much more.  Having someone to DO it for me has made me appreciate THEM so much more as well!  Fun, happy, times!  She will be missed by all!

Well my dear readers, it is time for bed, again.  Oh, but first, a little bone stimulation to end my night...gosh that sounds bad, but really, it's a machine to grow my arm I swear!  I will have to take a pic and post it on here, I know some people have asked what it looks like...got to see it to understand.  Have pleasant dreams all!