I went to my third PT appointment. I am now having some pain on the front of my hip in the ligament that connects to my thigh. The doc said it is because the exercises I'm doing are overworking that area, so she overhauled my regimen. I've continued to see slow improvement and I know that if I was more diligent with my twice daily exercises that improvement would be faster. (I can't believe how hard it is to carve out two 10 minutes sessions for myself where I am not needed at all by somebody.) So in all, a good report and I feel good about the progress I've made. I can now weight bare enough on my left leg to be able to put my pants on without sitting or holding the wall. Yay!
For FHE we tried lighting some fireworks. Daniel literally freaked out! We even put earphones on him to see if that would help and that wasn't even enough. He is so sound-sensitive. I made him stay out with me but didn't make him look at or hold a sparkler. I've never seen a kid be so afraid of sparklers!! But then this is the kid who was also scared of the candles on his birthday cake. Poor kid.
Tuesday July 3rd
The morning was spent visiting teaching with my companion, Priscilla. She is moving at the end of this month and I am so sad to see her go. This will be our last month vt'ing together. =( We went out to lunch afterwards. I am going to really miss her. It is friend's like her that have made my life without family nearby bearable. We've celebrated holiday's together and shared so many memories. We've spent countless hours talking in my driveway. I watched her daughter Kiara for the past few years and I just love her family. She is so thoughtful and selfless and such a wonderful mother and example to me. I've never had such a wonderful vt'ing companion and I know it sounds bad but I almost don't want another companion assigned to me. She was the best. ::sigh:: First Jenae, then Nicole and now Priscilla... God must be trying to shake things up by taking away my friends. I wonder what He has in store.
Wednesday July 4th
Independence Day! We had BE-U-T-FUL weather. In the morning I had my friend Nicole's boys, Ethan and Henry, over to play. This was the last little playdate for our boys and they had a grand time together. Ethan and Jacob are only a month apart. Daniel and Henry are only three days apart. Lydia and Sam (not pictured) are only 6 weeks apart. Nicole and I have bonded over having such similarities and going through some of the same things at the same time. We've spent many a Sunday in the mother's lounge, exhausted and completely overwhelmed and found comfort knowing we were both going through the same things. Nicole is also one of my running partners and we will forever be bonded over running our first half marathon's together. Her husband, Dave, has been a great friend to Brent and he is also my birthday buddy (we were both born on October 10, 1980).
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| We will miss you Hardman's! |
Priscilla invited us over to their block party and we had a nice time. Daniel did better than I expected him too and fun was had by all.
Click here to see a slide show of our 4th of July pictures
Thursday July 5th
Summer has arrived in my part of the world so I put up our kiddie pool during the day an the boys had so much fun playing out on the deck. We spent the evening packing the van for camping and preparing our talks.
Lydia also sat in her high chair for the first time. Must she really grow up?!
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| Trying to grab a piece of cantaloupe |
We left to go camping after the kids woke up from their afternoon naps. We went to Mt. Hood National Forest. We stopped for dinner on the way because traffic was terrible, it was getting late. and Lydia had been crying/screaming almost the whole way and our nerves were shot and we needed a break. We stopped at and A&W. Man do they have good root beer! We went on our way again and Lydia continued her scream fest. We scouted out campgrounds and we weren't finding anything open and started getting a little nervous. But the clouds parted and heavenly angels chorused when we pulled into Fish Creek campground (the same one we stayed at with Brent's parents last September) and the only spot available was the exact same spot we stayed at with them. So crazy! We were happy to finally get out and set up camp. The boys had fun climbing some big rocks in our campsite and Lydia was content in the pack-n-play staring at the new surroundings and playing with her toys. We got the tent up and then went for a walk. I put Lydia down for the night while Brent started a fire and we roasted some gigantic marshmallows. We tried to enjoy the moment and sing songs but the boys weren't having it and just wanted to go to bed. So put them to bed too. Lydia had a hard time sleeping and by the time we came into the tent she wasn't going to sleep in the pack-n-play. So I slept with her in my arms and nursed on and off all. night. long.
Saturday July 7th
Lydia was up with the sun and I entertained her as long as I could before everyone finally got up around 7 am. Brent was not too happy to get up that early. But, that's camping with kids. We got a fire going and warmed some water for hot cocoa and had breakfast. Then Lydia went down for her morning nap while Brent took the boys on another walk. They came back and played cards while I tried to rest with Lydia. After only a short 25 minutes a really loud diesel truck rumbled past and woke both of us up. Then the ranger came by and yelled at us for being there. The campsite sign said it was open but apparently on the other side of the card it was reserved. No one had showed up but they told us to leave anyway. So we started to break camp. The boys were being difficult. Then Daniel hurt himself and got a huge blood blister. While I was tending him and all our stuff was scattered around the ranger came back to tell us the people had taken another site and ours was open after all. She apologized and told us we could stay. A little too late don't ya think?! We finally got packed up and drove off just after 11 am. We stopped at a day use area and walked down to the clackamas river to throw rocks in. Brent and I were about had but we figured we'd come that far and wanted to make the most of it. Lydia blessedly fell asleep as soon as we got back in the van and we drove home. I made our sandwiches in the car and fed everybody while we were driving.
We came home and everybody crashed. We took it easy in the evening and finalized our talks. I don't think Brent and I were prepared for how hard this camping trip would be. Makes me wonder if we should even bother going to the ward campout. I love being in nature and away from the city where you can actually see the stars. Listening to the river all night was wonderful and staring into the glowing fire while Brent held me was so nice. Getting a few moments like that almost make all the work worth it.
Sunday July 8th
The morning was nice. The kids were all doing ok. I was still not nervous about my talk but poor Brent could've been on the brink of death. I think God was buoying me up so I could handle everything while he was out of sorts. Brent gets physically ill at times like this. We arrived at church early, sat close to front and braced ourselves for the meeting. My awesome friend Vikki took Lydia while I talked and even got her to sleep (I love you Vikki!). I think our talks went well. I pretty much read mine straight through so my nerves never had a chance to take over. I loved that our topic was so broad. It was Eternal Families. I chose to focus on the sealing power because that's what makes an eternal family even possible. Brent talked on parenting and relationships and did a great job. I like hearing him teach/speak and I wish it wouldn't make him so sick so he'd be comfortable doing it more often. I enjoyed preparing for my talk and finding all the neat quotes and scriptures that I used. The spirit was with me and it felt nice. I liked taking the time to study and prepare. I wish I had the time/ability to study more often.
1 comment:
fireworks were fun, good pictures
geez, you make our camping trip sound awful, it was merely unpleasant
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