I've missed posting things because I've been SICK for the last week! Life is not fun when one is sick! Dad wasn't doing to well either! Remember the post about Roosevelt and all the work we did there? Well, Dad had gotten a sliver in his finger and at the time we didn't think much of it. I thought I pulled something out and he was back working. We got home and he had a house to wire, but his finger was still hurting and thinking something was still in there, he would dig around on his finger every night. By Friday it was so swollen and hurting him so bad he came home from work early. I wanted to take him to the Dr. then, but he just wanted to rest it and soak it some more. Sat. we woke up to snow, and we had a funeral to attend, but after we headed to Show Low to the Urgent Care. They x-rayed it, found a little tiny piece of 'something' about an inch away from where he'd been digging! They 'deadened' his poor, swollen, red and intensely painful finger and began digging some more. It was awful to watch, they made the hole bigger and removed more flesh, trying to make a 'pathway' for the object to find its way out. Poor Dad, he was in so much pain, the pain Rx helped, but not a lot. He just finished the antibiotic, but his finger still hurts and is still swollen!
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| So after 3 weeks, its still bandaged and painful. Lesson learned: Get the sliver out while you can! Before you have to spend $200, before it swells up to 3 times its original size, before you can't work for a month!! |
So while Dad was home taking care of his finger, I headed to Mesa to watch Bret & Becki's kids while they took a vacation to the Cayman Islands for a week. We didn't do a whole lot because they were all sick part of the time. Because I NEVER get sick, I wasn't to worried about getting sick, but I should've been!
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| Bath time was fun as long as there were LOTS of bubbles! |
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Dempsey is such a little sweetie, she's a love bug and an adorable
little baby girl. |
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It was fun making Valentine's with them. London
is such a little character! She was good to help her
Gma find where everything was kept. |
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| This is "Fence". He is also a character. In the evenings after the kids were in bed, he'd come sit on the sofa with me and wait for his brushing. |
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| On an early release day, we all headed to the park. It was sunny and warm and they were all feeling good. I was pushing Dempsey in her stroller, London was on her little bike and Kingston was walking. About 1/2 block from the park Kingston heard the sounds of boys playing, and he started running. He ran right down to where this group of boys had a game going. It was something with guns and zombies. See the little boy in the red shirt and white shorts? He turned out to be 'my answer to prayers'! |
London just rode around on her little bike, there was a couple of little girls there, but she could care less if they played with her!
Dempsey was just happy following her big sis around!
Kingston followed the gang of boys around for awhile with no one taking much notice of him. He wanted to play with them so bad, I just kept saying a little prayer that one of those boys would ask him to play. Later, when I looked down to where they all were I noticed one little boy was talking to Kingston. He had his arm around him and he was handing him a gun! I just sat there on that park bench and cried, so thankful that there was a boy in that group who had noticed another little boy who wanted to join in the fun.
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On Valentine's Day -LaVerl sent me flowers and chocolate!
What a surprise! I looked out on the porch and there was a box
for me! Inside were these beautiful daisies, my favorite flower and a little box of really yummy chocolates! I think LaVerl was missing me! |
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