Full Week

The latter part of the week went much faster than the first part, that's for sure. Of course, when you are factoring the weekend, it always goes much quicker.
My first week back to work is under my belt. It has been a full week with work and grandpa being in the hospital.

They are running a myriad of tests to try to figure out what is going on with grandpa health-wise. The other hospital's diagnosis of an aneurysm was inaccurate. They have found a tumor in his stomach. They believe it to be a carcinoid cancer tumor. Test results are pending from bloodwork and urinalysis. These are to see how far it has spread in his body. Obviosuly, the hope is that it has not spread everywhere so that they can remove the tumor. If it has spread, they will not remove it, but rather give him a drug to counteract the chemicals that it releases.

We (the girls and I) were finally able to visit this afternoon. He is in an area that is restricted to children. The hospital is pretty large and taking 3 children there alone is pretty daunting when they can't even see him. Well, they asked today and the nurse said we could visit. He was excited and they were excited and there were a few tears from him, but mostly lots of storytelling. The girls LOVE to hear grandpa's stories. The stories go on and on and on. It had been a week since we last saw him which is quite a bit considering they had usually been seeing them both quite often as we would stop over during our daily walks.

My mom has been going back and forth daily as has my uncle (to the hospital). My mom comes back and watches the girls while I work and then goes back to see grandpa and bring grandma home later in the evening each day.

Noelliah is 7 weeks old today. I have no idea where the time has gone! She is so bright eyed and alert and enjoying the world around her. The smiles are so beautiful and delightful and they really make my day! She is settling in nicely to the family and getting used to our go go go routine. She got a lot of attention at the hospital today from people wanting to see her. I saw a mother leaving the hospital leaving the hospital with a new baby and it brought back those emotions again...that thought of it seeming so long ago already and not wanting it to go by so fast. We have tried to savor each day for what it is and September and October were perfect for doing such! There have been endless walks, time enjoying the breezes, many bike rides (with us watching), and lots of snuggling.

Aliyah took a rough tumble on her bike today. They have put that "lovely" rock stuff down on various parts of our street. Some of it is still loose. She caught some of the loose gravel and spilled over completely and fell on her face. Her eye is black on the corner and on the eyelid along with a gash on the corner and scraping all along her cheek. Poor thing. It looks horrible.

Keirah is ever helpful. She enjoys school. She makes sure she does each and every thing in her work and is sure to bring whatever we have not completed yet to my attention so that we can get it done.

Josh just completed another project. He installed a new carriage house garage door. It looks beautiful! I'm really happy with how it dressed up and changed the appearance of the garage. Speaking of Josh, it was 11 years ago today 10/30, that we got engaged! I came home for a quick weekend from college. I flew in to Chicago on Friday night, we arrived home very late and then spent Saturday enjoying the fall weather and leaves (that is very non-existent in Florida--usually). On Saturday evening, we went to dinner and shopping and then to the park where we spent our summers working. It was on one of the docks that overlooks the water (I was worried that he would drop the ring through the spaces between the boards). The next day (Sunday) we showed off the ring to people at church and then left to go to Chicago to take me back for my flight. I remember it so well. It was Halloween so all of the flight attendants and airline workers were dressed up for Halloween. I'm going to imagine that with today's security and restrictions, they are no longer allowed to "dress up" for Halloween anymore. I think we had a Tinkerbell flight attendant. That was the best but quickest trip I ever took considering how far it was! I'm so blessed to have a wonderful husband!!

Well, my checkbook is calling to be balanced and I need to get the girls ready for bed.