A week in review

Sorry about the lack of posts. Frankly I felt pretty crummy.

While we were on vacation I decided I needed to get a toothache and require a root Canal. I haven't had or needed a root canal ( that I can remember any way) since my mission and I was required by insurance to drive to Michigan. While I would have driven to Michigan I was glad that my dentist is a pretty cool guy and got me right when we got home.

Thursday morning of last week they had me start on antibiotics and take some pain meds and schedule a root canal for Tuesday morning.

Monday kinda came and went and given that it was MLK day Dallas had off and I was able to sleep. Tuesday was more than eventful and very high strung and emotional and frustrating and any other word you want to associate with those and I was in the dentist chair where I enjoyed our new presidents speech while inhaling gas.

Wednesday was a normal day but I apparently can't read the schedule at work and was planning to go in and work all day/afternoon and had a sitter all lined up and I got the day wrong. Yep. I was suppose to work all day on TUESDAY! Oh well. It guess it is life.

Thursday we were able to set up Ty's new speech and we are now going to be attending the same therapy location for all 4 of his therapists. As the mom I am so excited. I can't explain to you how glad I am that we don't have to go to the "other" place. It gave me anxiety the whole time and I would worry about it all week.

Thursday after therapy we got home and we found D home. He hadn't had a good night and so he decided to stay home. He is trying out some new meds and with some family emotional worry going on he just wasn't himself. So we spent the afternoon enjoying Tyler, laying in bed and playing. It was the most fun we have had in awhile.

Favorite part of the day... Tyler learning to blow raspberries on my slim and trim physique. He couldn't quite get it at first then he would start blowing them BEFORE he got to my belly. We all laughed hard.

These are the moments....
"... recognize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: “The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” (Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11)." M. Russell Ballard