Biggest Fool

Happy April Fool's Day, Readers.  Also, Happy Passover!  And, welcome April.

We had a good one here, today.

My sister's family was over for dinner this afternoon, like we do often on Sundays, and they got to enjoy our big April Fool's gag along with the rest of us.

Post-Op

Hello Readers!  I wanted to just quickly post to let you know that S's oral surgery went well today.  She has a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards, but she's been a real trooper today.  I'm so impressed with her.  She's doing a good job resting up per doctor's orders.

Some Updates & Stuff

First of all, I have to share with you a cute homeschooling story because I've waited two days for an opportunity to blog it and finally, here I am.

For our 7-year-olds, who are just in the beginnings of learning to read, we do a "Word of the Day" most days.  These are service/sight words that come from the Dolch word lists.  The other day, our word was: at.

When we introduce the word of the day, I try to get them to sound it out (some of them are hard to sound out like "the" and are better memorized) and then we play a rhyming game with the word before having them each create a complete sentence (verbally) using the word.

So on the at-day, they listed off some obvious rhyming words: hat, mat, cat, rat... and then I gave them some clues for a few more.

First Win

Just wanted to give a shout out to our son, H, and his flag-football team.  They had their first win of the season and what an exciting game it was!!  They were looking great and really working together as a team.  It was so fun to be a spectator.

This is only game three, so there is a lot of season left to play.  I continue to hope and pray the team does well and stays safe out there on the field.

Z has been helping at practice and he and the coach's son cracked heads the other day and unfortunately, while Z walked away with a gash on his eyelid, the other boy had a mild concussion.  So who says flag-football isn't dangerous?!  I'm praying for fast healing for the other kid; the team needs him back out there!

Go Team!!

Scheduled P.T.

Still in a good amount of pain (if any amount is "good"), but I scheduled my first Physical Therapy appointment.  They can't see me until April 12th.  I was really sort of hoping by that point, my back wouldn't need their help!!  I can hardly imagine having this pain pretty much continually till then.

Thanks to God for Tylenol.  That's all I have to rely on right now -- that and Him.  Some muscle relaxers for night time, too, I guess.  But they're not helping me at all during the day.  That's when I need my back most.

Prayers for healing are appreciated mucho.

Wacky Wednesday

Z and I got up early to get him down to the orthodontist appointment this morning.  As we turned out of our street onto the main road through our neighborhood, Z suddenly said, "I don't remember the last time I stepped in gum."

I asked, "What made you think about that?"

He said, "My shoes."

Healthier Options: Denny's and IHOP

I have never been a big Denny's or IHOP fan, except that here (and maybe everywhere), they feature Kids Eat Free times or days and the kids like those places, so we do find ourselves there from time to time.  In the past week, we found ourselves at each place once.

Kiss of Silence

For the first time in a long time, between shuttling kids around to various activities today, C and I found ourselves in our home by ourselves for a brief moment.  It was strange and wonderful all at once.  We shared a single kiss to commemorate the moment.

Tooth-y

Just putting a little request out there for prayers for two of our kids who have some teeth stuff coming up this month.

Field Trip: Petroglyph National Monument

Sunday afternoon, the weather was just so perfect (sunny, high-50s and no wind), I was desperate to get outside and do something new and fun.  C had a whole plan to do some baking (bagels and banana muffins), so I offered to take some of the kids (who wanted to go) to burn some energy so he could focus on the baking.  Three of our kids went (S, Z and J) and our three oldest nieces came along.  The seven of us (including me) visited the Petroglyph National Monument right here in Albuquerque for the first time.