Day: November 12, 2019

So you know the saying when it rains it pours…?  Let’s start with poor Bumpa, Grandma and Parker hitting a deer while we were still in the hospital. Luckily, they are all fine however the Jeep not so much.  Parker wasn’t fazed and only asked the whole ride home if ‘it was a momma deer’?

Then our dog sitter calls me crying. I thought for sure Mozzie was a gone-er. I was relieved when I found out he hadn’t but immediately felt terrible when she told me she crashed her car into the bay. Guys she didn’t just slide off the road. The roads were black ice and she slid through the stop sign at Center road (a 55 mph road) and went over a small cliff right into the bay! It’s shallow there so the car didn’t sink but she was completely surrounded by water. Terrible! Luckily, she is okay! Again, her car not so much. 

THEN Mimi has had the world’s worst 30 hours of traveling. Started in Tulsa OK. The flight to Chicago got canceled due to weather and a plane sliding off the runway. Then they sent her to DFW which she spent ALL day. Finally made it to Chicago late last night just in time to run to her Traverse connection flight and miss it. Her Uber never showed to take her to her hotel for the night so she caught a cat nap in O’Hare.. A few more delays today and when they were descending into TC they got word that our airport had closed and they went back to Chicago. Probably because of all the snow and white out conditions. Seriously? 

I’ve decided it is to the point of being comical. Any one of the above in one week would’ve been a story all on its own, but all three is just ridiculous. We are choosing to laugh instead of cry and as Devos told us, one day at a time. 

I might drink an extra glass of wine tonight though. 

I’m sure tomorrow will be better. =)

Where to begin. Adjusting to our new home routine has been a bit harder than we expected. On one hand she is actually doing fairly well. No vomiting. No pain. Which is a huge blessing! She has spurts where she wants to play game after game, do art or make brackets. Then she’ll get tired and watch a show or do something on an iPad. Then we will cycle around again and do some more games. We have definitely seen an increased appetite from her meds. This morning she ate a whole box of Mac n cheese (yes for breakfast , I know.. odd for sure) the she had 4 fried eggs. With no yoke.. one at a time. She kept asking for more. A bag of cheese puffs, an egg pizza and lots of snacks. It can be hard to keep up.

What’s hardest is you can just see it in her that she doesn’t feel 100% even though she doesn’t complain. Her belly is swollen, from all the eating I’m sure but also from the steroids. She cries when we make her take her meds (twice a day) and she just seems a little different. She use to wake up around 7 everyday and get dressed. Usually in a dress and legging before she would come out of her room and come find us. Now she rolls out of bed and refuses to get out of pjs. We persuaded her to put on her snow gear today and get a breath of fresh air. We pulled her on the sled and everything. She lasted maybe 10 minute and begged to go back inside. It’s just hard to watch as she use to have so much fire in her.

Then on the other hand we have Parker, a 4 year old boy full of non stop energy. Brad and I are doing our best to give him our attention but we have to divide and conquer a lot. We have a great support group that would love to take him for play dates and I’m sure at some point we will agree. However he was already away from us all last week. We missed him for one but we also don’t want him to feel neglected. As we get adjusted to our new norm we pray for more patience and more energy. 🙂 We will get through this. One day at a time.