Saturday, February 13, 2010

First Week Solo

It's been just over 4 weeks since my surgery and life is looking bright. Jason's dad went home last Sunday morning, so it's just been me to take care of the kids and house. We made it! I've done laundry, cleaned floors, done the shopping, continued my volunteer work at school and managed a sick boy. It feels good to be getting back to myself.

In 2 more weeks, I can resume all my normal activities. The thing I want to do the most is hold Hayden. He's been great knowing I can't hold him yet, but he really wants me too. My stomach doesn't hurt as much as it did, nor are the muscles as tight, but the incision site is still healing and can be uncomfortable at times. Have I mentioned the incision? It's huge, like 18+ inches, from hip bone to hip bone. It'll take a lot of time, but it is supposed to fade and be less angry looking.

To make my first solo week challenging, Hayden has been sick with a nasty cold. He's been home from school most of the week. Jason, Anna and I have managed to get variations of his cold, and little Miss Syd Syd has escaped. I don't know how she does it, but she doesn't seem to get sick as much as we do.

My work at school is picking up too. I'm VP of Fundraising this year. We just finished our 1st ever cookie dough sale. Distribution was challenging with a 15 pound weight limit! I had a couple of people to help me which was nice. Now we are moving on to CAMP SPRINGETTI! This is our spring fundraiser which is on my birthday this year, April 9th. It's a great family event with auctions, raffles, store, bingo, children's tent and dinner. I'm really excited about it. We've been working on it since October. I've been working on solicitation since December and we've already had 75 items donated. It takes hundreds of donations to make this work, so we still have a way to go.

I want to thank everyone for their support and prayers over the last month. Our family is getting back to normal which is wonderful.

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