February 16, 2017

Today has been SUCH a busy day.  Lance had an ENT appointment to check his ear tubes.  It's been a year since they took my little crying baby out of my arms and into surgery.  After about six months of constant sickness, he has had a really good year with his ear tubes.  We saw Dr. Gardner, an ENT who specializes in facial plastics, and a close colleague of Greg's.  Whenever Greg performs a massive skin cancer removal off of someone's face, one that was much larger than expected, he sends his patients to Dr. Gardner for repair.  Greg and Dr. Gardner share a lot of work, and it was Dr. Gardner who fit Lance in last year for his surgery.

So, after checking Lance's ears, he asked me if there was anything else he could do for me.  I said no, but just casually mentioned that I would be bringing Austin in to see him.  Austin has now been on allergy medicine and his inhaler for about ten days.  His nose has continued to run, and his breathing has actually gotten even more ragged.  Now, I'm wondering about his tonsils and adenoids.  Dr. Gardner started asking me about Austin and by the time I left, he had given me a sample of nose spray and a prescription for Austin.  He had to hand write the prescription because Austin isn't even his patient!  I thought that was really, really nice of him.  I came right home and told Greg, if there is ever a time you can do a favor for Dr. Gardner, please be sure to do one for me.

Dinner was an interesting affair this evening.  I made spaghetti, but I had to deliver to different members of my family at different places and times.  There was never a moment when we were all home.  Greg coached Julia in a basketball game.  Emma had track.  Greg took the boys to basketball practice. Emma had to hurry to dance.  Julia had to be at another basketball practice.  And I had to drive everyone around, with covered plates of spaghetti ready to be eaten.  Lance and Owen were my car buddies for a couple of hours.

Emma started track and she is really enjoying it.  She says she is in amazing shape compared to most of the rest of the team!  The coach put them in groups of four and had them continually trade off running one lap around the track (400 meters) and then resting for three turns, and then taking another lap around.  Emma was with her best friend, Lainee, and two other girls.  After ONE trip around the track the other two girls were so tired, they quit!  So, Emma and Lainee continued on with their team running every other lap.  Each girl on the track team was supposed to run four laps by the end.  Emma and Lainee each ran seven!  And Emma said she was still blowing people away on the last lap.  Go Emma!

Julia's trimester just ended this week.  She wanted to complete the requirements for Honors Math since she completed it for the first trimester.  It was a LOT of extended learning type requirements.  Julia spent hours working on it this week.  Sometimes I would help her, and it was really interesting to learn all about patterns and the Fibonacci spiral and other natural wonders.  Julia finished the whole portfolio just in time.  I am really proud of her.  It was a lot of work.

Well, life just keeps on chugging along.  Even with the busyness of it all, I love this life.  I am so blessed.  I'm so thankful to have people in my life who need rides to practices and who need plates of spaghetti.  Every night in my prayers, I ask Heavenly Father to bless me with the strength to be a mother. I love it!