In Bed

That's where I am. That's where I've been for two whole days now! Two days! AHHHH!!!! okay, so that was a little dramatic. Anyway, for a few details you can check out Jeff's blog. I finally convinced him to start his own. This one was a little mushy, but since it was about me, I didn't mind! haha!

Some may say I'm living it up right now. My pain levels are fairly mild. I'm just weak as a kitten...no, weaker. At the moment, I'm propped on a mound of pillows, nicely drugged (enough to dull the pain without making me out of it), eating gumbo, and have the laptop all to myself. As nice as it sounds, its driving me crazy. I can hear mom watching bull riding in the office and Jeff and the kids watching Cars in the living room. I'm way to social to sit in the room by myself. I tried sitting in the living room, but inevitably I moved around too much and made myself hurt again.

The kids have handle things pretty well. Rileigh and Declan don't really know whats going on, but Edana and Aidan have been very informed. Edana has said she is going to be a nurse since she was barely three years old. Aidan says he is going to be a preacher. We never try to tell our kids what they should say, so I was very surprised when Aidan announced he wants to be a preacher. What is funny is he says I'm going to be a preacher and... the and usually changes, but always he says a preacher. there is a point to my ramblings! Friday afternoon when Jeff got me settled into bed I asked to see the kids. Edana came in asked to see my bandages, asked a few questions and said she'd come back later. Aidan climbed up on the bed and talked to me for about 15min. He climbed off the bed, patted my foot and said I'm going to leave you alone now. My Nurse and My Preacher. It was so fitting of them! I hope I can be a good enough parent to always encourage those gifts that God has placed in them from birth. Parenting can be so humbling!

Jeff has had it a lot harder than I have through this ordeal. I mean, I've been the one not feeling well and that had surgery, but Jeff has had to deal with a tired, achy, hormonal wife for the last ten months. the last three being the roughest, the point of me not hardly being able to exercise and gaining back the weight I'd worked so hard to get off. I should have gone to the doctor sooner, but that goes back to that bad patient thing. Already I feel better, surgery pains aside. The last few days, Jeff has had to do all the cleaning and taking care of the kids himself. I think dad took care of the cooking though. Next week, he'll be at Hermitage with the oldest two kids, and I'll be here with mom and dad and the youngest two kids. Jeff will have made three trips back and forth by the time its all over. I wouldn't say Jeff is spoiled, but he has a stay home wife. I am very big on the fact that my job is the housework and I try to do as much as I can. Jeff works hard and often ends up getting very little sleep. (Hopefully that will get better as he adjust to doing lesson plans more quickly) Not being used to doing as much of the housework on top of his job and taking care of a helpless woman who doesn't like waiting on help can be a little overwhelming. He might not admit it but he'll need lots of prayers over the next few weeks. Well, My words aren't making sense to me anymore. Meds must be getting to me. Check out Jeff's blog!