Wow, it gets really hard to remember what to journal when you let so much time lapse!
These are the highlights I can remember.........
Staci's date cancelled on her on her BIRTHDAY! It was not a good day. Ends up he was sick. BUT I think she liked my present to her : )
Colleen came over Thursday night and we had dinner together. She brought soup and bread, I provided salad and pie. We just sat and laughed and ate too much. She got me caught up on my work life. She brought another awesome gift from the IMC L&D unit and the L&D managers. A night at the Zermatt Resort, with breakfast and dinner!! When I write my thank-you notes I am constantly getting choked up, I tell you. The outpouring of love is just more than I can bear some days!
Dr. Chen's nurse called on Thursday and again on Friday am, November 18th asking about output from the JP drain. She was not encouraging that it would be pulled, so when I went to my appt. Friday afternoon, I was not expecting it to get pulled. But once again, there are small miracles that occur in the world everyday and mine was I got the JP drain pulled out!! Yeah!!!! Reflecting back, I am glad I did not know, thus I did not worry about how it was going to feel. It was not near as bad as my mind would have made it out to be.
I was so happy, I had a very BUSY week-end ahead of me! I will not be having any more re-constructive surgery, until February. I will go in two weeks, to receive my first injection into the expander for my 'tank up'.
Later that Friday night I went to the Time Out for Women Conference with mom held at the Salt Palace. This conference is sponsored by Desert Book. Friday, we heard from Sheri Dew, Brad Wilcox and Hillary Weeks spoke and sang. It was a cold, wet day. We had taken Trax and had to wait for 40 minutes to access a train to get home. We decided to drive the next day. Saturday was also very good, Michael Wilcox and 4 women speakers, plus the group Jericho Road entertained us. Michael Wilcox's wife died last year. He read an excerpt from a journal entry that was written in 1987. It was the only journal entry he had. It helped egg me on to keep this, my journal, going. There were 5,000 women in attendance. My purse was over loaded and it was crowded conditions. These added to my discomfort, but I felt like I did ok, and thought it was well worth the time and effort. I will plan to go next year and will be able to enjoy it even more.
Sunday was the Primary program. Sara, Rob, mom and day all came to support the kids and Jim. The program went well, Rowan sang like a little champ and Jim did awesome. They sang, Teach Me to Walk
Sharing Time went well other than Brielle was being a stinker. I had the kids write what they were grateful for on leaves, then announce their individual gratitude comment into the mike, then hang it on a pre-made tree. We then watched a 38 minutes Christmas movie and ate the sugared corn puffs I had made & bagged. Daemon and Rowan had spent the night Saturday night and Daemon worked feverishly on his Lego presents. Both had over 500 pieces in them. He is amazing with these and it is impressive to me that kids can figure these out! I don't think I could complete one successfully if my life depended on it.
After church, we then came home, Jaron, Summer and Staci joined us. We made haystacks and strawberry pretzel salad for dinner and sang happy birthday to Staci and Daemon. Whew! What a week-end. Feels like my old like creeping back in on me!
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