They got home yesterday about 2:00 pm! I praise God and Thank Him for keeping them
and us safe the whole time. I also thank
you all for keeping us in your prayers and for the notes saying so. It was very encouraging to know people care
for us.
Our oldest son Stephen had come in the morning to bring
cheese cake and makings for root beer floats in celebration of his sisters
birthdays, that both take place this month.
He played me a really intense game of scrabble (I won by a landslide :) ) Also he played video games with the others
for a while. He really kept our minds off
waiting for the guys to get home. Thanks
Stephen!
We came through the whole weekend with no troubles. I could feel I was being prayed for. This was actually the best we have done, out
of all the years they have went away.
Praise God, I felt healthy and had strength the whole time and the little's (Carolyn, Zeke and Elizabeth) being even older this year actually were
a wonderful help.
The hardest things, the whole time the guys were gone, was
Antonio’s physical care and also all the farm chores. But Zeke helped me care for Antonio. He helped me use the lift and move him from
bed to wheel chair. Or bed to bath. Zeke was very helpful. He was very mature, strong, caring and just so very willing to help me in whatever I needed him to do. Just little things like putting on Antonio’s
socks for me was a big help so I could attend to something else. We
all worked together at the chores and even though it took a long time, was not a
lot of heavy work as we all worked together.
We only had what I would call two issues, out of the
ordinary, the whole time. The first, when
I was getting Antonio up and out of bed the first day. I was using the lift and his very full diaper (Think, so full of pee because he gets all
his fluids at night via his g-tube, full)
caught on the lowered bed rail and tore open. Yes, laugh if you will. But there was more, filled to capacity,
diaper gel all over the floor than I have ever seen in my life. It looked exactly like a huge pile of snow
but let me tell you, it was not! It took
me a good thirty minutes to get it all cleaned up and a whole roll of paper towels and many
wipes. I will be so very extra careful
to never have that happen again. Antonio kept saying that Daddy and William never
made that happen before. I jokingly
replied well I am not Daddy or William, I guess I am out of practice! He thought that was funny. As he laughed his deep rolling laugh for
quite some time as I was on my hands and knees working away. Needless to say I didn’t get him totally ready
for the day and to the breakfast table till at least 9:30 that morning. It just takes so long to move him around,
toilet, bathe, dress and such. Getting
him to the table for breakfast takes some time and that didn’t help.
The second thing was Carolyn wanted to do a lot of the
kitchen work and meals through the weekend.
She was so sweet and wanted to be helpful and was she ever! But on Friday night the kids always have
movie night and William was not here to make the popcorn. We have no microwave, by choice. So have a hot air popper for pop corn. I thought…. Carolyn is about to be 13 in
a few days. So I taught her how to make
popcorn on Friday night. She was so
excited and caught on really fast. Pop
corn is healthy so I told her whenever they want a snack thru the weekend, to go
ahead and make a batch of popcorn. I
think she made 9 batches thru the weekend!
Sounds like a lot but with four big kids here this weekend eating
it,(and some being snuck to the dogs and parrots) it goes fast. Well…..on about batch seven, I would say, she
set off the smoke alarms in the whole house.(they are all connected together
and are very loud and very ear piercing)
When I asked her what happened she said she was trying to get those last
few little kernels to pop and they burnt and set off the alarm. Picture in your mind, Zeke, standing on a kitchen chair with
a towel fanning the fire alarm, Elizabeth, opening and closing the back door over and over again, to
clear the air, Carolyn, almost in tears as she knows it was her fault and she
thought she was going to be in trouble and Antonio laughing his head off. (Can you tell we set off our overly sensitive fire alarms quite often
around here?) The air circulation crew
sprang into action, to quickly clear the air!
So funny. So Carolyn now knows not to
do that. Silly girl. There will always be a few kernels that don’t pop.
Yup, that was our two big incidents when the guys were
gone. Praise God, all went well and the
guys had a great time! They came back
all crispy sun burnt. I warned them that
they come back burnt every year and sent them with sun block. Oh well.
I guess the guys ate out a good bit. (which is a real treat
as we hardly ever do that) Went to an
antique shop in the area for fun. Tim bought some Normal Rockwell coffee mugs. I guess William spent a huge amount of time
in the book section but didn’t want to spend any money as he was saving it for
Bug-a-Paluza the next day.
William gets the t-shirt for this event every year. So he got the new one for this year. He
bought two framed old advertisement sheets, from a magazine, for a VW bug, to hang in his room. I guess in the little box he brought back was
a small part he needed for his carburetor?
He got a VW key chain and a Herbie style 53 sticker. He said it was for on his computer I
think. I am always amazed at what my
children save their money for and spend it on.
What things they desire and want.
It really was so quiet the whole weekend with the guys gone.
The kids all missed each other so much. They
were all laughing and happy to be back together again. Zeke and William right away started their
wrestling thing they do. They can’t seem
to walk by each other without playfully punching each other on the
shoulder.
It feels so good to have them home and be all under one roof
again like it should be. God is amazing and so good to us all. I am so grateful for God and His great care
of us, for my family and for good friends all over the world.
Psalm
3:8 Salvation
belongeth unto the Lord: thy
blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
May God richly pour out His blessings on you today and
always,
susan
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