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December 12, 2007
April 2007
As I last posted in April, Kim and family came up for a visit. It happened to be her birthday which gave us a chance to have family over. She is old now. She and I have had a bumpy sister relationship from the moment she was born (I tried to drown her in a bathtub). I am very pleased to say that for the last five years or so, she has become one of my closest friends. Sappiness over.
On the day of Kim’s birthday, Chad and his kids were at my house. His oldest son, Connor (8yo), was using one of our sleds to slide on a hill covered with pine needles. Chad had just finished mowing my field (Gads I love that man). I was in the house finishing Kim’s cake when the door bursts open and Connor hops through. I hear with my peripheral mom ear something about blood dripping on the porch. I go out to see Connor, crying, with a rip in his pants over his knee. And a *little* blood. I told him to take off his pants and let me see it. He pulled off his sock and blood starting splattering onto the porch. No problem. I forget now what Chad said but it freaked out Connor! So I put a napkin over it before anyone could see how bad it was to try to calm the situation down. I carefully pulled back the napkin and we all got a load of this four inch long gash so deep we can see muscle definition. Okay, now you have impressed the nurse (my kids will tell you that it takes a lot of blood to get my attention – I have NO sympathy). So we spent the next two hours in the emergency room of the tiny hospital next town over. Connor got 9 stitches on the outside and about five on the inside. I can’t seem to convince him to tell people it was a shark bite though. Turns out that he slid over the cut off end of a bramble in the field – who knew that sledding in April was bad? I would love to say that nobody sleds on non snowy hills but they have all summer, LOL. Oh and the ER bill was accidently doubled – Chad fought it hard and won. The end amount was exactly what my homeowner insurance maximum was for personal injury. YEAH!
All three of my boys were in baseball this year. Seth played T-ball and just loved it. I didn’t get to do T-ball with my older two. What a blast! There were baseball games four or five days of the week for two months straight. They had fun though and that is what counts. Next year will be a little easier because Eli, who is now 13, doesn’t want to play baseball anymore. Not a surprise.
At the end of April, we took the boys to Chad’s Aunt Linda and Uncle Reed’s place out in the far far deep deep woods of Kentucky. Paintsville to be exact. It is about two hours east of Lexington and takes us about 3 DVD movies to get there. This has to be one of my most favorite places in the United States. I fell in love with the Omer family the minute I met them six months earlier. Their property may as well be a nature preserve complete with the most awesome ATV trails. We hauled six of our eight ATV’s out there and had a blast. The boys were nonstop as you can see from the pictures.
Here are a few more pictures that defied category. Enough for today. Look for another installment on Thursday. I have realized that this may take a bit longer to get up to speed than I thought!
Posted by DebC at December 12, 2007 1:09 AM
Comments
Those are GREAT pics!! I feel like I'm home sick just looking at them. Oh wait that would mean I would have to live there to be home sick! Maybe next year when our house sells,lol. NO REALLY!!!
Posted by: Kim at December 12, 2007 3:41 PM