The day that was...

 So it started out as a sweet, nice morning, with this going on basically....

Then Tyler gave me the news that someone prominent in his past, very unexpectedly took his own life. I could not help but think of his wife and children. 

I also thought how much this man must have suffered, and probably for a very long time.

Something like that makes us pause. 

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But I had to get my act together since Den and I had a zoom appt at noon with Bernie our attorney. To go over our end of life health care. 

So we escaped into the back bedroom where it's quiet, although we could still hear the grands playing up and down the hallway. Their sweet little noises brought calm to my soul that morning. The attorney seemed to like those noises as well. Or maybe he was just being polite.

About 45 minutes into talking about our deaths, basically, and what we want and what we don't want, up flies across our computer screen a message from McKenna, "Will you call me when you can? It's about Jack." 

That alarmed me a bit, but we had 15 minutes left to go so I tried to stay focused. 

Then just a couple minutes later another message comes across the screen, "Jack is being admitted to the hospital. Call us when you can." 

What?! What happened? Jack is only 20 months old.

I almost told Bernie the attorney, I gotta go, something happened to our grandbaby, but we were obligated to finish our meeting. 

I had no idea what was going on.

The last 15 min of our meeting was a blur. 

As soon as we said goodbye to Bernie, I couldn't dial McKenna fast enough. Turns out Jack's doctor discovered both his blood pressure and cortisol were too low. They wanted him brought to the pediatric wing of the hospital. 

Hearing Jack talk from the back seat of the car was sweet music to me at that moment. Both McKay and McKenna said he was acting fine which was very encouraging. 

(I think this was a surprise picture taken by one of Jack and Grant's sisters.)

Jack has had many ups and downs with his health since that day, but so far, the past few days he's doing very well.

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Then an hour or so later, Violet went through her own episode that I wrote about here. 

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Soon it was dinner time and Karen and Tyler were off to have Mexican food with Amy and Logan and the twins...while Den and I ate whatever, I don't even remember. 

Less than 2 hours later,  Karen and Tyler returned came back, and as I greeted them at the door, Karen said, "I have some bad news." 

She proceeded to tell us that less than 5 minutes after Amy dropped Jonas off at a youth activity, he seemed to have broken his arm. So after their Mexican dinner they took Jonas to ER.

Turned out he broke his ulna and his radius. 

Poor Jonas. But he's recovering well. 

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Finally bedtime came, and just before going to bed, Juliet came out wiggling her tooth and announced excitedly as only a 5 year old can do, "My tooth is loose! My tooth is loose! It's almost going to come out! I don't know if it will come out in California or Idaho."

That's when I surprised myself by saying to her, "Just keep it in. Keep it in! Wait till you get to Idaho! 

I'd never heard anything bad happening from a loose tooth, but on that particular day, I didn't want to chance it. "Save it for Idaho!" 

And she did!

A note to my sons and daughters in law...Just to be sure, I want you to know that I consider it a privilege and honor to be included in your lives. I don't care if it's in the middle of the night, or what I'm involved in, I always want to know how you all are, good times and hard times. Until I was a Mom I wouldn't have completely understood all this. It doesn't go away when you grow up and leave home. There are only more to love and worry about. Worry is part of love, and worry leads to prayer. Thank you for sharing your lives with us. Please don't stop!