time warp: adventures of the week {nonsense}

How is it possibly Friday?

I slept one night with Emma and only one ear plug.

Now that is a weird sentence, until put into the context of a child recovering from her palate surgery with immense swelling in her throat.  She is snoring so well!  We could win a contest!

Jeb wandered into my room last night to ask me what "that noise was".  He was concerned.  We laughed so hard when he realized it was Emma Kate, all asleep right next to me.  Especially since I had to take my earplugs out to hear him.

I had two in by that time.  THANKfully.

The night with one plug?  I slept on my side with my hand pressed over one ear and the ear facing the ceiling happily noise-proofed with the lone plug.  {Does anyone watch the "Land Before Time" movies?  The Lone Dinosaur song is running through my head right now.  Don't judge.  It's been four nights of scarce sleep!}

Jim has been away on business, which is actually a good thing as it has given us many options for our bed olympics.

My mom stayed with us from Monday to Wednesday to help out.  Help she did!  Chauffeur extraordinaire in Matilda {our newly named minivan.  Papa, I stole the name from you}.  Grocery-getter, chef, Ameila the maid, card shark, chaos manager.  She did it all!  Thank you, Mom!  You are so good to us, and we appreciate it and love you so very much.

Emma Kate makes great strides in healing each day.  We are only taking tylenol now and she is beginning to have more of an appetite.  That's a good, good thing.  I'm cooking up many an egg dish!
Cluck, cluck.  Love the hen.  Love the egg.

Today has not much on the docket.  I keep looking at my newly created "daily docket" this morning and my mind is fully blank.  My cheerful rainbow-colored sheet, divided up into tasks like "call/emails, errands, home tasks, what's for dinner?, etc is leaving me happy but rather perplexed.  Seriously.  My mind feels like a mom with a newborn.  Happy, and not quite firing on all cylinders.  See?  I'm even mixing up metaphors with aplomb.

Lights on, no one home?  :)

Off we go to Friday!  Emma Kate is up, and now I go to wake some big boys to get them to their running date at Lake Harriet.  Oh, how I love my coffee maker.

Nana and Papa, I hope YOU had a peaceful, calm, restful night.  Papa, I am praying for your nights each evening.  I think about my grandpa who always said that sleep didn't matter so much, just laying still and resting accomplished much, too.  So in the watches of your night, I pray peace to your heart and mind, rest for your spirit and God's great grace to sustain, keep and uphold you.  May you be renewed and refreshed by Him, and feel so keenly His presence with you, right there, speaking right to you.  Love you very much.