Where Did the Week Go?

Things have been a bit of a blur here.

Some random highlights....

Jon's mom's surgery was last Friday. We spent much of last weekend like this ---- hanging around the hospital waiting, talking, praying, worrying....

 



Here's Jon's "MOBILE TAX UNIT." He worked at the hospital and at the hotel. He was able to accomplish a lot. And it kept his mind from worrying too much about his mom.

 

I made Jon pose for this shot in a random parking lot in Michigan. ;) Just to show the boys the huge mountains of snow that pile up from the plows over the winter. I kept thinking that if we had taken the boys up we'd have to stop in every parking lot to let the climb the "snow mountains."

One of the highlights of the trip for Jon was getting food from the Knights*of*Columbus fish fry that he loves! We brought food to the hospital for our entire family.

The boys made these cute "Get Well Soon" gifts for Grandma. They're made out of *FLOAM* We all just love Ray's creation of "Grandma with an all better heart!"

We returned home on Monday afternoon.... in time for me to attend a craft night with my friends. (Post coming soon) We are very thankful to my dad and Mary for taking good care of the boys. They had lots of fun and did lots of school work. They went to Magic*Mountain with their cousins and played lots of *Monopoly* tournaments.

Since returning home, Jon has been absolutely swamped with work. This is crunch time for all his business clients. He's been feeling really stressed and working monster hours.

So.... I got to take Adam to his den meeting.

Jon's birthday was on Wednesday. This is how the day began....

 

Shoveling snow at 6:00am!

 

I can't believe I'm posting this picture.... but it is a great illustration of "TRUE LOVE!"

 

It's me making pancakes for the snow-shoveling birthday boy .... at 6:00am!

 

The two early-risers enjoyed a yummy breakfast and other birthday hoopla!

After five meetings and a whole bunch of work, Jon returned home for dinner and cake. I made my first angel food cake. (Not from scratch) Editorial comment: Cake without icing is just plain wrong! Can you tell what we had for dinner by looking at Ray's lovely face? (Spaghetti!)

 

 

The boys and I stayed home most of the week and did lots of schoolwork. Their big request was for some painting time. We mixed colors and made some beautiful masterpieces. (I must have been too busy painting -- working on more saint dolls --- to take pictures of the finished products.)

 

Today I got out this church replica that I had made a few years ago for VBS. The boys had fun lining up the saint dolls in the "pews" and figuring out which saint would make the best altar servers. We practiced naming the parts of the church and the various things you see at church.

And now it's going to be Friday again.... an entire week has raced by!

Jon's mom continues to be frustrated by complications from her surgery. Tomorrow she will have a pacemaker/defibrilator implanted because her heart rate is just not stabilizing. She really wants to be out of the hospital soon. Please continue to keep her in your prayers.

Have a great weekend!