T minus 3 days until Adam’s surgery. We realized today that we have a lot more to do than before Tuesday than we thought. As I’m writing, he’s mowing the lawn that probably won’t be touched for another 3-4 weeks.
Adam graciously let me cash in on a massage that our God daughter, Lindsey, got me for my birthday a couple of months ago. It was quite nice indeed. The best part was that it was upgraded from an hour massage to an hour-and-a-half since the place canceled on us last weekend.
Then after lunch we hit the town getting some last minute shopping done and taking advantage of coupons that would expire soon. So we picked up an all-in-one HP Office Jet printer, copier and fax. I’m anticipating I’ll great some great use out of it once we start homeschooling in 3 weeks. We also picked up a new booster seat for Therese. Our little light weight is still not 40 lbs (actually closer to 30), but these seats start at 30 lbs and go to 100 lbs. We resigned ourselves today that the days of buying gender neutral stuff without complaints are over. It was so much easier when it didn’t matter if it was pink or black. I think the design on the seat is a wee hideous, but she likes it. When Gianna turns 1 year old in 6 weeks, she’ll get Therese’s current car seat (that’s grey and not that pretty pink flower pattern on the link) and Therese will graduate to her new seat.
Then we went to Spec’s Wine and Spirits to pick up some “spirits” for Adam. There was a nice young lady who was giving out free samples of wine. And bless her heart, she saw us with the three kids and said, “Awwee… they’re so cute. I want 10, myself.” I thought that was pretty cool. We usually don’t get that response. So may God Bless this young lady with a holy and righteous husband and 10 beautiful and holy children!
Finally, we went to HEB to pick up some stuff for Adam’s future drinks and all his medication for post-surgery. At his last appointment with the surgeon, I got the book, “Healing Jaw: A Liquid Diet.” It has a ton of recipes and how to care for those who have jaw surgery or jaw trauma. I’ve been reading and re-reading it to find out how to help him care for his jaw and how his new diet is going to work in the coming weeks. In all honesty, it’s a bit overwhelming. I made some journal pages as the book suggested to keep track of his daily weight, medications, liquid meal consumption including water, fruits, veggies, protein supplements. He’ll need to drink something almost every two hours. It had some great ideas on things to add to “beef up” his drinks by including protein powdered, fortified milk, creams, and fatty broths. Some of the recipes look good. Some of the blended meals look, well, not so appetizing to me, but Adam won’t have the luxury to be picky.
Tomorrow Adam still needs to change the oil in the cars. Monday, Fr. Larry will give him the Sacrament of annointing, and he has another orthodontist appointment before the surgery.
So anyone who wants to rough house with the kids or just play and read to them for an hour while I get the household in order is always welcome. He also does the yard work, in-house tech support and car maintenance. The cars should be ok; the lawn will need mowing in two weeks, and the new copier may need to be installed if he doesn’t get to it today or tomorrow. Other than that, he’s my adult contact after a day with the kids, but he’ll probably not be too chatty the first two weeks.
