A Wet, Cold, Tired Sunday Morning

It’s a cold, tired Sunday morning.  Rebekah was up pretty much most of the night throwing up, wanting her food on, then off, etc.  Now she is sitting on the couch with her Dora blanket on (up over her head) and picking “toe jams” out of her toes.  She absolutely HATES toe jams!  Mommy is obviously pretty worn from being up all night but Grandma M is due today to help so that will be nice.

Stepping back a few days.  Friday afternoon Daddy took the van to get our winter tires put on (luckily we did have winter tires purchased back when there was money!).  That will help eliminate the urgency of getting the normal tires replaced but they are so worn now that they won’t be able to go back on in the spring.  I did talk some more with the people at Les Schwab tires in Hillsboro and apparently there was some sort of communication failure and they are going to help a bit with some tires.  The cancer society is working on a couple of other Les Schwab stores as well and if they can get together we might be able to get the price down to something we can afford which would be great.  

Saturday morning daddy got up around 6am and did about 4 hours worth of office work and then went to put the tire back on the trailer – it was supposed to have been fixed while we were at Les Schwab on Friday.  When I went to take it out of the van it was obvious it had not been touched and was, of course, still flat.  Ugh.  Back to Les Schwab (35 miles round trip) and a weekend wait but it finally got done.  

Also on Saturday Helping Hands Melissa, Maria and Lisa all came and helped mommy in the house and played with the girls.  They helped get the fridge in the trailer cleaned out so it can be defrosted too.  The coolest thing daddy saw that they did was play “make up” with the girls.  Rebekah looks absolutely beautiful with finger nails painted purple!  She learned the part about holding her fingers out and apart so they can dry so well that she is still holding her hands that way.  She was also so proud to tell me about having her eye make up put on and her face too.  She really really enjoyed that as did mommy enjoy the break.  Thank you!!!

Right now we are trying to see if we can get the van packed today so we can leave on vacation tomorrow.  We are not sure if we will be able to get out – it all depends on Rebekah’s visit to the hospital tomorrow morning.  If no blood or platelets are needed and her counts are back up it’s a go, otherwise….  We are also not sure about how long we can last in a strange environment without help.  Please pray that it works out and actually does turn out to be a vacation.