Sunday, April 29, 2018

Week 17 - Cement and Bread

Our Spanish class from church met for yummy food. We had a lot of fun talking in Spanish, and boys enjoyed playing with the other children. It was a lovely day, and supper was outside.

Since Underfoot had a tooth pulled a few weeks ago, it revealed a cavity in between the teeth. He went before school and had his filling done. The advantages of still losing your teeth at the appropriate age are getting your other fillings done.The same afternoon as a dentist appointment Underfoot had his well-child visit. He had to have some immunization boosters done.  One of the shots had a vile connected to it. When the nurse went to give him the shot, the vial seal didn't break. She put the shot in so hard it shocked Underfoot..  The shot had to be re-administered and the second time it worked. Unfortunately the force of the shot cost him to have tears. He is a healthy boy.

I had my follow-up lab for cortisol levels with the endocrinologist. The results came back saying that my levels are within the normal ranges. We are still in the discovery process to understand what is going on with my body.

Underfoot participated in his charter school's after school orchestra. Being part of the orchestra has been a great joy for him. He played with the middle school orchestra in a concert. He was more excited to see his friend that evening.

I baked a couple dozen loaves of bread do you think the people that helped us with taking out the grass the previous weekend.
Baking has always been a great relief for me.

Our stake for church held at temple consecration day where we were invited to spend as much time as possible in the temple.
The schools teacher's decided to rally that day at the state capital for better pay. My boys were home, and arrangements were made for them to go play at a friend's house so I could attend the temple during the day. Sweetheart went in the evening.

Since I've been back on the concussion protocol, Sweetheart has been helping me with my text and email messages. I've been able to listen to some good books while my brain heals.

Underfoot has been working on the physical fitness requirements for his Tenderfoot rank. He completed the 30 days after his first test. Gratefully he improved in each area. The running was the most difficult for him. When he went to retest, his brother wanted to do it with him and had a lot of fun.

Hurricane is doing a school project called the Wax Museum. He has to identify a person to write a report about and then present them to his school. He chose a heart surgeon who helped develop the original heart-lung machine. We went to the thrift store to get scrubs for him to wear a costume. He requested that we find a real heart to be part of his presentation.

Sweetheart took out the cement for our front step on Saturday. He rented a jackhammer so we could save some money with the contract required to lay the cement.
This took him most of the day. He loaded the trailer (which we are grateful we have) and haul the cement to the dump. At the dump there was quite the line to to enter. The dump closed at 1:30 PM, and Sweetheart had arrived at 12:40 PM.
The dumps policy is that for every 10 minutes over it is a $50 fine. Sweetheart saw that he wasn't going to be able to get into the dump and complete the process because the line was so long. He worked it out with the attendant to call her supervisor and get a waiver for all the people in line.
She was grateful for his help as he went and told the other drivers in line so the line could move forward. He ended up dumping about 2 tons of cement. He was incredibly sore at the end of the day.

Hurricane was able to play in his first soccer game for the spring season. After having his ankle hurt at school he was benched from playing soccer. He played his game and hobbled off the field because it was not completely healed yet. He said he had a lot of fun.

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