What a week....

December is here. I know that’s quite the profound statement at my husband would say. But its true. I can’t hardly believe it. But then I think I said the same thing when November started also.

I can honestly say it has been a little bit of a stressful week here. Which is surprising to say since I was off work a majority of this week visiting and hanging out with family. The Las Vegas Zierleyns were still here and I don’t want to send them back. I’m having too much fun spending time with them and playing with my nephew and niece. Its been good seeing them again and getting to know the kids. I like the excuse to act like a kid when playing with them. Not like I need much of an excuse. 

Thursday was our annual bus trip to Chicago. Always a ton of fun. This year we only had one stop at the WaterTower instead of starting down by the original Marshall Fields and then moving to WaterTower. I had a ton of fun. I could list all the places we shopped at but I would be listing stores for a while. I had my first experience at PF Chang a Chinese restaurant. Yummy! I ate my nephew’s favorite dish, Honey Chicken. I can understand why it’s his favorite dish. I even got a chance to see my sister after she got done with work she hauled over to our location by the Cheesecake factory and sat and had some coffee with us for a while, until it was time to leave. On the ride home I had a bottle of Cream Soda to drink with my dinner. Well apparently I forgot how movement effects the carbonation and when I tried to open the bottle…whoosh pop all over me. Whoops! I was smelling of cream soda until I remember I had taken along my yoga pants and headed back into the bathroom to change. That was an experience in itself to change in a microscopic bathroom while a bus is driving in Chicago and the floor was disgusting and I didn’t want to step on it. Needless to say that was interesting. But main thing was I didn’t have wet pants or smell like Cream Soda.  Not sure what led me to take my yoga pants, but I’m glad I did. 

Stressful part of this week was my grandparents. At one point I had 2 grandparents in the hospital. My Grandpa was still in there for his blood clot and as we discovered a lump in his groin was malignant tumor. Good news, its only in one spot in his body and after the blood clot is taken care of he’ll have radiation to hopefully treat and shrink the tumor.
My Grandma (other family) broke her humerus on Monday evening. She has surgery the following day to fix it and of course it has to be her dominate hand.  Thankfully at this point they are both home. That’s an answer to prayer. 

I’ve always had my grandparents around for my whole life all 27 years of it and don’t want to think what it would be like without them. I was faced with that thought this week and I don’t like it one bit. Yes I know we’re all mortal and at the end our lives they will join the saints in heaven. I just want to keep them around for as long as possible.

Okay I’ve written enough. Peace all.