This past week has been a bit of a rough one. Our friends had a tough weekend because James's mom was diagnosed with cancer and put into a long term living facility as the outlook was grim. We made dinner for them on Sunday night, though I could tell that they were having a rough time of it.
Monday brought complete craziness at the office, where I was preparing for an event that we hosted for the Outdoor Industry Women's Coalition of which I am the regional coordinator. Because it was my company that was hosting it, I had double duty. Many more people were registering than we hoped and we were concerned about space and food for everyone. I spent a lot of the day preparing for that along with my normal job duties.
Tuesday, we came in to learn that one of our high managers had been let go. It was a particular brutal environment as we all respected her and would miss her. Lots of tears were shed. Then I had to finish preparing and host this event of which I was no longer very excited to do. Luckily, the event turned out great and everything worked out. Before the event was to start, the daycare called to tell me that Nora had a fever and had to be picked up immediately (luckily, Fogg was already on his way). What a very taxing day both emotionally and physically.
I headed home to two kids that were still not asleep, probably because they both didn't feel very well. At 5am the next day, Reed woke us up by throwing up. Yay! So I stayed home on Wednesday with both the kids trying to get as much work done as possible to catch up for Monday and Tuesday in which I didn't get much done either. Luckily, the kids seemed to rebound from the sickness quickly and they were on the road to recovery. Fogg called in the morning because he had discovered that our credit card number had been stolen and there were some charges that were not ours. Ugh. Wednesday night, I got a text from Michelle to tell me that James's mom had taken a turn for the worse and our weekend plans might be changed. Side note: the weekend plans were to head to Park City for the evening on Friday, have dinner and spend the night. We coined it "treat yo'self weekend" where we could all relax and recharge and have fun together.
Thursday morning I dropped the kids off at Nana's early so I could head to work and get some things done so I could leave early to take the kids trick or treating and have some friends over. I almost hit a deer on the way! I got as much done as I could at work and got a text from Nana at 11am that she thought Reed broke his toe! Oh my, I couldn't take much more! Luckily, it was alright and he is fine. I got what I needed to done at work and packed up my desk because we were moving back to our Park City office which was just renovated. I got a text from Michelle that James's mom had passed at noon. Holy cow, how shocking and terrible. My heart just breaks for my friends. That pretty much consumed the rest of my thoughts for the day and though the stuff that had happened up that point were stressful and annoying, it put things in perspective for me. Also, needless to say, we needed to reschedule our weekend plans.
The evening ended fine with some quick trick or treating at the park and friends over for some soup and the kids playing. I still took today off as planned to spend some alone time at home, organizing, cleaning, getting a few things done, writing this blog post. I was able to reschedule our weekend plans and get things in order for that. It's not the weekend getaway I was expecting, but friends are much more important than that.
So here are some pictures of the week to cheer us up from this downer of a post!
The other morning, Reed was up early and had put his stuffed animals to sleep in a sleep over. Then he put stickers on their hands. He slept the next night right in the middle of all his friends.
I saw this beautiful tree and thought it was so cool how it faded from green to red.
Took the kids to Target, Nora didn't feel like coming to me, so she threw herself on the floor and waited for me to come pick her up. I took her picture instead.
This is Snowbasin on Saturday morning, a beautiful day!
I've made homemade applesauce a few times in the past week, it smells so good around the house and it's pretty yummy too!
Just one night in the bathtub, these crazy kids.
Halloween! Nora was an ice cream cone with a cherry on top. Reed was Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. They were so darn cute!
Doing trick or treating at the park. Lego man giving them candy.
Some friends came over to have soup (my mom's tradition growing up). We have Lucy the chicken, Ethan the tiger, Ava the ladybug, Reed and Nora. Later Jane the fairy and Ben the cowboy showed up but didn't get a pic of them.
I hope these two become good friends. This is really the first time that Nora and Lucy have really played together, it was really cute!
At home today cleaning. I came downstairs to find London actually sitting on the couch.
That's all for now. Please keep James and Michelle and their families in prayer as they grieve.
