Happy, Happy, Happy

The pain I have right now at post-op day 6 is the pain I thought I would be having when I came out of surgery (ignorance is bliss). About a 3/10 when the meds have taken into full affect, 7/10 when the meds have worn off and 5/10 every single time I swallow anything including saliva. This pain being just barely tolerable and never going away for a second (BTW, it’s a really good thing I don’t have fibromyalgia or sickle cell or something like that because I am the most awful person to know in the whole world when I’m in pain). All righty, I can maybe now write a pleasant post. Oh and BTW, I am taking narcotics every 4 hours, so if things don’t sound quite right, just remember that.

Vacation was nice. The girl’s had a blast at Grandma and Papa’s house. They miss it a lot. The day after we got home Seporah asked to go see Grandma and Papa, we told her sorry we can’t go. She then asked “tomorrow?” to which we again had to say “no honey, I’m sorry, not for a very long time.“ Felicity keeps on asking for “Jelly“ (her cousin Jaylee) and it is so sad when we tell her we can’t go say hi to Jelly. They now know who Uncle Russell and Uncle Jeremy are, but are still a little confused on the whole Uncle Joshua thing (as he’s on a mission, plus there’s a Joshua at Seporah’s bus stop so it’s very confusing).

The girls got to see snow for the first time ever. It was pretty funny, before this vacation we didn’t have any coats. And I didn’t want to buy heavy winter coats as I was sure we would never use them, so I bought some hoodies. When we went to the mountains to play in the snow everyone else was bundled up in snowsuits and such. They were all looking at us like we were awful parents, not dressing our children properly. Seporah enjoyed the snow more than Felicity who just wanted to be carried and not touch the cold stuff. Steven made snowballs for Seporah to throw at Mommy. Mommy’s hands were way too cold to fight back.

We have a tradition at the Albright house to go out to breakfast every Christmas morning at this restaurant called Elmers. It was kind of funny, usually the people we see there are older couples going for a nice breakfast together. And then we come in with a 6 month old, two 1 year olds, a 2 year old, a 3 year old, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 8 adults. Can you guess which table was the loudest.

We also played a bunch of pinochle, that’s a card game that’s kinda like Spades but with only 10s, Js, Qs, Ks, and As. I’ve been playing it for about 15 years or so. I have never seen a triple run, ever. This time around I got a Triple Run! Which is way cooler than it sounds on paper. See anytime I’m losing in the future I can pull out the, ”Do you remember that time I got the triple run? Yep, I’m cool!“ It seriously beats the time like 6 years ago when my Dad and I were partners and we went like 9 hands and literally did not get 1 point. After the 9th hand we were like, ok you guys win.

We went to go see Lynda and family on Sunday. Steven and I were a little worried about taking them to church (and even more so when we realized there was hardly any babies or toddlers in their ward). The worry was for nothing though, the girls were better behaved at church there then they have ever been in their entire lives. It was sweet! I actually listened to what the speakers were saying. Afterwards it was nice to have grown up conversation. I haven’t had that in a while and it definitely makes you appreciated it more.

I’m not an exceptionally crafty person, but I made some Christmas gifts this year too. I made these photo cubes. See I took a 4×4 piece of wood and cut it into blocks and sanded them, then painted them, then put pictures on them and lacquered the top. I was gonna make a whole bunch and send them to people, but it turned out they were way more difficult then I thought they would be (as I was just kinda making it up as I went along, I didn’t have any directions), so I only made a couple for my mom and Lynda (I didn’t even make any for me). I now kind of understand the concept of Super Saturday. It’s really nice to put effort and work into a gift to give someone for Christmas, makes it that more special for the person giving.

My screen right now, I just think it looks funny, kinda like Seporah’s peaking out from underneath, hey don’t forget about me under here! Maybe it’s the narcotics laughing and not me.