🏕Seriously, my kids are amazing! Monday, the 1st, was day 5 of surgery recovery and I was in agony. I ran out of Norco and the pressure in my nose was unbearable. After Zeplin fixed himself and his sister a bowl of cereal, I went back to sleep for a minute. I hadn't heard them for awhile, nor did I hear the TV so I got up to find them. It didn't take long when I saw them outside, pretending to build a fire, sleep under the stars and hunt for food. Zeplin was trying to keep his sister from bugging me because he knew I was in a lot of pain. Like really???? He amazes me. They are too good for me!
🏕As for my nose, OUCH!!! Recovery sucked. Not because of the pain but the pressure. You can't sneeze, you can't blow your nose and you can't even be in the sun for 6 weeks!! WTH! I had no clue - This is something I should have had done in the spring, maybe? Regardless, it is what it is. My black eyes beyond my cast weren't so bad. They honestly never really got black - just that ugly green yellow colors but they were swollen for awhile. I went to my Post Op appointment on the 2nd to have my cast and internal splints removed. My mom came over to watch the kids and Matt took me to my appointment because he wanted to watch the stint removal.
My initial ENT doctor (not my surgeon), was there to take care of me and was super awesome. They shot some lidocaine up my nose, pulled the stints out (which Matt videoed and it was disgusting), then we went into another room where he pulled out my stitches from under my nose. Once he was done, his assistant pulled my cast off. The whole appointment was less than 20 minutes and I felt so amazing. (Besides my swollen, bruised nose.)
Once we got home, Matt went back to work, my mom went home and I went to sleep! My kids were amazing while I slept for 3 hours on the couch!! I have not slept so good - truly, breathing out of my nose really makes a world of difference.
It took a couple weeks for the swelling to go down. The tip and bridge of my nose was very painful to touch. But I'm really happy with it!!
🏕 We experienced Eagle Fun Days for the first time. I don't think we were expecting so much fun and so many people. We ran into a few people we knew, including Bella and Val, our neighbors from our old house. We sat with them for awhile until we decided it was time to leave. I didn't pack enough water for us to stick around for the entire time. 
🏕We had many play dates this month, both for my kids and, well, let's be honest - for myself too. I hosted my dear friends, Katelyn and Trisha, with their sweet children! Since moving to West Boise, I get to see Joyce at least once a week or every other week. Her children are so sweet and we just truly love getting together to visit. God has really blessed our friendship from the time we were in Elementary school so that we could see our children be blessed in their friendships with each other!!
🏕 I had one particularly special meet-up on the 3rd with my dear high school friend, Amy. I went to Nampa to spend most of the day with her and her family. I've missed her greatly and truly loved being with her family. Her parents were like 2nd parents to me.
🏕Matt and I orchestrated this super fun swimming party on the 12th! We reserved the entire pool for just us and realized that was stupid so we invited some friends. 20 minutes into it, we got kicked out because of lightening! We ended up going back to our house with Neo and Megan, staying up until past midnight, watching the lightening and just enjoying each other!! Neo was my best friend all through high school and lived with me for awhile after my divorce. Matt and I really enjoy hanging out with those two!!
🏕 The Howard girls met us at the ponds. It turned out to be such a great day even though it started out a little overcast. We were there for over 4 hours! Unfortunately for me, I was an idiot and didn't put sun screen on either myself or my kids. Neither of my kids got burnt but I was horrifically burned by the hidden sun.
🏕 Becasuse we had so much fun with Neo and Megan, we invited them to meet up with us to enjoy Alive After Five on the Grove Plaza and then go swimming at the Natatorium.
Our family started at Freak Alley, ate dinner at Pie Hole, then met up with Neo and Megan and their 2 children at the Grove. Zeplin and Arrowlyn had so much fun playing in the water that we almost couldn't get them to leave so we could go to the Natatorium.
🏕 I made a bunch of really great new friends lately. A handful of them from our neighborhood, others are parents of my kids' friends, but most of them from church. I went to a ladies summer dinner in June and met the neatest lady, Wendy. We've been visiting a lot over the month and one time I went to her house. During a conversation, she talked about a best friend of hers saying "My best friend has a 3 yr old daughter and an 8mo old son and she's my age (40s)." I don't know what came over me but I said, "Is her name Amy?" Wendy's eyes got huge and confirmed..... We were mind blown at how small this world is. I know Amy from Prenatal swimming as there was a group of 5 of us and we became friends. We try to get together at least a couple times a year and we are all going to her house next month.
Anyways, Wendy and I took a picture and sent it to Amy. We three had a chuckle as we all realized how awesome it was that we all knew each other!
🏕 While our kids were swimming at the ponds, Hailey and I decided to have a girls trip to Garden Valley to see Newsies at the Starlight Mountain Theatre. Hailey's sister, Mari and I met her in Eagle and headed up on the 19th. It was a really cute rendition of the movie. I realized I hadn't seen it in so long that I rented it from the library and made Matt watch it with me. He wasn't as thrilled. haha. I had a chuckle on the drive home when Matt sent me a picture of Mr Tedd, curled up on the rug, waiting for me by the front door. Apparently no one but my dog cared that I was out so late.
🏕 I joined my sister for a week at her gym and really struggled through it. But, I loved it!! I love working out, even though I'm out of shape. I feel bad that my fitness hasn't been as important to me as it used to be. I find myself often judging myself against others for their fitness levels. I condemn myself for not being as skinny as I was when I was 19-20 and playing 2 collegiate sports. I know other mothers who have had similar struggles as me who didn't let their bodies go.... but then God reminds me that I've not kept it up because I've chosen to put my attention elsewhere.
Its not an excuse but an explanation. I still workout daily (not to the degree that I used to) but it's enough that I get my blood pumping and I feel good afterwards.
Am I skinny? No. Am I fat? No. Am I unmotivated? No.
Is my heart and attention on other things? 100% yes.
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