Sunday Summer Smiles

Hello  Blog Friends

Let me start out by thanking those of you who are voting for Lonica.( If you haven’t voted for her yet please read my last post and do it.)

I hope that it has been a good week for you.

I had 3 doctor appointments , which took up way too much time,

… but…

It makes me smile that my doctors are concerned about me.  It seems that one complication from my broken ribs leads to another… and my different doctors don’t always agree on how to “fix” me. I get a bit discouraged, but all in all I am healing. They tell me it will take a year. It has been almost 5 months…. that seems long enough to me…. but then God’s timing is not the same as mine and I’m learning patience. The doctors remind me that it is a miracle that I am alive so I shouldn’t complain… (I still complain, but not a whole lot… and I am thankful at the same time.)

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In spite of spending hours at doctor’s offices, I had lots to smile about.

Celebrating with Ernie for his birthday makes me smile.

We started out by having a good meal at Famous Dave’s.

Then we went back to their home for cake….

That is just what I needed…. more cake… the cakes I got for my birthday are all gone now…lol

We are thankful for this good son-in-law and that we live close enough to celebrate with them.

Summer concerts at the park make me smile. (Can you find me in this picture sitting next to Kris?)

Our city has had a series of “Cover band” concerts at the park this summer. I was able to attend 2 of them and they were lots of fun. A few weeks ago we went to see “The Beach Boys” … last week we saw “The Beatles”

A picnic…. beautiful weather…fun music…and spending time with our friends, Kris, Craig, Darrell and LouAnn,  brought me lots of smiles.

Fun in the pool with grandkiddos makes me smile.

Mindy and her kiddos come over quite often to swim with us. Jalen also joined us for a week earlier this summer. I can get in the pool now. It hurts a lot to move my left arm and shoulder…. so swimming is great therapy for me. Having fun in the water with the kids helps me to exercise in spite of the pain.

Austin makes me smile.

At the beginning of the summer, Austin would not even get in the big pool or put his head under water. Now he is jumping of the diving board in the deep end of the pool and swimming like a little fish.

John makes me laugh out loud!  He cracks me up!

This is a laugh from the past… but it was so hilarious I have to show you the lengths my crazy husband will go to to cheer me up.

Two days before my surgery I was very nervous. The doctors were quite sure I had ovarian cancer…. I was dreading the pain of the surgery on top of my broken rib pain… I was dreading having to do the bowel prep the next day…and I was dreading the outcome of the surgery. My tears were close to the surface.

As I was watching the kids swim … ”Mrs. Doubtfire” came out to join them.

John does not enjoy the pool…. he does not like getting in the cool  water… So.. when he came out, dressed up in my old bathing suit and swimming cap… I almost re-broke all my ribs I was laughing so hard.

His tactics worked… He certainly did get my mind off of my upcoming surgery.

My nutty husband makes me smile!

I hope that my smiles have made you smile too. I have enjoyed reading more of your blogs lately.  I feel like you are family friends. I am sending hugs to all of you. Have a good week.