We were so excited to have our first visitors! Grandma and Bapa drove all the way from NM to visit us in our new house. I think Matt and I were even more excited then the boys (which is saying quite a lot). Saturday morning we got up and headed to Brazos Bend, which is now just a 20 min drive from our house, it was a glorious day, the alligators were out.
Sunday we got to visit Mary in Surfside, the boys loved her house (I think they would rather have a beach house the ours, and it has nothing to do with the proximity to the beach) We talked, and enjoyed some pizza, then we went for a stroll to the beach. Ian was still pretty wiped our from being sick, we're glad he had Bapa to snuggle with. Jason loves playing in the ocean, and took no time rolling up his pants and hopping in. Ahh, so you noticed Joani isn't in the pictures, well, she's wasn't feeling well, and was laying down at Mary's place.
Sunday night was rough, on Joani, she wasn't feeling good, she didn't sleep, Monday morning she went to the ER. It was a rough couple of days for her, we would visit, or just sit and hold her hand. To complicate matters the kids were on spring break, but Mike and I figured out quickly that we could help each other out by switching places. He would take the kids in the afternoon, and I would spend time with Joani. Matt would come visit after work, we did this for about a full week, it worked great. The boys got to have special one on one time with Bapa, and I got some girly time with Joani. We would make the transfer at the hospital so the boys could say Hi to Grandma. Jason was curious about everything, asking what things were and why she needed them. I can't imagine what it must have been like for Mike and Joani, It's not fun being sick, or being Hospitalized, but to have to do it away from home would be really hard.
I'm actually a little disappointed that I didn't get to see the magic tricks first hand! Good thing my kids picked up a few tricks, because I got to see some from them.
3 comments:
AWWWW! SO sad about Joani but it looks like you made the best of it!
poor joani! thanks for taking good care of her!!
What a fun description of our visit! You were the perfect hosts through it all, and we both feel that family bonds were strengthened through this not-so-little trial.
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