What a busy weekend--but a wonderfully irresponsible one (to quote Bono...but, I'm getting ahead of myself). I'm looking forward to seeing all the rest of the staff this morning and listening to Mike Wittmer's message from Sunday. I hope you were there Sunday to listen live. Thought I'd give a quick summary of what we did during the time off.
FRIDAY / One of those work days at home running errands, doing chores, and parenting. We took a long drive to a pumpkin patch that turned-out to be a pretty big disappointment, so we didn't get anything.
SATURDAY / Aya woke up and immediately began puking. I'm not talking routine vomiting here; I'm talking about horror movie kind of puking. It was every ten to fifteen minutes. After two dozen episodes, she became extrememly lethargic and almost unresponsive, not too mention the brown blood stuff we began to see. After a phone consultation with the Pediatrician, my Dad graciously came out to watch Arys and we took Aya to the E.R. at Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak). We spent the rest of the day there while they did tests and gave her an I.V. to rehydrate her. Turns out it was just a run-of-the-mill virus that really hit her hard. She did really great dealing with it all. The bummer was that her long-anticipated trip to the Friendly Forest with Katelyn Hall was a no-go. Given the weather, I was grateful!
SUNDAY / We got-up early (though not as early as usual on a Sunday for me, and with that wonderful extra hour thrown-in) and drove to Grand Rapids where we worshipped at Mars Hill. The Teaching Pastor that we really like (Rob Bell) was not speaking (of course!). Instead, the showed a 40 minute interview between Bill Hybels (Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church) and Bono (lead singer of U2). I'll say more about that in a subsequent post, but suffice it to say that Willow Creek did this interview about a month ago on another weekend I was on vacation and Cami and I had been tempted to go to listen, but opted to stay home and finish a painting project. I guess God wanted us to see it after all.
After a special trip to Toys R Us (of all the stuff, and with all our lobbying and manipulation to the contrary, Aya picked a Little Mermaid make-up set!? When we got in the car she explained it to Mom: "I get my own so I not have to use your make-up." Makes sense. I am soooo in trouble...). We had a great lunch then checked-into the Ramada Plaza with the four-story waterslide. After all the build-up and anticipation, she went down it only twice and then was too freaked-out to even get near me (I kept having to remind myself that she was possibly still sick after a traumatic Saturday). She finally realized that I wasn't going to make her, so we had fun splashing around in the kiddie pool (checkout the depth below):
My wonderful women
I should note that we came home to find that we'd been T-P'ed (toilet-papered--can you believe there's a Wikipedia entry on that too!?). Cami doesn't want me to mention this, but I think it was a pretty lame job. The good news is that we had not recently cleaned-up all of Reagan's mess in the yard. I hope someone got to take home a treat! If you're willing to let me know who was behind this feeble attempt at trickery, I'd be happy to hold a clinic on graduate level T-Ping.
So, that was the weekend. It really was fun, even if not exactly relaxing. I'll tell you about the Bono interview and the exhibit later. For now, I'm going to work to get some rest!
5 comments:
This is the punctuation police. We're writing you a ticket for hyphen overuse.
I have no-idea what you're talking-about. I've never received this kind-of-feedback. Thanks editor-girl!
just wondering why daddy didn't wear his Super man costume to match Aya? Sounds like a nutty weekend.
thanks for the laugh! sounds like a great weekend. I for one would love to see the crunch pix!
sounds like a great weekend..sorta! I for one would love to see the crunch pix! remind me not to park by you....
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