The Very LONG Week

Last week my husband had to go to Chicago for training for his job. Six days of training for just in case. He has done this before but this week was SO different.

Bill preached Sunday night and then left for training from church.

Monday started out very bad. At least three things broke:
1. Silas was trying to help Ruth make her bed and Philip decided he had to just go and tell Silas what time it was. He fell on her bed and it just broke. OK this was the story I was told and expected to believe. I believe I got it back together.

2. Silas was holding Cecilia's new digital camera. She hit him with her pillow and he dropped it. The LCD screen cracked all the way across and is now ruined. Yet again a story I was supposed to just BELIEVE...

3. When Bill called later that night I realized my headphone/microphone to use with my computer was broke.

I alo got one bad phone call after another. One of which was that my Aunt had passed away the day before.

Tuesday went better. I made chili at lunch for supper. I realized I made way more than I needed and my friend and her family came over for dinner. She brought her laundry, as Tuesday is laundry day, needed condiments, hair color, and kids. She did laundry so her husband could come after work, I did her hair, and we enjoyed some good chili and fellowship.

Wednesday got hairy again. By the time we got to church I was in a frenzy. We had prayer meeting and our pastor hurried to go to be with a family at the hospital.

Thursday was a planned day off from school. My friend, the one who had come over on Tuesday, was coming over to have pizza, cake, and ice cream to celebrate her son's birthday. It was a so nice that the boys had a blast outside and we got invited to go to their house for dinner. We had never been to the Ewald's house so it was exciting. They live in a travel trailer as there dad works construction and the move a lot. It was nice although we filled it up...lol

Friday was real nice and we managed to finish school early and met up with friends at the park. The first thing our of Philip's mouth on Friday was if we were going to have the Ewald's over to eat spaghetti. So we invited them over after the park.

Saturday we went to grandma and grandpa's and visited with out cousin Kim. I got to go to a local thrift store and got all my prayers answered and found clothes for all the kids.

We made chili again so dad could have some. At 5:30 he called to say he was on his way and I thought I had good four hours until he would be home. Two minutes later he walked in the door. I was so happy he was so early.

With so many of our church members and family losing family it made the week a hard thing. We don't like being away from each other and a week is a long time.

My husband installed a program so we could video call anytime we wanted. It was so nice for the kids to get to see dad and for us to have time together.