I haven’t blogged in awhile, as life has been insane. The challenges are real and the chaos is while, chaotic 😁 there has been trips taken ( Nathan and the younger three went back to Indiana for a show and to visit friends), Hannah went to Maryland to visit my sister, planning for fall and lots of doctors to try and figure out Damen’s spleen location and what he can and cannot do. Last week we had four dentist appointments, an eye doctor appointment and two doctor appointments.  We learned due to the location of Damen’s spleen, the fact that it’s healthy (which is a good thing!) and very little being known about the condition the doctors are unwilling to sign off on any sport with contact…..Although as one doctor put it, he’s already done plenty of things that could have caused his spleen to have issues and it has clearly had some trauma in the past, but it’s looking good now, so as a parent would I not let him do things? I don’t know, but as a doctor I have to say he can’t. 

This week we finished up the family dentist appointments, the boys had their first football practice Monday and loved it. Right now Damen will be working out with the team and doing everything except contact and will be helping to manage the team. After their 6:30 am practice, they went and got trained on lawn mowing which they’ll be working as a sub for this summer, they mowed 21 lawns! I enjoyed just having to mow one, ours and it taking all of 15 minutes! 😀

In other news Hannah’s goldfish, that has been in the family nine years (more than half of Hannah’s life!)and had lived in four states died Monday. It was sad, but also somewhat of a relief, as now it does not need to be calculated in to future plans.

Tuesday was more football, where Damen rebroke the finger he had broken a few months ago. We took him to urgent care on Wednesday, because Thursday was going to be a bit crazy, as Evie was supposed to be flying out to Indiana. Her flight out of Denver got delayed, which means she would have missed her connection in Chicago and they won't have been able to get her out until 3 pm the next day, since she's under 18 and can't get a hotel room or a rental car we opted for rebooking on Friday, where she got in about the same time without spending a night and most of the day in the airport. She did make it successfully to Fort Wayne yesterday with a layover in Dallas. She was happy to be able to go to youth group on Thursday and get it at an earlier hour to Fort Wayne than she was scheduled for on Thursday. Friday I got to sleep in until 6 am, after having to get up at 5:15 am on Monday and Wednesday to bring the boys to lifting. The difference that 45 minutes made was amazing. Damen opted out of football practice yesterday because of his finger, but Kaleb had a good time and helped move furniture around the school after. 

Today is a quiet day before the insanity begins again tomorrow, which church, picking up Evie from the airport, a graduation party and a house warming party. Nathan and I were talking today and he's like I just can't wait for life to pass in a blur, for things to be the same from day to day. We thought about it for a few minutes and we haven't gone longer than three years without a major life change (adding a kid(s), new job type, new state) since we've been married. It definitely keeps life interesting!