2022 :: week 26

June 26

Elliott requests word searches, math worksheets and quizzes during Sacrament meeting. This week I made him a word search of some of his favorite baseball players. He made a quiz for me too. He drew pictures of baseball players and wanted me guess who they were. He gave me their initials as hints. I knew that the F.W. was Frank White, but before I got a chance to tell him Elliott gave me the additional hint that "he played in the 19s!" Elliott has a way of making me feel old in funny ways.

June 27

Elliott doesn't like to eat scrambled eggs, but he sure does like to crack and scramble the eggs. 

June 28

Miles and Elliott have started turning their room into a floor is lava course. On the plus side, they aren't spreading toys all over the house. Unfortunately, their room is right above mine so I hear lots of jarring thumps throughout the day. No furniture has been irreparably broken and it is surpringly easy to put the room back together after they are done.

June 29

Because of the rain this spring Elliott's baseball season keeps going and going. This was supposed to be their last game, but they still have two more next week. Elliott loves playing baseball so that is fine with him. The league scheduled his team for team and individual pictures before the game, so Tony took one for the team and got Elliott to the game an hour early and toughed it out in the 90+ degree heat. We didn't buy any of the pictures, but Elliott needed to be there to complete the team pics. 

June 30

Laura and Melanie and their families flew in to help with things related to Mom for a few days. Laura and Trevor worked on getting the house more accessible and Melanie spent many hours at the hospital with Mom. In the evening we had a family meeting to make sure we are all on the same page regarding our mom's care and to make a tentative plan going forward. The five sisters were all in the same place at the same time for less than two hours, but it was good to be together. It has been a tough summer, thankfully we have each other. 

July 1

Friday afternoon we met up with the cousins at the splash park. It was another hot day and the kids had fun running around in the water and playing on the playground. Lauren was pleased that her and Leah were wearing the same swimsuit. My mom bought the swimsuit for Leah before she had her stroke and Lauren picked it out herself. After playing at the park we went to my parents house to eat Costco pizza and watermelon. We have utilized Costco pizza more than once this summer to inexpensively feed a crowd.  

July 2

After a week at the Olathe Medical Center my mom was transferred to the Healthcare Resort of Leawood. Yay! Mom is in a unique situation. First, her stroke is unusual and in many ways presents more like a traumatic brain injury than a stroke. Second, she is too young to be on Medicare, which means she is still has private insurance. Those two factors made it hard to find a skilled nursing facility that would be able to do the long-term rehab work Mom needs and work with her insurance company. My sisters and I visited many facilities throughout the area during the week. Sometimes we knew from the minute we walked into the place that it wasn't going to work. Sometimes we were excited about a place but then got rejected. We feel like this was yet another miracle in a long line of mini-miracles we have witnessed this summer.