Visit with Family & a Broken Crown

So I’ve unexpectedly been away for…well, for too long.

And I know you’re just waiting anxiously for me to tell you all that I’ve been up to. If you follow on Facebook, the last couple of days I’ve given some updates. But before I get to the last couple of days…let’s back track.

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law came to visit from Oregon. It was a great visit. {No, they didn’t break my crown!} Unfortunately it was very hot while they were here. We don’t have A/C. They have naturally curly, thick hair. You can possibly imagine what the heat and humidity did for them. I just can’t empathize with them… the heat/humidity does nada to my thin, straight locks.

They came into town Saturday evening, the 16th. That first night we just spent getting our sleeping arrangements figured out. Most of our week long visit was relaxing, really. Sunday we went to church. Being Father’s Day, dh and ds went to a Father/Son Breakfast (so nice!) before the main service. Us girls went to Starbucks

After church we went to a graduation party for extended family. The kids and I had met some of the relatives and friends once before but we didn’t really know many people. It was a nice event –and it rained! That was a good thing! It cooled it down considerably.

During their stay we went to the Ohio & Eric Canal Reservation (part of the Cleveland Metro Parks) by dh’s work and had lunch with him. We walked the Blue Heron Boardwalk –and did see a Blue Heron! Fox had skinned his toe pretty bad so he and Grammy stayed at the visitor’s center. We also went to the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Great Lakes Science Center. I am missing a place in there, I think. On Thursday, after the Science Center, we went visit with family again. It was a long drive but I thought it well worth it.

 

 

Those photos were done by my talented sister-in-law, Hannah.

Oh yes! On one of the days we spent many hours working on mandalas. My mother-in-law is a counselor and one of her ‘tools’ {might that be the correct word} to help her clients is making mandalas.

But then on Wednesday night I woke with horrible nerve pain under one of my crowned molars. It was the first day for terrible pain that lasted until Thursday of the next week. I was able to get in to the dentist on Monday, the 25th, but the doctor on duty could only numb me and give me prescriptions. The pain-free day only lasted…one day. I’m on my second set of antibiotics and the dentist prescribed a second pain medication. They tried to do a root canal on that Thursday but the infection is too bad still so they did a partial root canal, I guess you’d call it. The dentist tore up my beautiful crown. I hope to get in ASAP but have a set appointment July 20th.

Yesterday I was tired of concentrating on the pain and just multi-tasked all day long. I did laundry, dishes, made tortillas and dinner, wrote blog posts, did a couple of review posts, made many many batches of tea, cleaned the bathroom, and weeded the garden, then put up a barrier around it. I just kept myself busy all day.

So that’s where I’ve been and some of the things I’ve {and the family} have been up to. I hope that I can get myself back into the routine I’d grown accustomed to. Guess we will see!

School starts for us in just one week! I better get myself together!