Twilightin'

This has been quite the eventful Monday. S left this morning to go on a mission trip with the youth group. She was very excited and a little nervous. She certainly is like her Nana and has a heart for missions for sure. My prayer for all of them is that they can have a transformative experience while sharing God's love with those who are broken and hurting. Getting that many youth in a place can be tricky with hormones and feelings and nerves and close quarters. I also pray they will grow closer as a youth group and as individual friends. After dropping her off at church, the boy and I got Italian meatloaf ingredients and came home to cook. He has been very nervous the last couple days about his impending well child visit and check about his ongoing stomach problems. I made the dumb mistake of telling him that he would probably be getting a finger prick...but probably not a shot. Should I have let it be a surprise? A don't know. After the constant questions and analysis of how the process of finger pricking goes down, I was regretting telling him at all. His appointment went fine as did the finger prick. We are now in the decision making process of restricting his diet and monitoring his tummy troubles that way or have blood tests done for food allergy issues. The doc doesn't feel that any of the major tummy issues(colitis, Crohn's)are the problem at this time. Something is going on, so we will be working to figure that out. After seeing the doc, he came home and collapsed on the couch with his frozen ice cream lemonade treat for being a good patient. I sat with him for a minute and noticed he was conked out. Relief had set in and he could finally relax. He snoozed for a while and then ate some dinner. He had to fuel up for Cub Scout Twilight camp. I dropped him off in the middle of chaos. I wanted to throw up...he looked a little nervous, but jumped right in. I got back in time to get the house ready for G to return from DC. They arrived home and she was a worn out puppy dog, but definitely chatty about her trip. After she was fed and showered, we piled in the car and picked the boy up at camp. Chaos was still all around, but he was smiling and excited about going again tomorrow.

I'm ready for all of our kids to be together again under one roof. Guess that'll be a while. Night all.


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