This and that

It's been a pretty chill week. We had soccer practice and games this week. My mom came over to help out with a crazy games schedule where we had three games at different parks at the same time, and then she stayed the rest of the afternoon. It was delightful to hang out with her. I truly love that opportunity we have of living here in Salt Lake. 

I bought a console table and it arrived this week. It's blue gray and will go in our front entry. I'd like to buy all the things we will be getting for our house, but don't have anyplace to put much furniture currently. so this table is under the window in my room right now, definitely out of place. We're in that stage where the house is being built but it'll be a while but we're super excited stage. 

Genevieve's class is doing an ABC countdown to the end of school. Today was letter D for Disney and she dressed up as Merida and got me to curl her hair. It's a little startling how much older she looks when she's dolled up like this. I haven't curled her hair in a while, so that was really fun. She has a lot of hair, but it's fine, so it lays fairly flat most of the time. She has natural curl but it isn't to the phase where she knows how to make it show, so it just gets brushed out. But when I curled it, it was like I'd never get through all the thickness. I love how it turned out.

 

Two weeks post surgery

I'm two weeks post surgery and feeling SO much better! The splints came out last Tuesday and it was the best feeling in the world. My nose is still sore and there are still scabs and what not healing so my nose feels dry, but I can breathe so much better and both of those things are improving daily. I've had a whole lot fewer headaches of late too, which was a hoped for but not for certain benefit of this surgery. So I'm very hopeful that is going to happen as well. Huzzah! I've been working for a solid three years to figure out some of the crazy health issues that hit me about a year after Chloe was born, and this feels like I finally took a big step forward on fixing one of them. I'll take it!

Chloe is the cutest soccer player ever. She is hilarious. Her team missed their practice last week because of bad weather, and their coach had to be gone for their game, so they had a substitute coach. It was like they had never played before. She ran around the field looking at everyone's faces, never the ball, and didn't seem to remember the point was to kick the ball into the goal. It was pretty funny. She loves it anyway, so it's all in good fun. 

We had a family celebration for my sister-in-law who finished her bachelor's degree. So fun! And Chloe really enjoyed her root beer. 

My grandma asked me to reupholster her seat cushions like a month ago. It took me probably a few hours to take the old ones off and redo them, but at least three weeks sitting in my house. Whoops! It's been a busy month for me. But these three are done and I'll do the other three this week. 

 And Chloe and Aaron finished this puzzle last night all by themselves and were quite proud. We've had this thing for so many years, and every kid has loved it. 

Longest Week

 Wooh, this week was long! I'm one day away from getting the nose splints removed, and can't even wait I'm so excited. As I expected, this surgery recovery has been rough. SO rough. I have taken a two-hour nap nearly daily this week just because I'm completely exhausted and can't function at all. The splints chafe like crazy and they're literally stitched to the inside of my nose right at the tip, so that's quite aggravating if ever I move my face around enough to make that part move. Yuck all around! All that being said, I don't regret even slightly getting the surgery. The improvement is going to be amazing, I can already tell. 

Before the surgery

On the way home

Day one at home

Puffy nose

My poor, chafed nose

Solution to the constant dripping when I'm not allowed to blow my nose, lol. 

My sister was on spring break this week and she was so kind to help out. She took Chloe with her a couple different times. This time they went to IKEA among other adventures. 

Another day my mom and sister and kids came up and we went together to the park. Notice I can't actually smile for really really because it doesn't feel good to lift my upper lip. So I gave this lovely number, lol.

Chloe was really hamming it up one day and I took a couple cute pictures. She turns five in a couple months! That blows my mind. The time has gone so fast. 

Here she is at her soccer game. They won this week! She got a sweet breakaway run. She missed the goal by like two inches, but man, she looked good. Half the time she doesn't really have a clue what is happening on the field, but then suddenly she's all there and it's fun. I love watching my kids play soccer.