Oh What a Friday

We had quite the Friday at our house! Abby was playing outside with her friends. I hadn't checked on them in a while because I was busy with the babies so I thought "hmmm I better see what they were up to!" I went outside and saw them playing by the wood pile and all of a sudden I heard Abby just crying and crying and crying. She came walking, not really running like she maybe should have, and she had something running down her face. I just thought maybe she got really dirty until I met her halfway across the yard and saw that her eye was bleeding. My mommy mode took over and I couldn't look at her eye so I quick called Brad to come home. He came and looked at it and took her to the doctor in town. The doctor in town got a piece of wood out of the cut by her eye and sent us to an eye surgeon in Sioux Falls. I was home with all of the daycare kids when Brad sent me a text saying I needed to start getting rid of the kids. So I kind of started to panic because he didn't explain why so I thought something was really wrong with Abby's eye. I started making phone calls and Brad and Abby came home. The doctor just wanted to make sure there wasn't any damage to her eye. So off to Sioux Falls me and Abby went. She ended up sleeping a good part of the drive. We got the Avera emergency room and saw 3 doctors. First we saw a resident doctor. That doctor said "oh I think she will be fine she can move her eye good and can see good. I don't think they will really do much." Than the ER doctor came in and he said pretty much the same thing. Well, than the eye doctor came in and his reaction was a little different "oh wow, that looks pretty bad. They got that piece of wood out of her eye? (we took the piece of wood from her eye with us in a container.) Well we can either just stitch her up down here but I would really like to do surgery so I can examine her eye." So half hour later we were off to the OR and Abby ended up having surger. We did not get home until 11:30 p.m. on Friday night. Quite the day! Her eye didn't look so bad on Saturday but than Sunday and Monday morning she couldn't get it open. I am so thankful that there was serious injury to her eye. Today it looks great! We hope it heals fast! We have to go back to the eye doctor in about 3 weeks! I hope this is the only emergency room visit we have but we have her baby brother coming up yet and he is a little wild so we will just pray our kids stay safe!

No Rain Means Super Busy Husband

Hey Everyone! I finally found time in my busy life to post a little about our life lately. It is very dry and windy here which means field fires! Having a firefighter husband we have not been seeing much of him lately! Between his full-time job, hog chores and being a firefighter he has been so busy! Yesterday I think Brad said they were called out 3 times. He didn't even leave the fire station long before getting called back out! He got home around 7:30 and then went to do hog chores. Luckily he took Abby to help with the pigs so I could have a little break! I told him last night that my mominess is being exhausted! I am so thankful for a husband who can help me out when he is able. There is no way I could do this on my own. If you would come to my house you would see I am falling behind! I am so proud to say that my husband is a firefighter and when he is gone I have to remind myself he is helping people and I can't get crabby. Last night was one of those nights I needed to remind myself of this. Being with my kids 24/7 is a little exhausting! I love my kids and most of the time I love being with them all the time but moms need breaks too! I know I am not the only firefighter wife out there! I am sure we are all a little exhausted!

We were hoping to go camping one last time this weekend but the forecast says it is supposed to rain! Hallejuah! So we are going to go to Sioux Falls and get stuff that we will need for our remodeled bathroom when that is finished! We are debating on taking the kids. I would rather not take them so that me and Brad can reconnect as a couple but him not having seen much of the kids this week would like them to come along. So we will see what happens!

I hope everyone's week has gone well and that you can enjoy the weekend! I am off to get cleaning done so that I can hopefully (depending on the kids) sleep in a little tomorrow and not do a whole lot!