Passed out on the floor after a long week!
Amy, Me, Ireland, Ashley, Kim and Charlie, my nephew
Ireland and mommy, and that damn paci!Last week I had four glorious days off from work. I had taken Tuesday and Friday off to go along with my normal weekend of Wed/Thurs. I had big plans that involved nothing more than spending lots of time with my darling daughter. Unfortunately Wednesday my Grandma Simpson took a turn for the worse so Thursday Dad, Ashley, Ireland and I headed up to Applington to see her. My oldest sister Kim got a flight in from California that day and my other sister Amy picked her up at the airport in Moline and they headed to meet us in Applington. That was by far Grandma's best day in a long time. I honestly think she knew we were all there and wanted to be with us and say goodbye. Friday we headed back up there again, along with all my sisters, my mom, and my older sisters mom Paula. Needless to say this leads to lots of tension as my mom and Paula and Dad have to much bad history to ever make it right between them, but that was all put aside for my Grandma. That day was much worse and it was obvious she was fading fast. Saturday night I went to work and then Sunday morning I got a call from my Aunt saying Grandma had passed. She was 96 and she had a good life and she knew we all were there and loved her so that's what I try to remember. I was going to go to work that day because the visitation was Monday and the funeral was Tuesday morning but at 1 Ireland took a header off a chair and cracked her head on the windowsill. I didn't think she really hurt anything but that was the worst she's ever done so we took her first trip to the ER. The doctor said she was just fine, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. So Monday we headed up to Cedar Falls for the visitation. It was from 4 to 7 and when it was over Kim, Amy, Ashley and I went out to dinner. It's the only time in our adult lives the four of us have had any time to spend alone together and we talked about alot of things. It was really nice to know that what happened in the past was none of our faults and our parents completely handled it all wrong. But now we just want to move foreward and have lots of good times in the future, especially with all our kids getting older and getting to know each other. So that was really nice. Then Ash and I went back to our Grandma Crandalls to spend the night before the funeral. Ireland woke up at 1am screaming horrible bloody murder. I've never heard her like that and she was obviously in pain,she could not be calmed down. So off we went to the ER in Cedar Falls. My baby has never gone to the ER in her life and here we are twice in two days. She hadn't pooped in two days and was really constipated so they wound up giving her an enema and it finally came out. I hope none of you ever have to do that, it was awful. So she has to start drinking more juice and water even though she doesn't really like either one, she just wants milk all the time. Got home around 4am and the funeral was at 10:30. Kim, Amy, and I were pallbearers, Ashley couldn't do it cause she's 7months pregnant, and none of the rest of us have ever done that before but it went fine. After that was the luncheon and then we were back home to Des Moines. So yes it's been a very long week. We get three days of bereavement at work so I won't be going back until Saturday, and I really haven't missed it at all. In other news I finally got Ireland off the bottle! Sippy cups all the way for us now. However my child has had nothing to do with a paci for a good six months now. Then Ava comes over last week with her paci, and now we are obsessed with them again. What the hell? Hopefully she'll just forget about them again soon. The weather teased us for a few days and it was quite nice out, Ireland and I took full advantage of that. but now it's back to shit. Can't wait for spring so we can get outside to play, I know she gets cabin fever and I do too. Time to go finish some laundry while miss thing is napping.
