another week

Well, another week is done and in the calendar history books. It was busy. It started out pretty good...I was on top of things and Monday and Tuesday went fairly smoothly. I even got dinner made one of those days. Well, then came Wednesday....I got a call at 4pm from Bryan that he was in the clinic at Nichols Jr. High and needed me to pick him up to take him to get stitches in his head. He was playing basketball - faculty v. student game when he took an elbow right to his right eyebrow. It hit so hard that it just split the skin. So off we go to CareNow....they took 2 looks at it and kind of suggested that we head to the ER to have someone more experienced stitch it up since it would be an obvious scar if they did...hey, at least they were honest. So we got to enjoy the ER experience from 5pm to 10:30pm. He got a CT scan to make sure his brain was okay - I suppose it was and the doctor stitched him up - 8 stitches...I watched the whole thing...it looked like a hole in his eyebrow - it was gross so good thing I'm not too squimish about those things. He is better now but it is still sore and swollen and now his eyelid is starting to bruise. The Grandma's were awesome and helped get Brennan to swim, Evan home and did dinner and bath and bed for both of them. Gramps got dinner for the Grandma's so that was helpful too!
So Thursday was soccer practice. I, of course, didn't get any dinner figured out so we headed to Jason's Deli after. And Friday was crazy with Brennan at Mom's, Evan at school, I worked, went out to lunch, Brennan took a LONG nap, tons of laundry - like, still stuff from the camp out (yuck!), and rearranged the garage for the twister on Friday the 13th.
So I ran to get the mail real quick and our friendly, neighbor Ivan comes out to talk to me. The winds are swirling around, clouds are forming weird shapes, lightening and Brennan is running around the front yard. After my 3rd attempt to hint that I needed to go in and make sure we were safe, Bryan pulls up and wants to get his truck (windshield, at least) into the garage from the 3 inch hail they were predicting. Earlier I had rearranged the garage to get my van in (all the way :) ). So we are moving stuff like crazy and then the rains start and then the sirens are going off. We head inside, I grab Evan from his sound sleep in his crib and parked us in the bathroom. The sirens stopped 4 minutes later and that was it. NO hail, no damaging winds, no flooding...it was over. It did rain a little but we didn't get anything serious. We were lucky....other places were hit pretty hard and it just happened to skip over us.
This morning Brennan scored a goal for team Raptors! He was so excited....but it was cold - no snow, but still cold. I thought Spring soccer would be warm. Poor Evan was freezing but handled it well for a 6 month old.
Bryan has his big test today - think of him and wish him luck! It would be great to pass it the 1st time and not worry about it anymore. At the moment, Evan is sleeping, Bryan is napping, and Brennan is watching Toy Story. Hopefully the rest of the afternoon we'll be in chill mode here and can enjoy our house and roof over our heads!