Surgery Update

I'm home from the hospital. Surgery was early Tuesday morning & I stayed until Friday which I am so thankful to have been able to do. I feel amazingly better than I expected to at this point.

My fibroid turned out to be much larger and complicated than expected. I am thankful for the surgeons that operated on me and kept calm when more blood started coming out than they thought. The doctor had her nurse take a picture of the fibroid because it looked more like a fibroid that had taken over my cervix rather than a fibroid inside the uterus. She also called the OB oncologist (who happens to be her husband) to check out what they found. Hallelujah there was no cancer found. The fibroid had a large artery of blood flow so when they cut that, I lost a lot more blood than was originally expected.

When I woke up, I had a big ol' needle in my arm for a blood transfusion should it be necessary. Doctor said that thankfully, I had started at a 13 count for hemoglobin and 11 is normal, so when it dropped to a nine, she wasn't unnerved. The day after surgery it was about an 8.5 but that still held in the okay catagory.

The pain meds are working miracles. Each time the nurses would ask me my pain level between 1 and 10, I never had to say above 5.

I'm sleeping in the recliner at home and used the walkie-talkies one time last night for Peter to come help me get out of the chair. God has blessed me with the best husband. He has to take care of my incision in ways that are not very sexy for sure.

The girls are over at some friends for tonight & Alex is playing baseball. My mom plans to come to Austin tomorrow to help us, and I'll see the doc again on Monday.

I'm glad all that is over and the healing has begun.

Happy Birthday Love

Happy Birthday Peter. I love you very much!

Jesus is Alive!

When I picked Campbell up from Sunday school this morning, she greeted me with, "Jesus is Alive!" I absolutely loved it.
All of our children did so well in church this morning. We sat on the front row, so they could see everything happening. Campbell commented on the organist and her talent. Conleigh listened to the sermon and the story of Jesus' resurrection. She recently finished reading the children's Bible on her own and seriously knows more than I do about it.
There was the cross that parishoners could come up & say a loved one who has passed in the last year and place a carnation on the cross. All the kids were curious about this since many people were crying as they spoke into the microphone.
I loved having my kids all around and over me during church and singing about Jesus being alive!Peter had given up beef and beer for lent, so he was more than ready for a hamburger. We headed downtown to Hut's and I think we were the only ones in the place who went to church. At least we were the only ones there that were dressed in what I would consider church dress. He gobbled up a double burger and I enjoyed my usual Richie Valen's burger (with guac, shredded cheddar, jalapenos and tomatoes). Dee-lish.

Our Easter morning began with our early riser Conleigh coming into our room at 6:50. She had looked out our bedroom window and saw an Easter egg on the trampoline. After we roused the other troops, we shared an Easter bag of goodies we had gotten for each of the kids and the children hunted for their chocolate bunnies that we hide inside.

Then, it was on to the backyard for the egg hunt. Fun for all. Thank goodness we had hidden the eggs last night. I think three were found by some varmit in the backyard and the some of the jellybean eggs had ants in them. Oh well. The kids didn't care. The Easter bunny gave a lot of taffy this year. Conleigh ate so much of it today.

I tried one piece and couldn't even finish it for fear of my cap coming out. It was so sticky!
I wondered if Conleigh would ask questions about the Easter bunny this year, but she was still all bought into it. We almost got busted because as our kids were hunting eggs in the backyard, the neighbors were out hiding their eggs.

We tried our best to steer our kids in different directions so as not to notice it. Alex looked briefly over the fence but no questions were asked. We learned later that they had told their kids that the EB was afraid of their dogs, so he left a note for the parents to hide the eggs for him. Very creative I do say.
Happy Easter everyone. Love, The Hardins

Washing down the candy with some chocolate milk. MMMmm good.

LOVE

When she says, "I love it when it is just you & me Mommy", I really do love it too!

This & That

We're busy. Yes, we are. Of course, we want to remember our busy-ness & the funny stuff, so I'm taking a few minutes to write some sentences.

Oh boy. Our boy totally cracked us up last night. After taking his shower, I'm sure he thought he was going to be funny and the little bugger stuck a big round sticker on his 'no strike zone.' I think he knew as soon as he'd done it that that wasn't so funny. He walked into my room and said, "mom, I rolled onto this sticker and look." Wowza! Rolled onto it? Doubtful.

What to do? What to do?

He guessed that I would suggest the fast rip, but he nixed that before I could even say it out loud. Instead, I suggested he go ask his dad what to do?

When I walked into the kitchen, Peter had Alex up on the kitchen counter w/his feet in the sink & Peter had put that Goo Gone stuff on Alex's stuff!
Alex was screaming like a girl. It's hard to know if he was really in pain or if had just gotten caught up in the high drama of it all. .

Peter & I were trying hard not to laugh, but it was really very funny.

The boys took care of the situation and another shower ensued. Alex didn't mention the ordeal at all today.

On a sweet note, Campbell had an Easter Egg hunt at school today. She looked mighty cute on her way out the door, and she had gobbled up all her candy before I even picked her up.

Alex got two more outs at his t-ball game tonight. One at first & one at third. He is a really great little player!

Game On!

Alex's tball team, the Mets, are doing great this season. Alex is quite the player this year. He has played first base & pitcher quite a bit. Last Saturday he earned the game ball. During the game, he caught a hit & then tossed the ball to first for a double play. Way to go buddy!

Dusty time

We enjoyed taking care of Dusty the guinea pig again. He is Conleigh's class pet but one of the kids in class is allergic to him, so now he travels week to week from home to home. We had him for a week & I think we may get one more week with him before summer.

Another family bought this fancy house for Dusty. It was too big for our liking, but it fit Daddy's head perfectly!