I Love You Guys

Meet the family from left to right: Lee (doesn’t look sick to me!), Erin (and her cute belt that I totally copied and bought for myself), Mr. Plate (our representation of Steve, who had already left for his baseball tournament), Scott (who ate more chicken salad this weekend then should be allowed by law), Mrs. Plate (Allison, who was probably wishing she was inside the nice air conditioning instead of sitting on the bleachers during a high school baseball game), Me (the craziest of all bananas), Trent (bearded and lovely), Ashley (realizing a baby gets heavy after posing for 5 minutes) and Lucy (whose brain apparently itched…hey, when you got to scratch, you got to scratch!) – Missing is The Great Cindy, Trent’s mom, cooker of chicken salad, enforcer of Lee’s new schedule, and photographer of the family

Thank you for all of the well wishes. The emails and comments have meant so much to me and the whole family. Things are looking exponentially up for my father-in-law and his health. Right now we are waiting a month to see if some medication can close the hole in his heart, meanwhile he’ll be taking a bunch of tests and leading a life that does not involve birthing calves.

Personally, I’m pretty exhausted, not only from lack of sleep, but emotionally as well. It takes quite a toll on a family to hear that a beloved member is sick, then not-so-sick, then super-duper sick, and then maybe only mildy seriously sick. It is enough to make one’s brain bleed out their ears. Or, in my case, to give a person a mean case of pink eye. I woke up this morning with my eye swollen shut and my head pounding. I’m assuming it’s from the stress and amount of crying done in the last week. I can tell I’m totally spent, especially since when Trent cancelled lunch with me today at the last minute, I had to run to the bathroom to keep from bawling in front of co-workers. I guess I can always blame the swollen eye for my tears.

On another note, how do you all feel about eye patches? Too pirate like? Or trendy fashion statement?