Febuary was a cursed month for us. It all started the first Sunday of the month. Shortly before we were to go to church, as I set out to dress Esther and Katie, Gail came to me all disgruntled. In an attempt to defuse the situation I got behind schedule and I was not able to put Esther’s shoes on her. This got us to church just as the service was about to start. Sending the 4 oldest children in I picked up shoeless Esther and my big bag out of the car, and proceeded to shut the door, hard so it would stay closed. To my horror, Esther’s toe was in the way. I turned to Gail and told her to go get John. I told her he would be on the stand but she would have to walk up to him and tell him to come out. I was so proud of her for doing just that. John came out and drove me and the three youngest kids to the doctors office and then to the emergency room at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Esther and I were at Children’s for about 7 hours and she left with 12 sutures in her big toe on her right foot. They took an x-ray which showed a possible chip of the bone. She had to take antibiotics to prevent an infection. Well the second day I gave her the medication she threw up every time I gave it to her. So the 3rd time I gave it to her she threw a fit and spit it out. I told her, “It’s yummy! It’s strawberry!” She replied, “It’s not strawberry, it’s poison!” Now she sings this song she made up about the doctor fixed her toe, thank you doctor
Then the last Sunday of the month it was Isaac’s turn to keep me away from church. He and Esther were on the bathroom counter and Esther pushed him off. He fell and hit his mouth on the toilet and it bled profusely. This was about an hour before Church starts, so I finished getting everyone ready and drove over to Church. I informed John that I was taking Isaac to the doctor’s office and left the other kids to fend for themselves in Sacrament Meeting. I drove him over to Pediatric Associates (our children’s primary care physicians) after lecturing him about how he had to be brave (I did not want to take him to Children’s Hospital Emergency Room for 2 stitches and Pediatric Associates won’t put stitches in screaming children). He was very brave and received 2 stitches. I think I need to find out where to purchase sterile un-barbed fish hooks because putting stitches in looks very easy and it is very expensive! We made it back to church in time for Relief Society. Between the times that Esther got her toe sewn together and Isaac got his face sewn up a mild flu slowly ran all through the family. As the last two kids came up in the middle of the night and threw up all over my bed I couldn’t help but just laugh. So I was very happy to start with a fresh month in March.
Also in February we dealt with a little bit of car trouble. John drives a 22 year old Toyota Camry. Well in January it started having this problem where when he would pull out into traffic it would sometimes stall. I find that a bit worrisome. But he was dealing with it okay, until one day the speedometer stopped working. Well, then he decided to take it to be repaired. Rob, our mechanic had a difficult time finding parts for such an old car, but soon had it all taken care of. Why did the speedometer stop working you may ask…well it had actually turned so much for so long, that it actually wore the shaft off. Rob had never seen that happen before! In addition he was amazed to see so many original parts left in the car and warned many of them were nigh unto death! So I advise John not to drive it too much on the freeway. Also, the tires had a slow leak. So John would fill them with our air compressor. The kids do not like the sound of the air compressor. So when he turned it on they all stared screaming and Kimball said, “Quick, we’ll all be safe downstairs!” John assured him they would be safe upstairs and to this Kimball replied, “That’s because you never read the manual!” When you read the owners manual you wonder why Hamas does not purchase air compressors to launch at Israel, because if everything that they warn could happen, did happen more frequently than the 1 every 10 million times it does they would be lethal weapons. Anyway, Kimball cracks me up. He loved to read stuff like owners manuals and learn how things work. We got him a circuit board set for Christmas and he is always building stuff and making adjustments to his creations so they will do different things.
Then the last Sunday of the month it was Isaac’s turn to keep me away from church. He and Esther were on the bathroom counter and Esther pushed him off. He fell and hit his mouth on the toilet and it bled profusely. This was about an hour before Church starts, so I finished getting everyone ready and drove over to Church. I informed John that I was taking Isaac to the doctor’s office and left the other kids to fend for themselves in Sacrament Meeting. I drove him over to Pediatric Associates (our children’s primary care physicians) after lecturing him about how he had to be brave (I did not want to take him to Children’s Hospital Emergency Room for 2 stitches and Pediatric Associates won’t put stitches in screaming children). He was very brave and received 2 stitches. I think I need to find out where to purchase sterile un-barbed fish hooks because putting stitches in looks very easy and it is very expensive! We made it back to church in time for Relief Society. Between the times that Esther got her toe sewn together and Isaac got his face sewn up a mild flu slowly ran all through the family. As the last two kids came up in the middle of the night and threw up all over my bed I couldn’t help but just laugh. So I was very happy to start with a fresh month in March.
Also in February we dealt with a little bit of car trouble. John drives a 22 year old Toyota Camry. Well in January it started having this problem where when he would pull out into traffic it would sometimes stall. I find that a bit worrisome. But he was dealing with it okay, until one day the speedometer stopped working. Well, then he decided to take it to be repaired. Rob, our mechanic had a difficult time finding parts for such an old car, but soon had it all taken care of. Why did the speedometer stop working you may ask…well it had actually turned so much for so long, that it actually wore the shaft off. Rob had never seen that happen before! In addition he was amazed to see so many original parts left in the car and warned many of them were nigh unto death! So I advise John not to drive it too much on the freeway. Also, the tires had a slow leak. So John would fill them with our air compressor. The kids do not like the sound of the air compressor. So when he turned it on they all stared screaming and Kimball said, “Quick, we’ll all be safe downstairs!” John assured him they would be safe upstairs and to this Kimball replied, “That’s because you never read the manual!” When you read the owners manual you wonder why Hamas does not purchase air compressors to launch at Israel, because if everything that they warn could happen, did happen more frequently than the 1 every 10 million times it does they would be lethal weapons. Anyway, Kimball cracks me up. He loved to read stuff like owners manuals and learn how things work. We got him a circuit board set for Christmas and he is always building stuff and making adjustments to his creations so they will do different things.
How can it be a cursed month if it meant you got out of going to church twice? Don't get me wrong, I love church but somehow going to church with seven kids seems a bit daunting. You know how people are always saying, "I would have made a horrible pioneer," or, "The reason I live now is 'cause the Lord knew I would have died before we even left Nauvoo"? Well, Kelli, you can't say those things. . . I'm about 150% that you would have thrived in those conditions.
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