Andy's shoulder surgery has come and gone and we think it went well. He had a pain med pump for the first 48 hours which kept things comfortable, but he's now feeling some soreness at the points where they made incisions. To give him some quiet time to rest today, I decided to take the kids on an outing to see "Ratatouille." What a hysterical movie! I thought the storyline was extremely clever and the movie had a good pace, good enough to keep Andie in her seat for most of the movie. The movie gets 8 thumbs up from the Clark family (2 thumbs up X 4 movie viewers).
After the movie, the kids talked me into Coldstone Creamery for a post movie snack (as if the popcorn wasn't enough). The outing was going so well so far. I asked the kids if they wanted to head down to Borders and look at books for a while and our uneventful outing became eventful. Quinlan was skipping/running/hopping/spinning/jumping his way to Borders, with his arms inside his shirt and he tripped. I have no idea why he needed his arms inside of his tee shirt, but that's where they were. As a result, when he fell he didn't have any hands and arms available to break his fall and take a good guess what did break his fall? His face. A huge gash in his lip and tons of blood thwarted our trip to the bookstore and we just headed home to get some ice on his scraped up face. It's always something.
In travel news, which has been light this year (compared to last), we booked a hotel for an overnight in San Francisco. Andy's brother is visiting in a few weeks and we're all going up to SF for a ball game and some sightseeing. I can't believe SF is so close and we haven't been up there yet. If anyone has any favorite child-friendly sights that are must-see's in SF, I'd appreciate the advice. I also booked us a beautiful hotel for Christmas. The Clark family 5 will be on the road and in transition (again) for Christmas and we have decided to spend Christmas in Salt Lake City, a place that we've been dying to go to. I don't know why, but I thrive on making travel plans, so making these arrangements has put me in a pretty good mood.
I had a pretty good opportunity for at-home employment pop up a few weeks ago, but that fell through today. So I'm back at the drawing board for a job that will work for the next 5 months. I'm getting very frustrated about my move back into the workforce and if any positive thoughts can be spared, that's where I need them. I keep trying to tell myself that this will all work at at the right time, but I can't help but feeling hopeless about working.
Other than that, this should be a quiet weekend. I think this is the first weekend in ages that I haven't worked (my part time job) Sat. or Sun., which is nice. All I have to do tomorrow is make Huey's birthday cake, which will actually be Birthday Pie. Huey specifically requested my deep dish chocolate mousse pie, which I think I can fairly call the Official Dessert of Clarksylvania. I think I'll make two of them.
It is great to see you blogging again! Let's talk soon!
Posted by: Tracy | July 15, 2007 at 05:42 AM
Thanks, Tracy! I'm happy to blogging again too. :)
Posted by: Kerry | July 15, 2007 at 11:42 PM