As many of you already know, the end of November brought quite a surprise. I got a call from my Dad one Saturday morning saying that Mom had fallen off of a ladder while watering plants on a high plant shelf inside their house. I knew that it was serious when they told me that she was being taken by ambulance to the hospital for x-rays. My parents don't EVER call 9-1-1. They had.
Mom spent a week in the hospital and at a rehab center trying to get her pain under control and learning how to get in and out of bed, get to the restroom, etc. She had broken her pelvis in four places. (OUCH!) It was hard to watch her go through so much pain and I know that it was difficult for her to learn to depend on so many people to help her with basic needs and chores. Our church family was such a blessing as they provided medical equipment for her when she came home, brought meals, cleaned house, and prayed, prayed, prayed!
Mom was able to attend the luncheon at the end of our Bible study series for the fall semester. It was wonderful to have here there! She is such a blessing to so many people and her testimony even during this trial was an example of complete trust in a sovereign and loving God.
During the same time that we were running back and forth to the hospital, we were also having new carpet installed in our own home. That meant that EVERYTHING had to be moved out of the bedrooms and living room. EVERYTHING. Thankfully, Marc had the week off for Thanksgiving break, so he took care of everything for me. (Oh yeah - Mom spent Thanksgiving in the rehab hospital. Yuck.) When we moved our furniture back into the house we also switched rooms with the girls. They now share the big master bedroom and we have one of the smaller rooms. We all love the new arrangement.
Also leading up to Christmas, we had our first big snowfall. The temps dropped below 0 for a couple of days and Marc still rode his bike to work! He makes such sacrifices for our family.
Although we missed Susie's annual cookie day, we still had our traditional peppermint bark
The girls (minus Valerie) participated in our church's Christmas program as beautiful angels. Valerie was more of a fallen angel who refused to get up on stage this year because (in her words) she is "too embarrassing." True dat.
Valerie was more than happy to participate in our homeschool Christmas party, though. All of the kids made cards and brought goodies to share with some of the elderly people from our church. After lunch, we delivered the goodie bags and sang some carols.
We even made a stop at Grandpa and Grandma Obenchain's house!
Our family Christmas celebration was held at Mom and Dad's house a little early in December. Mom got a good home-cooked turkey meal to make up for the Thanksgiving feast that she had missed in November. We all just exchange stocking gifts this time because the REAL Christmas gift was yet to come ....
1 comment:
So glad that you're mom is doing so well. That was such a scary time. A blessing though in seeing how our church came together not just to pray for you all, but take care of you.
The new carpet looks great! We've thought about doing that kind of arrangement with our kids and the bedrooms. The concern for us is with Dayson and the bathroom being right there, he still wakes up at night and who knows what he might do or get into :-).
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