March 4, 2013

Dear Mama,

Hey, how are ya? Ya gotta be doing better than me. During Relief 
Society yesterday (it is Monday) my back started hurting really bad. I 
thought maybe my kidneys since I had been fasting for 24 hours and 
really needed some water. So, I got home and drank some water (after 
ending my fast), and got lunch on the table. I couldn't eat half of 
what was on my plate and decided to go lay down. Then I realized I had 
forgotten to take my antibiotic. This thing is nasty. It leaves a 
bitter taste in your mouth and does not go away and makes everything 
taste bitter, even water. But like a good little girl, I took it and 
went to bed. After about an hour I asked Jay to give me a blessing. 
Not five minutes later I was vomiting and had diarrhea for the rest of 
the night. On top of all that, still a lot of back pain, and chills and 
fever.

This morning (Monday), I am doing better but feeling very weak and 
still back discomfort. I had Jay bring the kids to the bus stop. I 
have an appointment in Clovis on Thursday but I am going to try to have 
that moved up. I can't imagine having more days like yesterday. Did I 
mention that the results from my ultrasound was an inflamed 
gallbladder? I am sure that all of yesterday was a result of this.
Last Monday was a snow day (the first one for the year). The boys 
were so excited. There was about 6 to 8 inches. The boys had fun 
playing in it. By that night Josh started coming down with a cold. We 
all sat around and watched Jeeves and Wooster, some British comedy. 
However, it was the kind of British comedy I could deal with. I hate 
that Monty Python type. Ugh. But Jeeves and Wooster was clean and fun 
with some dry humor, much better.

Wednesday, I took Jay to Clovis for an eye exam and to help him 
pick out new frames. His prescription didn't change very much, but his 
frames were so old they were falling apart. It was pretty funny though 
because Jay told the eye doctor that I thought Jay's glasses were out of 
style and needed something more up to date. The eye doctor looked at 
Jays glasses and took off his own and put them side by side and they 
were the same style! Hahaha!! Oh well... Picking out his frames, all 
of the girls thought his new frames looked really well on him, and he 
had them laughing the whole time. We were in his company car and he had 
to go get an oil change and do a few things in Portales and then we went 
to lunch at his favorite Chinese buffet. He really likes their salmon 
and, you know me, I don't cook seafood so this is the only time he gets 
any. Then we headed home. While I was cooking supper, Jay went to get 
the boys from Coach Thompson's house. It makes our trips shorter and we 
waste less gas. Josh still gets to drive home and get in some night 
driving.

Thursday, I had to take Brenna to Albuquerque to her dental surgeon 
to find out the cause of pain and swelling in her lower left jaw. She 
had bit into a potato wedge at work and heard and felt a great big 
crack! Well, the guy said she has a fractured jaw. It is microscopic 
but she needs to eat a soft diet for the next four weeks. She groaned 
about that because she is tired of soft foods. He gave her an ultimatum, 
to either eat the soft foods for a month, or he would wire her jaws 
together for 6 weeks and she can survive on a liquid diet. She agreed 
to do soft foods. So, we went and bought a blender to make it a bit 
easier on her as my motor on my Vita Mixer is near dead. While we were 
traveling home, Jay went and got the twins from the bus stop. Josh had 
a basketball game that night, so while Jay and the twins were at Mutual, 
I went to Josh's game, which they won. I actually gave Josh the 
opportunity to drive home on the Interstate, but he didn't feel 
comfortable doing his first Interstate drive at night, he'd rather do it 
in daylight. So we drove home the back way on Rt. 66 and he did a great 
job.

There was a Stake Adult Dance on Friday night, but Jay and I didn't 
go. I wasn't feeling all that great and wanted to stay close to home. 
Nobody likes being sick away from home. We watched Hachi. The boys 
didn't watch it with us. They had seen it at school and they said, "It 
will make you cry". Instead, they watched Harry and the Hendersons on 
the computer upstairs.

Saturday, the twins brought down there laundry to start working on 
it and Jay had a cow because the pile was about as tall as they were and 
he insisted that there was no way that two boys could produce that much 
laundry in a week. So, I made them separate their clothes and start 
washing it and then I went up to their room and spent the morning going 
through their closets and drawers, throwing out clothes that were torn, 
threadbare, or stained to the max, and putting good clothes that were 
way too small for them in a bag (filling a 33 gallon garbage bag), and 
helping them put their clothes in totally empty drawers. Meanwhile, Jay 
and Josh tackled the wood in the back yard making a stacked wood pile 
from the pile next to the back fence that has sat there for the last 15 
years. The ground underneath is gorgeous mulch and so that is where we 
are planning to put our garden this year. There are still some smaller 
sticks back there and we will have to rake those out.

Shayna had her art auction on Friday. She called because she was 
so nervous. She had to dress up, and her roomies took her shopping and 
helped her pick out a dress and she said she looks like a girl in 
it--Yay! It's about time!-- and she was getting her hair trimmed and 
styled so she would look like a professional. She had two pieces that 
were judged to be good enough to go to auction and she sent us pictures 
that was taken for the brochure. One was a bright pastel and the other 
was a sculpture. She was supposed to go and mingle with everyone and 
answer questions about her art. She just wanted to go hide in the 
balcony. I told her to relax, that she would do just fine. She told 
Josh that those pieces were her babies and they were going to be sold 
and Josh told her she needed to call CYFD (Children's Youth and Families 
Division). We finally heard back from her this morning and she said she 
survived the auction and her two pieces made $200. So, she is making 
some money off this talent of hers which is good because I never did 
that. She is feeling a lot of pressure as graduation approaches trying 
to get everything done that needs getting done. She is walking across 
stage. The money is nonrefundable and some guy who paid found out he is 
failing a class and will not be graduating, so he is giving Shayna his 
slot that he paid for.

Jay is late for work and he needs to send this off for me, so I 
gotta go. I love ya, your 4th, Lisa