"Mother's Day"

Our little family has such a wonderful weekend. I am so happy with how it turned out. I was really grumpy going to call on Friday night b/c I knew that I was going to be missing my family for the next couple of weeks and was trying to get ready for Mike's 30th birthday party on Saturday night. Fortunately, I had the best call night ever and actually laid down for a bit so I was up by 11:00am on Saturday, enjoyed the day and had time to get ready for the party.

The party was so fun. I made a few things but the highlights were smoked cheddar burgers wrapped in applewood bacon, goat cheese and roma appetizers (yum!), and german chocolate cake. The cake was new for me but it is probably my new favorite recipe, though it used about 12 eggs to make the cake! My frosting was a little dry but I will try it again and I think I can make it better next time. It was so nice to get together with our friends. I have a few good friends from my intern class who are married and who Mike (and Isaac) have gotten to know really well. We also had our neighbors over and they have a little girl Isaac's age so it was fun to see them play together and get to know them better.

Today (sunday) was an absolutely beautiful day. Mike worked on the basement today a bit and Isaac and I played outside, reading books outside, playing ball, and just having fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it. We then all went to Holland for the Tulip Festival. It was nice just to be outside and the tulips were pretty, not quite as many as I was expecting to have a whole festival named after it, but a fun experience. I pretended like it was my Mother's day because Mike and Isaac will be in Kansas on Mother's day. I really wanted to do a Mother's Day run pushing Isaac and carrying Dosito but maybe next year =)

Mike and Isaac are going home because I start block nights this month (actually I'm on nights right now), so if you feel like praying for us, you can pray for me to have a good attitude, get sleep during the day, and not get depressed about working so much. Block nights are hard for lots of reasons. It's lonely. It's ~ 80 hour work week, which isn't out of the ordinary, but it's packed into 5 days so I basically go home and sleep and go back to work. So since I don't see my family during this time they are using the opportunity to go home and see extended family which is great! It's also just not fun, handling call and admissions all night. Additionally, I have 6 other calls this month on top of my 10 nights so it's just kind of a lot to have ahead of me this month. Oh well, only 2 weeks and then never again!!

So onto more happy stuff! When we put Isaac down to bed and he thinks it's so funny to roar like a lion at me when we leave the room and then I have to pretend that I'm scared. He started doing this at lunch and loves watching me jump at the scary lion! He's also a pretty sweet boy. Of course, he's testing his limits as he should but the other day we were getting into the car which he was not happy about. (He wanted to play at "hard worker store" a little longer, that being Lowe's) He kind of hit me on the face and I said, Isaac that hurt mommy, that's not very nice. So he said "Sor" and then patted me on the cheek and gave me a kiss. He was so sweet to me =) We are working on the sorry word and I think he's getting it. He's kind of a tough boy and he has a lot of war wounds today to prove it. Today he fell down the deck steps, fell on the steps on the shed, I accidentally popped him in the head with my foot, Mike dropped a 2x4 on him (seriously!), and he cut his lip and nose on something else. You would think we were bad parents but he's just quite the explorer!!

Anyway, I could probably keep typing since I'm just trying to keep myself awake now. At least when Mike drives home at 3am on Friday morning, I'll have somebody to talk to.

Have a happy day!

Kristi and Dosito