What a beautiful day to praise the Lord! We’ve been blessed with warmer days and green hillsides this week. I’m enjoying the green because most of the rest of the year it will be brown and green is so much nicer.
We are all happy about some changes we’ve made to our schedule, trying to provide more family time to be able to better meet some of our needs as a family. Included in the changes is two evenings a week we now have supper and the evening together in our house. That is such a wonderful treat for us! We all crave to be a family again and not just part of the herd.
We’ve had a few staff changes in the last few weeks. Sara Enns left for home for an extended vacation of close to 3 mo. Sherri Shirk from MS came to take her place while she’s gone.
I think the devil was out to try to get us this week for sure. On Tues. we were working on more adoption paperwork and I had my FM3 out to fill out some forms. The time came to go to the dining room for supper so I left the computer with my FM3 on the table with plans to resume the job after supper. When I finally returned, after getting all questions answered outside, there was no FM3. Well, we needed it for Fri. morning and there was no way to continue the process until I found the item. We searched, we prayed, we searched more until we had the whole family searching and still no FM3. Tania was sleeping so I couldn’t ask her about it but we felt like she probably moved it. So I tried to think like she does and thought about the computer as that was where it was last seen. Hmmm…. There in the cd slot was my FM3! I guess she thought she’d see if it played anything. Thanks to God was offered very sincerely for showing us where to find it!
On Thursday the men decided to take a trip about an hour and a half southwest to a nursery to buy some trees for around here. Delores called me in the morning and wondered if I’d want to go along as the wives had decided to join the men. Well, of course, I want to go relax a bit! So Lorne and Nevin went to get groceries in the morning so that I could help the boys finish schoolwork and be ready in time. We left around noon with Phil and Edith and had a beautiful drive down there! While we were walking around looking at plants and trees, Lorne handed me the phone and it was Nevin. The first thing he said was, “Mom, what do we do for a concussion?” What?! Who has a concussion? Well, Brent had a bike accident and it’s pretty bad. The boys were riding down the road and a big dog ran out in front of them. Brent saw the dog but didn’t see in time that Tony was stopping in front of him and his bike caught Tony’s bike. He was thrown over the handle bars, flipped in the air and landed about 20’ away on his head and shoulder and was unconscious when Tony came to him. He was out for several minutes and then when he did respond he was very confused and didn’t know what had happened. They got him some water from the neighbors there and got him into the truck which Nevin had brought from nearby. He remembers nothing of the accident or of getting into the truck. He had severe head pain and they could hardly keep him awake. They got him home and let him sleep, but kept waking him regularly. We talked with them several times and decided to just watch him until we get home unless he would show more danger signs of being critical. We got home around 7 then and he was more awake but still a bit confused. I was up several times in the night to check on him then but he rested well through the night. The next few days he needed constant pain meds but each day seems to get better. We are so thankful for God’s grace in protecting him from further harm and for healing him thus far!
By the way, we did bring home 32 trees then and they are planted as a windbreak for the massive garden that Myron’s plan to put in. It will be so nice when they are bigger to actually have some trees on the property!
Then, on Friday, Lorne, Nevin and I needed to go to Tijuana for more paperwork and Nevin’s dentist appt. I was just going out the door to leave and Dustin and Tania were coming in the lane on the bike when I saw Tania’s foot swing forward into the spokes of the wheel and jam between the wheel brace and the wheel. She screamed in pain as I tried to loosen her foot. Lorne and Nevin then both pulled on the wheel and released her foot. So here we go again! Ice, a sucker and a recliner and soon she was quieted. Amazingly, she had only scraped open a small spot and bruised her foot. We waited then until she walked on it and after giving instructions for everyone to sit calmly while we are gone, we headed out again. We spent the day running from office to office and collected the papers we need and tomorrow we need to go back to the immigration office in Tijuana and hopefully then meet with the lawyer again. It seems like things are moving forward again with the adoption, for which we are very thankful.
So, we face the new week armed with God’s grace and strength and wonder what He has for us next!
