Blown out window
About 8 months ago my parents started going to our church. It's great having them here and Ayden enjoys seeing his grandparents at least on Sunday mornings. Well, one Sunday, my dad had to be at all three services, so my mom came over to hang out at our house. As she was coming in the house and beginning to close the door (it had not closed yet), the back window blew out and shattered glass all over. Nice. Broken window beginning of March. So, we frantically cleaned up and cardboarded the back window until it could be fixed later that afternoon. Tools were needed to do a thorough cleaning as glass pieces were left in the door and had to be extracted. Enter our two-year-old Bob the Builder. He was in heaven! My mom wore gloves to protect her hands, and Ayden eagerly donned his own as he "helped" her out.
Snowed-in
A few weeks ago we had a major snowfall, about 18 inches in our area over the span of 48 hours. The snow started on Friday evening and continued through late Saturday night. Because it was so heavy, church was cancelled on Sunday. What luck! This was the same weekend as daylight savings, so Josh and his praise team, who ordinarily have to be at church at 7:15, were thrilled to not have to get up so very early.
We have a long driveway, and unfortunately, do not have a snow blower. Josh usually goes out and shovels tracks for our cars and paths for us. The snow was so heavy, though, that our neighbor, bless him, took pity on us and snow blowed some of our drive for us. Sunday morning we woke up and I looked into our back yard, and Don, a church trustee, was snowblowing a path from the church through our backyard. For those of you who don't know, we rent from the church, and our property, which is an acre and a half, is directly behind the church. Consequently, Josh walks to work through our backyard. 18 inches, however, is a bit much to walk through for work. Don completely surprised us by blowing a path for him.
Easter colds
This week Ayden came down with a killer cold. His eyes have been sunken and red, he had a temp of 101, and he wouldn't eat anything. Naturally, that means we've been housebound for several days! Yuck!! Anyway, Josh and I have been amazed and the way he (Ayden) freely douses us with his germs. We tried to get him to cover his mouth when he coughed, but he just told us, "No, it's fricky" (fricky=tricky). Okay....so we would put our hands up to cover his mouth. Ayden wasn't always into that as he would sometimes lower our hands.. No protection allowed, I guess. Two nights ago it was the worst, and Ayden had an awful time sleeping. Josh and I would take turns going in to lay with Ayden throughout the night. We scrunched into his bed, often having little room to lie since he insisted on laying in the middle despite the fact that two people were now in the bed. When he'd have to cough, he'd turn towards us hack all over us and then settle back in. Seriously, we feel awaful for the poor guy but find some grotesque humor in how freely he shares his germs.
Josh is hoping he doesn't get the cold as this is a big weekend for those in the Worship Arts field. Yesterday we had our Maundy Thurs. service. For those unfamiliar with Maundy Thurs., as we were until coming here, it's a celebration of the last supper. Josh was in charge of the service and did a beautiful job. He introduced several new things, including a footwashing ceremony as part of the service. It was beautiful. Well, that's us in a nut shell. Happy Easter to all!
