Plans. . . and Life

My dad "Papa" and Silas

My dad always says, "You make plans. Then, life happens."

I have a wonderful plan for homeschooling this year.  You can see it --->HERE<---.  I am so disappointed that my plan isn't going smoothly, but the fact is. . . it isn't.

Just after we began the school year, Silas had another bleed.  Two of our boys have severe hemophilia, a bleeding disorder.  I have another blog that tells all about it called Bubble Wrapped Birth. We had to get things moving with prophylaxis to help prevent more bleeds.  My parents and friends came to help, and they helped immensely.   Immediately following the port placement surgery and hospital stay, we started daily post-op factor treatments, then prophy for Silas at home.  My parents went home after Dad and I took a trip to Peoria (2 hours away) with Eli and Silas for a post-op check up at our hemophilia treatment center.  Everything looked great!  That was a Tuesday.  The following Friday, Silas slipped down after pulling himself up to standing behind a highchair, and hit his just 2 week old port on the way down.  I didn't notice this at first.  I was making sure his head was ok, and I picked him up to comfort him.  He settled down right away, and I didn't think anything else about it.  That night, I noticed that his port looked a bit puffy, but I wasn't sure and brushed it off as baby chub.  Oh, how wrong I was.  When he hit his port, he started developing a hematoma right over top of it.  It was horrible.  We were in and out of the ER for a week and a half getting peripheral IV lines placed.  Then, as soon as his port was back to normal, we started getting sick.  Isaiah got sick first.  Then, it s-l-o-w-l-y made its way through everyone else.  We've missed a lot of church, and school time hasn't been consistent.  We are still getting over the sickness, but the end is in sight.

---------------It's time to turn the page and start fresh on a new chapter!----------------

It is the middle of October.  Even though we've had a rough start to the year, we are still in the beginning of the year.  I am going to get the laundry under control this weekend, and spend some time meal planning.  Then, Sunday evening, I am going to set the table for breakfast and Bible class (and maybe even Music class).  I will get to bed at a decent hour, and get up early to tackle the day.  No more looking back.  No more guilt.  We can do this.  We are doing it.  We just need to keep moving forward!

Matt bought me this bookmark as an encouragement.  He's a good guy.