First and foremost, a happy and blessed Easter to you all. May the joy and new-life of this holiday season fill you with hope for today and excitement for what is yet to come. Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Despite the fact that it really snuck up on us this year in light of all the weather and flooding issues we’ve been dealing with out here, we had a very nice Easter! Church services kept us busy from Wednesday evening into Sunday morning. But each of the services were really nice and helped to meaningfully move us through the real reason for this time of the year. Grandpa Dave and Grandma Sue came down on Saturday afternoon to spend the holiday with us. We had a really nice time with them and I’m pretty sure Isaiah was a bit spoiled by the time they left early Sunday evening. Nothing like some new toys, an Easter basket and hugs from the grandparents! Isaiah got his fair share of Easter gifts this year. We tried to take a few pictures; they are posted below. Lots of baskets, cards, and gifts…thank you to all who sent them!
Second, I am writing this blog update from the “recupe” or post-op room in the hospital. Since it had been over three months since we were here giving birth, Calie really began to miss the friendly confines of the Merit Care hospital here in Fargo. So earlier this morning she decided to go back and have her gall-bladder taken out. The surgery went well and we will just be waiting around for about another hour or so before we go home. She is now sleeping and will take a few days to get back to normal. Actually, it is kind of a funny story out it all happened. The night she first went to the ER was the same night they were evacuating every hospital in Fargo-Moorhead because of the flood. So she waded her way through ambulances and patients waiting to be transferred to be diagnosed at about 1:00AM. A week later, after meeting with the doctor they decided to just take the darn thing out. So here we sit, the surgery successful and completed, waiting for our nurse to return with the discharge papers.
Luckily that will be a bit easier for her because Calie is no longer working! She is now a stay-at-home mom. Easter Monday was her last day working at the childcare center. She will now be staying home to give Isaiah all the one-on-one attention he deserves, and then some! She is beyond thrilled and super excited for this. Thankfully we are blessed by our vicarage congregation and so Calie will spend the last three months in Moorhead at home with no worries of money or insurance. And she’ll have to enjoy it while she can—because unfortunately, this won’t be an option once we get back to St. Louis.
Beyond that, not much new to report. It is very hard to believe that we have just over three months left here on vicarage. We will truly miss the people of our congregation; they have become family to us. Though we will NOT miss the weather. We are still waiting to even begin practice for our church softball team. Blah! At least the Twins are finally on TV again. It has been a long and wet winter/spring. Now we just have to hope the river and second crest are held at bay and this warm weather remains. In fact, last weekend I put away all my winter clothes and jackets. For the second time, I put my ice scraper in the trunk of my car. Finally, I shoveled out the mini-grill from about 4 feet of snow and set up the folding chairs on our patio. Yes indeed, I have officially kissed this cold, wet, nasty weather good-bye!
Time to go home. Easter pictures are above, enjoy!
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