Mama’s Back in the Land of the Living!

This has been such a weird, not-the-norm kind of week for me.

If you didn’t already know, I had my appendix removed last Sunday evening.  I really hadn’t felt well all week but couldn’t quite put my finger on what was wrong.  On Saturday, I felt just…poorly.  I had a lot of abdominal cramping, but chalked it up to normal girlie issues and kept on plugging along.  I even started prepping the walls to paint our school room Saturday afternoon!  (And yes, our school room looks just the way I left it: a disaster.)

I ironed clothes on Saturday evening, and still felt that gnawing cramping that just wouldn’t go away.  I slept very little on Saturday night and got up Sunday morning thinking I should go to Urgent Care.  They sent me directly to the Emergency Room where a CT confirmed I had an angry appendix in there.

So in a very routine surgery on Sunday evening, my appendix was removed.

(And just as a side note, I have zero recollection of writing that post last Sunday after my surgery.  Did I do that on my phone??  I have no idea, but I am thrilled with my correct usage of punctuation, spelling and grammar in my drug-induced state!)

I’m leaving out all of the awful details of how painful it was.  And how I just couldn’t get on top of the pain.  And how I’d rather birth a baby any day (and I’ve had four – so I know that pain well!) than have appendicitis-type pain.

This has been a hard week for me though, in more ways than one.

I’m not a person who gets waited on too often.  I’m the one that does the waiting.  I was a bedside nurse for 9+ years and that involves a ton of waiting on people.  And of course, I have 4 children and a husband and I consider it my privilege to wait on them.

But I’ll be honest that I’ve had a really hard time with other people waiting on me.  My mother or mother-in-law or my husband has brought me meals in bed, washed our clothes, changed the sheets, and taken complete care of my 4 children (except feeding the baby).  I’ve done absolutely nothing in the taking care of my family and my home for 7 days.

And that is just really odd to me. 

Running our household and taking care of my family is usually a 24/7 job.  And I’ve been off duty now for a whole week.

Needless to say, I’m very ready to get back at it.  I’m ready to cook dinner, wash a million loads of clothes, take the kids outside and finally get to painting the schoolroom.

And I’m ready to get back at it here at Mama’s Laundry Talk.  You know, y’all are a very faithful crowd of readers here and I’m so grateful you stick around.  Hopefully this will be a more ‘normal’ week with Laundry Deals and other laundry-related posts. I’m not making any promises, but I do hope to post a few good laundry reads this week.

This week has shown me many things: I have a family who loves me in a real, genuine way and I am so unbelievably grateful for them.

Also, I cannot accomplish everything I want to do, as there is simply not enough time in the day. I don’t know why I’m so hard-headed and can’t grasp this concept.

Most importantly, I am reminded that God loves me in my weakest and ugliest moments.  And the number of ugly moments for me this week?  WAY too many to count.  But I’m grateful that He gives me second chances to do things over in a better way.

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Thanks for being faithful readers, y’all.  We’ll get down to some serious laundry business later this week.