Antelope Island

The kiddos and I joined my parents yesterday out at Antelope Island. We went for a walk/hike, played on the huge rocks, watched the buffalo, played with the little rocks, had a picnic and tried to fly kites. It was a great day!

Patience is Power

"Patience is Power." This is what my mom tells me. I also agree with the the principle "that we are blessed with circumstances we need in order to overcome weaknesses."

I must still be learning patience. Sundays are my best day for testing patience. I hope I get it figured out sometime soon so I can feel the power that comes from patience!

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In other news of the week: one of my good friends flew in from Kansas City this week for work! I haven't seen her for almost four years so it was great to catch up! She is one of the most open-minded, brave and smart people I know. Being a non-member, she always put up with the rest of us constantly talking about our church lives, asking questions and being respectful. Dinner at Maddox was yummy and fun as usual!

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Chase's doctor visit for his "colitis" was uneventful. The Dr. wasn't concerned that it would be anything serious; just a fluky infection. We're all about fluky things happening lately.

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The painting project has begun this week. I'm doing my research before I delve into refinishing our table. So I started on the kitchen stools first to get some practice and convince Chase that the table will look amazing when I'm done. :P I do think the table will turn out good, it's the chairs I'm worried about.

Feet and Colitis

So I'd been having a hard time dealing with my depression lately. Winter, dentist visits, tired, kids... whatever it was, I was struggling and disheartened. Disheartened because the doctor didn't have an answer to help me, and I felt like nothing would ever get better.

My sister texted me last week offering to give up a free foot zone session that her neighbor gave her. I accepted, being very skeptical about the whole thing. I don't buy into alot of the "natural" remedies for things claiming to be a cure-all. (Although some do have merit.) I also hate feet; they're gross. But what did I have to lose?

And honestly it was amazing! Sitting there with her working on my feet, I could feel a slight pressure in my head, but it didn't hurt; I felt relaxed, the anxiety and stress went away. I'm curious to see how long this will last. Granted I'm not going off my medicine anytime soon and I'm not ready to declare foot zoning a miraculous healing...but the hope it gave me that it's possible to feel better and think clearly was more healing than the actual foot zone.

Incredible what a little hope can do. :)

The second half of the week was interesting as well. Chase came home from work Tuesday with a sharp pain in his side. He went through the night with it getting worse and went to the doctor Wednesday. Basically they didn't know what was going on and ordered a CT scan Friday morning.

After thinking about all the horrible possible outcomes, and getting the royal run-around to get the results... he was diagnosed as not exactly having colitis, but would be treated like having colitis. So now he's on uber-strength antibiotics and is feeling much better!

He'll see the doctor tomorrow to try and find out why this came about. We're thinking it stemmed from his bout with Strep last month, (which was the worst case the doctor had ever seen.)

So phew that it wasn't a cancerous tumor! But we're hoping this won't turn into a chronic problem!