Happy Sunday!

I hope you're having a more restful weekend than I am... We're still in the hospital, not entirely sure when we'll be leaving. The mass/cyst/lesion (they seem to be using those words interchangeably) in Edith's lung was pretty large, so they couldn't remove the lobe thorascopically (through a keyhole incision) and had to do a thoracotomy instead, which means a longer recovery.

Here she is before the surgery, looking really stinking cute even though she was hungry and exhausted.

And we've basically just been holding her to try to keep her settled (she wants to rip the IVs out of her hands, roll over on her chest tube, kick out her catheter...), or having me awkwardly lean over the bed nursing her. 

The pain meds seem to be keeping things under control, thankfully. Hopefully tomorrow we'll be able to get rid of some of these tubes and wires and be closer to going home!

I hit the hospital vigil Mass in anticipation of today being another rough day, and I'm glad I did! Trying to leave to get to Mass wouldn't have been a great idea...

Your turn!

Post your outfit details & links or not, regale us all with your children's antics, reflect deeply on the readings, or just do a straight picture post - anything goes as long as you actually wore your outfit to church. The link-up is open until Friday, so you've got plenty of time to add your post!

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1. Please include a photo of what you wore to church this week.

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30/52: Pancakes and Surgery

Breakfast is getting trickier in the mornings because I started allowing cereal only once a week (and the floor is SO much cleaner because of it) and Edith never wants to be put down. But she LOVES food. So Andrew gave her one of the sourdough pancakes and she was so happy. A mess afterwards, but I got breakfast cooked and cleaned up in peace, so the trade-off was worth it!

We've been trying to prepare for her surgery on Friday emotionally and physically, and I'm trying to decide how to spend the time in the hospital... I think it'll be nice to have a little bit of a retreat, so I've deleted Facebook from my phone and will probably do the same with Instagram. I'll be bringing some books and some homeschool planning (music study planning, which I'm pretty darned excited about) to pass the time, and I'm thankful that we won't be there long enough for me to binge *too* much on chocolate! 

We get to be at the hospital at 5:30 AM on Friday for a 7:30 surgery. Thankfully Edith only has to fast starting at 3:30, which really shouldn't be too bad. As far as surgery goes, who knows? They'll go in through a keyhole incision in her side and then scope things out and see how invasive things need to be and whether they need to remove the entire affected lobe of her left lung (likely) or more than that (we hope not). If they can't remove it easily, they'll have to open her up - shorter surgery time, but more gnarly scar and slightly longer recovery time.

The surgeon estimates 2-4 days of hospital time, probably closer to 2 assuming things go as planned. So hopefully we'll be home Sunday? I'm definitely ready for this whole CPAM experience to be over and done with, that's for sure!

We so appreciate your prayers! Hopefully I'll have good news in a few days.

My Sunday Best, Volume 65: Old Favorites

Happy Sunday! 

Week by Week, 29/52: Pumpkin Carving

Our compost pumpkin plant finished producing and the pumpkins had ripened enough that the girls decided to pick them. Four adorable little pumpkins that they carried around playing with for several days - who needs toys? This is actually one major reason we're growing so many gourds and winter squash; it's hilarious watching the kids play with them, making squash families, towers, sorting them by side... And then we feed them to the animals when they start to get mushy.

They were begging me to let them carve them. NO. It's July. And seeing how banged to they were getting, there was no way these would make it to October. Then one day I was putting Edith down for a nap and they took matters into their own hands! They found an old pumpkin carving kit somebody had given to us and did it ALL themselves. This was actually amazing, because I hate pumpkin scooping and carving more than just about everything.

However. Just as I told them, the pumpkins started shriveling up almost immediately after. The pigs have been enjoying their feast, and we're looking forward to the larger pumpkins growing in our pumpkin patch!

Edith has been fussing constantly while I try to cook dinner and hold her at the same time... It turns out she just wants to sit and crawl on the stone floor! I'm thankful that she's stable enough that I don't have to worry about her tipping over and cracking her head, and this buys me a few minutes of two-handed prep.

Stitch Fix #10: Hits & Misses

I just got my 10th Stitch Fix box in the mail! 

(10?? I suppose it *has* been more than two years since my first fix. Wow, time flies.)

My trusty assistant helped me set up the outfit shots - got this outtake before I started, which I had to include because of the "quality swine feed" in the background!