So my eye ended up being a pretty major scratch. The Dr. described it as a hole. Monday night I was in bad shape and so Sean called a friend in our ward who is an eye Dr. He very kindly offered to meet us at his office. So he numbed it which took the pain away in about 5 seconds and was bliss, put some dye in and looked at it through the machine. Yup big scratch on my cornea which is the clear dome like thing that goes over the colored part of your eye. So he put a contact type thing in my eye as kind of a bandaid. That helped so much. I had no idea how much pain your eye can cause you. Then I went back to see him yesterday but it wasn't healed enough so he put another one in. This morning he was able to take it out for good. My eye still doens't feel entirely back to normal but definitely better. This cold thing is dragging on for all of us. I went to Costco today and it was a nightmare. By the end I was all sweaty. I did find a good birthday present for Liv and got food to feed us and the Freibergs who arrive tomorrow. Now I just have to clean like a maniac, pay the bills and get treat bags etc. I found someone to clean my house for $15/hour. She's coming tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

So the end of last week ended in sickness. Me, Sommer and Erik all got some really fun cold. I am still feeling the effects of it today. To top it off Erik scratched my eyeball with his toe nail and now my eye is really bothereing me. How did he do this you ask? Well he kicked me in the eye while I was changing his poopy diaper. No gratitude I swear! The kid should probably be toilet trained but won't have anything to do with a toilet. He won't even try on the cool spiderman underwear I bought him. He just says, no way mom, no way. Yesterday to cheer me up Olivia drew a picture of me, only I am naked. I look like some ethiopian woman, in the chest area that is. I cracked up. Where does she come up with this stuff. I should scan it and put it on my blog.

This Coming Week

So today is saturday and we have been dejunking. We did the mud room and our bedroom closet. It was painful but things now look a thousand times better. Sean took a bunch of bags of stuff over to the salvation army drop off. The kids oddly enough have been getting along all day, not fighting. It has been very peaceful. I still need to figure out what I'm going to do for primary tomorrow and make a bajillion cookies for the Chinese branch. Sean is giving his first high counsil talk tomorrow in the Chinese branch. So he will speak a little and then it will be translated and so on. He is using a cookie analogy in his talk so he wants to bring cookies. I will be alone at church which is a bummer. We are going over to Mom and Dad's for Sunday dinner and that is always nice. This week should be busy like always. Oh, by the way, Olivia is doing the Flat Stanley thing that Grace did a couple of years ago so some of you will be receiving Flat Olivia in the mail. I hope that is ok. Liv has a field trip to the coulee on Monday. Sommer has piano and activity days this week. Sean and I are going to the temple on Friday. Saturday is CPR training at our house in the morning and then Sat night there is a dinner and a fireside about marriage. So yup busy. I am surviving my mollylessness. (nice word eh) BUT my neighbor has a cleaning lady for $20/hour sooo.... I can't believe only 2 weeks left in October!

Pretty rainbow off our back deck.

Erik at the lake house.

These are bear prints on our beach. An actual bear walked across our beach.

We took some family pictures. Well Melinda took them for us. Sean snapped this one while we were waiting to get started.

So today is my first missed Molly Maid day. I have officially cancelled the Mollys and will now have to clean my own house. It is extremely painful but it must be done. I have never actually mopped my floor in the three years I've lived here. My schedule this year is a lot less crazy so I have the time to do it. I think....I hope....
We are leaving to go to Montana today for Thanksgiving. I hope the lake house is not full of spiders. Melinda and Michael are coming with us which will be fun. The problem will be getting them to leave. As usual there is tons to do to get ready to leave. I love packing!
So Erik's latest phrase is "no way" or " no way Mom". He also does ninja poses and kicks and spins, it's classic. The other day when I was walking Olivia home from school she said, do you know what I did for show and tell? I said no, what? and then she started singing the Halleluja chorus, you know Handel, in a low loud voice. Then she said, "I sang that in a boy voice". Where does she come up with this stuff?! Classic