bad days better

Recently, I was kind of having a down day.  It wasn't really a bad day.  I wasn't really in a bad mood - just sad.  I just was down about Ellie in a spica challenge & watching Will struggle with feeling left out among other kids because we haven't figured out the bike situation or the rope swing situation yet & trying to find my role in this new sort of place with him...

just down about it all - about the fact that nothing seems simple for us.

Our normal is so far from normal sometimes.

And then, my dad brought home a package from his office that had been sent for Will & Ellie from Kelly.

She is so talented &  had made Captain Will & his first mate pirate tees!

We LOVE them!  This made me smile (although Will was the most excited!)

Thank you Kelly!

And then a long time family friend (who grew up across the street from my dad in MO,) came for dinner & surprised me with something for me!  

A new nightie & robe - ahhhh... how comforting!  (& I spend lots of waking hours in a robe throughout the night with sweet E!) Thank you, Nancy!

And, still on that same no longer so down day?

New tape for Ellie!

A blog reader who I hope to meet someday & become real life friends with, Haley,

sent fun new duck tape!

Did you ever imagine duck tape could come in such fun designs?!?!  I may never use regular tape again!

I couldn't decide which to use first as I did her taping that night...

so I used all three designs!

Doesn't she just look so springy?  And girly?  And fun?

She's making all the other spica babies jealous, I think. :)

And then I monogrammed her.

Because every Southern girl needs a monogram.

Ellie's is just semi-permanent right now.

Thank you, Haley!

I wish you all could have heard the oohs & ahhhs in the hospital last week as I proudly pulled up Ellie's dress to show off her new tape!

I mean, seriously, there could be a lucrative business in the works for people willing to take spica casts & decorate them & make them oh so feminine & actually pretty!

(Did I really just say that a Spica can be pretty?!??!  Yes.  Yes, I did.)

Loving playing with the new tape!  It makes me smile every single time I do her cast care.

And I just love showing off how pretty her spica is right now!

Sometimes I just marvel at God's timing.  I was having a down day & 3 surprises in one night?!?!  It's like he knew I was just kind of struggling & sad & somehow managed to find 3 ways to perk me up & make me smile... & I can't help but think He prompted three people - one a total stranger even - to go to the effort & expense to use their creativity to bless me.... just because... & I think that makes Him happy too.