Weekly Randoms

I think all my posts should just be called Daily Randoms lol. It's been a yucky mess weather wise around here. My handy dandy app has been put to use:

It has rained non stop around here. It's such a shame it's not snow falling. Yesterday was pretty warm, but today has just been so cold. I looked at some point today and it was 45 degrees. BRR!!!

I've been nervous about Manny lately. I'm sure his numbers are still continuing to elevate, but aren't as high as they were I'm sure. He ran out of medicine last week and I wasn't sure if he really was on this medicine for life and what the next steps were. With my mom's help we found out that he is indeed on this medicine for life and he will need to have his numbers checked next week. I am definitely in tune to the minor changes in him and have seen some this week. I felt sad over the weekend and spent Friday night praying that God would allow him to live for a long time. I think I was subconsciously worried about him not having his medicine and knowing his health was starting to decline some, because I am not AS worried.

Ever since I found out he had kidney disease, I have been unable to sleep in my room. I had gotten so used to feeling him lay right up against me, that when he spent the weekend in the hospital it just tore me up. I tried laying in bed but I just couldn't. I ended up making Maddy's couch my new bed. One would think once he came home that I would return to my bed, but nope. I think I'm scared to go back to my room because I know his life is shortened and who knows how much time he really has left. He has adapted quite nicely to Maddy's couch and will lay on it with me. One night he just completely rooted me out of my spot and took up the entire space lol. I wanted to remember so I snapped a picture.

We went to a local concert recently called Winter Jam. It's an amazing concert that brings in christian bands and you only pay $10. There are quite a few artist's that come on this tour but the ones I was interested in were Jaimie Grace, Sidewalk Prophets,  Matthew West, and of coarse TobyMac! Maddy went last year and Skillet was there and it was just way too loud. I'm a Skillet fan, but that concert was not their best in my opinion. This year my mom bought ear plugs and they were a life saver. Even with ear plugs Maddy said it was too loud a few times. She did SO good! I brought her leap pad and she watched her videos and played games through the whole thing. She ate TWO hot dogs and had a coke. Girl was hungry lol. She got up and danced some to TobyMac. She alternated sitting in the chair and sitting on her blanket on the floor.

I had a GREAT lunch last week. I made BBQ chicken and had some vegetables with it. The best sauce is Sweet Baby Rays! I cooked it in the crock pot and added brown sugar, a little vinegar, and red pepper flakes. Its' not my recipe, I found it on Pinterest :)

Having mashed potatoes would have made it even better, but I enjoyed it as it was.

I found a new game I'm addicted to...Ruzzle. It's a fun word game that you can play against your friends. I saw it on Twitter and thought I'd give it a try...I haven't stopped playing yet lol.

Maddy is starting to come out of her toddler stage and into a little girl. One of her favorite things to play lately is castle. She will actually make different voices for the different people. It's really neat to see her play like that. I will try to capture a video of it.

We were finally able to celebrate my youngest niece's birthday. Her birthday is December 6, however, her sister had her tonsils taken out that day. That weekend someone in their family got the flu and then someone else got RSV. By that point it was Christmas and then New Year's. She has been quite upset her party has kept getting postponed. We threw her a surprise party at our church. She was truly surprised and we all had a lot of fun.

We clearly had a great time lol. Afterwards we went out for ice cream at a frozen yogurt shop called Sweet Frog. It was a really good day!