Noses and Doors

This Sunday the regular nursery worker was sick, so I worked in the nursery again with Becky as my helper. I usually do the first Sundays of the month, so this was my second time in the nursery back to back! I decided to be really chill about it. I brought my phone and played piano music for most of the hour, and we did coloring first and then read books and then played restaurant. It was so fun! Right before pick up time we cleaned up and played I-Spy. I'm definitely going to try some of these ideas next month when I am scheduled for nursery again. I never thought about applying a routine to my nursery rotation, but it worked great. Kids love routine, why didn't I think of this before? 

Esther Rose was the only baby in the nursery so that made things extra easy. Besides her, we had a sibling set of 4 and a 6 year old boys and a sibling set of 7 and 4 year old girls, plus Becky (7) and Esther (2) who are obviously siblings too. Everything went smooth. I'm glad I was able to help out, and be the community my church needed this Sunday. So many times I am to busy or burnt out to help much!

I don't know why but everything went downhill from there after we went home from church. Reuben broke his nose on the trampoline, Esther got her fingers closed in a door, and Becky had a few meltdowns to boot. Somehow we made it through lunch and Esther's nap and wow, I'm frazzled. The kids had cereal for breakfast which we hardly ever do but Brian bought some so...I guess we are a cereal family, at least this week. We had meatballs, sourdough bread and broccoli soup for lunch. For dinner we had spaghetti with einkorn noodles. 

Reuben's nose. It's so awful! It looks so painful, swollen and tender and he says it hurts a lot. I really think it's broken but we didn't have a X-ray to confirm. The doctor said there was nothing they really do for broken noses that aren't misaligned so...we are giving him arnica and a few other homeopathic meds and applying salve and clay. I am so frustrated because we are working so hard on getting Reuben to breathe through his nose that this is a clear setback. It's okay. God knows. He is with Reuben and he has a plan. No one likes to see their kids in pain though. Please pray he heals fast and there are no lingering complications.  

Esther's finger is fine. Becky is okay too. Being seven is hard and she's still learning to control her emotions. 

I need some chocolate and a few minutes in the closet to get out of flight or fight mode. Kids, life and all the above....what a day.

I hope Brian had a great father's day regardless of all the crazy injuries. Becky made him a card and I tried to make his favorite foods. He said he didn't know what he wanted, so I guessed. He loves meatballs and spaghetti, and thus that's what I made! We love you Brian and all you do for us.

We ended the day with chores, knitting, and trying to play a family game. It always ends up that someone doesn't want to play and that kinda ruins it for the rest of us, somehow. It's hard to find a game everyone likes. And a game that doesn't have a lot of pieces because...toddler.

I can't believe summer is halfway over after this week. I'm ready. I'm not ready! Nothing is clean. Do I care?

I just want to lay in the sun and read more books to my kids.

I hope no one breaks anything else for the rest of the year.