Butler

 

Last night my cousin William got married to a very lovely girl named Katie. It was a beautiful wedding and I have more pictures to post but I felt that Joel’s thoughts should be written down in its own post. 

First all week Joel has been asking why he had to wear fancy clothes. He informed me multiple times when he gets married we can all wear athletic shorts and T-shirts. (Norah on the other hand has been carefully planning her outfit for weeks) 

Then when we were getting dressed he put on the vest (which I think he looked very handsome in) He looked at himself in the mirror and exclaimed that he looked like a butler! I actually think that sealed the deal for him to actually wear the vest. He was thrilled to look like a butler.

After the ceremony was over and we were walking into the building Joel gave us his pros and cons list of looking like a butler.

Pro: It has the word butt in it

Pro: Butlers get paid

Con: If there is going to be a murder it’s always the butler who did it! 

Bloodwork

This morning I took Joel to get bloodwork done. His doctor wanted to check a few things. She’s worried his body isn’t regulating insulin right. He was super nervous. He’s done this twice before but it’s been several years and usually the doctor sends us right away and he doesn’t have a day to overthink it all. 

The first nurse couldn’t find a vein. He went to find another nurse. She came in and was wonderful. She was patient and talked everything through for Joel. She felt around a long time and finally found a vein. Joel’s commentary had her dying laughing. 

“What’s that!?!??” “I feel SLIME! I FEEL SLIME” (the alcohol wipe)

“Now there’s glue! WHY ARE TOU GLUEING ME?” (Feeling her gloved fingers touching his arms)

She then stuck him and he looked over at his arm and about passed out. I thought he was going to faint but then he looked again at his arm and said “where’s the blood?” (The vein rolled)

She didn’t want to keep sticking him so she went to get another nurse. Joel told her before she left that he should’ve just let her have his blood when she stuck him (like he had a choice)

The 3rd nurse came in and asked how school was going and if he had any friends. Joel said it’s virtual I have no friends. 

nurse -“ well you can be my friend. Do you want to be my friend?”

Joel -“I just met you” 

Nurse - “well I’m about to stick a needle in you so you want me to be your friend”

She got it right in. And Joel was amazed at how fast his blood was coming out. Then she switched containers and took 5 big vials off blood. 

Joel - “I’m losing too much blood!!!!”

There’s more I’ve forgotten but it’s just daily life with Joel. He keeps us all laughing. And hopefully we won’t have to give blood again for a long time. 

 

5k

Back in March when we had nothing to do Colin started running with me a few times a week. He started out only running once around our small neighborhood but now we are up to 6 miles. It’s been fun having a running buddy to talk to as we run. Even when I’m dying because he sets the pace at a much faster run than I’m used to. But we are getting faster every week. 

I ran the Oscar Smith 5k last year and signed up the entire family to run it virtually this year. Joel and Brent trained together at night. 

Holly and I have been running together every Sunday since March which has been greatly needed for my sanity! So we decided to run the race virtually together. 

Norah and Emeline biked it and set a pretty fast pace.

Hollys parents were at the finish line with ribbon. We then took all the kids to Rita’s for Italian ice. The next morning Norah slept until almost 10am! All that biking wore her out. 

Instead of medals they mailed us masks which are actually more useful than a medal. 

Pool

The best thing we did the summer was join a pool about 5 minutes away. We had bought ocean breeze passes back in December but decided to defer those until next summer after the governor closed their slides. 

So the pool was perfect.  And even better was the fact that my co leader for Girl Scouts was a member so we met a lot at the pool this summer. 

We will definitely be joining again next summer. 

 

First week

We met some friends at the beach last weekend to celebrate surviving the first week of school. We are trying to hold onto summer as long as possible. And also needed to get out of the house. This virtual schooling schedule keeps us home bound all day long. We all prefer the loose schedule they had back in the spring. But we are slowly getting into our new routine. 

After a week of cloudy skies and rainy weather the sun was greatly needed.

I think it was Joel who told me last week that even the skies are sad for all the school kids that week! Ha! 

I think that might be our last beach day for awhile of actually getting in the water. Fall weather has arrive and as much as we like having windows open and cool evenings I think we’d all like a few more weeks of summer back. 

 

Beach days

We didn’t make it to the beach as much as I thought we would but we had a few families we would meet for some fun beach days. 

 The bay sunsets never disappoint 

For Christmas I got a paddle board so that has been a fun addition.

We made it to Yorktown beach a few times. That’s my favorite place to paddle board. 

Getting ice cream at first landing beach looks a lot different this year.

If the kids want to go far on the paddle board I have them wear a life jacket. I think we are the only ones wearing life jackets on our paddle boards but do you see Colin? He’s inside the black circle. I don’t worry about them and they have the freedom to go as far as they want. So they prefer wearing the life jacket.

Ant Ant joined us at Yorktown beach too. 

We hope to get a few more beach days in this year before winter.