Hello everyone!! I hope you are having a good week. We have had a mostly relaxing week, which has been refreshing after the two months of crazy we went through. Next week we have a bunch of appointments again, but this week was a nice reprieve.

A week ago Friday we had Wyatt’s preop appointment. This is the first time we have had a planned surgery with Wyatt and it feels so different. All of his previous surgeries have been emergency and I didn’t have time to think about them. They just sort of happened while I was in a state of shock. This one I have months to perseverate on it – however that also gives me time to prepare everything. I had a lot of questions, about bathing and recovery time and the length of the surgery (3 hours) and just all sorts of things. I think the surgeon was slightly amused at my notebook of questions and comments, and at one point I mentioned something about Wyatt, and my dramatic son who likes to troll me, was acting out what I asked about. The doctor had a chuckle and looked at me smiling and said “Your son is messing with you,” and I was like, yeah, I know he does that all the time. Because Wyatt does like to mess me with me, the turkey. When the doctor walked out at the end of the appointment he ruffled Wyatt’s hair and said “Don’t give your mom too much trouble.” It made me feel better in a way – he seems very stoic and quiet, the surgeon, but he picked up on Wyatt’s personality very quickly. It was reassuring, to have Wyatt be seen like that.

Afterwards we treated ourselves to a trip to a French-Asian bakery in Ann Arbor. If you are ever in the area, you must visit. It was the best pick-me-up to follow that appointment. We went to Tous les Jours, which is near Jackson Road, and Schuler’s Books, if you want to combine a visit to a fantastic bakery and a bookstore. Just saying. Anyway, my brother Devin, SIL Chrissy, and the girls (Mermaid and Hurricane) went out there few weeks ago and told us that we needed to go. When I saw that it was a hop skip and a jump from the hospital, I was like perfect.

There was so much to choose from! It is definitely a place where you want one of everything. When you walk in, it is a nice spacious room with tables on one side, and baked goods on the other. Some of it is self-serve, and some of the treats are in bakery cases at the front, things like the macarons and cakes. We started with the self-serve, obviously, and may have gone a little crazy. They just had so many options! Chestnut bread, strawberry croissants, ube cream donuts, taro cream bread, apple caramel pie, different warm croissants like ham and cheese or garlic and cheese – literally too many things to name. We chose to buy a variety and share them among the three of us, each of us picking out things out. Wyatt picked a chocolate cream filled donut, and accidentally touched a shrimp kimchi cake in the process so we got that too, I picked a caramel apple pie pastry, Billy wanted the ham and cheese croissant based on Devin’s recommendation. Then we also added a milk cream red bean bread, cranberry cream cheese bread (these are like little buns), a blueberry bun, and two macarons, a pistachio flavored one for Wyatt and lemon for Billy.

We all had our special pick in the car on the way home since we had gone to the office super early and needed to eat still. Billy and I loved ours; Wyatt did not like his at all. It was very fluffy airy chocolate and it exploded all over him when he bit into it and he hated that. The only thing he actually liked was his macaron. I think he was wary of the other pastries after his chocolate experience. We also tried the cranberry cream cheese bread thinking Wyatt might like that; he didn’t, but I think under different circumstances he would. Billy and I loved that too. Big surprise. Lol. Billy said though that the best thing was the shrimp kimchi cake that we bought because Wyatt accidentally touched it, so that turned out to be a good thing!

Then, on Sunday, we had my mom, Devin, Chrissy, and the girls over to celebrate my mother’s birthday. It was a nice time – my mom just gets such a kick out of the kids. It was good to see her smile and laugh. She has gotten very frail everyone, and I hate it. It’s hard to watch your parents age. Just why did it seem to happen so fast and all of a sudden? It was nice having her here though, and the kids had a lot of fun playing. Hurricane had me running all over the house. She will come up and very seriously take your hand and lead you off somewhere to play. For some reason she was intrigued by my bedroom that night. I guess there is a lot to see in there. It’s sort of messy.

And then, gloriously, Wyatt and I had a slow week. We will be running again next week, but this week was nice and slow, and we needed that.

Here are just some random pics from our week!

And that is it from me today! I hope that whatever you do today, you something that makes you smile!