love face.book

Yes, I have become a junkie...i am enjoying face.book a lot. My cousin and a good college friend got me hooked on it. I thought I was too old and too low-techie for it. But apparently, the majority of users are from my generation. I guess we need some way to try and stay young.

Most recently a sweet friend from h.s. contacted me and asked to be my friend, again. (Yes, you have to request a friendship with someone, before you're allowed to communicate with them.) I was so excited to reconnect with her and would accept a request for her friendship anytime! :-)

Another friend from h.s. and I also connected and I am really excited about that! She has a blog of her own and I've bookmarked it (Jill Anderson). She's quite active in this blogging community and I know I can learn a lot from her! Most exciting is her faith in Jesus...pretty cool to connect years later (15 this year!) and have a deeper basis for friendship this time around!

Tonsows in my froat.

We're 11 days out from surgery and we hope we can say that we have recovered well from a tonsilectomy & adenoidectomy. (Don't even spell check that!) For as much as we prepared him for it, he was not ready for it to happen that morning! I don't think there's anyway to fully prepare a 3 year old for surgery. But the surgery center did an awesome job and we felt so comfortable with the situation.

God's timing was good, as our friend's little girl had just had the same surgery, at the same office about a month earlier. She really helped me prepare and know what to expect. So thankful for her!

We're also thankful for everyone's prayers, meals, phone calls & words of encouragement. Several friends invited Braden over and took him to and from preschool. It was nice for him to be loved on a little extra too!

During Christmas, we had a late night and my SIL asked him, "Brooks, you look really tired, do you feel okay?"
In his nasally, stuffy voice he responded "No, I hab tonsows in my froat!" :-)

YES HE DID...and they were massive and slowing him down a lot!

He had quite the attitude while suffering through with majorly enlarged tonsils. So we asked the dr. to take out the grumpies during the procedure too. It became evident during recovery at home that they had not been removed. Once Brooks was back to normal, but still copping attitude, Brent and I threatened to take him back and have the tonsils put back in!! We think he's feeling a little freedom to express himself now in these terrible 3's!

All in all, it was pretty minor and it slowed us down for several days, but we couldn't have had a much more smooth experience!