Sunday, April 22, 2012

When mom and dad went to England

I should write an adventure tale about Hayley and Jacob's ten days while we were away.  It sounds, from the bits I am being told, like it was pretty exciting.  We had limited texting capabilities and just about no access to the internet so we could not keep up with a day by day, play by play.  We do know that there was a terrible storm at least one night but they weathered it ok.  Elliott, Hayley's car, lost a side mirror to a tree branch.  But with a little olive green duct tape, he's as good as new. 
Hayley and Jacob also seemed to have run out of dinner ideas pretty fast.  I think that is a comment on the fact that we are creatures of habit in the kitchen.   Pasta, Mexican, maidrites.  Repeat.  There were a couple of Pizza Hut boxes in the trash bin so I know they did venture out of our kitchen.
The big event was when Hayley may or may not have passed out at work and took an ambulance ride to the hospital.  This is not the first time she has had some fainting type issues and considering we were gone and she could not reach any other grown up, she opted for the ambulance ride to the hospital.  She got an IV and they took some blood and pee, but there was no real answer to what is going on.  Details are still fuzzy on this next part, but Jacob did not have his house key.  The spare, hidden outside, had been stolen by the giant spider that lives near the hiding place.  So Jacob had to break in.  He managed it nicely, but had he not, there would have been a second ride in an ambulance. 
Harlow was a naughty girl.  She pooped in the hall the day we left.  I think the sentence She pooped in the hall is funny to say.  She also broke out of the gate several times.  Sometimes Harlow just likes to wear naughty pants, this may have been one of those times.
On top of all that adventure, my dad went to the hospital with shortness of breath and ended up have some minor surgery.  We knew about the shortness of breath part because we were able to get that text before we left the states, but the rest was unknown to me.  Dad didn't want us to even know so our trip wasn't ruined with worry for him.  I appreciate that because knowing a little but not being able to keep up with the news would have been very frustrating. 
We also had a robin build a nice three egg nest on the speaker on the deck.  I hate to kick her out now that she has babies brewing.  I will let Danny be the heavy on that one.
So there are no trips on the horizon which is a great relief to Hayley.  Apparently looking after Jacob is a lot of work.  I know, I have been doing it for over 16 years, hence the trip! 

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