I haven't updated the blog since December 20th, so I will catch everyone up on Kelsey's surgery, our Christmas activities, and the end of the year.
I forgot to mention that we usually have our family Christmas at home the morning of the 22nd and then head to McMinnville later in the day. Since Kelsey was going to be in Jackson and recovering from surgery, we decided to have our family Christmas in Jackson on the 19th in our hotel room. We took all of our presents, Courtney's small Christmas tree from her room, and Jennifer made some Reese's cakes for us to have for dessert and use as our birthday cake for baby Jesus. We always read the Christmas story and then sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and blow out a candle on a cake. Since we forgot a small candle, I had to borrow a large one from the lobby at the hotel. :-) It was definitely different, but we still enjoyed ourselves.
Kelsey's surgery went well the next day and we took her back to Christy and Phillip's house after a short time in the post-op recovery and tried to make her as comfortable as possible. She could not lie down to sleep, so we had to find the best way to prop her up in a chair or bed for a few days and keep ice on her shoulder.
Our original plan was to stay there for a few days and then we would all leave for McMinnville on the 22nd to spend our Christmas holiday with Jenn's parents as we always have in the past. However, Trace came down with his 2nd round of the flu (different strain than his first), despite the fact that we all had a flu shot and we had to rethink everything. We wanted to make sure that noone else caught the flu from him and could not have anyone contagious around Glen. We quarantined Trace in a bedroom for a day and a half and gave him medicine. Since noone else had shown any symptoms by Saturday afternoon, we decided that we would take Kelsey and Tanner and go on to McMinnville and then Phillip and Christy would bring Trace and Tori after they were sure Trace was no longer contagious. Despite some morning nausea problems, Kelsey was actually able to sing at church on Sunday morning, as she has for the past several years. She did great, but had to leave right after she finished. Christy and the rest of her family were able to come on Monday morning and we enjoyed our family activities with some minor schedule changes.
The kids had a great time, Kelsey alternated between Glen's hospital bed and one of the back bedrooms, but overall things worked out a lot better than it could have been. Christy's family left on the 26th to head to Clarksville for Christmas with Phillip's family and we headed back to Hermitage on the 27th. We got everything unloaded, some of it put away, got Kelsey settled in to a new routine here at home, and then we kept Tori here with us for a few days while the rest of the family went to a church retreat in Gatlinburg called "Winter Extreme". They had a great time and picked up Tori the afternoon of the 31st. Kelsey was able to go with a friend and celebrate the New Year with his family and we brought in the new year here at home. It has been a long 2 weeks with lots of travel, little sleep, and so much excitement, we are all exhausted. Too bad we have to get up at 5 AM on New Year's Day to move Kelsey in at Union for the J term. Well, more about that in another post.
Thank you for your continued prayer support..
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