What!?!

I can't believe it is already May!! It feels like yesterday when I posted last! Okay - maybe it feels a little longer...Oh my but a lot has happened since then.

Well, to catch you up a little - I think I mentioned in my last post our family was going to be moving into a new house soon. Over Christmas break we had the privilege of installing the new cabinets in our house! We started on Dec 23 and tried to get them all finished up in one day so we wouldn't have to do anything on Christmas Eve. Well let me tell you something right now - NOTHING goes smoothly and quickly in the construction industry. There is always some kind of a hiccup. We got pretty far on the Thursday, but not far enough. We worked a little on Chrismas Eve, but wanted to spend the time together, snuggled in a warm home, enjoying the season. So we inched toward the finish line, but still had a few things to wrap up. Christmas morning came and we enjoyed every minute of it, yet we still had some things that needed to be finished up before Monday when our laminate would be installed. So we unfortunetly spent a little while there Christmas Day as well, but refused to spend all day there, so we quickly wrapped it up for the day knowing we only needed to cut out the sinks in the bathrooms and the kitchen to finish up our project. We decided to wait and do this the next day. This day just happened to fall on Sunday! We are usually very strict when it comes to the Sabbath, but because of Christmas, the circumstances were a little different. We ran over to the house after church to wrap things up. As my husband was finishing up the last part of the kitchen sink - disaster struck! The saw he was using hit a screw and kicked back on him causing it to wrap up in his long sleeved shirt and dive into the top of his forearm. Once reality hit us, we immediately hopped in the car and sped to the ER. Thanks to the amount of blood he was losing, they got him in immediately and went to work. After X-Rays and evaluations, the diagnosis was not great. He had cut 3 tendons to his fingers and would need them repaired in surgery. They decided they wanted to wait to do the surgery till Wednesday, so they cleaned it out, sewed it up, and sent him on his way. Three days later the tendons were repaired, (on our anniversary no less), and he was finally on the mend. Three Dr. visits and quite a few Physical Therapy appts. later, he is almost back to normal.

We are extremely grateful things didn't end up worse than they were and thank Heavenly Father everyday he still has the use of his hand. I can say two things for sure - We will never work on Sunday again no matter the circumstances, and that will be a Christmas we will never forget!!