In Spite of Throw-up

Gotcha day has come and gone and life goes on. Jeremy had actually written the post Getting it on Gotcha Day on Monday evening as we knew Tuesday would be a busy day. We had decided to celebrate Gotcha Day by going out for a Chinese Dinner. We also had our 1 year (and last) home visit with our Social Worker scheduled for that evening.

We went to the Chinese Buffet that is right up the street from our home. Everyone had a delicious dinner and we all got in the van to head home. As we were pulling into our driveway at 6:30 PM, one of our children (who shall remain nameless) proceeded to throw up all over the van. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Our SW was scheduled to arrive in exactly 30 minutes. We very carefully assisted all of the children out of the van- attempting to keep them from stepping in throw up. The "child" went into the house and quickly got a shower and immediately felt better. Thinking- it was something they ate. Jeremy then got the unpleasant job of cleaning up the van. I quickly vacuumed the sofas (yes, our hairy dog only goes on the sofas while we are out- gotta work on that). Thankfully, we had everyone looking presentable and smelling pretty by the time our SW arrived. She never knew what had transpired.

How did our visit go? Ben refused to answer her questions, Jonathan showed off, Tyler put his hair in a mohawk and came out to show everyone and they all watched lots of videos while we answered numerous questions. By the time our SW was done we were quite confident we had somehow "passed" this last milestone.

Today, I took Jonathan to what turned out to be his last physical therapy appointment at Shriners. We are scheduled to meet with his team at Shriners in December and they will evaluate his prosthetic and assess how he is doing at that time. We also discovered about a week ago that Jonathan has a hernia. We are scheduled to see a urologist at the end of this month.

Back to my van- Jeremy did a fabulous job cleaning up the mess, but there is still a lingering smell. Sometime this summer, I purchased a car air scent thingy for a friend and picked up a pack for us as well. The scent was Sun and Sand. I sent this to a friend in anticipation of our upcoming beach vacation together. I used one in our car and had just thrown the other one in the pack on the van floor. As I was driving to Shriners today - I found it. The van still smells like throw up I thought to myself what we need is this great Sun and Sand air freshener. So I opened the package and attached it to the front of the van. We went into Shriners only to return to our car 2 hours later- smelling like someone threw up at the beach because of too much sun. Not the pretty smell I was going for.

Some days, life gives you throw up and other days it gives smiles and hugs and some days you just need to smile in spite of the throw up.