broken

ben's broken. it's just temporary. as a matter of fact today, 04/15/12 is his first day back to work. he broke his shoulder on 02/27/12 at work on a fire. he didn't know it at the time. he came home from work hurting. i went to work the next day and that night he was hurting bad enough to go get it checked out. poor guy NEVER complains about anything.

it was bad enough to get surgery...or so they thought. they got inside and were surprised that no repairs were necessary and that everything was healing quite nicely. we were glad that the surgery was not as extensive as they thought was needed.

my mom came to our rescue AGAIN. i say again because she came out the end of january and beginning of february to help us out when i had to attend some classes for my job in phoenix. anyways, as soon as we found out that ben was going to be out of work for awhile and that he needed to rest his arm i started making phone calls to see if anyone was able to help. i wasn't expecting anything from anyone, but knew that if i was going to make my training for my job work and get ben's shoulder better we were going to need to get some kind of help so that he didn't have to lift baby and what not. i really did not expect that she was going to be able to work it all out and within 10 minutes she called me back and her and john had worked it all out. let me tell you, there was a lot that she had to work out!! people would not think it because she is, by all technicalities, retired. The label "retired" does not fit her in any sense of the word, but she came...for a whole month! i know, i am spoiled.

i felt so guilty and blessed at the same time that she had just been here and she was coming back for a whole month. but she said that i needed it and so did john. he was so gracious to let her come. last minute john was able to come too. he came and stayed for the last week and a half of her stay. i will be forever grateful for their willingness to drop everything that is important to them in their lives to come take care of my family despite their responsibilities in their own home. they made such a stressful situation to my family seem like no big deal...and despite the circumstances we had so much fun having grandma & grandpa kelley here. i could go on and on and on about what they did for us and the gratitude that both ben and i feel at this whole situation. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!