Father's Day & Birthday Weekend Recap

Happy Father's Day to my one and only, "Mr B". I feel so blessed and honored that God chose us to walk together through our life journey. I really could not ask for a better father for my child(ren). We bought him a card, a devotional for fathers that I heard about through Beth Moore's blog, a cute little golden book for Raymond and him to read together "I Love you, Daddy", the picture below of the 2 of them at the pool that I took one day that he hadn't seen before AND his favorite present that he has been asking for, for months.... the Perfect Pushup thingies.

Happy Father's day to my dad, "Daddy Cat" as I call him. I wrote him a card in "real life" and he doesn't read my blog anyway haha so I am not going to express how absolutely AWESOME he is and how blessed I am/was to have him for my daddy anymore that this sentence here. And yes by the way I love nicknames and seem to call everybody something that nobody else calls them --- I get that from my dad!

I hope you all will pray for my dad though aka Papa. He was admitted to the hospital yesterday (happy father's day for him ---- not) because he can't swallow. He has sleep apnea problems and what appears to be allergies/throat issues - but when he finally just could NOT swallow anymore at 2 am on Saturday - he woke up my mom and said he wanted her to sit with him until 9am when the urgent care opened. Why he didn't go straight to the hospital I have no idea....well I DO have an idea - but in the spirit of Father's Day I'll keep my opinions to myself hehe. ANYWAY --- urgent care sent to him straight to the hospital of course. and after testing we were happy to know it wasn't a stroke or seizure or anything that is making it literally impossible to swallow. It's weird how sometimes I feel things are about to happen right before they do. I have been able to tell 2 of my friends they were pregnant before even THEY knew and I have spoiled the secret for many of my friends/relatives. I just get these feelings. on saturday morning I bolted awake at 6am for no reason at all. and called mom right at 7:30 when I knew she'd be awake and it was weird for her to tell me right away something was up - I just KNEW it.

BUT the point they are at right now is that they believe he can't swallow because his tongue is EXTREMELY swollen and he has an abscess (spelling?) in the back of his throat/tongue --- they have an infectious diseases doctor looking at him - they believe he has a bacterial infection worsened by his other throat issues. He MIGHT have picked up something up 2 weeks ago when he was in New Orleans doing rebuilding effort help for victims of Katrina. I feel so bad for him - it must be scary for him to not be able to breathe easily, and not swallow at all (therefore no eating or drinking)...this is especially hard for my father who is one of the strongest, healthiest, confident people I know. I have never ever ever seen him "knocked" down in my 25 years - and I don't like seeing it. I was able to hear his voice for a little today - but he sounded so horrible - can barely talk at all. I know sitting in the hospital must be so hard....I know being his nurse must be hard too. He refuses to put on a gown and he isn't being very cooperative about sitting in bed - he keeps unplugging himself and going for strolls. he was still with it enough though to make sure to grab the phone from my mom and wish me a Happy Birthday. but oh boy.... my poor mama.

So anyway - I absolutely know that he's a fast healer and this will be over and done with but I just feel so bad for him right now.

My mom cancelled her flight today to come see us. She was coming to play with us for 10 days for my birthday and Brandon's birthday.....but I'd rather her be with Papa of course. but whenever plans change like that it's disappionting but it will be okay! I just have to work out some babysitting though for the next 10 week days because mom was gonna do it since my babysitter's last day was Friday - and I retire on July 8th!!!!

But anyway again - please prayer for PapaWolfe/DaddyCat/BigRon

As far as my birthday...... I can't believe I'm 25. But age to me is really so insignificant. I've never acted or done anything appropriate for my age likel society tells me to. not that I'm rebelling but just because in many ways I feel so much more mature than my peers ---and in some ways I still feel like I'm 7! :)

For my Birthday, Brandon took me to Red Lobster and had gamma watch raymond and he let me eat a WHOLE lobster all by myself! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE lobster! :) It was so good. And they even brought me vanilla ice cream with caramel and a candle! Another one of my absolute faves!!

but shhhhh don't tell anybody from Wilmington/home that I went 2 hours in land to visit my relatives and went to Red Lobster! It's so wrong to live right on the coast and then go IN land to get lobster from a chain --- AHHH! :) At work Friday they bought me a cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory.. WOW it was good. But I definitely gained 5 pounds this weekend that I'll have to work off this week hehehe. But it was worth every wonderful morsel! :)

I hope you all had a great weekend - don't forget to pray for PapaWolfe. Love you all and I'm praying for you all as well.