Let me explain………………

Sometimes in life we want to take our frustrations out on something. A few days ago I told JP that I wanted to paint something or punch someone. He said “Paint the bedroom”

So yesterday I got up and headed to town to pick up some paint, came home and set out to accomplish something. Something I could get done. Take some pride in.

So I took some before pics…………………………

Then I began.

I was getting up and down on this ladder. I was up taking down the curtain, thinking and working, and I must have thought I was on the bottom step………………..and stepped off. I was probably on the 3rd step up. Then Boom. Here is a diagram :>}

I messed up my knee pretty bad. Couldn’t step on it. JP came got me and took me to get an x ray. Nothing broken but something stretched or ripped. I have to stay off it for a few days and then we shall see.

JP has been taking good care of me. I got this wonderful meal.

Have to use this brace and crutches. That stinks

So after he got the dishes done, he had to finish what I started. Poor JP.

Then he had to put it all back together.

Just a little swollen :>}

 

I am loving the color. It is so hard for me to set around and do nothing…….. so hard. But I just keep thinking I am grateful that I didn’t fall on something and hurt my back or crack my head.

Stacy has a sore knee and got a tooth pulled last week so she came over and hung out with me.

Love this girl.

Oh and JP got all the paint out of the carpet. That is what I was the most upset over.

Anywhoo……..for Mother’s Day my kiddos got me a 7 Peak season’s pass. Oh so fun. While Ryan was here we went a couple times. At least I got that in before I got injured.

Stacy

 

Stacy and Ryan

 

Nothing like being forced to sit back and ponder. Nothing like having time to JUST THINK. To do nothing else. I am sure this is HIS way of saying, breath, slow your mind and heart down, take a minute for yourself and gather your thoughts. It feels like the trials never stop. That’s what I have been thinking, but then it takes a trial to gather myself together and say…..I can do this. I found this quote.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. Orson F Whitney

So I guess the moral to this story is…………………..

I should have bought a life alert. :}