Daley Ponderings

Our week has been somewhat full, with a few extra church services, including Maundy Thursday with handbells, which I didn't find out until the end of the service that it wasn't recorded, and I meant to record it during rehearsal, but I forgot.  But, it went well, despite Jeremiah being sick, but fortunately, Faith's part was pretty easy, so she was able to take over his bells as well as her own (so, I think that means she had more than an octave of the highest bells).

We also had a combined service with the Methodist Church and Smith Church today.  They had a "tables of the cross" type setup to explore after the service, and Nathaniel in particular stayed for quite a while.

Grace started her new medicine, Koselugo on Tuesday(?) and she has been doing really well.  Sometimes the first pill in the morning takes a little bit more work, and the second pill goes down quite well.  And then the one at night has been going well too.  She has been putting the pill in a little yogurt along with some water.  No side-effects so far!

Unrelated to the meds, she has fallen a couple times this week, and we figured out at least one of the falls was due to really tight jeans, which limited how much she could lift her legs, and that resulted in a spectacular-sounding fall, which was her going face-first down 5 stairs or so to the first landing.  And she has some pretty significant bruising from that.  She now insists she'll never wear jeans again, but maybe she'll be able to figure out that bigger jeans will fit better.

This evening, Nathaniel and Jeremiah and I were able to get back to The Curse of Monkey Island, which we hadn't played in months, and made some significant progress, and as I write, I'm listening to Faith and Joy singing hymn/duets as they make some gingerbread!

Joy was a reader at the Good Friday service.

We (Heather, Jon, Hope and Grace) went on a time-share presentation vacation last weekend, and (short version - all time-shares, even those that pretend to not be time-shares, are all bad) we went for a walk on the train tracks behind the hotel.  Aside from the presentation, the rest of the weekend was nice - basically nothing on the schedule, went out to dinner every night and swam in the pool a few times.  Grace is quite bold and willing to jump in from the side and always held her breath without any problems!