our weekend--in a nutshell!!

i can explain our weekend in a single word----unpredictable! the unpredictable weekend actually started on thursday when shawn came home telling me he would have to travel to wichita this week!! now that is really nothing unusual, but i usually have a couple of weeks notice, not 3 days!! but work is work - that's why we're here--so i got over that obstacle pretty quick! on friday, shawn was home with grady and i, due to the shortened work week (boeing strike)!!! it was a gorgeous day, so we decided to head to the park for a picnic and playtime--we had a great time. it was nice for grady to have us all to himself--i don't think that has happened since he was teeny tiny! after the park, it was time to pick up big brother at school--after gabe got home, shawn and him decided to play football--in the house! well, long story short, gabe reached down to pick up a ball he missed and poked his eye with one of the plants by our fireplace--ouch! we put a cold compress on it right away, he wasn't crying, but he said he could not open his eye. shawn finally got his eye pried open and saw a scratch on his eye. so, we decided since he couldn't open it on his own and he had seen a scratch, we should head to the doctor. shawn was in the middle of cooking a whole chicken on the grill - so he stayed behind with the chicken, because as we all know, i am quite the grillmaster! so gabe and i hopped in the armada to head off---okay here comes blow number 3-- it wouldn't start! it had worked just fine earlier in the day--who knows, no time to figure it out, so we hop in the car and away we go! we get to the immediate care and they look at the eye and tell me they don't think it looks too bad, so they should be able to take care of it down there instead of sending us up to the optometrist. they ask us 5 million questions, and have poor gabe do about 50 eye tests--with the eye he can't open! well, good news he can still see! so they take us back to the room and put these drops in his eye that make his eye glow in the dark--so they will be able to see the scratch. with further investigation under the black light, the doctor determined it was a lot worse than he had first thought - so we then get whisked up stairs to the optometrist. they get us right in, which always kind of freaks me out--there are other people waiting and they somehow miraculously get us in?! must be bad! so the doctor comes in and says, "we have to get this stopped!" good grief-- keep your comments to yourself! he spouts off some orders to his assistant about 5 drops, for five minutes of something and some other drop and some test!! no time for questions he's back out the door! dr. comment comes back in explaining that the scratch looks like the shape of a mountain across gabe's eye extending pretty far into the white, so to stop the scratch from worsening he put some numbing drops in, some drops to dilate the eye - to keep it from swelling- and place a contact on the eye to form a sort of bandaid! we were then to stop by walgreens and get an antibiotic and tylenol for pain and then be back in the morning for a recheck--yes, saturday morning! although he said the scratch was pretty bad, the eye heals extremely fast and should be back to perfect by morning! so with that we head to walgreens and home for dinner. we take it pretty easy that evening until the kids get in bed and then it is time to figure out the armada!! since shawn and i are both so extremely mechanically inclined when it comes to our vehicles, i head to google and he grabs the owner's manual! shawn decides to try to jump start the army....no go! so it must not be the battery right?! wrong! as it turns out--after much investigating by madam google--the army has a huge battery (and strange one as we will soon find out) so the car couldn't get it started. so we decide on saturday we will go get the battery tested and go from there! well saturday arrives, gabe is to have a soccer game, but with his eye, mean mom and dad think that maybe playing wouldn't be a good idea--he finally talks me into asking the doctor! we get to the appt. - his eye is perfect!! thank goodness! so i ask the doctor, "gabe has a soccer game this morning, he probably shouldn't play, should he?" dr. comment sees absolutely no reason why not--his eye is back to normal! huh?? well, that is all gabe needed so we ran out the door--we had 35 minutes to get home, change and get to the game. no problem-we are only 20 minutes from home and 10 minutes from the soccer field--you do the math! well, somehow we make it !! gabe plays a great game, and no more eye injuries! the score is a little better this week 3-6, we're still on the short end of the win, but good news, gabe stopped a couple of goals while playing goalie! go fireballs!! after the game we decided to attack the battery issue! come to find out, the battery was dead--totally dead, and the battery is some sort of backwards battery, no doubt so nissan can make a bundle! we try a couple of places--no go, so we call the nissan dealership, they have one!!! we tell them to hold it--we will be right there! well, not only is the battery weird, it also costs about twice as much as a regular one---perfect! so we go home with our golden battery, hook it up, cross our fingers--and thankfully the army starts right up!!!! things are looking up right----wrong again!! my sister, who rents our house called on saturday afternoon and told us that there was a little water in the basement!! it had been raining like crazy there for about a week, in fact, she was flooded in on friday, so of course this should happen. we tell her to use the shop vac and keep the dehumidfier going! thankfully is was a very small amount of water - only about a 2 square foot spot- we are so very fortunate to have her as a renter, who knows what would have happened to the house if she weren't there!!! we ended our crazy weekend on a good note though---we finally got all of our yard work done--we are no longer the ghetto neighbors! and we got to enjoy a barbeque with some friends from church on sunday!! i mainly bored you all with this blog post only because i usually only post the great happenings of the fox family--rest assured we are normal, we have bad days too!