A Glimpse Into My Life ...

A couple of weeks ago Joshua was fitted for an appliance that stays on his teeth unless he is eating - the purpose of this appliance is to push one of his teeth out where it belongs (so it lines up with the rest of his teeth instead of trying to hide behind them).

Everything has been going really smoothly with this device - he takes it out (and brushes it to clean it), he puts it back in, it stays in pretty much 24/7.  However, last night when we went to have supper he took the device out of his mouth and somehow managed to pull a tooth out with it!!!!!

So, this morning I phone the dentist and see if they can squeeze him in - they ask what the problem was and I told them, I get put on hold and when Kyla comes back on the line she says "Can you be here at 10:00?", you bet, we will be there no problem.  When we get there, Josh is pretty much escorted right in and it turns out I didn't have to worry at all - his teeth are looking good (the adult tooth is already poking through where the other one came out), they had to tighten up the device because when he pulled out his tooth it caused the device to become loose.  Oh and they also gave us a better toothbrush specifically meant for cleaning these types of devices.

I'm glad that it was such an easy fix .... and yes, I'll probably worry just as much if it happens again, lol.

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On Sunday we had our Sunday School Wind Up, the kids had a wonderful time - there was a jumping jamboree, face painting and a BBQ for everyone to enjoy.

Josh decided that he did not want to get his face painted but Charlotte was one of the first in line to get hers done.  She had her face painted like a tiger and it looked sooooooo cute, unfortunately I did not get a picture of it to share with all of you.

Once we got home, Charlotte sat down to have some yogurt but discovered that the paint from her face was flaking off into her yogurt (the people that were painting faces didn't use actual face paint) - so, off to the bathroom she goes to wash her face off.  Pretty soon I hear her calling me to come to the bathroom ... she had the majority of the paint already washed off but there was some that would not budge.

I drained the water from the sink and put in some fresh warm water, took a face cloth and got it wet, next I rubbed some glycerin type soap onto the face cloth and then gently washed the rest of the paint from her face.  She looked at me and said that this reminded her of Jesus, I asked her what she meant and she said that the paint that was left on her face was like sin and then when I washed her face off with soap it was like Jesus washing the sins away.

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Last night when Don got home from work he had two matching desks in the back of the truck.  We are putting them against the one wall in the Toy Room, making it part school room, the wall that they are on is 10' 6" and the desks just fit in the space.  He did have to shorten one of the desks, so his measuring skills were right on the ball, lol.  I'll post pictures once it is all finished.    We still need to get a couple of desk chairs for them - we want to get the kind that are on wheels and swivel so that when I put a lesson or something up on the whiteboard, they can just swivel their chairs to see what I'm doing.

Josh really surprised both Don and myself - he was getting right in there and helping his Dad to put the desks together, going out and getting the next piece that Don needed without having to be asked to do it.  This is something that is very rare for him to do (it is mostly Charlotte that is in there helping her Dad build things), so when Josh asked if he could tighten the screws that hold the legs on Don showed him what to do and then let him go to it.  By the time that we called it a night, we had one very exhausted boy, lol, some of those pieces were not the lightest.

I tried a new recipe last night - it's called Upside Down Pizza (it's GF but you could use regular flour in it).  There was only one of us that wasn't completely thrilled with it ..... yep, that would be Josh - his main complaint was that it wasn't like the 'old' recipe that I usually make, lol.  In other words, it was something that was a little different than what he was expecting when I said we would have Upside Down Pizza for supper (he heard the word 'pizza' and was expecting the usual kind that he gets).  The recipe calls for sausage, I used browned hamburger.  I didn't have the kind of sauce that they called for so I used salsa and a large can of crushed tomatoes and then added seasonings to it.  Both Don and Charlotte voted that it was a "Make again meal" when I asked.  Here is the link for it:  Upside Down Pizza

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