Good News Post

First, as I know some of you are anxious to hear about Soccer Son's surgery, it went fine. Part of the procedure involved administering adrenaline to evoke an irregular heartbeat so the surgeon could "map" the heart to identify the tissue causing the irregularity and remove it. In all the surgeon's efforts to elicit an irregular heartbeat, he was only successful once, for one beat, so mapping was more difficult. The surgeon is pretty sure he was able to remove the problem tissue, but he's not 100 percent positive. Of course, we're hopeful it worked. Now the toughest part will be to keep Soccer Son resting for 48 hours and then NOT RUNNING AROUND this week. But I gotta tell you that's going to be hard for him. He's a very, very active person. He's spending tonight (Monday) in San Jose, getting a good night's rest after the procedure, but he'll be coming home tomorrow afternoon or evening, and I think it will be even harder for him to do nothing one he's back in his own environment. Next weekend he travels to Santa Cruz with his competitive girls team for a tournament and will need to do most of his coaching sitting on the sidelines with maybe a little bit of standing and minimal pacing back and forth. Luckily his Lovely Wife to Be Someday will be going as well, and we hope she'll be able to keep him reined in.

Next, the winner of the scrap package is Kimland who said, "I have always admired your fabric tastes and would be happy to give your scraps a new home in Iowa. Hope all goes well with soccer son's procedure!" Kim, please send me your mailing address so I can send you some scraps. I have not put the package together yet so there may be a delay of a few days, but I'll get it mailed soon.

Finally, Tuesday morning the Wild Child is flying off to New York to spend two weeks with Manager Man. I don't remember whether I posted about it, but Manager Man graduated from Chico State back in May and promptly moved to New York to pursue his dreams of working in the entertainment industry. The Wild Child--who wants to go into the publishing field when she finishes college--is considering whether it would be feasible to move to New York to finish her schooling and intern at a publishing house. Most of the colleges are closed for summer break now, so she won't have a chance to talk to any counselors, but at least she'll get a general feel for the city. She's such an outdoorsy person, I have a hard time picturing her living in New York city, but I think she's pretty flexible too, so maybe it would be excellent for her.

So, as you may imagine, it feels like we're hopping from one thing to another around here. And still, of course, I'm super busy at work and we have a couple other things going on as well in our lives. I really yearn for a little time to sit back and relax, but I don't think much of that will happen this week. I will, though, say goodnight now and head off to bed and hope for the best. Thanks for stopping by to visit, and thank you especially for your thoughts and prayers for Soccer Son!