Filed under: Other | Tags: adhesion, Ally, circumcision, Ethan, family, struggles
I have been so frustrated lately by family. Am I the only one? It seems like things are never great….like everything is either falling to pieces or just ok. Now I have never been the type to hold ANY feelings inside, most of the time you can tell how I am feeling just by the look on my face. I’m not really sure what I want to say on here, but I just want everyone reading to think about how they are treating their families…step outside of yourself and your own life and check on each other! I know that everyone’s lives are busy…heck, mine is too!! But I was raised that family comes first–no matter what. We celebrate together and we cry together!
When I married Ryan, I married his family and I have tried very hard to connect with them and treat them the same way I would treat my family. The worst thing I could do is alienate him from his family–it just wouldn’t be right–and there would come a day when he’d resent me for it!
From what I’ve seen, it’s natural for the couple to lean towards the woman’s family…but does the man’s family just get left behind? I can understand these tendencies, because I miss my family every single day and I often wonder that if there were better job opportunities out in Indiana–would we live there?! I hope that one day, when Ethan gets married, his wife will encourage him to include us in his life…but more than that, I hope he will have the good sense to keep us in his life. That will be a long time from now…I know I’m jumping WAY ahead!
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Keep little Ethan in your prayers, he has some adhesions on his little privates from his circumcision and now he has to have surgery to correct it. I feel so bad because we weren’t pulling the skin back far enough and it started to reattach. Sounds gross, but it’s the truth about little boys that nobody ever tells you! I will tell every new mom who is having a boy! So anyway, his surgery is on the 21st and it will take a very short time. Our doctor said he could fix it while Ethan was awake, but that he wouldn’t do it to his own son! I said, “…then you’re not doing it to mine.” So now he’s going under!
I’m so glad it’s the weekend!
