September 17, 2025 - Wednesday

Sadly, the peaceful, easy feelings of the last two days are gone now and in their place is stress and overwhelm. *sigh* At least I had that awesome vacation! I think I'm starting to get stressed about packing for camping maybe? Ben is really, really overwhelmed about it and has been bringing it up a dozen times a day. Today, we did school in the morning, but, again, I had to cut Ruby's time short so that I could do something else. I needed to get to Jenny's because we haven't gotten together in a couple of weeks. She and I actually had a great time catching up though! We had a lot of fun, lots of laughs, and lots of good convo. 

When I got back, I had to immediately turn around and take the big girls to choir, then run to the dollar store, then do some work. Jonas made dinner when I went back to get the girls. Such a blessing that he is able to do that now! He made tacos for us. 

After dinner, I was doing some cleaning and Ollie was helping out. She went in the kitchen to throw something away, then she screamed and grabbed her neck! She was crying and screaming and grasping at her neck saying it felt like a million bruises and someone stabbing her! I started to panic and called Ben to come home from the store immediately so I could rush her to the urgent care. She wouldn't stop screaming and crying and I just had absolutely no idea what was going on! I got her to the urgent care and, by the time we walked in the doors, I could tell she was feeling much better. I was imagining a broken neck or like a burst artery or something! But she had stopped crying and was seeming to be in a great mood. It became obvious that it was just a strain or something like that. She was all in at that point though and we had to see it through. So, we spent the next two hours at the urgent care, just for the doc to tell us her lymph nodes were a little swollen, so it was either those irritating her or a mild strain. *eye roll eye roll eye roll eye roll* I felt very annoyed with myself for panicking, but, at the same time, Ollie never acts like that when she gets hurt. So, I guess it was better that I didn't just ignore it? But it was frustrating to spend my whole evening there, when Ben was really hoping we could work on packing! And I was really hoping I could relax. :)

*Here is a picture my phone took accidentally as we were walking out to the van to head to the urgent care. It's the only one from the day, so it works!