Shayel’s first ER visit

Yesterday after school, the girls were playing at the school playground. Shayel was jumping off the swing (I’m not big on “banning” things like that - which gets me the hairy eyeball from other moms but whatever) and one one particularly high jump she landed weird on her foot. It clearly hurt her badly (the screaming gave it away hehe). I did a preliminary once over on  the scene and then plopped her into the bike trailer so we could get home and ice it. I didn’t think it was broken but it was clearly very painful.

After icing it and resting for a few hours it seemed to be much better so we decided not to take her to the ER. Then about 11pm she woke up crying saying that it hurt really bad. Seeing as David had to take the car to get fixed the next morning and we’d be stranded with only a bike, we decided to take her to the ER that night just to be sure it wasn’t broken.

So David took her, they did the xrays and said there were no breaks and that she probably tore a tendon when the foot bones on the arch side spread apart upon landing. It still hurts her when you touch it or if she puts weight on it but she was determined to go to school today anyway. She said it would be nice to have “clutches” LOL.

She’s a little speed demon on one foot hopping - I was impressed.

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so proud of shayel

On Saturday, we went to my parents’ to celebrate Shayel’s birthday (which was officially Sunday). David and I also had an Undercroft gathering to go to so the girls decided to stay with my parents and then go with them to church. We were dubious about Aliyah but she insisted. Sure enough, when they took Shayel to drop her off at Sunday School Aliyah had a melt down - who knows why? She probably didn’t want to leave Shayel but then also didn’t want to be left in Sunday School with her. We were finishing up at Undercroft anyway so we took off to the church. By the time we got on our way my mom said the girls were fine - playing in the church school’s playground. But here’s the amazing thing about Shayel. She really wanted to go to her class but after some thoughtful consideration, she took a deep breath and almost in tears said “I’ve made my decision, I want to stay with my sister”. Bless her heart. My mom said she was trying hard not to cry. And she did so good helping Aliyah calm down and encouraging her not to be sad. One thing she said was “Aliyah, if you color, you’ll have so much fun you’ll forget about mom and dad” LOL. Sweet girl. I’m so proud of that kid.

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April 2008 - update

It’s probably long past time to update friends and family on the Fisher tribe. I’m not sure I have too much to report but here ‘goes anyway

Shayel turns 6 on the 20th and is doing FANTASTIC at Dunn IB World School in half day kindergarten. She enjoys school and is thriving in her classroom with this particular curriculum and teacher. She has been receiving advanced reader books every week and we’re proud of her progress at the first grade level. She is also doing well at math and enjoys art and music. She continues to amaze us all with her creative exploits making up stories and illustrations to go with the stories.

Aliyah is home with mom, she turns 3 in June. She has not had the benefit of as many activities and socializing as Shayel did at this age since we only have 1 car but I’m hoping that when Shayel goes to full day in first grade we’ll make up for lost time. She likes drawing with her sister and is currently having a wardrobe crisis every single day….ah yes, 2.5…I will not miss you.

David’s still at Group, Mak is still doing freelance graphic design and we are still leading Revolution and all that comes with leading a faith community. We’re part of the Emergent conversation and really enjoy the variety of relationships that are blossoming from that.

We are taking a trip to England in November as a family which we are VERY excited about. It’s part vacation, part ministry scouting. We have an itch to move to England in the next couple years and want to see what it might hold for us there. Our Mission organization is working on a base in London and we’re excited to connect with some “virtual” friends as well.

So yeah, nothing new I guess hehe. I usually log funny things the kids say and other stuff over at my main hub site makeesha.com and all my deeper spiritual conversation stuff is at swingingfromthevine.com

Pax!

my niece

My niece is so gorgeous! She turned 1 in January, I’m so sad that they live in San Diego now

rich inner life

My friend Heather said something really cool about Shayel yesterday that I thought was a high compliment and beautifully put (she’s a writer so she’s good at being spontaneously poetic) - “Shayel really has a rich inner life doesn’t she?”

And she’s right. She does. I’m a little jealous of that actually.

Shayel also has demonstrated such emotional maturity lately.

She told me a story the other day about recess. She was playing with her friend Alex and noticed her friend Allie sitting on a swing “with her head down”. Shayel said she thought she looked like she “needed a friend” so she went over to her and talked with her. Allie wanted to play with Shayel and then she noticed Alex over by the trees and he looked sad so she talked to him. And then she said she talked to both of them and they worked it out so everyone could play together and then everyone was happy.

To use a shayelism - just makes your heart glow warm doesn’t it?

Aliyah on death

Aliyah was just telling me about playing dolls with Shayel.

Aliyah: prince dead
Me (holding back comments about the artist formerly known as… hehe): how did he die?
Aliyah: bad guys
Me: oh yeah? the bad guys made him dead?
Aliyah: yeah, prince sick, need bubble gum and medicine

Shayelism - sickness

Shayel has a cold and yesterday was the peak of it. This morning I asked her how she is feeling and she said.

“better, I can feel my muscles now. Yesterday I couldn’t feel my muscles but now I can *flex muscles while grunting to demonstrate*”

Isn’t that such a great way to describe that lethargic feeling you get when sick?

Christmas Recap

Christmas was a little “odd” this year since Grandma went into hospice and passed within just a few days’ time all around the holiday time.

But it was still very nice as always. We’ve been fortunate the last couple years to have more money than we have in the past. This year I even bought some more decorations which was really fun. So this is how Christmas was for the Fishers:

We were getting ready to go to a local ELCA service on Sunday when we got the call that David’s grandma was in hospice and wasn’t expected to live much past the next few hours.

So that all changed quickly. since we only have one car we got groceries that we needed and took care of a house we were house sitting and then David went to Denver to be with his family. He spent the rest of Sunday there and got home about 11pm.

Christmas Eve we hung out for a bit in the morning, took care of the house sitting house, I made cinnamon rolls, and then had gift opening for our family - the girls opened the gifts from us to them and then played with their new things until it was time to go to my parents’. On the way there, around 3pm, David called his mom to get an update on his Grandma, she was taking her last breaths and within 20 minutes or so after arriving at my parents’ she had passed. So that was sad but expected.

We were scheduled to go to David’s mom’s for Christmas day and she still wanted to do that but didn’t have much in the way of food so David went to the store before dinner at my parents’ to get some fixin’s since we didn’t know what would be open Christmas Day (turns out lots of markets were). He had a chance to have some time by himself to grieve a little which was good.

Then we had our traditional lamb stew for dinner and opened gifts with my parents. We got home around 10pm because we had to wait for quite a while for my brother to get off work.

Christmas morning the girls got their stockings from “santa” and then we got ready to go to David’s mom’s in Boulder. We spent the day there and then went home in the afternoon. Usually we go to David’s aunts’ for Christmas afternoon but she wasn’t up to it after spending the past several days with Grandma between the hospital and hospice. But she did bring gifts over and we each had something from Grandma to open.

So…we never made it to church which was weird but under the circumstances, Christmas was pretty typical and the girls loved their gifts.

flashback - 2005

AWEEEE!!!!! my babies.

This is from September 2005. At this time our family was living in Fort Collins in a rental house near City Park Ave. It was a big house but ended up being more house than we needed so we moved the following year into an apartment just a few blocks south - still near City Park. We had been in Fort Collins for about a year after moving there from Loveland. We had just taken over the college ministry at Third Day Victory Church - a ministry that a little over a year later became Revolution and an independent missional community.

Shayel was 3.5 and had gotten out of some of the most difficult phases. Aliyah was about 3 months old and we had finally gotten her reflux under control making her a totally different baby - much more easy going and happy.