Monday

Today was supposed to be the big day.. Ali’s been waiting a little over three weeks for this …... for what you ask? For her Bionater that’s what. . Through the past week Ali’s become increasingly anxious about this appointment, much like the last asking questions over and over again about exactly what they were going to be doing to her and if it would hurt. .. This morning she said she had butterflies in her tummy and couldn’t eat breakfast. We had to wake up early than usual and it was evident that Mathew wasn’t happy about it. I ended up throwing everyone in the car 45 minutes early just to get him to stop fussing. To buy some time we decided to take a small detour to the girls’ old daycare which is coincidently just a block away from her orthodontist’s office. We haven’t seen Cherie in about a year but whenever we see each other again it just feels like yesterday. We hung out there for about 30 minutes and then left for the office.
Ali was so nervous she couldn’t sit still and when they called her name she very nearly jumped out of her chair. She wriggled and squirmed on the dentists chair and as Dr Jensen sat down he gave me a knowing look of humor. He was so sweet explaining things to her and calming her down. She still squirmed and practically did a 180 in the chair but otherwise was pretty cooperative.
Because her type of retainer is not made locally they had to send her molds back east to a special company. They had a hard time locating the small box that held it in their back room. When they finally found it, brought it out, and placed it in Ali’s mouth we were all disappointed to find that it had been built backwards jutting her jaw forward instead of back like we want it. Poor Ali will now be waiting another torturous three weeks for the new one to come in. Dr Jensen said he was going to call the company personally to make sure its done right and did an extra set of molds just for good measure. (this will be the 5th set of molds she has had to do poor girl).
Ali was very upset that she didn’t get to leave with her big prize and shed quite a few tears on the drive home. Its so hard waiting for something so important and then leaving without it. I felt bad for her.

Because we were all up and ready we decided to drive out to Angie’s house for some playtime. And because Angie lives so very close to IKEA we decided to go window shopping.
Ali has been working hard on her “band room” downstairs in our unfinished basement, and together with her band mates has raised 20 dollars for the specific purpose of buying a rug. She searched and searched the isles of IKEA but didn’t end up finding anything that met her vision. The little girls got to play in the playland while we shopped. It was great. We enjoyed some delicious Swedish meatballs and headed home.

We’ve spent the rest of the afternoon doing various non productive things. Angie brought the girls over to deliver about 30 pizzas from her husbands overstock at work. I don’t think she planned on staying but I’ve been struggling with a lot of things the past few weeks and Angie sat in the swing with me while I cried on her shoulder for an hour. She really helped me to see things that I’d been denying lately (mainly God’s love for me) and I am so grateful that she was here for me. I’m so blessed to have her in my life. .