WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so very much for letting me know.
I have been really down about how badly I have messed up this entire summer for the 2 of them - even the littlest thing like a sky event I find out about has been really helpful to me.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gabz, have you been in the Starbucks again? Lol.
Just catching up on things posted after I left last night, and see this:
"I have been really down about how badly I have messed up this entire summer for the 2 of them "
From a distant view, seems to me your temporary disability is a "Good Thing" for hubby and Jax.
They will not only have more precious 'together' time, but appreciate more the minutiae of the little and big tasks you routinely do, and are so easy to be taken for granted.
Such setbacks always are seen in a different light in retrospection - - God allows us to go through such things for our benefit, knowing that all fires are intended to 'refine' us..:))
Reshape your thinking to one of appreciation and opportunity, and allow hubby and Jax to enjoy their victories in helping you, and themselves.
It is not your role to 'entertain' Jax, and give her the sun, moon and stars (except for Mars..:)), but to equip her for self-sufficiency and confidence through her picking up the responsibility to do and play and dream by herself....
I suspect you are very good at this, showing her how to garden, sew, cook, read, etc.
Perhaps you can make a little album of photographs of you incapacitated and of Jax and Daddy helping you and doing more things together - - a kind of 'How I Helped Mommy' Album for her satisfaction and pride, and later use for Show & Tell.
"Here is Daddy and me doing the laundry - getting the groceries - cooking - making the beds - cleaning, etc."
Your helping assemble the pictures and label them for her (or help/show her how) will make it all a PLUS+ PLUS+ Thing! rather than a downer.
In days of not so old, few fathers were very active in the day to day bringing up of children. You are blessed!
When I totaled my car 2 years ago and my right arm had to be spliced with a titanium rod, it was in a cast for 6 weeks and then took 5 months of physical therapy before I could get it near enough to just touch my body!
Right arm, of course, and hubby had to learn how to manage the household expenses - write all checks - distribute them - shop for the groceries, etc.; and while I managed to wash my hair and comb it with my left hand, he had to set my hair in curlers all those months!!
LOLOL
Confessing my FR Addiction, for the day after surgery and I went home, it was only about 15 minutes before I was at the computer, training my left hand to manipulate the mouse AND type every letter s-l-o-w-l-y all those months..:))
It was 6 months before I could drive the car again.