Even better weekend!!!

Ok, so last weekend was a pretty interesting weekend.  This week / weekend has been even better.  I've had quite the busy week.  I have been interviewing people for a position in my department.  The last interview was Friday.  But not only do I have to interview them, but I have to take them out to dinner with our HR rep as well.  At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is spend more time at a work function... but I did it, and I think I have a good candidate. 

So, Friday was a really busy day... the last candidate was here for an interview, I had an international teleconference and a webinar for a product that I'm thinking about trying out for the validation department.  In the midst of all this, the kids had field day on Friday.  They so look forward to field day.  Each grade wears their "Class Of 20XX" shirts and they have fun games.  Cameron is Class of '17 and Anna is Class of '22.  Wow, that seems so far away, but I'm sure they will both be graduated in a blink.

Anyway, after the soccer incident with Cameron's arm last week, we wrapped it for a couple of days, he stopped complaining about it and started using it again, so we thought it was fine.... until Red Rover.  We got a call from the school... Cameron hurt his arm again.  Tim ran to the school to get him.  By the time he got there, Cameron said it was fine.  We took him home anyway.  This morning Cameron got up and got ready to go to a birthday party.  We took him and dropped him off.  As we were walking back down the driveway Cameron came out crying.  He was on a rip stick and it was slippery and he fell again and caught himself with that arm.  He asked if he could stay and put ice on it - he really wanted to be at that party.  But the pain never got better.  The dad at the party is a family practitioner and he said it looked a bit suspicious so we might want to take him and get it x-rayed... so we did.  And it's fractured.  They put a temporary cast on it and we will need to go see the ped. ortho specialist on Monday for a hard cast.  Hopefully since it is only a fracture and not a break, he won't have to have it on for so long.

This is the "oh, let me pretend like I am dying and in so much pain" look:

This is just a moment later, looking quite normal

And yes, it is 90 degrees in Florence today.  I bet this is going to get really sweaty and smelly....especially when it becomes a hard cast!

I don't know if I shared with any of you that Cameron is my artist.  The other day while I was at work, I took pictures of the most recent artwork that he did for me.  The lighthouse and the snow on the mountain are both acrylic on canvas.  the waterfall is chalk - I know... it doesn't look like it.  So here they are:

The Lighthouse

The Waterfall

And my personal favorite:
Snow on the Mountains

There is a bit of a glare on this picture, but there was nothing that I could do to make it go away.  I think you can see the beauty in it anyway.  I love these pictures.  And I love even more the fact that my son did them for me.

Tomorrow I'm really excited to be having dinner with some friends.  We will spend Mother's Day together with the guys cooking out for us and just relaxing together as a family after church.  To all of the mothers out there... Happy Mother's Day.  I have a special post for tomorrow that has been on my heart for the past few days.

In Christ,

Charity