Thankful for Yaya this Week

It definitely takes a village.... Matt and I are back in Houston this week for his defibrillator implant yesterday. We left Sunday to spend the night with Shanon and Alex before all of the appointments started Monday morning. 

Shanon cooked an amazing dinner but the best part was loving on Logan for an afternoon. 

As nice as that was, it was over quickly because we were out the door at 6:30 Monday morning to see 3 doctors to get cleared for surgery. That was a long day but luckily we were at the hotel connected to the hospital so we had a place to go for the afternoon between appointments and got a good nights sleep. Which was a very good thing because Tuesday was one of the longest days of my life. We saw Dr. Schurmann at 7:30 that morning for a surgery arrival at 11:00. There were some emergency cases that took the operating rooms for most of the day so at 7:15 p.m. he was finally being rolled back for surgery. And at 9:00 I was hearing that everything went well. Spending 10 hours in the waiting room made for an emotionally exhausting day but we made it through and got in to a room a little before midnight. The original plan was to be home today but, being that surgery was so late, we are staying 2 nights. 


We are very thankful for Yaya who has been at our house watching our girls and our “circus” of animals. She sent lots of pictures and videos of Lillian during her awards ceremony where she was a speaker and also got a straight A trophy plus honor roll and terrific kid award certificates. 


She sent me a picture this morning which I thought would be her last day of school pic because I told her she doesn’t have to go tomorrow, but she wants to anyway. 

Yaya says she doesn’t get that from the McCormick side. :) 

And this morning I got a picture from her teacher with all of her Jump Rope for Heart awards. I’m proud of her for getting these by asking for donations and obviously supporting the American Heart Association is a fundraiser close to our hearts. 


Katie had the choice to go to school this week but she decided to spend the week getting one on one time with Yaya. They’ve gone to lunch, done some shopping, and some cooking. 



I’m pretty sure she’s talked Yaya’s ear off all week but I also know she’s loving every second. Fingers crossed we are going home tomorrow. We are definitely ready to see our girls!! 

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