Life Lately

Watching Matt’s recovery in the last few weeks has been nothing less than a miracle. 3 weeks ago he was still in ICU and now he barely needs oxygen. He carries it in case and even a short walk still wears him
out (doc said months to get full strength back) but he’s off of it for the most part and to me that’s amazing. 


He even went hunting last weekend! To be honest I didn’t love the idea but I told Nana he may as well still be in a hospital bed if it’s going to be stuck in a chair. And he did great. He says they dropped him off at the blind and he only needed his oxygen one time. (The 2nd pic was for effect with a caption that said, “Take that Dr. Connelly!” 🙄😂)  And he even even went to work at half day Monday and a full day yesterday. But again, doesn’t have full strength back which is why he didn’t go Tuesday and he was totally worn out yesterday. Even without much physical activity just being out of the house and riding around is a lot on his body. But he’ll get there and it gets better everyday. 


Cara and Josie came to the camp too and we had a good time riding around and hanging out. I love that she’s off on Saturday now.


And it was kind of a big week at school. Lillian had a field trip to the Revel on Monday, Wednesday was national walk to school day so we loaded up our car with the neighbors early that morning because they met some teachers and walked to school from the neighborhood next to Apollo. And today is archery tryouts. She’s nervous but Matt has been working with her and I bet she’s got it.  I’m signing her up for a little mini camp next week during the break too. She wants to learn to do this so that it something they can do together. ❤️




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