Well, this last week has been jammed pact. We had a family come over Friday night for a pizza and movie on the wall night. It was very fun. Hopefully, we'll be able to have their whole family over next time. I loved holding their little 4 month old. It reminded me of who old Penny is getting. We then had General Conference this weekend. There were some amazing talks that I really want to look up and re-read or listen to.
Monday we had to deal with the DMV. We had received a letter in the mail post marked the 23rd of March so we tried to renew our tags online. Chris kept getting an error message. This letter we got wasn't a renewal statement so I couldn't do it over the phone. At this point, we knew we'd be paying fines for it being late. I, after looking at wait times for each of the closest DMVs, picked one and packed Penny in the car. It wasn't a long line to get a number. In fact, it wasn't that long of a wait after I got my number. I knew to bring in last years renewal letter, the letter that we had received, and our car registration. Now, we recently refinanced our car from the car dealership to Chase bank. It wasn't a fun process. In fact, it was a LONG process even though Chris had been approved a while ago. So, we had to take my name off the title which wasn't a big deal to me. So, as I talked with this nice DMV woman, she went through the history of the car. She then saw the letter and that my name was taken off the registration and that the lean holder had changed. She also noticed that the process Chase did to refinance the car took from November to March 19th (registration on the car was due March 2) and she said that is why we never received a letter for the renewal of the car registration. This sweet woman then gave me a paper that Chris had to sign and told me what exactly to write in the statement to waive the fees for it being late. She reassured me that this was not our fault and that next year this should be back to normal (that we would get a reminder of renewal in the mail). So, she then set up an appointment for me to come back today to give them the paper and get the new sticker for the car. This is the best experience I've ever had with the DMV.
After that appointment yesterday, I called Chris to let him know the late fees would be waived. He was happy to hear that. Then one of my sisters called to talk for a little bit and then a phone call came in from the surgeon's office. I picked up that call. Turns out the surgeon is being called out of the OR on Friday and was there anyway I would be willing to move my surgery to this Wednesday morning. I then said I would have to call Chris, since he was going to be the driver to and from the hospital. Well, apparently after I had called Chris the first time his phone had died or shut itself off. So when I tried to call to see if this change would be okay and that he would be able to take work off. He finally was able to call me back and say that it would have to work. I was going to have to wait until today to hear what time. Now, the hospitals rules are that no children under 13 can be in the waiting room. I was in a bit of a panic. I now had 2 days to find someone to watch Penny while I went into surgery. Thankfully, there was no cookie dough in the house.
Well, today I heard from the hospital. My surgery is now going to be at 6am and the hospital requires me to be there an hour and a half early to prep and, because it's in Fremont, takes half an hour to get there. So, we have to drop Penny off at 345a for my 6am surgery. I should be out of the hospital by 8/830am. My mom is such a smart woman. After I arranged everything for tomorrow, she asked if Penny couldn't just stay the night at someones house so no one has to be woken up at a strange hour. I'm still waiting to hear back to see if that would be okay with the person she'll be staying with.
I'm not nervous or anxious about the surgery. I'm very curious as to when I can be walking for long periods of time and getting to the gym. I won't know until tomorrow when I talk to the surgeon. I'll have a follow up Thursday afternoon with the surgeon. I'm so grateful for Chris' boss being so willing to let him "work from home" on short notice. He (Chris' boss) must think I'm high maintenance lately with all these hospital visits these last few weeks.
Penelope is a darling girl lately. She is climbing on furniture and talking so much. We try to make her say words before we do something for her (like if she's done eating at the highchair, we have her say up, down, or done). She can reach the top of the dinning room table. A few days ago, she gripped the front door handle.
Well, life keeps moving at a fast pace here.
