Scene of the crime!

This is the scene of the crime.
After church Sunday we had Matthew take us to where it all began.

He tried to balance & jump from the top of the upside down U shaped bar beside him.

He hit the bottom step with his right hand/arm & the pea gravel with his left.

The step didn't give as much as the pea gravel.
Hence forth the reason for the cast.

I want to thank everyone involved for being there to watch after Mathew Friday before we made it back to the church.

Thank you so much Andi N. for holding my baby from the time he fell to putting him in the car for us & putting his seatbelt on him. You are so precious.

Please is it Monday yet?

My poor baby before the IV.

He was tuckered out from talking to the staff at the hospital.

Well cut to the chase!

My youngest, Matthew, broke his arm last night.

Once a month our church has a Parents Night Out. The parents pay one price & the church watches our children for us from 6:00 to 10:00 pm. Our date night. We head for the Mexican restaurant & then onto the movies. While 3/4's into the movie my phone was buzzing in my pocket. Has to be my daughter. No. It shows the name & # of church. I slip it out of my pocket & answer ever so quietly hello. I hear the words Matthew, broke & Dr with him. PANIC. I told her to hold on let me get to the lobby. Well Matthew was outside on the playground & the daredevil he is jumps from one of the steps on the play set to skip a step & land on the next. Makes it......almost. Lands where he should of put lost his footing & lands on his right arm. SNAP. I know so gross, gag me with a spoon. (Sorry that stupid valley girl talk jumped in my head from the early eighties) I ran back into the movie, grabbed my hubby, left my drink, got my candy & headed for the church in tears. My baby is hurt & I need to get to him. It took forever getting there. Seemed like an hour but only 10 minutes or so. I rushed in & the workers had him in a room calming him. We also had a seminar going on at church but we decided we wanted dinner & a movie out. We have several Doctors in our church so the staff headed for the fellowship hall & ask "Is there a doctor in the house". They actually knew who they were looking for already. He rushed to my babies side & evaluated him. Not in shock, yes broken clean, no other injuries. I was frantic & everyone probably thought I was some kind of crybaby parent. I HATE to see my children hurt. Now mind you this is my child that gets hurt ALOT. Daredevil. He will be the one that turns my hair white or gives me chest pains later. He broke the same arm 4 years ago. About the same spot. Has had stitches in the side of his ear, stitches at the front of the ear on the side of his face, a broke toe, a huge goose egg of a knot on his forehead & probably countless of other minor things that leaves me at the moment. Well back to the hospital. Our kind Doc at the church called ahead for us so we were rushed back to the ER room, IV put in bad arm/hand, x-ray's done, bones put back (we will skip the graphic part), & cast put on. We made it home but not before a quick trip to Wal-Mart for Tylenol. In bed around midnight. Matthew played inside most of the day. Ran next door by 10am to show off his cast. The little boy there just got his cast off. Another little boy a house over currently has a cast. 3 house in a row (that I know of). Just another day in our cul-de-sac. Matthew has been a trooper through this all. After the IV went in & pain medicine was put in he thought he felt good enough & could go home. He talked the doc's head off he had the nurses in love with him. The royal treatment.


Well after I called grandparents & told them what happened all I had to say was,


"We went to the ER last night".


They replied "What did Matthew do"?


I say guess!


They say he broke something!


I say "Guess what"


They say Arm.


Chris has a game one night after Matthew did. Matthew was playing at the side & this is what I caught him doing. I asked him what was he doing? His reply "I don't know, just hanging"!
Well stay tuned for the continuing saga of the Patty Family as we try to keep our sanity & stay safe.

All is peaceful at the moment. The boys are zonked out for the night. Hubby is asleep (& probably snoring by now). We are so tired. We have been putting in a pool liner today at the house. I promise to catch my blog up. I have so much to tell you & share. It quites the voices in my head. I am kidding. I have so much to tell everyone so I hope I can do it by blogging. Please drop me a comment every so often & let me know you are there. Well 4 minutes till midnight here in Mississippi. Maybe I can make it to the bed by 12. Forget it. Not me. Please if you run into me with bags under my eyes look past them & just give me a smile & all will be said.

Better go I have to go to the Lord's house tomorrow. Church that is.

Later from me,

I will post tomorrow what this little thing has to do with me at the moment.

Sad week

I have fallen a few days behind on my blogging.

VBS is this week at church. My nephew spent the last couple of weeks with us here in MS. Went to Cub Scout camp for a few nights. Baseball season is still going. My mother & sister left back Sunday for home. They had to come pick up my nephew. As soon as they got in the drive my mother's husband met them at the porch. Bad news. One of my nephews that lives in TN/over the GA line died. 55 years old. He is a diabetic. Always managed his blood sugars great. Great health. Rode a motorcycle for fun. He was in a motorcycle crash a few years ago while riding on the Trail of Tears ride. He had stopped over in my hometown to eat breakfast & tell my mom hello. He got back on the cycle to head toward Huntsville & a truck pulled out in front of him. TOTALED the cycle---almost totaled him. Broke a number of bones. We all thought this would be the end. He was in the hospital, then on to rehab & was home in no time at all. The cycle was fixed back up & the world was right again. Sunday his blood sugar dropped & he lost conscienceness. He never woke back up. Gone. Quick. No time for goodbye's. Maybe he wanted it like that but still so much to say. I had recieved my last e-mail from he & his wife last Thursday that said it all.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don't.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons.
Once you let them go, you can't get them back.
So I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.

My boys & I will be going back home tomorrow to attend the visitation & buriel of my nephew. Please when you say your prayers put the family in yours. So hard to lose a family member that meant so much to everyone. He was a father, husband, son, brother, nephew, friend & so much more to everyone who knew him.

In memory of Charles Billy Jenkins
You are tied to our hearts forever.

This is a little figure I bought for my Christmas village after

Charles Billy had wrecked his cycle.
It means so much more to me now.