Last week was very stressful. Erin's surgery went well but it was emotionally draining. She is back in Alabama and starting to feel better. She was insistent of flying back to Alabama on Saturday, she could barely walk she was so weak. I would have preferred she stayed home a few extra days to get her strength back but what do I know??

I was able to get a special pass to go to the gate with her and the airline provided a very unfriendly escort to push her in a wheel chair. I was randomly selected by TSA agents for a pat down and special screening. It made me feel extremely safe that the one person they randomly selected isn't even boarding a plane? Erin was in a lot of pain and was really crabby. I texted her boyfriend after she got on the plane and warned him.

By Wednesday she was finally starting to feel a little better. She has a fellow nursing student that has been helping her wash her hair and will take her to the Doctor to have her stitches removed. That makes me feel a little better...I feel pretty helpless being so far away from my baby.

Shannon and Kelsey have been as busy as usual. They have the Father daughter banquet this Friday and Kelsey has sophomore dance on the following Friday. In true Kelsey fashion she hadn't even thought about what she might wear to either event. I had to pick her up after soccer practice at QT to meet her ride. I brought Ryan with me so we could head to the mall after picking up Kelsey to get his new shoes as well as try to find Kelsey a dress. The only shoes Kelsey had with her were her soccer spikes and her hair was a little disheveled. That is not unusual for Kelsey....she tends to resemble a "hot mess" quite often.

We hit every shoe store in the mall until Ryan finally found the shoes that he wanted. We tried a few stores for Kelsey and found a dress that we liked. Actually I am not sure if she really liked the dress or the $5 hideous fuzzy purple slippers that she found. I told her I wouldn't buy them unless she found a dress, I wasn't waiting in line for 10 minutes just to buy a pair of ugly slippers. Suddenly the dress that she found to be OK became adorable so she could get the slippers.

She had Shannon pick her up at the mall and take her back to school for the teacher talent show. As we were standing outside waiting for Shannon she asked if she could have money for food. She had spent the night at her friends house. Her friend doesn't eat breakfast and she buys her lunch instead of brown bagging it. Kelsey had no breakfast or lunch and then had soccer practice, she was starving. I said "Why didn't you ask Shannon to bring you something from home before she picked you up?" (I just spend $300 at the grocery store) She looked at me like I was crazy and said,...."Do you actually think I would eat anything that Shannon touched?" How silly of me...I thought you were hungry?

When the girls got home Shannon came in my room to let me know how the talent show was and to tell me that she used the whole $40 I transferred in her account for gas. She was appalled because Kelsey tried to talk her into only getting $3o and using the rest for McDonald's. I let Shannon know how much I appreciated her integrity and reminded her to polish her halo before she went to bed.