The Shafferland Shuffle

* Last Sunday, we got home from church just as the first flakes of the "clipper" {??} weather system moved in. We cuddled up on Mo, with a fresh butterbraid to snack on throughout the day, and watched a lot of TV. Nothing I love more than being home with nowhere to go when the weather outside is frightful! Plus it gave me another day to rest before a busy week at work.

 * Monday was Cyber Monday at work, and I got a chance to share the Mid-Morning hour with Ken Church. It was a good day - a chance to meet some listeners who came to the station, and a chance to catch up on things that I'd been behind on during my days off work. Good first day back at work - and good first day back in the land of the living!

* Tuesday morning, I got up bright and early to be at the hospital for the ultrasound on my gallbladder - which went really well. Thankful for a good day of travel weather for that! After the test...off to work for Share, Day 1! it was a long, but good day, with opportunities to hear encouraging stories from our listeners. I got home about 8:30 and collapsed on the couch next to Ryan to watch Fixer Upper! And for the first time in our married lives, I think I fell asleep FIRST!

 * Wednesday was another day of changes in the life of Bekah and Share! Normally Lynne is on the air quite a bit during our fundraising week, but since she missed the whole week due to her dad's death, they gave me the opportunity to have a couple of extra air shifts. I spent all my down time preparing for that! I was also so excited to see Silas the Super Dog back to take more pledges. He comes {with his owner, or course} every year, and he's so much fun.

 * Thursday...you guessed it! More Share! I was busy all week bouncing back and forth between the phone room...the studio...prepping to be on air...trying to do my regular job...and randomly participating in videos for the station. Other duties as assigned, baby!! And speaking of baby...also got to meet our co-worker Dana's new baby for the first time. What a darling little peanut! And that night, I didn't get to see Ryan until really late because he went to his sister's house to install her dishwasher. Apparently when she bought the house, the previous owner bought the thing and stuck it in a hole in the kitchen - so he had to start from scratch plumbing the whole thing!! Busy day for the Shaffers!!

* Friday was the last day of Share, and it was a long one! I had to be in Fort Wayne at 6 am, so my amazing husband got up at 3:45 in the morning to drive me to work, dropped me off at 6, drove all the way to Kokomo {almost 2 hours away} to work all day, and then he came back that night to get me. I don't deserve him. When he arrived that night, he came with the news we'd been waiting for: my diagnosis. I have a gallbladder completely full of stones, and it has to come out right away. More on this next week, but now you know! :)

* Saturday was supposed to be a county tour day for us, but the news about the gallbladder transformed it into prep-for-surgery-to-come day instead. We slept in super late {actually fell asleep on Mo Friday night, got up at 5 a.m, went to bed, and got up at 10:30! HA!!We took it easy at home all day - venturing forth only for Starbucks and grocery shopping {with the rest of the county, since we're supposed to get slammed with snow}. I look worse than I feel. I forgot to put on eyeliner, and I always look sick without it. BOO. When we got home, Ryan started typing, which is REALLY weird, and when I asked what he was doing, he said he was writing a guest blog post for the day of my surgery. I have never loved the man more than I do in this moment.