Today we were late for church not because Derek and the kids didn’t make it here in time, but because the doctor hadn’t put a note into Annie’s file that she was good to leave the hospital without him having eyes on her first. He doesn’t come in to work until 9, and church starts at 9, so eventually we were all sitting there by the desk, waiting for him to come and sign off, knowing we were going to be late, until the nurse took pity on us at 8:55 and said we could just go. Why she couldn’t have said so 25 minutes earlier remains a mystery. And then in the evening, the same nurse allowed the kitchen staff to take Annie’s dinner tray while we were down seeing the family off, before she had eaten any of her dinner! Sigh. Our favorite day nurse, Danielle, is back tomorrow, to our relief.
At least the big kids got to see Annie standing and read her some books while we were hanging in the room.
Even though Derek and the teens were all exhausted from a busy week (and lots of driving), we headed to the Museum of Science and Industry for the afternoon, where at least Janie and Annie were excited to be back after our trip there with friends in January! This used to be Tommy’s favorite hangout when we lived here, but his memories of 16 years ago (or even our last visit in 2017) are basically nonexistent. (This type of realization leads me to wonder if it was actually worth lugging a toddler and baby out of the house all those times when I could have just stayed home, but I reflected that *I* love this museum, and often I went with a friend and filled my extroverted soul with needed grown-up time, so it wasn’t a waste, even if it made apparently no lasting impression on the kids.) I took some photographic evidence of our visit so that we can confirm to the kids that we were indeed there!
