Uncle Ben’s Wild Rice

Today started out so horrible! I woke up when Ben came to tell me (before he left for work) that the trampoline had blown into the neighbors yard. We had a terrible storm, the news said our area received 75 mph gusts of wind. Our trampoline was up against my neighbors house, it had flown over the large fence. We were lucky that no windows were broken. The worst of the storm happened while Ben and I pushed the tramp back over the fence. We then had to take the trampoline completely apart because it kept blowing up. It was snowing and the wind was blowing hard… it was so cold! I couldn’t help but feel like the world was out to get me.I begged Ben to stay home. I had a pretty bad feeling about the day.

Maisie and Kaiah were so good, all the kids played very well together. Ben went with me to pick up the girls and as we put Kaiah in her car seat Jer said to her “Kaiah, are you excited to play with Uncle Ben and his wild rice?” If we had a family band that would totally be our name! He has said that before but today it just seemed to stick.
Ben took advantage of taking a day off and say a doctor for his allergies. He received a shot that is supposed to take care of it all year, he is very excited to see how well it works. When the girls left we had to buy Caleb new shoes and a blood pressure cut to keep track of Ben’s always high blood pressure (the doctor said this shot would raise his already high blood pressure.) We all took our blood pressure, Bens was the lowest its been for a while!

We spent the rest of the day together. I made chocolate truffles for something sweet after dinner.
Then Ben took the kids downstairs and started playing with them. I joined in and we had so much fun! It was the perfect end to a terrible tear filled day. Thank goodness for my family!

Ben caught in the act!

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