Happy Valentine's Day!!

The kids woke up this morning to special Valentines from Mommy and Daddy at their seats at the table.  Mykelle was given a box of chocolates and a beautiful pink rose from Dad.  Evan was given a box of redhots hearts and a chocolate rose from Mom.  They have been revving up for Valentine's Day by making Valentines for their classmates in Joy School and going to the dollar store to help Adam pick out a nice present for me :)

Mykelle's rose from Dad

Adam and I decided that $5 was about right for what we could spend on each other for Vday.  So you know how he got around that?  He bought me flowers to welcome me home from the hospital yesterday, NOT for Valentines!  What a good man huh?  They're beautiful.

My "Welcome Home" flowers

Then, Adam made me cry.  He put this beautiful video on Facebook for me to see-

http://animoto.com/play/ZvZHfXIbuUHhwjm6t9xaHg



What a beautiful video.  He picked some really great pictures.  And he didn't even have to spend $5!  :) We probably won't do much to celebrate the big day today but we do plan on going to a movie just to go out and be together for a bit.  Maybe I can convince him to throw in some Coldstone ice cream too...

As I mentioned, I just got back from the hospital last night after going in on Friday for the biopsy.  It was a longer stay than I'd initially planned with the doc, but I spiked a fever so they kept me another night.  It turns out the surgery was not the straightforward mediastinoscopy I'd initially said it was going to be.  I had to have the doctor write it down for me, but he did a left mini thoracotomy, an anterior mediastinal dissection, a frozen section, and a pericardial patch.  My left lung had to be collapsed during the surgery and I had a tube draining the area around the heart until yesterday morning so it's been painful breathing and moving around much, but I'm getting there!

Adam brought the kids in with balloons and presents for me on Saturday.  It was so cute to have them come in!  I was worried they'd be nervous or scared, and at first they did look a little nervous, but they seemed to come to terms with me being in the hospital quite well.  We talked to them about what it means to go in for surgery and prepped them as best you can a 3 and 4 year old.  They've been really great!  They each made me a get-well card and I had to take pictures of them, they instantly made me feel better :)

Mykelle & Mommy holding hands, with lots of crazy hair.   She told Adam what to write.  

This was my favorite part of Mykelle's card!  On the back of her drawing she drew this spiral and I asked her what it was. She said it's infinity, because she loved me more than infinity and that's how our love is, it never stops, just like infinity

I was very proud of Evan's card!  I've never seen him draw a person before so this is a huge step!  You CAN see the person right??  I didn't at first, but he pointed out "Mommy's smile" and it all came together!  

Mykelle also sang to me to help me feel better.  Isn't she sweet??