When you have multiple children, you find yourself documenting first and last. When you have the first child, you are always documenting the first: The first day of school, the first game, the first dance. Then you have child two and three. Then #four is here. And you have to think about the last: The last first day of school, the last first points scored in a game. And it makes you sad sometimes and sometime it makes you smile and praise God you survive.

Well this entry is documenting the last Holly Ball for the Bass family. The last "last dance" with Dad. This is a mix for me. It makes me sad and it makes me smile. You have to give Caroline credit here. We were gone a week on vacation and then the Holly Bass was in a week. I went and borrowed all items needed. No shopping. Just trying on dresses at home. She picked one out and she looked grand! And she had a good time. We have to give David credit also. He went with a broke shoulder and they were a great pair on the dance floor.

We have been cruising........................

Life is funny sometimes and then again it is not so funny until a week later. Mom(me) had big dreams of a fun family vacation for the Bass family. Jason is a junior and we don't know what his senior year holds, so I thought it was the right time for the "big" vacation. So A 5 night cruise was planned. Being the thrifty person I am, I used David's Marriott points and booked 2 nights at a resort on the beach before we go on board the "boat". What fun, on the beach in a villa, with heated pools........This is where the fun begins................As I returned from a trip to publix to gather food supplies for the day. Stephen walks in and says "Dad hurt his arm and it is bad." Then Katie Ann walks in "Dad hurt his arm really." In walks my sweet hubby with a towel as a sling saying. "Get me something, the pain is awful". Not a good sign. He tells me a wave knocked him down and he hit shoulder first. (later he tells me an elderly couple had to help him ashore)

I sit and look at him waiting for the pain to ease. No such luck. The lady cleaning our room looks at him and says "Boy you ruined your vacation". Stephen snickers and we keep watching waiting for the pain to go away. I make a phone call and ask David if he thinks he needs to go the ER. (Hoping he says I don't think so.) He says I think I need to go. So off to the ER he and I go. The only thing I tell the kids is to not get in the ocean. We GPS the hospital and off we go. Every time someone ask David what happen and he tells them he was in the ocean, they remark "in this weather?" I can only tell you there were many thoughts in my heads but cannot tell you what they were! ha...But one thing about waiting in an ER, you may see others with worse problems than your own. You start to see your Er visit is minor and you will take it. So I begin to be thankful and then I would panic. Then I would be thankful. It was a cycle. Texting probably keep me sane. Then off to X-ray and the verdict- Shoulder is broken. Here are pain pills, go on the cruise. I felt relief and then panic. I can't take him on the cruise or can I. What does a good wife do? Well we did get on the boat. David was a great sport. We ate, saw shows, snorkeled, climbed a water fall (without David) and just had fun. Pain pills are a wonderful thing. So here are a few photos from our cruise: