Livin' the Dream

If you have seen the Lego Movie, then you know what I am talking about when I say that "Everything is Awesome" is stuck my head.  If you don't know, then you should really watch this and feel my pain.



The thing I am laughing internally about is how the words to the song go:

Everything is awesome.
Everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is awesome
when we're livin' our dream.

Now, I cannot disagree that everything is awesome - it really is.  I can get behind that.  Even at the worst of times, we are still alive and living and loving.  And, I can also get behind it being cool when you're part of a team.  I mean, sure.  Why not???  But, I am having trouble with the everything is awesome when we're livin' our dream.  I think we can agree that I am not currently living my dream.  And so, having this song stuck in my head, while amazingly positive and upbeat, is also causing me to laugh-cry about how ridiculous it is.

I am glad to say that I can laugh about that.  Meaning, I can see the humor in singing a song about everything being awesome while battling cancer and having a daughter who was in the Children's hospital yesterday. But, I'm also shaking my head.  Rigorously.

Anyway...everything is awesome when your daughter's lab results come back and both tests on her kidneys are normal!  Hallelujah!  Had this not been the case, we would be seeing the nephrologist (kidney doctor) today and for the next several months.  I am so glad that I do not have to add that to my calendar of craziness and so thrilled that Lariska has bounced back so quickly.  She is home from school one more day, just to give her a chance to rest and drink lots of water, but she probably would've been okay going to school.

What a crazy life, when your daughter complains of an earache and finds out she has Strep (strep infections do not lead to ear infections, so they are completely unrelated and totally coincidental).  Ridiculous.  Is there a better word for this?  I guess I should be grateful, in a way, for the ear infection, or we may not have known about the Strep.  Sheesh!  You know us, we're just livin' the dream!

#thankfulforridiculousthings (that was for you, Cathy!)

Lari on Thursday morning, feeling so much better (holding her new kitty, Courage, and the art projects she made at the hospital.  Yes.  She did art at the hospital. If you are going to be sick, might as well be sick at a place where they keep you busy!)

P.S.  More awesome lyrics from this awesome song:

Trees, frogs, clogs
They're awesome!
Rocks, clocks, and socks
They're awesome!