We had planned going through Monterey, CA and then stopping along the central to southern coast as we returned to Santee, CA for the winter. We had appointments at the Valencia, CA Camping World for our annual maintenance work. This work had been originally scheduled for the Vancouver, WA area but was re-scheduled due to the rush back to Reno for Boots’ surgery. So, instead we headed back to Quincy for another 10 days.
Melody spent the first week with the kids at her parents in Oroville. When she returned to Quincy, Boots had some meals created that they could just heat up and both of us were available for childcare for her first week back home. The pain was still pretty intense so Melody was trying to manage that carefully so as not to be drugged all of the time. Tara was abruptly weaned and seemed ok with it. Both kids talked about how their momma was hurt by the horse and were very helpful as a result. While Melody wanted to be up and doing it was very difficult and she really needed to just stay still and wait for the healing – not easy for an active mother of 2 little ones – even though we were there. Also, a lot of her friends came by to clean and plan how they would do meals after we were gone. Their friends and the community were very helpful.
Between meals, childcare, picking up Bodhi from school and entertaining Tara, we were very busy that second week of Melody’s recovery.
