Dancing with Daffodils

 I feel like the past week and a half or so have been about healing. Josh is feeling better every day. He has had follow ups with a few of his doctors and stopped taking the cough medicine and isn't coughing so that is a miracle in of itself. He is still sleeping a lot but a much more normal amount compared to when he first came home from the hospital. His energy is not back to normal but on the way. He was able to catch up with his school work and he started a new job this week that is less stressful than his old one (a very lateral move to a different area in the same building but no administrative responsibilities!)  and he had really good news at work (a project he has been working on for 15 years came to fruition) so all in all, he is doing well. We have been so blessed with so many people praying for him and his healing; many have reached out and been very kind, which really lifted us up.  I have still been very stressed about some situations, one of which is our li...

This little guy greeted me one morning; thankfully he was on the outside but in-between the screen and the door. He was cute but left after a little while.  I was going to title this Wake Me Up, When September Ends, but I decided to be a bit more positive. The last few weeks have been hard and I'm not even sure I really want to write about them but here's a summary. We've been battling cockroaches in the kitchen which is beyond disgusting. It was just a handful here and there but then one night I was up late waiting for Josh to get back from picking up his friend from the airport and I found a whole bunch under my kitchen mat and lost it. They are just so gross and pop up out of nowhere and they're so fast and it just makes me feel dirty to have them in my kitchen. So I finally called the exterminator and told him to come right away. He was a super nice guy and came one day to talk through it with me and said he would be back the next day to do the treatment.  Unfortuna...

When we got home it was go time. I now have two middle schoolers and no good reason not to be up with them so I've been getting up at 6am, which is not my favorite, but I have been surprisingly productive, except the one day I did go right back to bed after they left. Last Monday was also the first day of dance and the first day of teaching piano so I just had to jump back into it all, but did so with some grace, I would say. Tuesday morning I took Curtis to an early dentist appointment, picked up groceries and was back home by 830 am. I've had a kid on the Evergreen bus for 13 years and it is kind of blowing my mind a bit that I don't have to wait around until 8:45 am to do anything now. I went to Inklings and the library and felt very productive about my morning.The bummer of the day was when Leisa ran over our sprinkler when she came for piano and totally popped her tire. They had to wait for a tow truck and reconfigure their evening while I took Brandon to practice. I c...

The good news is, we made it through an extremely emotional, stressful, hard week. Monday started off with Emma's open house. Thankfully going into 8th grade is a bit more chill since she already knows the school and schedule. So we walked around and met her teachers or at least saw them and went through her schedule a few times and called it good. Curtis went to school to get his parking pass, Lily was doing laundry and packing, then Emma went to a stay-in-shape dance class taught by the seniors and Brandon and I went to his open house. He was obviously more nervous about a new school and going from class to class and so we went through his schedule a few times and said hi to all of his teachers. I think both kids have good teachers this year and I am hopeful that they will both have a great year. Getting up so early is the worst but once seminary starts, all three kids will be out of the house by 6:45 am and I'm a free woman until 2:30 pm. I much prefer the 9-4 schedule of el...

What a week! Monday was Lily's 18th birthday. She had plans with friends that fell through so we started the day by taking Curtis to do his last driving lesson and while he was doing that we went to Newtowne Neck for an hour or so and it was beautiful. We walked around and sat on the beach for a bit and it would have been great if we had planned to hang out for a few hours and have our friends join us like the old days. But instead we picked Curtis up and stopped by the library and came home to make Lily's birthday cheesecake. She went and hung out with a friend for a few hours and Curtis went to cross country and then Josh (after taking his co-worker to the airport) made Lily pizza for her birthday dinner.   My emotions have been all over the place this week. I feel so happy and excited for Lily and then I get really sad that she is going to be gone and then I get stressed about how this week is all going to work out with everyone starting school and being gone and then I get ...