It's unbelievable how busy we have been this year. Both of the kids are at new schools which means new PTO's to become part of, in Beck's case, a new scout group, open house, etc.... This is the first week I have had any free time at all. Two nights this week have no scheduled meeting only the kids demands on my time. This year also I have been working at Beck's school a few hours of each day. It has been going well. Until this weekend Beck and I had been walking to school together each morning. A 20 min walk for him and a 40 min walk back and forth for me. It has been wonderful and, as I was hoping it would, it diverted Beck's anxious feeling he had about school each morning. Today I drove him to school. This weekend Bri and I took a two day retreat while Declan and Ariel kept the kids. We didn't do anything special. I had the awful summer cold that's going around and Bri was determined to at last get the VW Fastback back on the road. Sunday morning when Beck got home his foot was swollen and he was walking funny so I brought him to the ER. He broke a little tiny bone around his arch. Luckily it wasn't too painful because he had to lay around with his foot propped up on pillows until Tuesday. Now he has a boot and he is mobile. He would like to be more mobile but over all he is pretty lucky. Bri did get the car running and we got to go for a short ride. (Unfortunately there isn't much room for Beck to prop his foot up in the VW.) Now the Westfalia has taken the Fastback's place in the garage and when Bri is in town again he will start doing some work to that. He has lots to do on it.
My baby has become a couch potato.
Last weekend Wendy Mae and I went to Girl Scout Camp. The girls had lots of fun. I think it was the best year yet for Wendy and me. This year she is actually in school with the girls in her troop so her relationship with all the girls have grown but also they are older and more independent. The parents and leaders were able to relax more.
Now the next big event for us will be the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) Walk, Sept 24th. I would like if I get a lot of people involved. You will be seeing a lot of these kind of messages where ever I am on line. When I first started this I thought I would remind people ounce a month. I didn't always get around to doing it that often. Now that I am on the last stretch though and I will really be pushing it.
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