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Jul. 11, 2007
Days of our Lives
Well here we are once again. Updating the old blog. I have left this for all of our busy-ness of summer. This is the first summer where we actually have been gone most of it. Here is a small summary of what all has been going on.
I signed the twins up for Drama Camp and they were there around 1 1/2 hours for Drama and during that time they learned Drama things, had snack and then played Drama games, and then went home. I stayed the entire time as by the time I would have gotten somewhere to accomplish something, it would have been time to head back to pick them up. They enjoyed Drama, and were in a play called Snow White and the several dwarfs. C was Bashful and got kissed by Snow White(Teenager) and said "Aw shucks, Doc, I just hope she kisses me again." Then J was Hungry, and anyone that knows him well knows this name is very fitting. They had a great time, and Nanny, Liz, Ang, and Mom and Dad were in attendance Fri night during their performance. It was great!
This was our first summer to be enrolled in Boy Scouts. B has gotten thru Wolf level in around 2 months. It was tough a time or two, but we got all things accomplished to get him to the next level before summer. Then the opportunity arose that I would be able to shuttle some kids in my van if I was willing to drive near Dallas back and forth daily, and the boys all 3 of them could attend. I told them there was no need in my coming home, and that I would be willing to work. Well work, they had. I had the biggest class out there, over 13 kids each day. Ranging in age from Tiger Cub (where they have to be at least entering 1st grade) up thru 3rd or 4th grade, cuz I also had Wolf Cubs and later found out I had one Bear Cub. They finally took the one Bear and promoted him up to the next teacher.....but it was fun. One day they had the firetruck come out and hose down the kids to cool them off. The boys enjoyed that. Then they also participated in Archery, BB Guns, Roping Cattle, Shooting off bottle rockets, Swimming, Crafts and Games. They got to earn their pins and belt loops in swimming. I was one proud Momma. LOL We were even in the local paper showing off their Archery Skills. It was neat. I think the boys learned alot, and they had fun. We nearly almost lost C on the last day. He started getting weak I noticed, was unable to hold the BB Gun, the instructor called me over and told me something was wrong with him and to check it out. He could not pull the trigger at all. I looked him in the face, his lips were very pale. Since I am unfamiliar with heat exhaustion/heat stroke, I asked some of the other adults standing around, who had brought a car to this far away section so no one got shot with a BB Gun, if he would mind driving me son around to the section for the sick kids. He said no problem. They pumped him full of Gatorade and Water, one of the instructors out there said they walked passed him and said, "C how are you doing?" His answer, "Awesome!" They thought that was pretty cool for a 5 year old, who was unable to hold his own head up and barely able to sip small drinks. Then they brought him to me about an hour later. He said he needed to potty, and I took him. He starts throwing up in the bathroom there next to the park, I with all my Motherly wisdom, hollered out the door for HELP! LOL The men who had been watching him earlier, came running over and I told them he was now throwing up to which one of the men put C on his back and carried him down to where they were stationed before. He slept most of the car ride home about an hour and a half, and the man told me he might not eat or act like himself till the next day in the afternoon. Thank God we did not have to wait that long, he was back to his old self by nightfall. THANK YOU GOD!
Then the following week was B's Drama Camp. They did the Gilligan's Island. B was Native 3. He said Oogga Boogga twice, and told the other natives they were strange men, strange talk, with strange weapons. That was his BIG line. Oh well. It was a life experience. I keep telling myself that. Don't know if it was more a life experience for him or me. I had just started taking meds for a condition I am finding more about lately, so I was very emotional and in fact ran in the bathroom to cry, so no one in the room saw me crying that my son read a different character before break, and she even asked him if he would like to be THAT character he read for before the break to which he said YES! And then he did not get the part. He started almost screaming, no I read ____ part. I am ____. It broke my heart. Part of me wanted to snatch him up and take him out of there. But it seemed God was speaking to my heart and he said to me, "This is a life experience, if you snatch him up cuz he did not land the part he wanted, what has he learned......NOTHING......stick it out. That's what this is about." It was a hard pill to swallow, but I did walk out of the bathroom with renewed enthusiasm, and I walked in that room, sat next to my son, who by now was in the fetal position saying No I am ____. I said, sit up!. YOu have a choice. YOu can walk over to the teacher and tell her we are NOT coming back, or you can sit up here and let's work on our lines. He said No, I don't want to leave. I said then sit up, and let's do what we came to do. Be a part in a play. He agreed. I helped him with a line. He looked at me and then the teacher and he said I like being Native 3 it is fun. God was working there on an almost 40 year old......and an almost 8 year old. I am not too prideful to say I did not handle it correctly, but with God's help I came out the other side a better person for our life experience. See in Homeschooling, sometimes the parent's learn more than the children......or at least along side them at any rate.
We had the performance to his play that Friday night. complete with 2 cockateils who whistled during the girls performance. It was funny. And our tarantula was in the play as well. One of the songs talked about a Black Tarantula. So I told them I had one.....and Juicy the Tarantula was there to hold down his part in the play as well.
Then we are just about up to date with the exception of last week. Mom and Dad once again took us on vacation with them. We went to LBJ Library and learned all about Lady Bird Johnson, and Lyndon B Johnson and all that lead up to his decision to become President and all sorts of good stuff. It was a very neat and educational Museum. It is on the 3rd, 4th, and 10th floor. The top floor is set up like the White House Oval Office. The boys liked being there and asked all sorts of questions.
We also went to 2 Caverns. One was Inner Space Cavern and the other was Wonder World. I will stop here to tell this story about Wonder World. We went in to this Wonder World, and rode a train, feed deer, saw tons of animals in their environment. Left there and went back to the main building to wash our hands from the deer eating out of our hands. There was a bunch of little girls in the bathroom and as we walked in they had just run out of paper towels. The girls were slinging their hands in the air making the water fall to the floor. The tile floor was getting slick with all that water. Josh had been standing near the sinks waiting our turn, when Nanny said if you need to potty let's go now. Turned around and Caleb had followed her and next thing I know Josh had turned rather quickly and was going to follow too. Mom did not see what happened next. Josh's legs went completely out from under him BEHIND him. He fell completely head first on his forehead on the right hand side. He completely bent his glasses and they were almost straight.
He started screaming terribly bloodcurdling screams, and did not stop for several minutes, the whole while I was running him thru the souvenir shop trying to make it to the snack shop where I could get ice. He still continued screaming. Then one lady came over and brought him a sucker, telling him it had some medicine in it and he would feel better once he started eating the sucker. It worked. She checked on him twice to see if he was feeling better and if the sucker was working. I had to fill out an accident report which I was very nice and told them they had an excellent staff who was ready in an "emergency" to make it all right. Told about the sucker lady and how awesome she was. They came around later and (of course they gave us ice and a glass of water---he was so pale he went completely white in his lips--I thought he would faint for sure but he did not. Praise God!) But they came around later and wanted to know if we wanted to take him to the local hospital up the road and have him get skull pictures to make sure there was nothing broken or anything "worse" that it appeared on the outside. We said no, that we felt he was fine now. So they were very nice to us. I know they were scared that we would sue or something. We will not....I really think he is fine, and this did happen like Tuesday I believe. He was remembering brothers' names....he said the brothers names and included his own. LOL
We went to a Park in Austin and walked a wonderful 4th of July display. We walked and walked to get there, and it was well worth the walk. We had fun. We ate and ate and ate on vacation. We took naps, well the adults did, not the kids....LOL. We went to a local mall on Thursday and looked all around for all sorts of bargains. It was neat and a great get-a-way. Thanks Mom and Dad for putting up with again this year. We left out Sat night late, and got back in Friday afternoon. It was good to have a break.
Now we are settling in. I have woke up Tuesday with a bit of a cold. I have also been trying to get my house in order Mon-Tues before I got completely sick. Today (Wed) I have not done much of anything but napped some more. My nose is constantly running, and today my dr called me to explain to me that I am having ovarian failure. I am not sad that I can't have kids, no that is not it. I have my "quiver full" LOL....3 is enough for me! I am just sad because they are saying I am 15 years ahead of my time in having bone density test, and all the other test the 50-ish women have. I am a bit scared, but I know God is in control of whatever he puts me thru. I just worry about my children....and what Mother doesn't. But I worry that if something happens to me, what would happen to them. But I can't think about that now. Just put one foot in front of the other TODAY! That is all I have is THIS MOMENT. Nothing more.
Make the most of you moments. Don't waste them with I'll do that tomorrow, for tomorrow may never come.
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