Put on a happy face

Jenn told me something last night that almost made me cry. While she was giving Ethan his enema, he asked if he “tried” real hard could he stop having the enema and catheterizations. Sadly, I think it is finally dawning on him that his life is not exactly like his friends. On another […]

Blur II

I titled this entry Blur too, but for an entirely different reason. This morning a Ugandan Children’s choir visited our church. The singing and dancing were almost breathtaking. Their choreography was so rapid that literally they were a blur at times. And while they were dancing they were singing too. Only children could move and […]

Blur

I just woke up and I have not had coffee, a dangerous combination. Well I have had a couple of days to get used to the idea of cathing, and it is not the end of the world. One nice thing we discovered was that the nurse at Ethan’s new school knows how to cath. […]

Cathy

So I am in an angry troll kind of mood. Ethan had his second urodynamics test today, but I could not go because we had an emergency at work (it is 7:15pm as I write this…I am still at work…waiting for customer confirmation). The Urodynamics test is by far the most invasive test […]

Treat

Life can take you some unexpected places. When I was a kid, I always dreamed of getting a house in my parents’ neighborhood when I grew up. My sister always looked to more distant horizons. She was the bold one who went to school out of state. I was the one who went to […]

Perfect Day

Some days are just perfect. They are rare, but they do happen.

Goofing around at the park

Childs Play

Yesterday I picked my son up from school. The minute we got out of the car, several of his friends were asking him if he wanted to play. Of course he did not pass up the opportunity. I went in the house and started doing the dishes. After a few minutes, the door bangs […]

Prosperity Doctrine

A year or so back, my son like all children had problems listening to his parents, at least the first time. Wanting to use positive reinforcement to bring him back on the straight and narrow, we used a friend’s idea of “The Listening Ladder.” Basically it was a list of activities he enjoyed doing. As […]

…in a bottle…

I am reading a book called “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” It is about a guy that becomes “unstuck” in time. He revisits key moments in his and others lives. His wife gets visited throughout her childhood by her future husband. I love the idea of time travel. “Slaughterhouse 5” is another time travel book that […]