…my favorite vacation pics

Relax

So the Roberts 2008 vacation is now in the books. I was afraid for awhile that it might not happen at all. The Thursday before we left, I got a kidney stone. I had to go to the ER twice, once for pain management and once for dehydration. I was flat on my back for […]

Harry the happy house-husband

Day three of my staycation: Ethan and I ran errands around town and I weighed in at Weight Watchers. We ate lunch at BK. We both had kids meals, but I gave Ethan my toy. Ah the joys of paying the pound-piper. Jenn is out buying curtains…one day, Ethan, this will all be yours. […]

Milestones

So we have been doing intermittent catheterization for about two weeks now. It is just part of the routine, no complaints. Every time he completes cathing without kvetching, he gets a sticker towards buying a new video game. Last week he asked how he could earn more stickers. Jenn said he could cath himself. And […]

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 […]

The Hills Are Alive

So last night was my idea of a near perfect Friday Night. Not that it was the greatest, but for what it was, it was perfect. Ethan had his piano recital last night, so I knocked off work early. When I got home, he was busy doing Jedi business with the kids in the […]

Mello

I love Saturdays, especially when there is no agenda. I was a bum most of the morning except for the “procedure.” We went to the mall for lunch. I had bourbon chicken. Then Jenn bought socks while I got Ethan a haircut at Cartoon Cuts. I got to watch an episode of Fairly Odd […]