The summer went by so quickly and I accomplished only a bit that was on my list. Unfortunately, updating this was not among the things I did get done. It’s not that nothing was going on, it was in fact an incredibly stressful summer and I could probably have used the stress relief of writing here, but so much of it was personal and not mine to tell really, that I just didn’t write at all.
In good news, Giles is several weeks into the new school year and seems to adore fourth grade. We’ve had a couple of problems, but for the most part he seems to be doing well being mainstreamed this year. His teacher is absolutely fabulous which helps so much! She’s dealt with Autistic students before and that makes all the difference!
My father had his five year check last week for cancer and if the tests come back all-clear he’ll be considered cured instead of being in remission. This is always stressful waiting for the test results to come back and this time more so because it would mean so much more, you know? Unfortunately we still have a little less then four years before we’ll be dealing with this same issue with my brother. Hopefully they’ll both get past this with no more problems!
My brother was the major stress of the summer, or I should say his ex-wife with all her games is. My parents keep threatening to run away from home because it’s gotten so bad, but at the same time despite my brother making some incredibly bad choices, none of us can let him go through this alone. Some days I wonder when we’ll see my niece and nephew again though and if the ex (you don’t want to know what I really call her) will have turned them into as hateful and vicious of people as she is by the time we see them next. Unfortunately, from what we’ve seen this summer, she’s already started making them over in her image.
I promise I’m going to try to update this a lot more often and even start posting some of my scrap booking layouts here. I’m still on One Memory At A Time’s creative team (at least until she realizes her talent as a designer far surpasses my talent for showcasing her kits) and I need to at least show you the beautiful things she makes.
Until next time . . .
