Hello, my name is Sheila and it has been 18 days since my last post...

Is there an anonomous group for chronically bad bloggers?

The last few weeks have been extremely busy. Since my last post, our daily schedule has been in a total uproar. Ken's work shedule has changed on a day to day basis. So I never know when he will be home or for how long. Which, as far as therapy appointments, dr's appointments, dental appointments and the everyday stuff that seems to come up, it's really a pain. Cause when it comes to making appointments with the military system, it's not like calling a regular "free world" doctor. You can't just call an leave a message and expect to get a call back the same day by someone. You're lucky if they call you back in three days. And as far as making an apptment, they call you, not you call them. And if they pick a day, you better hope your schedule is free cause it may be another month before another appointment becomes available. But I digress. Anyway, we went to the Valley this weekend to visit my family. For those of you who don't know where the Valley is, it's way down there at the tip of Texas by Mexico. Anyway, our dad lives down there as well as some cousins and some siblings. I hadn't been to the Valley since the oldest boys were 6 months old. So almost exactly four years. When I started figuring it in my head that way, I couldn't believe how long it had been. So, me, my mom and the four kiddos piled into HOWhee, the van, and took a little trip. And I have to say, it was so nice having an "RV" to travel in. While the babies slept most of the way, the boys watched videos. When the kids got hungry, we just stopped along the way and had sandwiches and snacks from the fridge and warmed up bottles for the babies in the microwave. And I don't have to tell you how nice the potty breaks were. No public restrooms. So nice.
We left Friday morning and got there that afternoon. We stopped in at the airport to pick up a rental car for my mom. It was her birthday (on Sunday) and she really wanted to toodle around and visit some old friends. So that evening we just kinda hung out at dads house. My sister daisy and her family came over and my Cousin Claudia and her family came over. They each have three boys. The oldest boys will be six next month and the youngest are 9 months and 11 months old. So our boys had a blast with all the kiddos around. My dad had an in-ground trampoline and they had so much fun jumping on that thing. Ken and I want to install one in our back yard. Saturday was cousin Sammy's birthday party. All of the cousins, friends and neighbors were there. My brother and his kids even came over that afternoon. The boys had a blast! We got home waaaayyyyy past bedtime and the boys were exhausted. Sunday everyone came over again and we BBQed and the kids played and played. By the time Monday rolled around and it was time to go, the boys didn't want to leave. And I don't blame them. We were suppose to leave on Sunday, but my mom called in sick and I canceled Niles therapy and we stayed till Monday. We had so much fun! We plan to go back soon but Nile has surgury coming up on the 28th, so it will have to wait till at least his recovery is over with.
Which leads me to our next subject: Nile's surgery on his feet is schedule on the 28th and this week has been jam packed with dr apptments and MRI's and preop apptments. Sigh. It's been hectic. And next week will only be worse. So I'm getting really anxious and nervous about that coming up.
But I gotta go now. A messy playroom has been staring at me and haunting me all morning and I can't take it anymore. I hope to have more pics soon so check in later. PEACE