The Great Wolf Lodge

I am glued to the news today as I see the faces of the children involved in yesterdays tornado's in the OK.  So glad the death toll was inaccurate at first, but still very sad to see so many lives lost.  As I have said before there are many wonderful things that come of these situations though.  It brings a community together like nothing else and makes you realize what life truly is about.  It is said that Oklahoma is an extension of Texas as far as the people go!  Very selfless, Christian people.  Those same storms are supposed to hit Dallas today, so I pray that everyone there will be safe.

Today I am trying to get the house together.  We can’t have mutual at our building because the carpets are being cleaned thus it is going to be here!  I wish we were a cleaner bunch, but unfortunately these kids don’t seem to understand that concept very well. 

The kids only have about 2 weeks left of school and we are really looking forward to the break, but I am also hoping the kids can get along better than they have the last couple of months.  Contention has been a serious problem between the kids lately!!  Hope we can nip that in the bud sooner than later.

I feel like the summer is just starting to fill up super fast!!  This weekend we are headed to Dallas to go to The Great Wolf Lodge Fri/Sat and then to stay with Jeff and Mel through Monday.  Should be fun!  The kids are super excited and don’t know we are doing the Lodge (a hotel with an indoor water park!) yet.  Then in about 3 weeks the Ford family will be coming out to start searching for a house!!  We couldn’t be more excited, although I’ll be honest part of me still doesn’t want to believe it!!  Strange I know, I guess in the small chance that things could fall through I don’t want to be vulnerable to my emotions.  But truly the reality of living near family hit me like freight train when Shane sent that email.  It sent me into a crying fit (of happiness)!  I didn’t realized I was so emotionally involved…well I knew I was, but didn’t realize to what extent I was.  Anyway, we CAN NOT WAIT!

We are also still struggling to know what to do with Kaylee.  I am going to have a candid conversation with her teacher this afternoon, so I hope I can get more specifics as to why they think holding her back is best.  I keep going back and forth.  Part of me thinks she is so physically underdeveloped that it would be good for her, but then the other part of me worries about the emotional aspect of it.  She still has potty accidents daily and has a really hard time with math concepts and reasoning skills.  Her reading has truly taken off, which to me is the biggest deal of all considering what we have gone through with Audrie.  So I teeter back and forth, but need to decide by the 28th.   These decisions are SO HARD.

Tyler has almost finished his baseball season.  He has one more game and is so ready to be done.  He needs to be moving more and I think that aspect of the game is boring to him.   He says he wants to continue with soccer next year (or lacrosse…but I don’t think that will happen as it requires traveling for games). 

Audrie is doing pretty good, although she has been giving me some serious attitude lately.  I don’t know if it’s the age or if there is something else going on, but she has gotten a few pops on the mouth as of late!  She has been coming home with some stellar grades though, which has been wonderful.  In fact she says that her favorite subject is now math, which was shocking to me simply because with her dyslexia math can be incredibly frustrating.  All in all it makes me think we are making progress and that going to this new school next year will just continue to build her up.

Sam is just a hoot.  She talks more than any of my children.  Constantly talking and using the word, “sweetie” with her little lisp.  Such a joy to have around.