We are doing well just getting
back into the groove of school J Today is day two and
we are plugging right along. Tyler still isn’t feeling super great (I
think he has a cold) but he is being a trooper! But really there is more
homework for the parents the first week than anything, hahaha…I spend hours
filling out paperwork. I wish they would do all of it online, but for
whatever reason they don’t (Wait until Sam is in school, then it will be paperwork
X four, ha!). Kaylee was EXHAUSTED after school yesterday and actually
really, really struggled to get up this morning. I think we are going to
have to push bedtime back to 7:30pm for her, she just doesn’t have the
endurance for a 7am-4pm “workday”. Sam has napped several days in a
row as well, so maybe we are just fighting something; although Kaylee has
always been my tired girl. Speaking of Kaylee we are heading to a
ophthalmologist today at Texas Children’s. She started complaining again
of that one eye going blurry and her unusual eye movement is as present as
ever. This was the earliest appointment they could get me (I made it
weeks ago- and actually yesterday was the earliest, but I thought the first day
of school would be bad to miss!). So hopefully they will be able to shed
some light on her J
Other than that I have had a
very good week. I have been particularly sensitive to the spirit lately
and slightly weepy because of it. I received a new calling on Sunday
(didn’t think that would happen!) to be a RS teacher, which I couldn’t be more
excited about. I just LOVE, love, love that calling as well as being
apart of RS. I just love being with women, I know it is part of my
calling here on earth! After talking with the education counselor
yesterday she sent met the schedule of lessons and my first lesson that I am to
teach is on sealing power and temple blessings….I could NOT believe it.
In addition to that Andy had his EQ lesson on Eternal Marriage this past
Sunday and I am absolutely certain that we are being
prepared for something. I can FEEL it. I hope we are doing what we
need to be to learn whatever it is the Lord is trying to teach us. We try
to keep things light and are continuously joking with each other (being very
dramatic), “I love you if this is the last time I see you.” Or “do
you have mistresses that I don’t know about?” Or “when does that
life insurance kick in?” J (BTW he assures me otherwise and I have complete
trust in that man, he’s a good one and a keeper. It’s only funny because
I know he would never do anything of that nature J Love you
Babe!)
Andy and I were able to go to
the temple on Saturday and as we were walking into the chapel we were advised
that the session was in SPANISH ;) So I got to use headphones (of
course Andy didn’t)….let me tell you, headphones in the temple during an
endowment is actually quite difficult. I was banging it around, twisting
it up in my attire and truly struggling! I had a moment when I realized I
had something on completely inside out and backwards because I was so
disheveled when dressing, hahaha, it was quite hilarious; although I’m sure
everyone thought something was very wrong with me. Nice to change things
up though!
Yesterday I listened to a
podcast on the Mormon Channel that is part of a series called “Endure it Well”
(thank you Ali for the recommendation!). It is a series about enduring
trials with faith and hope through real life experiences of people within the
church. It was fantastic! Throughout the entire radio show I
couldn’t stop thinking about a friend who carpooled with us last year to
Audrie’s school. Her son has Muscular dystrophy and they have had many
health struggles in addition to that. The podcast was about a family with
4 children that had MD and talked about how the dealt with their trials and
ultimately the death of 2 of them. Anyway, I felt I should send to this
lady the link to the podcast. So I did. Then later that evening
around 9pm I saw that she had posted on facebook that her mother had passed
away that very afternoon. I couldn’t believe it. I sent her that
podcast just a few minutes before her mom died. It hit me like a ton of
bricks! The spirit was talking to me…I couldn’t quite wrap my head around
it. I’m not sure she will even notice the time the email was sent, but
either way it affected me greatly and I will remember this experience for a
long time.
We had back to school blessings
on Sunday and I just bawled throughout all of them (what is wrong with me? And
no I’m not pregnant), but I particularly felt the spirit strongly during
Kaylee’s blessing. Andy said some very interesting things that caught me
by surprise. One of the things he said was that he blessed her with
safety, that she would be careful, cautious and safe throughout the year.
It was totally unrelated and kind of random within the blessing, so I asked him
afterwards what that was all about and he said he didn’t know what that
meant. He also said he felt the spirit really strongly during her
blessing as well. My maternal worrying has kicked in high gear, but we
are being very cautious.
Anyway needless to say I am kind
of on edge with whatever is coming…I am reading into everything, wondering and
worrying. But I do feel that the Lord wants me to have faith in the
unknown and His plan, so I really need to be more faithful and less
fearful!
Yesterday was the kids first day
back at school and everyone reported positive things, so it should be good. I
am trying to get the ball rolling with Audrie’s 504 plan, so hopefully we can
get that going as soon as possible. They want to retest her dyslexia
diagnosis (schools diagnosis, they don’t have to accept outsides sources and
like to do their own testing) because it’s been 3 years since they did their
last one. So the district has to do that. I hate all the testing
they have to do with her, but it will be good get her re-evaluated with updated
information. She will be thrilled to have to have more testing
(NOT!). Maybe if I offer her Psychoeducational eval from 2013 (that we
paid big bucks to have done) they can use that instead? I will see what
they say.
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