A Questionable Legacy

To my present (and maybe future) children - I am so sorry that I have passed on the sad and painful legacy of ear problems. I suffered ear infections as a child, and have apparently inflicted the same on my beautiful children. Thomas had TONS of ear infections, and a ruptured ear drum as a little one, before he outgrew the problem. Benjamin had his 1st set of ear tubes in at 18 months, and Max had his in before he turned one. Well, Benjamin's 1st set came out, and he has had a nasty infection since then! Some tough strain of antibiotic resistant pneumococcous (sp?). We just got back from the ENT who said (no surprise!) "New tubes for those very infected ears." The child has been on high dose antibiotics for 6 weeks!! Good grief!! Oh well, at least we know the drill!!

Everything else is good! Thomas' Middle School Spirit Homeschool Basketball team lost their first game of the season last night, which he is taking hard, but he is doing well. We are ready for Spring Electives, where he will be taking Grossology, Creation vs Evolution, and a World Geography class, in addition to co-teaching P.E. to kindergarten and 1st graders! He has WAY more patience than I!! We are right now in negotiations about our Spring plans. Thomas hasn't played baseball for the last couple summers, but is now thinking he wants to play this year. I am OK with that (really, I am!), but we are trying to decide if that will work with all the other things we have going on in the Spring and Summer. It would seriously limit the volunteer work he could do at Meadow Farm that he loves so much, and would be a BIG time and energy commitment from Norman and I that I don't know if I am up to. I guess we'll just wait and see! These things tend to work themselves out just the way they are supposed to! Humh, wonder how THAT happens?

Benjamin and Max are doing very well. Into EVERYTHING and BUSY little people! They are truly just SO FUNNY to watch, they just bring me such joy. They love each other and play together and fight each other all in the span of 2-3 minutes. Makes things interesting! The picture is the two of them just the way they like to sleep - together, in Norman and I's bed.

Well, time to run and clean the kitchen, and check on Electives issues, and get Max out of his PJs, and check Thomas' math, and cook lunch and dinner, and get ready for basketball and my HEM Mom's Night Out tonight (yeah!!!), and get billings ready for the 33 newspaper customers who owe me money so I can drop off their bills with their paper at 4:00 am tomorrow! Busy, oh yeah, I stay busy these days!! Change it? Nope, wouldn't change it for the world!