BITS OF PIECES OF OUR CRAZY LIVES LATELY

I'm going to make this short and sweet, because I'm tired and want to go to bed. I'm good. Colby is good. Bye.

Just kidding. I have a little more to report than that. I've been busy as crap lately. I said if I could just make it through September I'd be okay. And I did! With training for my new job, picking up a few extra hours at my old job, and working my first official weekend as the new "pharmacy counter technician" I've been a little cra-cra cuckoo. I worked 6 days in a row and took care of all things Colby, so yeah, pretty much running myself ragged. But now my schedule is back to normal, or a new normal I should say.

Colby is doing fabulous. He's had a great week at school. Today they went on a field trip to the zoo. Tomorrow is his last day of school for the week, then he's on Fall break until next Wednesday. I'm hoping now that my schedule has lightened up a little, I can get back to redecorating his room. That just got put on the back burner with everything else I had going on. I also want to get busy putting other/new stuff on his eye gaze. He's using the heck out of it, and I couldn't be more pleased. Time to kick it up a notch. And now for the really good Colby news…drum roll please…he drove his power chair FORWARD this week. Once in gym class, then again up and down the hall at school. Now that's news! It's wonderful that others are finally having expectations for him. That's what he needs, someone else to push him besides his mama.

We're going to spend Fall break camping with Mom and Kenny, and I can't wait. You know what I'm going to do while we're there. Nothing, as little as possible, relax. Visit. Spend QT with my sweet boy. Go for walks. Read The Hobbit to him. Make s'mores. Take naps. Visit some more. I'm not forwarding my home phone to my cell. I'm not taking my daytimer.  I'm not taking the mail to sort. Besides Colby's daily routine, we have no set schedule. I need a few days of R and R. And football. I want to watch lots and lots of football. Colby's nurse helped me get a bunch of stuff together tonight. It's all sitting here in front of the TV, waiting to get packed up tomorrow. It'll take me all day while Colby is at school to get us packed up and ready. Then he'll get home from school. We'll feed him, do a routine trach change. Do his IPV and CoughAssist treatment, and hit the road. Aaaaah, let the mini-vaca begin.

That's about it I guess. I know it's not much detail, but I'm tired and want/need to get in bed. I'll be blogging again soon to report how the camping adventure went. Good night, all. Remember to count your blessings.