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Yesterday was a very busy day.

First, Bubba 1 (J1) stayed home with us as I had no opportunity to reschedule these appts.  Let’s just say that I received confirmation that him spending most of his day with dad at NCS is not a bad thing.  I hate being negative, but until he is willing to make a change in his heart and his attitude this is the way it will have to be.  I’m praying continually that it is only short term.

Second, all three Bubba’s had eye appts.  The first was scheduled for 9:10 and the last at 10:10.  About 9:30 I realized that bringing Sissy along was not a good idea!  So I called Grammy and, bless her heart, she came to the eye dr and picked her up.  They went shopping until we were done.

The eye dr seemed to take longer with my boys this time than on prevous visits.  The end results are:

• Bubba 1 – only needs reading glasses if he wants.  They are not necessary any longer! PTL!
• Bubba 2 – need glasses for near sightedness.  That means all the time.  He took it better than
• Bubba 3 – who needs glasses for school or computer work.  The doctor also told me that the eye surgery he had when he was 2 or 3 (soon after Joshua died – it’s sort of a blur) did not completely fix the problem.  He gave us some exercises to do to retrain his brain.  Bubba 3 was pretty sad to hear that he was to wear glasses for school and told me he didn’t want anyone to ever see them. :(  I think he feels a bit better about the situation now when he realizes that Bubba 2 has to wear them all the time.

After that we took Sissy to her speech therapy.  Maybe it was the missed nap, or maybe it was the good weather but she was talking up a storm!  Her therapist was pretty excited about it!  Sissy was copying her and really trying.  It was so nice to hear!

After a quick lunch, we went to the surgery center to see an ENT dr about Sissy’s tongue.  I can’t pronounce/spell the thing that is under her tongue, but there has been concern that it was too short and would affect her speech.  But the Dr said it looked ok and he’d prefer we just watch it and deal with it later if needed.  To deal with it now would require surgery and later it would just be an office visit.  After learning that Bubba 3’s surgery didn’t give us the results we wanted, I was quick to agree to wait.

Then it was home to crash.  And my headache was full on by then.  :(  The Hubs took pity on me and picked up some dinner at the local grocery store.  We had done Corned Beef the night before so we did Chinese on St. Patrick’s day….yeah, we are weird like that!

In spite of my headache, I was determined to go to Knit Night.  Ruth helped me wind some sock yarn into two cakes so I could knit 2 at a time.  It was a great turn out and even though I ended up tearing out the 4 rows that had taken me all weekend to do on my socks, I was happy to have made it!  I love Knit Night!

Well, the boys are patiently (NOT!) waiting for me to listen to them read – so I’d better close.  Please pray I can be headache-free today – I need a break from this contant pain!