25 Things about Me

 

I could never answer the question:  What do you want to be when you grow up?
I had two reoccurring nightmares as a child.

Jesus is tied to the railroad tracks and I am trying to untie him before the train rolls over him.
Satan is in the sewer drain and drags me by the ankles to hell.

I [...]

Fun with the Apocalypse

 
Who said the end of the world would not be fun.
 
According to people at my parents’ church, Barack Obama is the anti-Christ.  Thank goodness!  All of the other anti-Christs from my childhood were so mean.  Henry Kissinger was kind of grumpy.  Nixon was too evil.  Clinton was too messy (especially on blue dresses).  Michael Jackson [...]

In Plain Sight

Ethan has been a bit of a grump since the day after Christmas when he discovered that his Nintendo DS was lost.  The whole family scoured the house looking for the “pacifier.”  No luck.  He had to go to California for a week and quit video games cold turkey.
 
Then today, he was looking for something [...]

Ill Fated Trip to Cox’s Farm

 
This picture just about says it all.  We got to the pumpkin patch and spent about an hour there.  We found a picnic table for lunch.  While Ethan and I waited, Jenn went and got our food.  By the time she got back, Ethan was almost crying with ear pain. 
 
We dashed off to target [...]

Outta the Park

Some days are just better than other.  Some days are just great.  Today is one of those days.
 
Work was work; but I did have a nice lunch out in the pavilion. 
 
After work, I took Ethan to his baseball game.  It was a perfect night for baseball.  We were on the nice field, it was [...]

Put on a happy face

 
Jenn told me something last night that almost made me cry.  While she was giving Ethan his enema, he asked if he “tried” real hard could he stop having the enema and catheterizations.  Sadly, I think it is finally dawning on him that his life is not exactly like his friends. 
 
On another front we [...]

Blur II

I titled this entry Blur too, but for an entirely different reason.  This morning a Ugandan Children’s choir visited our church.   The singing and dancing were almost breathtaking.  Their choreography was so rapid that literally they were a blur at times.  And while they were dancing they were singing too.  Only children could move and [...]

Blur

I just woke up and I have not had coffee, a dangerous combination.  Well I have had a couple of days to get used to the idea of cathing, and it is not the end of the world.  One nice thing we discovered was that the nurse at Ethan’s new school knows how to cath.  [...]

Cathy

 
So I am in an angry troll kind of mood.
 
Ethan had his second urodynamics test today, but I could not go because we had an emergency at work (it is 7:15pm as I write this…I am still at work…waiting for customer confirmation).  The Urodynamics test is by far the most invasive test ever conceived of [...]

Treat

 
Life can take you some unexpected places.  When I was a kid, I always dreamed of getting a house in my parents’ neighborhood when I grew up.  My sister always looked to more distant horizons.  She was the bold one who went to school out of state.  I was the one who went to Junior [...]