Time Flies...Always

Goodness, my days are flying by so far this summer. The odd thing is that we really haven't done anything wonderfully exciting yet. We are just living life.

In the past week, we have interviewed and hired a new caregiver for Aaron. Like everything Aaron, it hasn't been simple. We get these lovely respite hours from Medicaid each month. Because the State is involved in this matter there is a lot of paper work and more paper work. Did I mention, there was paperwork? I have spent a couple days dealing with that mess and I hope everything is in place next week when Aaron and Isaac spend their first two days with her.

We have also been working very hard with Aaron's continence. I still haven't given the world the full story of Aaron, but if you don't know him...Here is the short of it. He lives with Spina Bifida. This is a genetic defect that has affected his bowels and bladder the most, so continence to us means to be socially dry. This involves intermittant catherization every two hours during the day. We have discovered this week that even a little caffeine effects this. Basically, this means that my life has been broken down into two hour intervals and I spend 15 minutes of those two hours coaxing Aaron in and out of the bathroom. Sometimes it goes smoothly and other times my blood pressure rises and I can feel my skin begin to crawl from the stress of getting him to cooperate.

Besides those two things, we have gone to the pool a couple times. Isaac is spending this week at Cub Scout Day Camp and Nathan is studying, so I am doing just about all the housework. However, I still don't take out the trash. As far as I am concerned that is definitely the man's job. Just a little of my old fashioned nature coming out, I guess.

And my ultimate accomplishment so far this summer.... I have finally made dental appointments for me and the children. Yippee....

So, here we are living life. Maybe we're not living it to the fullest this week but I think there are times when just living is just fine.