This has been a better week and we can just get the tiniest glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel. We won a big battle which will benefit Middle Kiddo a few months down the road and likely forever, we continued in our search of medical answers for Little One, we had the most colorful summer dinners, we got a new couch and we started into another home improvement project. Little tasks that had been lingering on the back burner are getting completed to boot. Onward!
The punches keep coming hard and fast. We're being carried along by their force and try to find the silver linings in the everyday. We made sure to enjoy the good weather with lots of pool time and walks, made progress on some home projects, and prepared for important appointments in the coming week.
It seems that 2025 is meant to be a year of change for all of us. Amid significant professional upheaval for Craig and me, Rex experienced a life-altering event that has uprooted his routines of five or ten years, depending on how you want to look at it. This has placed our family into a very unexpected crisis that will take time to solve via an entirely new support set up for him that is yet to be established.
But we enjoyed...
1) Cranio-sacral therapy
2) Swimming and pizza with friends
3) Aurora's first birthday party
4) Evening family walks
Fourteen years since you became ours and made us parents.
The struggle continues with challenges that have resulted in the cancelation of many scheduled therapy hours. An unpredictable schedule and/or break in routine is never a good thing, especially when preparation has been impossible. So we have been taking it one day at a time with no cherries on top.
1) CB Moves Family Dance Day
2) Home improvement project progress
3) Swimming whenever possible
Here are a some more photos from our road trip along with tidbits that are memorable to us.
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| Lots of lunches at rest areas and local parks We get continuously better at packing these. |
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| Fun with the high wind in Iowa and Nebraska Impressive number of wind turbines in Iowa |
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| Check in and check out at several hotels |
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| Fargo fun |
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| We met Big Girl's best friend from the orphanage for ice cream |
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| A bridge troll in Nebraska |
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| Unplanned side trip: De Smet, SD and all the Laura Ingalls Wilder sights |
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| NCFA Conference |
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| This is us. |
This week started rough but closed on a high. Middle Kiddo is experiencing some stressful changes in his schedule and it's got him struggling. Little One's health issues remain a resurfacing and distressing mystery. And Big Girl is putting in long hours for her college courses but she's made it through midterms. Aside from fireworks at Auntie's house and starting a home improvement project and blueberry cobblers and evening swims, there's nothing exciting to report.
