Summer Break Week 13

 Beach vacation!

Summer Break Week 12

Not a lot going on.  Things are falling into place.  Some corn in the backyard garden should be ready to harvest soon.  A few pumpkins have finally survived the strange hot and wet summer weather and grown beyond the size of a grape.  And I made two sourdough breads (jalapeno cheddar and cranberry white chocolate) using a new baking method which produces a really crispy crust that makes me very happy.

Summer Break Week 11

 Things are looking up just a little bit more.  It was a busy week.

1) Doctor's appointment for Little One

2) Neighborhood block party

3) A birthday pool gathering with auntie and cousins

4) Lots of babysitting hours for Big Girl

5) End of the college summer semester for Big Girl

6) Interview with someone to join Middle Kiddo's staff

7) Cincinnati Ballet Family Dance Day

8) Finished the new flooring in the basement school/therapy room

Summer Break Week 10

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!

Summer Break Week 9

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.

Summer Break Week 8

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 And Counting

Fourteen years since you became ours and made us parents.

And our hands steadfastly watch over you to this day, even in your sleep, just like we promised the judge in an Armenian courtroom on that hot Yerevan Monday many moons ago.