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A continuation of my original blog, "Surviving Motherhood". |
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Welcome to my world of middle school, high school, and motherhood. The life of a mom is never easy, especially as children grow, and especially when you have a special needs child. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| We're looking into getting a new to us car in the next couple of days. There are all kinds of things up in the air right now, and there's a few things that are holding us back from making this a streamlined process, but we're doing what we can do to get it done. My hope is that we'll be able to attend all the things we need to attend starting this Saturday without any hiccups or hitches. I shouldn't have said that, because that's usually how bad shit happens. Omg. Anywho.... It's really happening. In one week, Ryan will have been promoted from 8th grade to 9th grade. Just like that, he'll be getting ready for his freshman year of high school. One week from tomorrow, Journey will be promoted from 5th grade to 6th, and will be getting ready for her first year of middle school. A chapter has closed for us. We are now officially the parents of older kids. A "tween" and a teen. It amazes, overwhelms and astounds me. Yesterday I was talking with Ryan about how it's all going so fast, and how the next four years are going to fly by, and how I'm not ready for them to leave me yet. I haven't been preparing for that. There's a huge decision we have to make as a family when 7 years here is up, and I'm pretty sure those 7 years are going to fly right by. So, starting this Saturday, we have lots going on. Ryan has one of his last soccer games of the season Saturday morning, and then he has a full dress rehearsal of his symphony/orchestra's gala, which is the next day, Sunday. Monday, we're getting stuff with the car figured out, Tuesday is our last outreach forever, Wednesday, Journey is missing Fun Day (field day) to come sew all the uniforms together with me at Melissa's house (which Melissa and I thought was a good idea...her girls won't be participating either, because of how horrendously hot and humid it is during this time of year. Last year, Journey got heat sickness and had to be aided to the nurses office where she stayed for most of the day. I don't want that to happen to her again. I'd rather she opt out.). Thursday is Ryan's 8th grade promotion, Friday is Journey's 5th grade promotion, and Saturday is the bridging ceremony. Then Sunday is a cookie money activity with my girls. LOTS going on. Very busy time of year, most especially for this year. Roz is set to be towed to a junkyard Friday at 9 am. I must say my sweet goodbyes to my girl before she goes. I love her, and I will miss her so. I will keep her key with me, the same way I did for Char, to remember her by. |
| My sweet Roz is on her last legs. There's something seriously wrong with her, and we definitely don't have the money to get her looked at or fixed. We've had Roz for about 7 years now, and she's done us some real good. I love her so much. She taught me to trust into driving again. I felt comfortable behind her wheel, and I grew to love her almost the way I did Char. I'm going to miss Roz a lot, and I know that she'll be better suited for other things when we get a new car and decide to take her to an auto parts field. I know there's something seriously wrong with her, and I know that it would probably cost more than what she's worth to fix it, and the fact that she's almost 20 years old, and that she has over 100k miles on her, she wouldn't last very long at all. She gave us a great 7 years though, and I couldn't be more grateful to her and all she did for us. She took us to Ocean City. She took us to pick up Dad from the airport. She took us all kinds places. I don't think I'll ever forget her. I want to keep her key, the way I did Char. Don can give them his key. I want to keep the one I have. To always remember Roz. These last few weeks are just FLYING. I was supposed to go to my best friend's house in Minnesota next week, but we had to push the plans back, as Roz died, and we only found out too late that we would've had a solution to take us to the airport. Perhaps it's for the best that we pushed it back though. Don's aunt is hoping to help us get a new car sometime in early June, so hopefully when we go in August instead, the new car can take us. We shall see. If all else fails, I have a back up plan in place. I just hope I don't have to use it. It's a really good plan though. We're a week away to Don's 33rd birthday. We're two weeks away from Memorial Day. June 5th is the very last Monday of the school year for the kids. Journey's field day is the 7th, Ryan's promotion is the 8th, Journey's promotion is the 9th, and Journey's bridging ceremony is the 10th. My girls are also going to a paint party on the 11th, so we have lots going on that week. I'm going to enjoy it though. Everything is going so fast though. Yeesh. These next 4 years are said to fly by, even faster than the last three years Ry's had of middle school, and even faster than the kids were in elementary school. We're looking to start holding meetings in the middle school for my troop now. I just thought it was a better jump. I thank LES for all they've done for us, but it's probably time for us to fly from the nest now and go onto the next big adventure. |
| Once again, the school year is full steam ahead, rushing to the end. It's already May, and I am not even close to prepared for all the chapter ends that are coming. I feel like I've been caught sleeping, and I just don't have what I need to cope and make it though. I have no choice in the matter though. The school year is ending; the Girl Scout year is ending, and I have no choice but to accept it, and work with it. There's been so much going on in the last two months, it's a wonder that I've gotten a chance to breathe. We have appointments and events and so much going on, and it won't end until the school year and the Girl Scout year end, and then what? Well, I shouldn't say that, because a mere 70 days later or so, we start school again, in new buildings, and new times, and new places, and new faces. I must admit, I didn't think it would all go by so fast. I thought going day by day would mean that i would have more time...that's not the case at all. There are days when I think it's dragging by, and I can't wait till Don and the kids get home, and they get home, and it's like, from that point, time flashes forward to the end of the week, and I'm sitting here going "What happened? I thought it was Tuesday? How did it get to be Saturday already?". Our whole household has a lousy concept of time to begin with, but this just makes it all the much harder. I can assure you, you are never really prepared for anything life throws your way. Just hang on for the ride. |
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