October Update

So much going on here!  And not all of it has been good.  My 7th grader who is at a new school in town this year (Ba.sis) got his 1st quarter report card recently, and he got straight A's!  He has 9 different classes, one of them being Mandarin!  My 4th grader got straight A's too!  Still waiting to see my 1st grader's report card.  I'm so proud of those kids.  They work hard.

My MIL has stage 4 ovarian cancer.  We recently went back East to visit with her over the kids' fall break.  She is pretty weak and thin and sits in her recliner all day.  Barely eats or drinks anything.  She just got a hospital bed the other day.  I'm glad we got to see her.  Friday is our 16 year anniversary.  I have known her for almost 21 years.  It is so sad that she won't be around for much longer.  When we were saying goodbye, she hugged me and said, "Enjoy my grandchildren."
OH. MY. GOD.   Tears and tears on my end after that comment.  She won't get to see her grandchildren again.

Dave's SIL (the one who is so mean and nasty to me) who has the brain tumor.....I mentioned she called me up last month and chewed me a new one.  Well this past week she went into hospice.  Her tumor grew and she had complications and wasn't very responsive.  We won't, however, get to say goodbye to her.  Dave's brother didn't even call him with the update- D's father told us.  Good Lord, I am so sick of family drama.

My sweet 2-year-old dog.....she has a mass on her femur that ate away 2/3 of her bone.  She is having surgery soon to clean out the mass (it might be from valley fever) and do a bone graft from her shoulder bone I think.  Hopefully this will work and she won't have to have her leg amputated.

My brother is getting married in February.  I'm so excited to have a new SIL.  I'm also excited for them to have kids so my kids can have some cousins!

I got to see my childhood besties when we were back East, so that was nice.  D got to see his childhood friends too.

Other than that, our lives are filled with baseball, soccer, tennis, homework, friends, playdates, mommy & me dance and also music class with Cambria, and time with the kids.

I haven't mentioned anything in this post about our open adoption....not too, too much to report.  Things are going well.  I had a photo book made for Cambria's 2nd birthday and I am going to mail it this week to her birth mom.  I also want to get pictures printed to mail to her two birth grandmas.

I can't wait to celebrate 16 years with the hubster on Friday!