DATES Prom

The DATES Gang (Disabled Adolescents Together Expanding Socially) and Miss Dolly (center of back row)

Jarrett and Aunt Shell

Dancing the night away

Bubbles!

My handsome teenager all dressed up!

Spring Renewal

This week I finished packing up some prom dresses to donate to the Bankbridge Development Center. The daughter of a woman whose blog I follow goes there and every year she blogs about their prom and going to try on gowns with her daughter. The school collects gown donations and students can try them on and choose what they like. I have no daughters and I doubt my nieces when they get old enough will want any of the ones I have so off they go!!!  Not only did I end up sending about 6 dresses(some donated by my brothers girlfriend) but gloves, purses, jewelry and hair clips  as well as a pair of shoes should be arriving in New Jersey today.  I was a little hard to part with my first prom dress. It's a bit like Molly Ringwalds in Pretty in Pink and was worn with lace fingerless gloves and I loved it!

I've brought home some boxes from work to work on making our closet more manageable. While Mikey insists since I have more clothes in there it's my fault but I believe all the cars and stuff in there aren't exactly helping the situation.

Max needs to have surgery next week. He needs to have his tubes removed and the doctor is going to check out what's going in his right ear.  A month ago he had blood coming out of the right ear. We had to find a new ENT doctor since now all he has is his medical assistance and the other one doesn't take that. The new doctor gave him antibiotics and ear drops and yesterday was his follow up appointment.  He has dried blood crusted on the tube in the right ear and we need to find out what is going on in there. Not to mention, when he had the original surgery we were told the tubes would fallout on their own in about 6 months.  It's almost a year later and the tubes are still firmly in place.  Fingers crossed for next Thursday.

Catching Up

So yes, it has been awhile since I have blogged. What's been going on? LIFE. Family conflicts, babies, work, babies, kids growing, Jarrett got an award for excelling at doing math equations in Spanish (and he hates math!), first grade, eighth grade, did I mention babies? Three little girls.

 Makayla Rae was born April 17. My sister's first baby! Our little miracle baby that spent several days in the NICU (and spent them as BabyGirl Berggren until they could decide what to call her).

 Gabrielle Evalynn was born July 8. My stepsister's first baby too! Another miracle baby! Becky was told she probably would never have a baby.And yet here she is.

 Kayden Riley was born July 25. She couldn't hold out one more day and share her birthday with me. Alyssa is a big sister now! Alyssa turned 2 in November.

                                           Three little turkeys on Thanksgiving.


And speaking of babies...Makayla will be a big sister in May and Brielle will also be a big sister in August!


Max is in first grade now. He's still a Beyblade fanatic.Currently,he has no top front teeth. He'll be 7 soon. He can't wait to play soccer in the fall again.

Jarrett is now in eighth grade. We have to go to a meeting about high school scheduling on Thursday.  He goes to high school next year!!! He'll be 14 in October. He's also excited to join the drama club next year.

Makayla is crawling like a little fiend, pulling herself up to walk around the furniture. Brielle is scooting all over and just got two teeth on the bottom. Kayden smiles and giggles at everything.

Certain other situations, well, that's a story for another day