Update on the Richards Craziness

Wow it has been a while. My last blog was about Shaylan and her ER experience. Alot has happened since then. I will try to remember so I can catch everyone up. Here goes. -Since Shaylans surgery she has been doing great. She is sleeping better though she still has her moments of getting up in the middle of the night. Jeff and I are tracking it because we think it is either hormones or the moon change. It seems to be the same time every month for about a week straight. We switch nights now as to who puts her back which helps. After a while it was beginning to wear on me. It was like having an infant all over again. We seem to be in a good stretch right now. The toughest part is getting her to go to bed. With summer around the corner both of my children have a tough time going to sleep. I have room darkening curtains on the windows but the light still creeps through. 2 more weeks and 4 more days and I wont have to worry about it. -Katie did her travel soccer tryouts and we are waiting for the results. Hopefully by the end of this week we should hear something. The team has just about finished the season and the girls improved so much. Katie had a great team and really got to know the girls. One in particular and I am also getting to know her mom really well. In the conversations we have had we have found out that we are a lot alike and our spouses are a lot alike. We were at their house for a swim party yesterday and had a great time. We are going to miss all the team members since for the past few months we have spent every Wed evening and Sat mornings with them. None of the girls on the team are in Katies school so she wont see them except at certain soccer events. Katie really enjoys soccer. She is going to a soccer camp this summer so hopefully it improves her skills. She really likes goal so I think she may work on that especially. -Speaking of summer, ours is so busy already. Every weekend from now until the middle of August there is something planned. We had one Saturday in June where there was nothing and then we received an invitation in the mail for a graduation party. It is for Jeffs cousin who we have not seen in a while so we are going to go. It is in Delaware and with the way gas prices are, we were actually debating on going but decided it is best. My birthday is in 2 weeks which does not seem possible. I am hitting the big 29 and that is where I will stay. For some reason 30 is scaring me. -This weekend is my high school reunion. I have been planning and contacting classmates since November. It is hard to believe it is here. Our turn out was not as great as we hoped but we did plan it during prime wedding and graduation season. Oh well. I have just about everyones email addresses so I am sure we can plan something small for those that are still local. - I have come to love a website called freecycle.org. My good friend told me about it and it is amazing. Instead of just throwing things away that someone else might be able to use, you list them on a website and people come and pick the stuff up. I had a yard sale a few weeks ago and things that did not sell, I put on the site and they have been picked up. It is helping me want to go through my things and put them in bags to give away. Today it was shoes. I went through mine and Shaylans, put them in bags and listed them. What is fun too is you can find things that you may want. Today someone listed a pool table. I asked for it but someone had already responded before me. That is the one thing. You have to be on top of it. But hey it was free and another one may come along. -Jeff and I are attempting a veggie garden. It is turning out to be great. We have quite a few things that have started to poke. For most of the veggies we started from seeds and just planted them straight into the ground. We figured whatever happens happens. We already have sprouts for radishes, carrotts, beets, cucumbers, pole beans, snap peas, and lettuce. We think we may have cauliflower and broccoli and onions but with the weeds that grow everyday it is hard to tell. We also had a watermelon sprout but it somehow was broken off. It may have been the moles. We have a hard time with them and birds. Next year we are going to follow all of my Great-Grandfathers books and start the seeds inside in his light boxes and then transplant them according to his journals and calendars. My Great-Grandfather was an amazing gardener so I am hoping to learn from his books since I am unable to learn from him. Well that is the update for now. Hopefully I will upload some pictures for the next blog and will not wait so long to update. That is if I can find time between my busy schedule. What happened to the lazy days of summer?