Making progress

We just got back from another morning of infusions.  I'm feeling decent right now, so I thought I would blog a little earlier than normal.  Shiloh and Luke and Darrin are out finally getting some yard work done.  We had some special help from a couple garden gnomes who came to help weed and pick peas this morning.  Thank you!!! We're blessed with some beautiful weather, so it isn't too onerous a task to mow and mulch.

I realized I never gave an update on Shiloh's testing.  We won't have any results for a couple of weeks, but it seems to have gone well.  Getting those services would be so great.  They will provide job training, life skills help, and will hopefully eventually help him get into a group housing setting.  Not a group home, but an apartment like setting with other guys and someone who lives with them as a caretaker.  We want him to live as normal a life as possible.  We are more than happy to have him stay with us until he is 22- the age most kids graduate from college.  But then he needs to be able to live apart from us and have a full adult life with a job, responsibilities, and friends of his own.  If he wants to move out sooner, we'll try to help him do that.  He has made so much progress in the last few years- we're confident he can live a great life on his own with a little help.  Thanks for praying with us that the help will be available.  Every kid should have the opportunity to make it on their own without their parents.  Not that we wouldn't be there whenever he needed us, like all parents are.

Andy seems to be having a great time in Alabama with the youth group.  He did a VBS for a couple of days, and today and tomorrow he is doing some house painting/construction.  They'll head home on Friday and be back on Saturday afternoon.  He says it's been fun swimming in the Gulf.  I'll be really glad to have everyone home again.  We've had fun with Shiloh and Luke, but it just isn't the same without the whole gang.

Thanks for continuing to pray about the nausea.  We're supposed to go camping over night next Tuesday and I really want to be able to go.  I was so sad to miss the Crow family trip.  This is just a short trip for Darrin to tell stories in Western Iowa for a couple days.  We'll leave Tuesday and be back on Wednesday.  I need to feel well enough to get our camper ready to go and get plans made.  Thanks for taking this to the Lord for us!  We love you all!