Catch up...

I am sitting in a hospital waiting room...why, you ask?  Because this handsome devil is having shoulder surgery as I type.

Sigh, he makes hospital gowns look sexy.  Anyway, back in June he tore a tendon in his shoulder while wrestling with his brother.  (No, he has not out-grown that yet.)  He thought keeping the arm in a sling and taking it easy would let the tear heal on its own.  In August he found out he was wrong...his particular kind of injury could only be fixed by surgery.  Bummer.  So today is the day!  I get to hang out at the hospital, he gets shoulder surgery and our kids get to spend the last day of the first week of school without their parents.  It has been that kind of week.

I missed the hustle and excitement of the very first day of school.  I missed Adell going off to transitional kindergarten (basically her first day of real school ever).  I missed Clare's heading off to 3rd grade, Wyatt starting the first day of the year where he gets to rule the school (5th grade) and Lorien starting her second year of middle school (7th grade).  I missed it all...because this other handsome devil had the pukes.

I was sad about missing all of those special moments but thankfully Will stepped in and did the morning runaround on Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday...) so I could clean up puke.  It wasn't all bad.  Will took all of the "first day" photos and I got some quality snuggle time with the King of the Five Second Snuggle.  

And now that I am down to just one child at home (for a few measly hours) maybe I can get caught up on the long neglected blog.  I'll fill you in on our summer adventures.

Spoiler alert: we had an awesome summer.