So ... since i have been on here there have been many curve balls. First COVID - 19, try explaining to a special needs child why they suddenly cant go to school. Then try explaining why they are going to school on the computer. It took me weeks to keep him from getting ready packing a lunch and waiting for the bus. A few more weeks later i have him understanding that we need to do school work from home. Now there is ESY...!
  Even harder than school is the death of his natural father and the fact that responsibility falls on him. Okay i guess that was harder on me, because my child never really knew him. Yes he met the man but the father never acted like one or wanted Alex to call him dad. That mess is almost over.
  My goal for this summer is camp so far it is only delayed. VBS was canceled. Why do i feel like its harder than other families? Well Alex is special needs and grem is 98 and cant stand him. Then there's the 10 year old. Oh and the husband. My 10 yr accidentally broke my car. He was trying to close the trunk and i didn't know he pulled the engine hood leaver and the hood blew up over driving and broke the windshield.  Okay that's been the last month have fun til i see you again.

homebound

Playing school, family games, mixed up schedules Its great having the family together. Broc is learning vocabulary by playing charades. Home EC by helping with laundry. Science by watching the lion King. That's the good side of it. 

The real side is chaos. No i wont do school work. My teacher didn't give me anything. No. no.no He's looking at me. He's imitating me. Alex shut up. Hes allowed to talk/laugh what hes doing isn't talking/ laughing, Chaos. My friend Liz painted a picture titled the birth of chaos. it depicts a baby with shadows of trees and sun hands up at his head with a startled expression. It fully describes life today.

I hid the remote and put TV time on a schedule. I'm making homemade cookies and printing coloring pages and work pages. I'm renting movies and keeping most of my thoughts to myself. I would love to send them outside but its raining this week.

The lord is a rope I shall tie about my waist,                               As He held me in his.

He pulleth me up in spirit.

One end about him the other about me,

in darkness we need not see.

Through this chaos he leadeth me,

When the end is here the rope shall hang from my cross.

 A reminder of the times i held faith in my hands. 

Hit it out of the park


Hi everyone. I have not written in a while those curve balls have kept me quit busy. I take care of my grandmother who is a spirited 97 year old. My  18 year old has down syndrome and just to make life interesting i've got a ten year old with adhd/odd. Yes I get a lot of curve balls. Maybe I should try out for the Dodgers? I say that just because its the one team name I know and they live in a warm climate. Not that Pennsylvania cant be warm but the roller coaster ride of winter verses spring has me a little crazy.  On the good side i'm getting a brand new car tomorrow, yeah me! We started making the garden area ready for tilling, so that will be great when we get to start planting. I sat in my Gazebo for a little bit on one of our spring days. Can't wait for warm weather! One of our spring like days i hung some wash outside, that a good thing really.  Until you don't bring it back in and the wind blows it next door. And the little one takes a branch to your wash basket and breaks it. (WHACK!) Today I had an hour and Half drive to the dentist, for my lovely little one. simple one rout drive to and back right?  No, I followed GPS down because i didn't know where the building was. Realized getting back out on the rout was relatively easy so no GPS home. Easy? Yeah until I missed a turn and ended up somewhere unknown to me. I followed back roads (with GPS) until i found a familiar place to get back on the rout I wanted. (WHACK!) Tomorrow my husband and I are going to a Kingfish concert. Not really sure if I want to drive or not. Until we meet again keep hitting those curve balls out of the park.

Hello, My last post was a little random so I'm going to stick to one subject today. one of my favorite hobbies is gardening. However my last two flower beds became over grown. I would very much like to do my gardening my way and my husband the vegetable farmer likes to tell me how to do it. The house plants get along very well. Unless the cat gets in them. The vegetable garden is the hubbies project. He wants me to keep it weeded but i never seem to do it right so i stay out of it, which makes him angry.  Digging in the earth and planting things is enjoyable to both of us. Since we've moved to the new house Ive been potting in the laundry room. I cant wait to get outside. Hard to do in January in Pennsylvania. So far we've planned rose bushes, a snowball bush, and some others. Hopefully i still get to plant my morning glories and tulips. It will be very nice to sit in the gazebo and watch butterflies and humming birds. How relaxing would that be?

Your Home All Day

I became a stay at home mom when my special needs son was 15. My husband, then boyfriend, said if i needed help with bills and such he would help me. So against my fears I did it. And for the most part it turned out to be a good decision. Fear is a big factor in everything i do. Fear of the unknown, Fear of what happened in the past, lots and lots of fear. My big girl panties are so far up i gave myself a wedgie. Now that i'm home all day(my husbands words),it seems i do not keep myself busy. I just sit on the couch watching soaps and eating bon bon's. Whatever they are. Nope if i go somewhere and someone sits with my grandmother and runs the sweeper or does the dishes that's the only time it gets done. My husband does the cooking for 5 people all the time because he chooses to do it once or twice a week when hes off. I have all the time in the world because "i'm home all day". I do take care of my grandmother who has macular degeneration and age related dementia. I do take care of an 18 year old boy with down syndrome. I do go gray with a 10 year old that thinks hes 16 when it comes to girls. There's also everyone's bank accounts, the boys each have their own accounts to that i manage. Everyone has medications that i alone manage and doctors appointments. So did i let the supper dishes go til tomorrow? yes. Does that mean i do not do anything? Hell No! Again fear. I do not want to be alone,,,again. My husband is very good to me even if he is blind to the goings on of a working home. A working home is a more accurate description of a house wife. We know all the things that go with a working farm, a successful business excetera. A working home is no less busy. In conclusion do not nit pic the wife of a working home. She knows how to put a monkey wrench in the cog wheels too. Fear the multi-tasker. imagine the fear that the outside worker will get sick and life will change. The fear that's put aside to take the kids by themselves to an event. The Lord said "fear not for i am with you" , go with her to church because that is where fear is put aside and she can be herself.

all things come in three's

Hi there! Here in central pa we have a saying that all things come in threes. Just like last week.I told you about two of them in my last post. On Friday night my son told me his ear hurt. on Saturday i took him two be seen and sure enough the one he pointed to was infected and the other one was just starting. This is just one week. Last summer I had them all in 24 hours. We go to the Deleware beach every year. This year my gram went along, mostly because she cant stay alone anymore and we didn't have anyone to stay with her. Well the truck and the car are all packed. Two kids, two dogs, and three adults. We agree that he leads with the truck and if i have any trouble i'll call on my cell. We drive about an hour and i hear MOOOOOOM from the back seat. I had one dog,one child, and grem. I smell as hes yelling and pull over. I call my husband and tell him to wait somewhere the dog just dumped on the child (one). It took me a while to clean that up and strip the child who now had to ride in his underwear because the clothes were in the truck. The caravan stopped for lunch at Morgantown, and clothes from the goodwill. The husband potties the dogs while i get the food potty the kids and one adult. Back at the car hubby is complaining that i didn't order the right stuff for the dogs and he wants back on the road. I organize everyone back in the vehicles with their food and we pull out. The next four hours go well and the rental is found. In the driveway the dogs are left out and very hyper, so are the kids. I open trunk to get grems walker out aannd its..not..there(two). The walker was left by the car at Morgantown. I know because i called and they had found it and locked it up til we come back through. So three you ask? what can get worse than that? Ha hold on to your seats. The cars unloaded. suppers ate and cleaned up. Everyone goes to bed. Everything seems fine, I wake up and go downstairs. Make some coffee and check on grem. One look and i knew the day was screwed. She was black and blue from forehead to chin. Grem is on plavics and 97 years old. I went up and told my husband the problem and grem and I spend the day in the Bebe hospital emergency.(three). Now I should say to top this all off she told eveyone at the hospital that my son with down syndrome pushed her. The kicker is when she thought it was taking to long and told orderly to get her a good strong whisky! Until next time enjoy this Adulting Curve Ball.

Hi I am Kimber Lee, I never thought I would be writing a blog but here i am! everything you will read is true. I may change names but the circumstances will remain. I hope to entertain you. I have three boys 10, 18, and 28,all born in July. All due on a Friday. My girl was due on a Friday also for each one the date was the 15th. My 18 year old boy was born with down syndrome. And so the current household is two boys, one husband, three cats, three dogs and my grandmother. We just bought a new house. Everyone is still getting adjusted. Things are going pretty good house wise. Life wise on the other hand? There's the curve ball! This week was new years eve. That morning my grandmother woke up with dizziness and upset stomach. I break out the blood pressure cuff and can't get a good read. I called my brother and told him I was calling the ambulance. By this time my gram was furious. She doesn't need to go to the hospital. Shes fine, it will pass.And so we went to the hospital. It turns out nothing was wrong, at least with her heart.New years day went fine. That night we heard a crash and went running into grams room. The tp part of the head board had come tumbling down on top of her. Did she get checked out? No shes been hit on the head before and nothing happened.O K gram I'll just stay up all night. I swing at all the curve balls. Sometimes I miss and sometimes i hit a homer.