Update on Wyatt!

For those of you who do not know I have a son named Wyatt who has a seizure disorder. He will turn seven this July while we are in Illinois. This week (Thursday and Friday) Wyatt is undergoing tests to help determine the causes and how to best medicate the seizures. This morning he woke up with a seizure and Jule and I brought him in our bed to lie down and wait out the seizure. After a dose of his "favorite" medicine he was off to "ZZZZZ" land and slept for about another hour and a half.

Summer Time!

We have spent the first few days of our summer vacation doing your typical summer fun. Swimming, going to the park, and of course fishing filled our family's days. Plans have been made for our annual trip to Illinois to see family. This year there will be an added detour to our trip, St. Louis, we will watch a Cardinal game and also get a tour of the new ball park (well it is new to us it was built in time for the 2006 season). When we arrive home from Illinois school will be right around the corner. Next school year will be my first since the early 1990's in where I will not be coaching anything. I have ever since the birth of our last child, Wyatt, asked for a possibility of giving up my coaching responsibilities, if possible, and this year my principal informed me that my wish was granted. Just to prove that God works in His time not ours. I have mixed emotions as of now about not coaching but I do know it is the best thing right now for our family.

Growing Up!

I have had the honor this year to accompany my oldest son to school each day. It helps that I am a teacher in his school. With that aside I have watched him grow from a timid new sixth grader to one who will try new things and stand up for what he knows to be important. I have heard from his teachers that he is not shy about speaking his faith in class. Nick even stood up to some seventh graders this year and told them to stop fighting or he would get his dad.
Today he took another step in the growing up process. He helped me mow the yard. This was hard on two different sides of the coin. Number one is that I hate to give up some things. Number two is that Nick is small for his age in size, but huge in heart. As I stood by watching him mow the lines in the grass and turn to mow others I wondered where the time went when he would follow me with his toy mower when I would mow the grass. Although that was almost ten years ago it seemed like just yesterday.
For all of you with little ones, take the time with them NOW because those days are numbered and fleeing fast. One day you will look up and the man or woman standing in front of you will resemble that little boy or girl who held your hand crossing the parking lot and all you will have left are memories.