Elijah Has a New Room

Elijah is all moved in to his new room, which is Jacob's old room. The painting was completed on Thursday and the floors were finished yesterday. We spent most of the afternoon hanging blinds, moving his dressed and his bed. Two of our neighbors came over and helped with the blinds and moving the bed. We still need to move his posters to his new room. Elijah also has to help clean out his old room. There are lots of legos left in his old room. Once we get the old room cleaned up, my wife will move her office in there. We will need to have it painted and we are trying to decide what to do about the carpet. We may just lay a large rug down, or we may recarpet it. She doesn't want laminate floor. The poor cats don't know what to do with all of the changes. They are not used to Elijah being in Jacob's room! Lots of other new things in store for us. I am headed to bed. I am SO tired!

It's Been a Year--Lots of Changes

WOW! It has been a year since I posted. I guess I have been busy. Jacob got a job with a school district as a computer technician in July of last year. He loves his job and he just moved out with his girlfriend. They live about five minutes from us! Elijah is going to move from his room into Jacob's old room. We had it painted today, and we are getting wood laminate laid tomorrow. We hope to have him in his room by Saturday!!

Elijah is doing well. He still has his challenges with behavior, but we continue to see improvement. He and I went to the Lexington down in south Texas. It is an air craft carrier. We went down with his ROTC group. It was a neat trip, but boy my back was not happy for about 2 weeks after. Elijah got his state ID and we got him signed up with the state workforce solutions. There are lots of other changes coming, but I'll update those after they happen.

My wife and I are doing well. We both work a lot. I had my gall bladder surgery a year ago February. It was almost the summer before I really got back to 100% of my stamina. We had a busy summer. My mom had back surgery so my SIL and I spent time taking care of her through July and August. My ex-hsuband's mother, the boys' grandmother passed away last June. The boys and I took it hard. We still miss her every day.

Elijah and I went to see my sister and nephew in San Antonio mid July. We actually went tubing down the river, which was lots of fun. The holidays were fun and we got to see family.My wife works hard, but we find time to be together. It isn't always easy if she has to work at night, but we make it happen Elijah went to his Tourette camp a few weeks ago, so we spent 1 1/2 days shopping and EATING! We found a great little restaurant in Chappell Hill! We really enjoy that time together. We are on spring break this week and we went and spent time together shopping on Tuesday. We like to go in and out of antique shops checking things out. We even found a chocolate shop and bought some truffles!!

Jacob getting a job, a "real" job as he calls it and then moving out are the two big things in the last year. Elijah will be 18 next month and that will be the next big thing. He will be a senior next year!  I'll try to be better about blogging!