I think that all parents worry about what will happen to their kid(s) if they were no longer around to care for them. I remember my mom telling me when I was younger that if her and dad were to die, my sister and I would go live with my…
Weather can sometimes be an amazing thing. Take, for example, Tropical Storm Alberto that hit the Gulf Coast on May 28, 2018. Normally when a major storm or a hurricane comes out of the ocean and onto land, it may keep going for a little bit and then die out.…
Van Fundraiser I had a thought while I was scrolling through Facebook while having my morning cigarette. Several friends have been posting pictures of these amazing vacations that they’re either currently on or recently took with their families. It got me thinking about the memories that their kids will have…
This is another one of those posts in where the original title, “Oral Surgery Consultation, Spinal Fusion Anniversary, Mother’s Day, School, Van Fundraiser, and Working with Mommy”, was just a bit too long, which is why I shortened the headline to “June 2023 Monthly Update”. My last two posts covered…
It seems a bit odd to be posting this End of the School Year Countdown a week after he graduated, but this is the way that the school calendar was. The 8th graders graduated last weekend while the rest of the students had one more week of school before summer…
Well, he did it! On Sunday, James graduated from junior high at a very nice ceremony at our minor league baseball team’s stadium. He rolled onto the field as an 8th grader and came back to the dugout as a freshman in high school. Stacy and I sat in different…
Van Fundraiser Shirts In addition to the monetary donations, we are now selling shirts to help raise money for a new van. The fundraiser we had in 2014 to raise money for our current van was called "Rollin’ for James”, and while we don’t technically have a name for this…