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…
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you have probably noticed that I usually organize regular blog posts into sections: School, Holidays, Doctor Appointments, etc. Then I simply take each of those sections and use them in the title of the post. The problem with doing it this…
Van Fundraiser As you may know, our van has been having some maintenance issues lately, and it’s starting to make us a bit nervous. I don’t want to end up in a situation like we were a couple of years ago when the water pump in my car broke…