Back to Normal

Many things have been happening that have thrown our family threw a loop this year.

Slowly, things are settling and getting back to normal. It is never fun having life interrupted, but we learn to adjust and re-settle.

The kids are home, Xavier is out of his cast, and Derric is back to being Derric. School has started and the kids are slowly falling back into a school routine. The hardest hit has been Dokota. With no sleep schedule during the summer, he is now finding it hard to sleep at night and actually get up in the morning. I had hoped I could get him back to being close to adjusted in the two weeks he was home before school started, but it is just not happening. It is going to take a lot of time and hopefully it wont effect him to much with school.

Xavier goes in on Monday to get his thumb looked at, but in all honesty, he will have to attend physical therapy. He found many ways to get around using his thumb, even when giving him things to do to work on it. Took away the motion controlled games and gave him old school D-Pad games, but he still found ways to not use his thumb and play them. Reminding him daily, hourly, sometimes minutely did nothing. So, not listening to anyone, he has let his thumb sit. Monday we will get the referral to physical therapy and he will be forced to work it. He will learn that we were not lieing and it will be painful because they will not be nice about it.

Kauchana seems happy to be home, back in her bed, with her stuff, meeting up with her friends. Being able to disappear for hours and not be bothered, headphones in her ears just like Dokota. (tho she will scowl if told that) And like Dokota, her nose is stuck to the iPod, texting and playing games. Or head phones in listening to music while she is curled up on the couch reading a book. Ever so much the teenage girl she is.

The biggest adjustment has been with Derric. He has latched to Dokota and Kauchana like glue. He can't really handle them being out of his site for long now. He has to be near one of them almost at all times.

School:
there really isn't much to say in that field yet. Today is only their third day and everything is still settling with classes. There were a couple of teachers for Xavier I just didn't care for, Kauchana seems to enjoy most of her teachers, and Dokota is, well, Dokota. He is working on getting out of one class and also seeing about getting things set up so he can have Senior status after the semester so next year he can spread his classes out and get a job.

Well, that is about it. Time for me to get back into my morning routine and get out the door soon for physical therapy. Oh the joy.