Wow, we are definitely in the home stretch with only 5 days to go! I feel really busy, and like I'm just spinning my wheels all at the same time. Our Wish Granter is scheduled to come over tonight to drop off our luggage, tickets and Wish Package at 5:30
I have no idea what will be in the wish package since it varies so much with each family, but I'm hoping for lots of nice goodies for the boys! I will let everyone know as soon as it is in my hot little hands!
Since we are moving a week after our trip I've been packing and cleaning out and trying to get ready for that too. I have way too much laundry to get caught up on in the next few days so we can even pack for our trip
I'm doing pretty good on getting rooms packed down though. Since we are going to be gone a week it makes it easier to just pack almost everything in boxes now.
I have been trying to pack in as many doctor appointments and getting things taken care of here before we move so that has been a little crazy, but I wanted to get it out of the way before we go with the doctors we are familiar with to buy us some time before I have to scramble for an appointment with a new doctor. The older boys all saw the eye doctor yesterday and Brett asked for contacts
not sure how we will do but we are going to give it a try.
Tyler has a big cardiology appointment tomorrow with echo and all so we will see if the heart meds are helping at all and if there is any worsening of his heart condition. 6 Year well child check up with the pediatrician after cardiology tomorrow (gonna be a fun day
) and then Speech and OT on Thursday. Then, on Friday we go to pick up his new AFOs and shoes! I was hoping he would have them earlier to see how he tolerated them before the trip, but can't do much about that now. We did order some cool shoes for his AFOs that are supposedly like Crocs but built for AFO use. I just hope they are easier to get on/off over his orthotics. The Answer2 shoes we've gotten before are just so hard to manage and it really hampers getting him to even wear the orthotics. So, I guess we will try the AFOs but take extra shoes and socks just in case they are bothering him at the parks so we can switch off.
That's not even including the Spring Celebration at the elementary school for the younger boys, a field trip for my 6th grader on Friday (I'm not going!), possibly a quickie garage sale if I can pull it off (really need to do this because there's really no other time!), and of course packing packing packing. My To-Do list is out of control and just keeps getting longer. At least it helps me organize my thoughts and hopefully I don't miss any of the important things!
Last night we had a small family birthday party for Tyler
He had a cute Pooh cake and I got him just a few gifts, mostly stuff for the trip. I did get him a new portable DVD player but got it pretty inexpensively on Ebay. A couple of new DVDs, a Blues Clues rain pancho for the trip, and his favorite: a "Steve" shirt. I'll post pics below
Back to packing now...