Since my last post, my sister in law's husband passed away, and Steve drove up to Michigan for the week to be with her. Actually, he drove up, then drove back for a day to sort out some work stuff and to allow me to go back to work for a day, then drove back again. He's on his way home again now. It's kind of funny saying he's driving to and from Michigan, like it's some sort of commuter route, especially since he didn't get his driver's license until Samantha was born and never wanted to drive, even over the 15 years we'd been married by then. Now he says he enjoys it. At any rate, back to the purpose of his trip, Scott was only 47. A very tragic and unexpected departure, and my thoughts are with his family and most certainly with my SIL.
Also, since my last posting, Samantha fell and got one heck of a shiner.
This was her first big injury, as we tend to treat her with kid gloves and wrap her in cotton balls at every opportunity. LOL She handled it pretty well, getting upset for a few days every time anyone would talk about it in front of her or any time she saw it in the mirror. Which was a real challenge, every time she washed her hands at the bathroom sink. At one point I even put her hair over it so she wouldn't see it. It actually worked! I wasn't sure what the teachers at school would make of it, so I sent a little note to school in her backpack, explaining. I guess these days CPS could show up at your door any time! I didn't get any kind of a note back from them, which was a bit disconcerting!
Our Buddy Walk for the Down Syndrome of Northern Virginia was yesterday.
Of course it happened to be on one of the most cold, rainy (seriously, it did not stop, even for a minute), miserable days of the year, but the turnout was decent, and I'm very glad I went, even having to do it without Steve. Two of my work friends, Donna and Nejet, showed up (one other was a no-show, without even a response to my multiple e-mails from the day before to confirm, but that's a whole other story for a whole other blog post) as well as my dear friend, Crystle along with her mother, my friend Rob of Abby Monroe is HERE (whom I had never met, but knew through Flickr, this blog, and Facebook) and his wife, Anny, and adorable 2-year old daughter, Abby (sporting her own recently-obtained, staircase-battling black eye in sympathy of Samantha's), my parents, and the Lamjav Family, who will have their own Buddy Walk team next year, but we were thrilled that they could join us this year! We were thrilled to have had a really wonderful team, and I give my thanks to each of them for coming out and braving the elements to support us! Samantha was pretty miserable when it came time to do the "walk," and made me carry her. Now this is certainly no easy feat, especially when the venue was soooo much bigger than last year's, and she's rediculously heavy. Especially heavy when I realized, halfway through it, that she was asleep!!! Through me staggering under her weight and the rain, she somehow found it appropriate to completely relax. Ugh. It's going to take a whole lot of visits to the gym to fix the damage and loosen up those muscles again.
Many, many thanks to Michelle and Brian (Our Roads Traveled), Linda (Lila's Miracle Life), Bethany (Life With Bubba, Chicky & Nika), Megan (Audrey & Stella's Playground) and everyone else who tirelessly put in so much work to bring us the Buddy Walk again this year.
I'm not sure when I'll post again, but hopefully I won't let so much time elapse next time. We'll see how I feel.
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My blogging recently has been hit and miss - moreso on Abby's blog than on mine. I've decided that as the children do more, there is indeed more to tell about, but less time to tell it. I'm just getting to Abby's black eye story this morning, so the Buddy Walk will probably not happen until Thursday. Gah.
Abby proudly showed off her "Sammi Walk" button at church yesterday! :o)
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