Random and Miscellaneous

I promised myself that I would start writing again when Z started school.  This is the first time ever that she has asked about school during the summer, she was excited to go back to the Deaf School.  Residential treatment is done, no traveling back and forth, just a normal start to the school year.  There was a new teacher but still a great start!  But just a month into the year, a teacher change!  I swear Z is a magnetic for things to go crazy at a school.  Z handled the second change well and I'm sure it will be fine but another teacher, really!

A week after school started Dave and I left on vacation.  We went to Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle.  It was a great trip with our long time friends.  We saw the sights, ate too much, walked until our feet hurt and for me it was too many boats.  Butchart Gardens is amazing and downtown Seattle was very fun.  I made them all go to the Chihuly Glass exhibit near the Space Needle and it was a so gorgeous, we all loved it!  But Dave and I decided that our next trip is back to Maui!

We were back one day and Z, O and I were off to the White Mountains for the Hands and Voices Family Retreat.  We were "chicken" about staying in the "dorm like" accommodations at the the camp so we got a hotel room.  Z had positive experiences in the kids activities and loved the "go carting" with O.  I did not appreciate the memento I got on the way home, a speeding ticket.  Z did not handle the car ride well and while she was tantruming in the backseat, I got caught by a speed camera. Of course, it would never have happened if she had been her sweet, happy self, right?

Home for a couple weeks and then again Z, O and I are off again.  This time to Dallas, TX for Z to have more GI testing that isn't done in AZ.  We couldn't have done it without O.  She loves Z, handle behavior automatically and Z relies on her for signing.  Bad behavior again on the plane, go figure?  But O and I agreed, it was a "piece of cake", only a two hour flight compared to the five hour flight from Florida.  Everything is relative!  It was good to get the testing done and the doctor did find some issues and still waiting for more results.  It was not fun for any of us.  Poor Z had to have a "clean out" before the testing so we had "poo" flowing freely.  O was a good sport, a great help and we all came home sleep deprived for sure.

In the mean time, Dave had two trips.  His mom had shoulder surgery so he headed off to Madison to be with her.  Home for one day and he's off to Denver for a work training.  Dave in Denver, Z and I in TX and both our cars parked at the airport!

We are all home now and not wanting to leave.  It's amazing how all three of us are looking forward to our routine at home.  School for Z, work for Dave, and what for me, not too sure?