Lots going on

The summer is finally here and the days have been getting away from me again. As a child you cannot wait for the days to fly by for the school year to be over and enjoy summer. Now the days just don’t slow down. My mom always told me there will be a day when you wish they should slow down. Why don’t we listen more when we are kids? I only wish there was one more day in the week (or should I say weekend).

 We have been keeping busy with the kids and all of their appointments. Callie got the all clear for a year with all of her skull issues, which was great news. Zak, however will be getting a shunt in him head tomorrow. The last test he had revealed that he does have some extra pressure in his skull. We are not sure if this will help his head banging and discomfort, but we pray it will.

 Zak finished up another year of school and has started summer school for 6 week. We are not real impressed as usual with the summer program however Zak gets to swim for an hour and he loves the water! I think he could swim all day if we let him. With his surgery he will have to take some time off from swimming for a bit. Our plan for Callie is to attend school in the fall. I think she will do great with all the kids. She loves other babies and children.

 I recently learned to sew clothes for the kids. Grandma Kathy has taught me some of the ropes and together we made 3 outfits for each child. Doing snaps was a learning experience on Callie’s. It just makes things so much easier in the hospital to have snap up clothes.

 We are also planning our first family vacation in July. (if you call it that). The kids have a day and a half of apts at Gillette and then we will stay another day to check out Como Zoo and some other attractions. Hoping the kids do well in a hotel and all the running around.

 Needless to say there are is always frustration that goes along with all the good so I am going to leave you with one thought. Thankfully it is not our friends and family that say this to us - Mostly it is the clinics and insurance companies that we struggle with - Just think before you tell someone you understand. I know it is our American culture to say “I understand” when someone is talking and addressing concerns and issues, but my question is “do you really understand?” Have you walked in that persons shoes or gone through something similar? If yes, then go ahead and say it, but if you are just sympathizing then say something like that must be frustrating, not I understand.. because you don’t. Like I said there is frustration that goes along with all that we do and I seem to be very good at sugar coating it so I just had to put that out there as my vent for the day.

 I will be better over the next few days with update on Zak as he goes through surgery. I will also put updates on my Facebook ‘Annie Renelt Teeters’ If you are not already my friend on their but want to follow just send me a message!