Thursday morning musings................

I hope that's how you spell it?  So it's Thursday June 11th and we are one month away from Sheldon graduating his Dutch language class.  We are still in limbo with orders, since it has taking forever for the medical people to get their act together:(  We were able to get Christian's paperwork all dealt with, finally.  Talk about a pain in the backside for that. Somehow, and I don't understand how, but somehow the fax machine between Bolling AFB and Travis AFB wouldn't work together?  They could send out and receive faxes from everyone all over the world, but not between those two? Hmmm.....  I don't get it, but we figured out a way around it.  It took Sheldon going down to the Bolling office and standing over them to figure out a way to make it work. Christian had his briefing yesterday and they are sending the paperwork back this morning with all the correct signatures.  *Fingers crossed* Jori has her briefing this morning then we are done with all that. She isn't a problem since she's not flying over with us this summer, but we still need her to have the clearance just in case.  It also makes it possible for her to use hops to come see us so it will be cheaper for us to fly her over.  

The boys are taking their test for school this week.  In fact it's been drawn out for 2 weeks actually.  DJ will still have one more to get done, and Malachi, well we'll be taking tests up until he starts school in the Netherlands.  I'm trying to figure out a way for him to do that and still enjoy the afternoons this summer.  If you think about it they spend so much time wasting  their summer days with video games and sleeping, but if we can get done at a reasonable hour he can have most of the day for playing anyway. He won't get to sleep in, and with swim team starting up, well, we will make it work.

I had to cancel my dental appointments for this week because of the cold.  I should be all better by next week so we will start up again.  I will be glad to finally get all this done and behind me.  I should have all the crowns back by the 20th of July.  That will be good.

Gail emailed me last night to let me know that Mom had a small fall last weekend I guess. Somehow she it the top of her head and was bleeding pretty bad.  They ended up taking her to the hospital and she stayed over night.  Since Irene's passing they say her mental state has really faltered.   I feel so bad that Gail is having to deal with all this on her own.  It should be us taking care of her.  I just hope that everything will work itself out for the best.  Whatever that my be.  I just hate having to see Mom in this state.  I know she hates it too.

Well, it looks like it might start thundering again.  I think I should go and see if Kai needs a ride home from the swim team.  He's afraid of lightening since a boy in the DC area was hit last weekend and died from it.  

Here's hoping that we finally get some answer about when we can start to think about leaving.  Yikes!