Tea with the birthday girl

This past weekend Olivia had a birthday party at Jewel's House of Teas

Happy Birthday Olivia!

About 6 weeks old.
At 12 months.
We used to go to Huber's every October for pumpkins.

Eating a piece of birthday cake.

Today was a wonderful day

We are all back together again. It feels good to go in and see him sleeping in his own bed. We are going to take things slowly, going back to school in a day or two, maybe on a half day schedule. He is very happy to be home.
I want to thank all of you so much for your support. I was overwhelmed by the love and care that I felt with each comment left. I have some incredible friends.

Hi everyone, today's visit went well. He seemed much more like himself. Told me he felt better than the day before.
But then later in the afternoon he had what he calls a breakdown. Unfortunately it carried on into the evening. I got a couple calls from the place and was able to talk to him. It is very loud and chaotic there, he says it is very scary. The other children are yelling, cursing and at times fighting with the staff. He had not told them how bad the atmosphere makes him feel. I was able to talk to a staff member and explain that his anxiety level goes over the top when the chaos starts. She assured me that they would pay attention and make ever effort to find him a quieter place.
He has always had issues with sensory overload.
We took the kids with us to visit. It went ok but was hard on Eli and Olivia cried, but they were glad to see him. We get to visit again tomorrow.
Thank you all for your kind words. It helps me to read them, to know that you are out there thinking about us.

Much more than normal.

I am opening up much more than I ever normally would. Sharing things that I would have kept very private, but I realize that my family needs all possible prayers and good thoughts. We, and I mean me, need all the strength you can send.
I will greatly appreciate all of your kind comments but I may not be able to answer them. This is an extremely difficult time for me and some days I can reply and give updates and other days I can't see to say or type the damnable words.



Wednesday, October 22, at 4:00pm John and I took Alex to an inpatient facility.

He had be on a downward spiral for the past 2-3 weeks. The final straw seem to be when my parents left to spend
several weeks at their home in Florida. His depression became severe and he was unable to go to school. He is suffering anxiety attacks while at school. Several through out the day. His doctor sent a note to give him about 4 days off from school.This past Monday was supposed to be the day he went back to school and be able to stay the entire day. It did no go well. We went to a Dr. appt. Tuesday at 2:30 and the Dr. is very concerned and wanted Alex to be assessed at an inpatient facility. That was too much of a shock to us, we were not prepared to hear them say that he was going to be admitted.
So we came back to the facility today. We were more prepared and ready for what seemed inevitable.

At 8:15pm John and I walked away from our child. Hoping and praying that the strangers we were leaving our child with, will be good to him, make him feel safe and reassure him that we do love him very much. And that we are coming back for him.

Fiber in the Fall- the people

My friends Ashely and Judy took a basket weaving class.
Here she is with the basket she made and one she bought.



Half of the Ravelers that met up at noon. I think there may have been at least 20 if not more.

This is Lara at her very first fiber festival. She had some beautiful stitch markers.








It is such a wonderful atmosphere. Fiber and yarn everywhere you look, beautiful handmade items and the smiling faces of fellow fiber enthusiasts.

Fiber in the Fall

Olivia and I had a wonderful day at the Fiber Festival. The weather finally turned cool, like it should be in mid October. I was getting pretty tired of 80 degree temps.
The festival was held in Corydon, Indiana. Corydon was the first state capital. Normally the drive would be very pretty this time of year, but not much color to see on the trees. We found more than enough color when we arrived.







I have lots more to show you, so much more that you will have to wait until tomorrow for Fiber in the Fall part #2