Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Tuesday is the blood drive. I understand over 44 people signed up. Family and friends are coming to donate. Riley saw on his teacher's blog an announcement. He thought it was really cool. He felt special.

It is so nice to know that people are doing this for him. He is not forgotten, even though he is stuck at home, like a recluse. I wish there was something we could do for his social life, but hopefully he will be back in school by fall. We have some great trips planned this summer, to keep us busy.

Trevor will be doing football in August, which will get us out for the games. I wonder if he will make the eighth grade team. Last year it was wild looking out on the field at practice and seeing him look average next to all the other big boys. Usually he is so much bigger than his peers.

I came downstairs after Trevor left for school. He had made himself breakfast and left his dishes out. Breakfast for Trevor is a Chinese rice bowl with chicken and vegetables. he wouldn't eat anything as mundane as eggs or pancakes. He wants real food. The other day he made himself a cheese burger for breakfast. You could smell the cooking long after he left for school. I just tidy up after he is gone. At least I know he knows how to cook. He wont starve once he is launched into the world.

He has been mowing the neighbor's lawn. He needs a mower with a bag though. The Dad had to re mow everything to get up the grass Trevor cut. I told the mom she should make Trevor rake. He would have raked if she had told him. Next time I think they will have him use their mower, with the bag. At least Trevor had done the hard part with cutting the long grass. Still, I wish he had been told to rake. He did a nice job on our lawn also. Ours is cut regularly enough that you can leave the cut on as mulch. He was saving up to buy a DS game he wanted. He had found his old DS in my car. At least I hope it is his. I have to check with a friend and see if this is her son's just in case.

I will look forward to the day that the DS disappears again or breaks. It is really hard to get any chores out of the boys when they are content just to sit and play games.

Riley has been doing the Exercycle now that the picc is out. He needs to do it every day. He has been doing it for about 10 or 15 minutes every couple of days. I explained he needs to get his heart rate up for at least 15 minutes to really do any good. That is more like a 20 to 30 minute workout. I can't complain though, at least he is doing something.