Routine

The lawn is mowed. All the laundry is done and put away. Trevor went to a football camp today. Anthony Newman does a free camp. At least he did. He announced this was his last camp. He has been doing it for 17 years and he is now done. I was sad to hear his end of day speech. from what I could tell it was exceptionally well organized and Trevor sounded like he picked up some great tips on defense.

Football season starts in August. We do not travel for the next 3 months. I am looking forward to the season. I get to see old friends again. Even though Trevor and Riley had a losing season last year, they loved football and had fun. I am guessing Riley got sick either during football season or shortly there after. the only cold I can remember is during football. Riley missed a week of school and football in October. He then ran into the garage door and knocked it off its frame giving himself a big contusion on his forehead, missing another week since he couldn't wear his helmet due to the big lump on his forehead.

February 9th was diagnosis, but by then Riley was so low he was lucky he didn't just expire right then. November, December, January decline. I look at this now as just a long flu. By December Riley will be over this "Flu". His numbers may come up. Tom says it is too early to tell what is going to happen. If they don't come up we have half a dozen excellent bone marrow matches to choose from. If I have anything to be grateful about it is how "white" tom and I are. We used to joke about glowing in the dark. Now I am so glade we are so ordinary that Riley "has the luxury of choosing a donor" as the doctor put it.

We get one more family trip in October, which again will be fun for everyone. Tom is so into Nascar, I get in trouble if I forget to Tivo the weekend race when Tom can't watch it live. Riley will be so thrilled to meet Jr. and just being and a race, Trevor Too. I am along for the ride. I love family vacations, period. I will take them any time I can get them.

Trevor will have tutoring coming up. Grades were an issue this year. He has been nagging Riley for use on Riley's computer. I remind him constantly that honor role As and Bs gets him his own computer. Hopefully he will connect the dots and get the grades. Meanwhile I will occasionally make Riley share. I have to be careful because Riley learned immediately that he has the power, and wheeled that power over Trevor with a little too much gloating. I like the power to confiscate all the computers the X box and the TV. Its summer go play outside.

Our new sprinkler system works like a charm. 10 minutes front yard then 10 minutes back yard. Tom tells me it goes off at 5:30am while we are still asleep. Trevor has learned how to set it off when ever he and the neighbor boys want to run through them. Its great in that it automatically shuts itself off just about the time the children lose interest.