Ricky took swimming lessons again this fall. And he’ll take them again this winter. Passing Level 4 is proving to be a challenge, but Ricky just keeps going. He has improved tremendously and his strength is growing. I quite enjoy watching him swim, so I don’t mind that I get to do […]
Month: January 2015
Cast
Billy has no fear when it comes to doing physical tasks. Jump off something, climb something, spin on something … he’s game! The fact that he hasn’t seriously injured himself amazes me. One day he’d done something and that something had hurt his foot a bit. In an effort to make it feel better, I […]
it will be delicious
Our Christmas break wasn’t ideal. Christmas day, Ricky started feeling sick. Bobby’s nose had been running horribly and a couple days after Christmas, he became sick, too. Just as Ricky was feeling a little better on New Year’s Eve, the middle three came down with the yucks. Kevin and I were fighting it but it […]
About your Day
While we eat dinner, I like to ask the boys questions. Sometimes I ask them to tell us about specific things and other times I just ask them to tell us something about their day. It seems hardest for Ricky to come up with something to share and he always goes last. A few weeks […]
The Boss
After a long Christmas break where we have all taken our turns feeling horrible, a few of the boys are feeling cabin fever. In Ricky, this showed itself today as bossiness. Tommy, our resident bossy one, was fed up with Ricky’s bossiness. He said, “Ricky! You are NOT the boss of us … Jesus is!” […]