So November has come and gone already, and I haven't written anything down for awhile. Jaren completed his swallow therapy and it seems to have helped he isn't choking near as much as he used to be, the doctor had us come in and they did a nerve conductive test and it was sad to watch him go through that painful test. They discovered that he has Peripheral Nueropathy in is hands, arms, legs, and feet she thinks it is from his diabetes so she told me to keep a closer eye on his sugars which is sometimes totally impossible but I guess I don't have a choice. The week of Thanksgiving was a little bit stressful, RaKelle ended up with pink eye and while I was sitting at the doctor with her on Monday night Braxton called me freaking out because they came and took away Jaren's cane and his walker, since I wasn't home I don't know for sure who came and got it or why they came and took it they could have at least called to warn us they were coming, Thank goodness that my mom was willing to purchase a cane at Walgreens for him. Thanks Mom!! Tuesday Braxton came home from school and the whole soul of his shoe had come off and he has no other shoes, the kids also had a dental appt that day for their 6 month cleaning, I had to cancel RaKelle's because of the pink eye, Ashlyn has to have a new retainer with the two fake teeth in the front thanks to her accident and her mouth keeps growing and so the retainer has to be replaced every so often, they changed RaKelle's appt to Wednesday so I took her on Wednesday and they would like to get her started on Braces soon and her insurance will only pay $1000.00 so it looks like tax returns will go to braces!
Thanksgiving day was really nice we had the feast at my moms house and both of my sisters and their spouses and kids were there and it was fun, then we went to our friends to hang out and play games and eat pie with them and it was so much fun. Of course my mom and I and my sisters and dad all went Black Friday shopping I don't really buy a lot because I don't have a lot of money but it is a lot of fun to go hang out with them. My sisters are crazy and they left at 11:00 Thanksgiving night and so by the time they met up with my mom and I they were starting to wear down but we still had a good time. I didn't get up until 5 to go that morning.
I finally got Jaren upstairs to his own room where he doesn't have to walk up and down the stairs to go to bed, I know this might sound terrible but I am LOVING it I don't think I have slept this good in a long time. Now instead of waking up everytime he moves or gets up or makes noises I don't wake up, he also sleeps much better upstairs I have put him in the room right above me so that I can still hear him if he needs me or gets up when he is not supposed to. It was very wierd at first to sleep without him and kind of depressing just another sign that things are progressing and there is nothing I can do about it. He hasn't had to take a nap hardly at all because he gets much better sleep now, by the night time he is worn out and he goes to bed when the kids all go to bed but that is ok for me!! The neighbors have been able to come over and check on him while I am at work so I don't have to take him to the daycare which is really nice.
Ashlyn has been giving me real problems lately and I don't know what to do about it, I know she is trying to deal with a lot but she is so mean to me, one day she was really mad at me and told me that I suck because I never have money, I told her that I work very hard for what she has and she looked me right in the eye and said dad doesn't, I said "Ashlyn that is not fair you know he can't" and she said well maybe I should get a disease so that I don't have to do anything but sit home. I was so hurt and upset that I locked myself in my room until I could calmly talk to her. She has been a little better the last week and she hasn't even picked on Jaren because I told her if she stopped picking on him for a week she would earn an ice cream trip with just me! she has worked so hard to earn it. We went to parent teacher conference and I found out that she has been faking sprained ankles at school to go down to the office with her friend who also has a fake sprained ankle I couldn't believe it, I told her that what if one day she actually did hurt her ankle and she needed to go call me or get some ice and they wouldn't let her because she has faked it so many times that they don't believe her anymore. I think that she didn't think about that.
Braxton is doing so good in school. The teacher said that he is a good helper and he is kind to everyone but that he is very chatty. He is starting to have some anger issues, he gets mad so easy and freaks out and attacks his sisters, luckily he doesn't at school. I still fight him sometimes to go to school but he is doing a lot better.
RaKelle is doing really good in Jr. High she really likes it. She is even keeping up with her school work. She loves playing the piano and the flute and she is determined to play the flute and be in the choir next year. She has joined the yearbook club so she is helping put the yearbook together for the school and she really likes that as well.
