We returned today from our excursion to the Smokies to say our final farewells to Chris's mother. The trip was a good one, even if the purpose was difficult. This summer is one of many major events, and the key to survival is taking one day at a time. Now that we are home, our next focus is getting the house into a decent state. During the school year, we don't have nearly enough time to keep up with necessary things and find ourselves doing some major cleaning during the summer. One of our projects will be getting Simon's "big boy" room ready. He is getting a new queen bed and will start the transition now. This way, we can get him comfortable in it before the surgery, and then we will have a place for one of us to comfort him when he comes home. The kiddos who have this surgery usually need about a month to get back into a normal sleep schedule. It is hard to say whether the anesthesia has disrupted their rhythms or if they are afraid of the dark after having their eyes swollen shut, but they usually need lots of comforting and holding in the weeks of recovery. We hope to have a comfortable place to take turns with him at night so that we can alternate in getting some sleep. If all goes well, we will all be ready to return to routine when the school year starts again. Chris and I will have a new crop of young minds to mold, and Simon will start pre-k. Simon's noggin should be healed in time for soccer season, giving us some sense of a normal family life. We all have so much to look forward to.
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