Remembering the Greatest Man That Ever Lived!

I am tired!  It has been such a crazy week.  Welcoming Devon into our home, getting onto a new schedule, and learning each other and how we all work together as a new family unit.  This weekend was the first weekend we had together so far, and it was a rather uneventful one!  On Friday night, we played over at our friend's house and the kids all had a great time with one another!  It was fun to see Devon interact with all of the other neighborhood kids.  He gets along really well with others, and he seems to really enjoy playing with the other kids, including Isaiah.

On Saturday, we basically spent the day as a family and just enjoyed having one another around.  Come Saturday night, we once again met up with neighbor friends, and went to dinner.  Both Isaiah and Devon were on the their best behavior, and it was not overly difficult (knock on wood!!) to have the two of them out at a restaurant together.  I think Devon enjoyed the experience, and I am not sure if he has eaten out at a restaurant before or not, but he seemed to thoroughly enjoy it.

Unfortunately, later that night, Isaiah's asthma and allergies began acting up, and he was breathing horribly, so we gave him his nebulizer treatment.  We were up for a big part of the night, so we were all exhausted on Sunday and just relaxed.  We had some little friends over from next door to play.  :-)

Since I napped on Sunday to catch up on some sleep, I was up very late last night and now I am dead tired.  I am ready to go home and sit on the couch and relax and play with the boys.  Today is a hard day, it marks 13 years since my dad passed away.  So much has happened over the past 13 years, and I know he would have loved to be a part of all of this...Isaiah's adoption, us fostering again etc.  This is the first anniversary of his death that I will not be making my yearly phone call to Granny.  We thoroughly enjoyed crying, laughing, and overall remembering what a great guy he was every year on this date.  Sure, we talked about him all the time, but it was special for us to sit on the phone and chat about him and really give ourselves the opportunity to open up and discuss how we feel and what we wanted to remember most.  I hope that she and my dad, and Gramp are all looking down on us smiling, because I know I am smiling up at them :-)

Tomorrow is Gramp's birthday.  I hope Heaven is planning a big party for him, and that he gets to eat his beloved ice cream and play a round of golf :-)