Hello everybody! I hope you all are doing great this week! I am here with my Caribou Coffee today, a new favorite around here.
It was a blissfully slow week around here last week. I caught up on a lot of projects around the house, and my dad came over to hang out with Wyatt for a bit while I went out and had a little time to myself. I decided I wanted to go to the library and read on the big porch, so I did! It was so relaxing and the weather was perfect. I loved how the deep porch made me feel like I could see everything but that maybe no one could see me.
Billy’s birthday was this weekend, and we thought we would do something different this year. Every summer a local park hosts a jazz festival so we thought we would go and sit in our normal picnic spot and eat ice cream and just listen to the music. We knew that they have the concert on the river side of the park and we sit on the other side, the canal side, so we thought we would be fine in that area. Well, we are pretty naive and uninformed about this event, because we were soooooo wrong. We paid our five dollars to get in (for the whole car for a whole day, good deal!), parked in our spot, set up our blanket and then…… realized it was getting super busy. Like, they were starting to park cars on the grass on our side of the park, and they were very quickly getting to us. We had to scramble to gather our things and head back to our car (slightly embarrassed on my end!) before they started parking rows of cars all around us!! Wyatt was like what the heck is happening around us? We vastly underestimated the popularity of this event, and with no prior knowledge of how it runs, we were just like squatters in the midst of chaos!
We decided to just leave all together, and it took a while to wind our way out of the mass of crowds of people. It was pretty cool though to see how it works I guess. There were people set up for the whole day, with tents and coolers and bounce houses for kids, barbecues were rolling and the scent of grilling burgers filled the air – as did the scent of weed. I had to keep rolling our windows up because it was so strong!
There was a whole row of huge RV’s too – some sort of club, and their area was really neat. They all had flags set up in front of their vehicle with their names or camp names and it looks like they travel together in a pack quite often. And these were humungous RV’s! What a cool way to spend the summer. Heck for all I know they do this year round!
Anyway, it was a learning experience for us, and although we won’t do this again, too many people, too much weed, just so much everything, it was pretty funny that we were so clueless. At least we got to finish our ice cream, although we ate it in a huge hurry! And now we have a story.
Wyatt had a bunch of appointments between last week and yesterday. We were busy! We love his team though, and every appointment was very helpful. Yesterday Wyatt’s super in charge doctor, his PMR, who sort of evaluates everything about Wyatt, from his specialists to his equipment to just about everything, told us she was extremely pleased with how Wyatt is progressing from our last visit, where we had a few issues we were trying to work on. I now have a ton of homework to do, filling out tons of paperwork and forms and applications, but it will all be worth it if we manage to get what I am applying for! One of the items is a wheelchair ramp, which we desperately need! My mom is coming over today for a bit so I can hide in the office and work on some of these forms and applications.
I also found a special needs gymnastics class near us! I have been trying to find a class or group of some sort where Wyatt can go and play and be with other kids and this class seems perfect. I hope to enroll him this September!
We are starting to close in on the end of summer already! It is hard to believe that it is almost time to start school again – but to be honest, I am looking forward to the fall weather and our routine. This summer has been just weird, and sort of crummy honestly in terms of weather and then Wyatt getting sick. I feel like it has either been intensely hot or stormy or the air quality has been bad – just not a great summer for getting outside.
We do have one thing left on our summer bucket list – a family trip with my dad and stepmom, and my brother, his wife, and two girls. It will be here before I know it, and I have a million things running through my mind that I need to do!
I just have a few random photos today!
A fire skink I did not buy, my little Luna the Leopard Gecko exploring my desk (but not too far!), my whale fin snake plant is having twins, Miso is almost camouflaged, Wyatt is silly, all the tiny art, and my book and tea one night when it felt like fall.
And….. that is it for this morning. What has been going on in your world?
Great photos! Happy birthday to Billy, but so sorry about the Jazz Festival.
You are having a great summer, though. Enjoy the final weeks.
Thanks Laurel-Rain! Lol that was so crazy for us. We were like um… we are apparently sitting in the middle of a parking lot all of a sudden.
Happy, happy birthday to Billy! You would think there would have been signs up about parking there. But, you did get your ice cream. And, yay for the good news from the doctor! Loved the photos! I wish my plants (the ones I like) would thrive. It always seems like the ones I don’t want around survive, and the others just die a sad and lonely death.
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Yes!! Or something right? It was so weird – and funny now!
I have killed so many plants this year. I feel terrible. Snake plants seem to do well for me. I think they are survivors of the house plant world. Lol.
I hope it works out for the ramp and such. That would be such a help. And very glad you got some me-time. The library sounds like a great idea. But so sorry that the festival didn’t pan out. A good idea, but… Wyatt’s therapy news is terrific — doesn’t that make you smile big? Please tell Billy Happy Birthday!
Thanks Jeannie! It would be lifechanging honestly. I can barely carry this kid in the house anymore lol, he is just growing so fast on me!
I am pretty sure that spot at the library is my absolute favorite refuge this summer!
The festival was a bummer but now we have a funny story. Lol.
Yes!! His doctor’s reaction to what has been done in the past two months was awesome – she was so extremely pleased!
I think it’s weird that they didn’t have a sign somewhere letting people know that section was for cars and not for people to sit.
I used to have an Iguana. It was an interesting pet.
I hope all the paperwork for the ramp goes through quickly.
Happy Belated Birthday to Billy!
I know right! You would think they would have had the areas marked off. LOL. It was seriously so funny, we just kept watching them keep parking cars closer and closer until they got to us and still never said anything!
Iguanas are so cute!
Thanks Vicki!
Oh dear that sounds a lot at that festival event thing! Deary me!
Wheelchair ramps are a whole world, aren’t they. I’ve been trying to source a little rubber one that I can put over the lip at the entrance to my friend’s flats and then lift up again, as it’s almost impossible to get her over it in her chair. But I need to measure the lip and then there is either too much choice or none.
Not much going on here apart from slow sorting out of the house for some upcoming renovations!
That festival – not what we expected lol. Lesson learned!
And yes…. they are! Hmm. I saw something the other day. I wonder if you can get them where you are. I just sent it to you on Instagram. 🙂
Oo. That is exciting though!
Wonderful photos! That porch looks perfect for reading! It’s too hot and stormy to read outside but I really want to screen in at least part of our back deck for that purpose. That is awesome about the gymnastics class! I know he will love it.
I am so excited about that class!! He will get to play with other kids!! And the other day I was at a farmer’s market with Wyatt and another mom approached me. She said her daughter is a chair user as well, and plays sled hockey at a place near us and gave me the info. So, we may have another something on the horizon!
It is too gross most of the time here lately to read outside at my house. That library spot is magic though. Cool and comfortable. Lol.
I loved all your pictures – and yes that kitty was quite camouflaged. It took me a minute to see what you were talking about:) Here’s hoping the week ahead is a good one. Maybe some more time to sit on that amazing porch. And I hope you can get that ramp quickly!!
Lol I couldn’t believe how well she was hidden there!
Thanks Jennifer! That porch was amazing.
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