My Life is a Blur....

Wow, I have really neglected blogging for about a month now! Sorry all, life has been a little crazy. Let me just give a brief synopsis of all the changes in my life right now.

First, we are moving in about 2 weeks. We are moving in with my in-laws the weekend of June 26th to help out and help us save some much needed money. With Taylor and I, our two dogs and one cat, this will make 6 adults, 4 dogs, 3 cats, 2 fish and 1 bird in a now 6 bedroom house. I feel like we might need to add a partridge in a pear tree just to make the whole picture. Life is about to get very interesting and much less private on the home front.

Second big change, I quit my job. Taylor's parents have asked me to become Spencer's (Taylor's dad) private nurse. They have long term disability insurance that will be paying my salary. So, as of July 1st- ish I will start my new role as live-in, full-time private nurse. It is going to be a big job but I really feel like God has placed me in this family for a reason and maybe this is it. I just hope that I can make Spencer and Royce's lives a little easier. I have a lot of ideas on how to improve his quality of life and make him stronger and more independent. A lot of the things I want to do are things that my mother in law just does not have time for or might not be comfortable doing. She has done a great job taking care of my father in law, with the help of her children, but I am hoping that one more person added to the mix with some knowledge of nursing care will make things even better. I am really excited to get started, which has been somewhat thwarted by complications in quitting my current job. I may have to stay and work an extra week, which I am really not excited about. I feel like once we are living in the Reids home full time, my job will be starting whether I am ready or not. But, we will see what can be done about the work situation.

Also in my life, we just got back from a family vacation to Hot Springs, AR. My grandmother was nice enough to give the Reid family two condos at her time share in Hot Springs Village. We had a nice vacation with all the kids and Taylor's parents. Taylor and I took over all of Spencer's care while we were there with some much needed help from my brothers in law, Hayden and Duncan. I think my mother in law really enjoyed having some time off from all her "Spencer" care. She got to just spend time with him and enjoy talking and hanging out. Also, some of Royce's family who live in Arkansas were able to come and visit, so that was nice. Also, big shout out to my sis in law, Jen, for keeping our condo sparkly clean. I don't think that my kitchen has ever been that clean. Thanks Jen! Anyway, we were able to go to the baths in Hot Springs, do some shopping, see Star Trek (which I loved!); we went to Crater of Diamonds and dug for diamonds; and we just had a great time hanging out and walking, playing tennis and swimming at the condos. I think that everyone got to do at least one thing that they wanted to, which is great with a group of 9 people. We also got to get Spencer out quite a bit and he and I even went to the Mountain Tower by ourselves. We were able to get up there and get him out of the car and take his wheelchair up to the top and then put him back in the car. I think he only got a mild concussion but bumping his head on the roof of the van. All in all, it was a great trip.

Well, I guess that is all the updating that I have time for right now. I will try to post some pics from Hot Springs when Blake gets them to me. He was our official picture taker on the trip, which was great, but I feel like there are a lot of bad pics of me. I know he took at least one when I ran across a road to the Shipley's Donuts to get Spencer some Maple Iced donuts. Such a great shot, fat girl has to run for donuts. Oh well, at least I know that they were not for me. Although I had already had some Shipley's earlier that day. Anyway, I will try to be better at posting and keeping everyone up to date.