In which Pooh offers an ex voto.

I have been away, away, away. Considering my promise was to use this blog as a place to purge my feelings and write all about my life, I have been failing miserably in the last month or so. Oddly, there has been so much going on in my life that I have had a greater need for this place than ever. Honestly, there has just not been the time or energy to do it. To those of you who have written or e-mailed or posted or called with good thoughts and kind words about my brother, I thank you. I will get to returning the calls and notes individually as things slow down, but I wanted to say how much I appreciate the support.......I appreciate the support....... that I can describe the gist of what I wanted to tell you in 4 words, "I appreciate the support" is ridiculous. It simply cannot covey the feelings behind the words. Those heartfelt feelings would take an hour to share.
So let me say again to you all, most gratefully, thank you.

As to my brother, he is doing fabulously well.

He is into twice a day therapy. One for physical, one for speech and reading. Both are going very well. If you had not known him before, I suspect you would not recognize anything different about his speech patterns at all. Those of us who know him, are aware he is still "searching" sometimes, but all in all we have no earthly reason to complain. The fact that he is here at all is a miracle, so the fact that he sometimes struggles for connecting words or has trouble reading the articles in Playboy seems like NOTHING.

I have been doing the Mr. Mom thing with Rick's 4 boys. My sister in law has 2 days left at school and then she is done teaching for the summer. WooWooo!! That gets me out of my full time babysitters job for the foreseeable future..They will still need our whole family's support for a good while yet, but it is starting to become more manageable.

Honestly, the no more marathon babysitting, is going to be both good and bad. I have really enjoyed having the boys, but it is exhausting. They are terrific kids and do all they can to help, but I am not used to cooking what I'm pretty sure is about 700,000 pancakes and 1.6 million eggs every morning. Add to that, the 400 loads of laundry every week and I am wondering how ANYBODY does it. (I kid you not, yesterday, they polished off a whole gallon of milk AND a whole gallon of orange juice before 10AM, plus I think the boys single handedly caused the US govt. to issue some kind of "tuna shortage" Alert)

I am beginning to think Rick's aneurysm was intentional. ANYTHING for a break... ;-)

All for now ....more later today. Parties, movies, I have lots to dish....