Countdown to school has officially begun!
Well, we have seven more days until school officially starts. I am a little sad because it will be Ireland’s first year in school. My baby is starting kindergarten. It will be my last first day at kindergarten. I am now a mom of two school-age children. No longer one school-age child and one preschooler. It will be weird. We are moving into a new step in our lives, a new era for our family. Ireland was especially excited because she got the great Ms. L for her kindergarten teacher. Carter had her for kindergarten and he had such a great experience and great introduction to school, that I was hoping Ireland would have the same teacher, and she does! Yea!
Carter is moving into second grade. We know who his teacher is, but know nothing about her. This is not unusual with Carter because he is our oldest and the first to enter each grade, so we don’t usually know anything about his teacher, but this year even more so because she is not listed on the school web page and I found out that the kids believe she was a substitute teacher and now she must have been hired on full time. We will meet her next week at the school drop in. It is a day to drop off supplies, meet the teacher and see the classroom. Carter at least is excited about school anyway. He said he is missing all of his friends. He saw a few over the summer, but not many. It is so different from when I was his age. We had some many friends in the neighborhood we were able to ride our bike up and down our street and see many friends, but with Carter and with our neighborhood, he only sees one girl from school from his grade. I can’t wait to move out of our neighborhood to one with more kids, but in the same school. We really like the school and don’t want to move away from that – we hope!
Well, I had my annual neuro appointment last week to hear the results of my MRI. It was good news. Nothing has changed. The three brain lesions that are there have not changed at all. Every year before the appointment I go into panic mode and wonder if anything has changed, but low and behold, nothing has. They have pretty much ruled out MS as the cause. The doc says if it was going to be MS, it would have developed more symptoms by now and that is a great relief. He told me that it was probably scar tissue from a virus that I had at some point in my life, possibly around the time of the big seizure, but he can’t be for certain. I will stay on the meds, just more for peace of mind than really to prevent a seizure. I mean, one could always happen, but the probability of that is not high at this moment in my life. I am really happy that things are great and I don’t have to think about it for another year! Wooo hooo!
Well, summer is ending, the pool is closing and school is beginning. Time to get ready for some big changes!
