I really need to do this more often

My life is busy.  Really, really, incredibly, insanely busy.  I may be developing an ulcer due to the many many activities over the summer.  I want to start trying to blog more often because recent life events have made me grateful for bloggers.  I found myself needing some medical information for a good friend and several blogs contained more information that I actually wanted to read than the medical sites.  Given William's diagnoses of Trisomy 18 Mosaic and his chimerism, it makes me a little regretful...ok, a LOT regretful that I haven't been blogging his entire 6.5 years.

This past Monday, William started Elementary school.  This is a pretty amazing milestone in his/our lives to say the least.  He happily walked right into that school (as a 1st grader - should be another post) and into his classroom.  Of course, after purveying the room and seeing NOT A SINGLE firetruck, train or bus, he grabbed my hand and pointed to the door.  His choices at big school were: color or build with legos.  Well, he happily dumped a puzzle on the floor and enjoyed knocking over his new classmates tower but that's the extent of it.  He cried when I left and that was heart-wrenching.  He is such a loving and outgoing personality - up for anything and fearing little - that this was pretty tough.  However, he had a good day.  He stopped crying and was overjoyed to ride the little bus home.  In fact, he got upset when it was gone!  The next morning, he grabbed his backpack and pointed at the door.  He was ready for that bus alright.

Spencer is going to a different elementary that is a little closer to the house and Harper started back to The Rise School of Dallas today!  Ah, and now you see why I have a moment to write.

It's pretty weird, to say the least, to send your child to school and be unable to communicate with him about his day when he returns.  Luckily, his teacher and I have had a couple of phone chats already and that helps a lot.

I'm going to try...try, really try, to start blogging and go back in time to update some of the many events in William's life.  Perhaps it will help someone like the blogs I read the last couple of days, helped me.

Elizabeth