To all the parents who have walked through the guardianship process — my heart is with you. Our paperwork is prepped and ready to submit this week. He turns 18 on April 3rd. I've been thinking about this for a year now, but only just mustered the energy to move forward — the loom of his birthday my propellant. Overwhelm has paralyzing effect. I'm struggling to recall the last time I didn't feel overwhelmed. It struck me how all these years of walking through disability beside Trevor should have made me stronger and yet... I suppose it's a different kind of muscle being developed.
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So the skeleton wasn't good enough for Trick or Treating? He had to change to a baseball player?
We all had fun. This was the first time our kids have ever had the chance to really go trick or treating! We've either been travelling or in Africa! *smile*
...danielle
Jeff got himself in trouble though. I didn't want to carry the mask so I was wearing it backwards on my head... to which Jeff commented (and was subsequently punched in the arm!)... "I always knew you were two faced"
Christian was Dustin Pedroia from the Red Sox...& even got some extra candy at one house for it *LOL*. So Toby's costume made me laugh...they really are two peas in a pod!
Ava REFUSED to even get into the Blue's Clues costume....so Matt pushed her in the stroller covered in her hiteously ugly "Toby Cat" blanket we got during a hospital visit. (It's covered with weird looking cat faces).
Madison was a Patriots Cheerleader (the mommy version!) *LOL*
Kids look soooo cute!
I realized that I said it was an ugly blanket (I'm going to post a picture of it on my blog....then you'll really laugh) named "Toby Cat"...and I didn't want you to think for some dimented reason it was named after the REAL Toby!