Brother, sister, and I spent most of last week working on the house and the boys' room. Brother concentrated on the room, and sister came in to help with the final portion on Friday.
The idea was to make the bedrooms back into what they were intended for....sleep. The family room is now a place where all gather as a family to watch TV, etc. This had changed, slightly, with the computers and TVs in the rooms.
Dad had to meet the Special Education team at Huffines to transfer his adaptive learning program from Irving ISD to Lewisville ISD. The law says that wherever Isaac sleeps is where he gets his educational materials. Huffines will be providing the work, and mom and dad will be the "middle men" to ensure they get between Huffines and the clinic.
Anyway, Dad went down after work and met mom at the apartment to pack him up. The aide and Isaac had an apparent head start, because when I arrived everything was pretty much already done regarding the packing. We filled the back of the truck, then walked down to the office and signed him out "for the last time."
The last thing we took out of the office was the clock on his wall. Made to look like a tire and rim, with tools for hands, I wanted him to have a familiar look to his room at home than that at the apartment. We took it down, and once home, put it up in his room where he would see it in the morning. Because the apartment had removed the doors from the bedroom closet, probably to accommodate wheelchair access, we removed the doors of the closet at home to increase the familiarity.
He was excited and nervous at the same time. The rest of the family was similarly affected, and his sister had actual flu symptoms that kept her home from school on Friday. Despite that, moving him went fairly smooth on Friday.
Saturday we slept in, then went to our weekly family soccer game. Dad was supposed to run in the early morning, but waited until noon. (that was a mistake) He was able to play, but not as well as he liked. One of our players decided not to play with us after the game that day. We were sad to lose her, because she is very skilled. Ladies are difficult to find in coed soccer.
Back home for freshening up that afternoon, then out to find mattresses. Our cousins gave us a single bed with a trundle since we were short one bed in the remodel. The only catch is that it did not come with mattresses, so we went out in search of mattresses for it.
Charles, Lucia, and Angeline came over to play cards. We had a great time with them, while the kids watched Indispicable Me.
Sunday was relax day. Isaac was seriously overloaded from all the activity and coming home. We watched the football game at noon (Dad listened while he did his run), then washed up and started dinner. Dad got a crazy notion for chicken pot pie casserole, so he showed the teens how to make it while mom took Isaac to the store for a couple items Isaac needed.
We watched Once Upon a Time on Hulu to get ready for the newest episode, then watched it all together. Monday he will start back to clinic, this time riding with mom instead of riding the bus. We will see how that works.
I see more of the hesitant boy, but I think that is because he has not relaxed being at the house yet.
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