♫ and another one's gone, and another one's gone...♫

Alecia has completed her final day of High School, and we are in the middle of party planning!  Always, always fun.  Even while it's exhausting.  She is ready for her next adventure, though we have quite a bit of nuts and bolts prep work to help with - supplies, dorm appliances.  There's time for that sort of "stuff".  It's just fun to enjoy this time with her, poised to fly.  She was heartsick to miss the top ten by .004....  One A-.  One B on one big test in four years...  sickening, isn't it?!

Erica has moved home and said good-bye to WSU.  She has selected an excellent Photography program at UCM for next year and it's exciting!  She is not, however, enjoying the return to our chaotic family life and the expectation that it is a good idea to let your parents know when you're leaving and when you're to return.  Some day, say in about 20-25 years, she will find that this is not controlling parental behavior.  Just common courtesy when living with your family.

M'Lynn is missing school.  If you know her well, you will find this *shocking*.  She found the right place and good friends and we're not a great substitute.  :-)  It's all good, though, she still has her cows!

Brody, Brody, Brody...  growing out of all of his clothes and into a giant...  well, a giant lots of things.  Almost taller than all us girls, very very strong (though skinny!), distinctly odiferous, seriously mouthy, smarter than everyone but his Grandpa Dean.  Yup.  We're half-way through junior high.  And when I hear any complaints from the older (wiser and never whiny) older sibs,  I remind them of our life while they were all in junior high.  Oh, yes, blissful...  or maybe not.  And so you don't think he's all those things all the time, he's also seriously thoughtful, helpful (when properly motivated), kind and occasionally still snuggly.  =)

Treatment of Lyme has a lot of focus in our little world, and it is definitely some odd kind of roller coaster ride.  But... we're progressing and we're healing and we'll come out stronger on the other side.

A lot of blogs I follow are talking about feeling the joy in ordinary moments, and I have to say that has been the theme for my spring.  Nothing terrible extraordinary, just a peaceful joy of loving my family and my friends each and every day.  The rest?  I'm kinda over it.  ;-)