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He made the cut! Boy #1 received his letter from National Guard Youth Challenge today informing him that he has been selected for the class starting in March at Ft. Gordon! We go to Augusta for orientation next Saturday and he reports for first day of classes on March 22. Holy Saturday. A 22 week program. At the end of which he’ll have a diploma/GED. These are all good signs in my book. He’s completely psyched and ready to go and is even looking forward to the first two weeks of the program which they call Hard Core Challenge, which from I’ve been told is similar to basic training/boot camp. It’s the two weeks that make it or break it for the new cadets and he’s not worried about it one single bit. Yay!

I found this over at Agelika’s other blog. I swear to you this is exactly how Boy#1 and Boy#2 interact with each other everyday of their lives and always have.

Sometimes I feel like a Beverly Cleary character all grown up with  her very own outrageous family in action.

Song of the day: Kid Rock - Amen

Love him or hate him. This is a good one. Say, “Amen!” (That’s right I’m a pagan and I’m posting a song titled “Amen” and I am open minded enough to enjoy it. Imagine that…)

Things are sort of falling back into a regular routine around here.  I’ve put off blogging about the trip to see the specialist at Emory because it is  rather odd for me to deal with at the moment. The good news is that the med that my local cardiologist put me on has the pulmonary stenosis back at a mild state. But she discovered that I have a 5.4cm main pulmonary artery aneurysm. Currently she is working with all of my doctors to track down the cause of the aneurysm before deciding on how best to approach correction of it. She highly suspects a genetic form of a connective tissue disorder. If this turns out to be the case then it determines the way the surgeons repair the aneurysm, they would do a wrap type of procedure instead of a graft type. In the meantime, I was told to try to remain as stress free as possible and to keep taking my anti-anxiety medications as Rx’d by my neuro-psyche.Allof the lab work for Lupus and other common connective tissue disorders and coronary artery disease came back negative. So the next step is an MRI to check for MS, which my neuro-psyche said is possible that I might have but highly unlikely to be the cause of the aneurysm as I would have to be at the end stage of the advanced-progressive type for it to be affecting my internal organs and to have caused that. (Think: Annette Funicello) and there are no signs of any type of MS being at that stage. But it’s all part of what must be done and tested for in order for insurance to cover the genetic test for the type of connective tissue disorder she thinks is running in our family and my neuro-psyche after getting into more detail about my physcial medical history and family medical history tends to agree with her.

In the meantime, trying to stay calm and mellow with 2 teenagers and a schizoaffective child and a certain other outside influences is certainly a challenge but one in which I’m attempting and the kids are finally starting to come around to reigning in their obnoxious boy-only household behavior. I’ve also updated my will, living will and power of attorney in the last week as I was told to do. “Just in case, you know.”

With all of that out of the way I’ve become aware of just how precious everyday is and I’m not going to let any certain outside influences continue to screw with my family and our peace and happiness. From now on it is gloves off when dealing with these sorts. Life is too short to spend it in a state of stress and anxiety brought on by the poor behavior of other people.