Dear IF readers,

And the journey continues. So much great stuff going on with the boys. Jax is processing that he lived here, went to school here, and has very good friends here. And that we still own a home here. But someone else lives in our home as a tenant much like we have rented a house down South till we move into our new house in Sept. “We are borrowing Jim’s house, and Jill and her family are borrowing ours”.

The questions are very detailed and rapid fire with my boys. Jax begins many statements with, “So what you mean is….” Now sometimes that is his way of reniterpreting what has been said to suit his needs, “So what you mean is, if I get a good report at music class, I will get my allowance earlier than Friday?” Our budding lawyer. And Brody makes alot of delcarative statements ending in, “Right Mom?” Fantastic my wonderfully curious minded children. Although I must admit there is times during the day that I wonder if it would be quieter in my house had I not worked as hard to get their brains cranking along, and kick myself under whatever seat I am seating. Ha!

Yesterday we went to see Brody’s best friend Jaker and his brother Luky, mom Eva, dad Richard, and grandma Judy. We stopped in the subway to listen to music and bought a bouquet of flowers for Miss Eva, Jaker’s mom. I am trying hard to have the boys learn social courtesy. So as we bought the flowers we talked about it. “Its very nice to bring something to someone’s house when they are hosting us, don’t you think?” And of course Jax replied, “Wouldn’t Miss Eva like a Ben 10 toy instead?” Again the lawyer trying to get to the Toys R Us outing that he has been promised if all goes well.

And I am so happy that the tides have turned with my boys getting around a city or traveling. Where once Brody used to get a little car sick and vomit all over us unless we got a little crushed up Dramimine in his bottle and he actually drank it on time, now he rides cars great. Oh yeah, and when Brody vomited that made Jax sick and he joined in. I will never forget a 7 hour car ride between our NYC apt and our Bristol seaside condo. I cannot describe the clean up job. And it was torrentially raining so stopping to clean was a real trick.

But yesterday, Brody was on my shoulders and Jax was asked to hold a strap on the back of my backpack as we maneuvered the cross town shuttle and then jumped on the A train express. They were beautiful gazelles moving through the crowds with confidence and ease and of course Jax would chat with whatever pedestrian or subway rider he thought interesting. There was a lovely exchange between him and a woman reading a scuba diving training manual. The fish types that she would encounter caught Jax eye and he engaged the woman about fish and his latest dives at 12 feet. She countered with her latest at 80 feet and Jax is now hooked on the idea of snorkeling and diving. The next great adventure!

Must start my day, good reading, blessings, Cat

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