As told by Kat

The week in review

// December 11th, 2009 // Batten, Kat, Life

Apparently I’ve been a little bit busy and I didn’t update for an entire week. First of all we must pay respect where it is due and proudly salute yesterday, Trash Day, as it is the best (BEST) day of the week. Yay for trash day!

We went to the Polar Express on Sunday night courtesy of the very, very wonderful Mother of one of Rachel’s favorite teachers. Thank you so much, we had a wonderful time. I took a ton of new pictures but haven’t been able to get any up for editing because my laptop was having issues. Sunday night I went to hop on the computer to take a look at the pictures from the train ride but ended up finding out that the hard drive COMPLETELY died. Not one shred of data can be recovered. Proof that it does happen to “computer people” as well as everyone else. I’ll pull the pictures up on the temporary laptop that John just set-up for me and put them on here.

On Wednesday the girls went out with the very, very wonderful daughter of the Polar Express gift giver and had an AMAZING time! I still don’t know what they did before they had dinner but I don’t think I’m supposed to know.

This week has been busy with work and getting ready for Christmas. John has been rocking bedtime and bathtime this week and it has really helped keep me sane. My Mom has Rach, London and Boston right now, yesterday she had Julie for a few hours and they got to do some shopping.

Tonight Rachel, Julie and I are going to see the Hull High School put on “Willy Wonka” and I’m so excited! Rachel and I were supposed to go up to Maine this weekend but Lulu’s Mommy is sick so we are going up another weekend. Instead of Maine I have already replanned the weekend and are taking the kids all to see Santa on Saturday and we’ll be having Lobsters for dinner on Saturday night. Sunday I need to get the kids out individually to buy a gift for their secret santa person and hopefully tie up some projects around the house.

As far as a Rachel update: She had a really good week at school and at home, much better than last week. Her vision is still actively going away but I would say at a slower rate this past week or two than the previous two weeks. Put it this way, she was standing facing the black couch where Holly was sitting last night and she was looking for Holly but couldn’t see Holly in her peripheral vision. The contrast between the couch and Holly isn’t great but imagine looking at your dog and not being able to see her? The fact that Rachel was able to hide her difficulties for so long as best as she did is so amazing to me. She deserves a medal. I guess thats why I’m springing for Lobster on Friday night. Batten Disease took a backseat this past week and I couldn’t be happier!