Wow, days fly by... We are all surviving - some of us doing better at it than others :) Kirk, Dylan, and I just returned from Indian Wells, CA - we were able to watch some incredible tennis - spent four days at the BNP Paribas Tennis Tournament and saw some great players. We all especially enjoyed watching them warm up, you can get so close and listen to what they are working on and see how they practice and correct errors etc... so great... saw Roddick (my favorite) during a real long practice with friends at La Quinta Resort and watched others at the tournament. It was fun - Dylan enjoyed swimming in the evening best, she tolerated the tennis all day to get to the pool.
Tyler stayed with her grandma - didn't want to be with her embarrassing parents. Plus she is mad because she is grounded and has no more cell phone due to poor grades, and obsessive phone talking (one cal was 516 minutes) seriously, there is no one needing to talk that long! She is now hitting the books to hopefully regain some privileges... she needs all As and Bs to restore normal life routines. She is at 1-B, 2-C, and 1-D.... so she is hitting the books. She did make swim team for this summer. She is taking one more class between now and then to finesse her strokes and then it will be four days a week with meets every Saturday... I don't know who is more excited, me or her, but whatever, she will be on the swim team.
Dylan is pretty funny. Right now while Tyler is going through her early teen rebellion, Dylan reminds Kirk and I why we wanted kids... and we are sure that when Dylan is a teen we will look at Tyler as a young adult and be reminded that we will live through it again...
We forgot to take Dyl's figurines on our trip and she began playing with her fingers (as people)... she just loves to have animals or people and make them talk to one another... she will do it all day - no kidding, the whole car trip, her fingers were talking to each other and having great adventures.
Update on my birth mother... she went through the radiation treatment for the cancer in her brain... she is in complete remission. We are all surprised, as they were giving months and then indicating remission... hopefully she will stay healthy at this point, her body has a lot of rebuilding to do and she needs to take care of herself. Lerry is relieved, hopefully he will be able to move on in his world, he put a lot of hold, worried of committing to anything in case he needed to go and help his mom.
Kirk is fine - riding his bike and staying fit is his thing and he definitely works hard at it.... from the goofy bike pants to the funky heart rate monitor... while we laugh at him, he will probably outlive us all :) but we do laugh anyway :) Tyler had a nightmare that Kirk showed up at school to give her lunch money and walked into her class wearing his riding pants (with pad on seat) and his bike shoes, helmet etc.... just picture it... she woke up mortified and told him to never show up at school for anything - LOL!
The four of us are doing well, happy enough, and figuring out how to survive in the same house without harming each other permanently... Let's see if I can update sooner than a month from now...!
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