Good Girl Coupons

Finally....last night was the first time, it seems like in weeks, that Caity has gone to bed well, stayed in bed all night, and didn't yell to one of us in the middle of the night. I told her 2 nights ago that I was going to give her a coupon if she could do all that, which obviously I knew she could do. So, this morning, I made out a little coupon that said "Good Girl Coupon" with a smiley face. She was very proud of it, she carried it all the way to school. I think I will make a different list of things for both kids that they can earn coupons for and when they collect a certain number, they can do something special, like go to ice cream with just one of us, or something similar. We'll see if that makes any kind of difference.

Last night we went to the "National Night Out" at the park in Saukville -- it was pretty cool, since everything was free!! The weather was great, we got free hot dogs, water, popcorn, ice cream cups, balloons, even a gun lock!! The kids went in a couple bouncy houses, got to see the fire trucks, Luke got his pitches clocked -- his fastest pitch was 30 mph. At the end, the Flight for Life helicopter landed on the baseball field, which was pretty cool. We got to walk right up to it. It was amazing how much stuff is packed into there. Gary had Flight for Life training at the fire dept. a few weeks ago and had some good stories. He was saying they have eqpt. in just about every empty space.

Gary's mom had her big surgery yesterday --everything went well....she had her total larynx removed, lymph nodes removed from both sides of her neck, three areas of her throat scoped out, and then a procedure performed to rehabilitate a patient who has undergone total laryngectomy. This involves creation of a fistula between trachea and oesophagus. A prosthetic (Blom-Singer valve) is introduced through this fistula. This procedure enables the patient to regain his ability to speak. (I copied that part from Wikipedia!) It was a 7 hour surgery and then woke up a little finally around 11 last night, which I guess is normal for such a major surgery. They won't know for a few days the results of the pathology, but I guess they're confident that they got all the cancer. But, until they get the results they won't know if she'll have to have chemo or not.