a quick update from the Nicholas household....

Some jobs required of a mom - I think I would be ok without....  Tom took Jake to take care of the protective wear issue earlier this week.  Wrong size...  So who got the fabulous opportunity to take it back to GI Joes this morning to try to get a new one.  Yep - me....  Looked through the entire rack, did not find one single package of the size we need.  So went back to the oh so friendly customer service gal - where do they find these people???  Is there a special agency that they apply through specifically for customer service?  That way they will get exactly those people who should NOT be working in customer service.  Ok, so it ended up going like this...  We brought the one back and told her we needed to exchange.  She asked if he had worn it -  ok, let's think about this.  He would have to try it on in order to know that it didn't fit.  So guess that means at some point he had it on.  Right away, I knew I was working with a rocket scientist here.  I told her yes, over pants.  So she takes it out of the package to look at it.  I swear - I was probably ten shades of red as she was examining it.  Ok ok, put it away already....  I probably would of had kittens if she smelled it.  It was getting closer and closer to her face as she looked at it.  So after 5 minutes, she decided that it was ok for us to exchange.  We go back and look at everything on the shelf.  Nothing in the size we needed.  Went back to our friend at CS and waited 10 minutes for her to figure out what she was doing with the customer in front of us.  So it is our turn.  I ask - do you have any other sizes in the back?  Or is everything on the shelf.  Her reply was yes - we have lots in the back.  Cool - ok, we are making progress.  Can we get one of those?  Nope - she has to make a call to the little guy in the back.  His response was yes, they have them, but I need to special order it.  WHAT?  I am there in the store.  What I need is there in the store.  There is a little guy there that can go get what I need in the store.  Not sure why this has to be so difficult...  So my options now were to refund back the original purchase.  So give her a penny for 13.00 back.  Then she gets out a form for me to special order something from the back room that I can come back again for on Monday.  Ok, fill out the form.  Then need to give her the 12.99 back that she just gave me for the refund.  In the meantime, she couldn't guarantee that it would be there on monday.  Finally, I just said - you know the line is getting long behind me, I will come back.  Which really meant - forget this, I am going somewhere else and we left.  So needless to say, the poor boy is going to have to wear last year's very snug protective wear to this afternoon's game...  We will continue the saga of getting a new one tomorrow.

Last night, I took the boys to the pool.  Lucas' friend invited him to go swimming and for a sleep over.  After Lucas told me about 11 different versions of what was happening, I finally got a call from the friend with the real version. Therefore, I took them to the pool instead of the friend's father and took the little brother along too.  In the end, I am glad I did because this friend's parents just dropped the kids off at the pool and came back at the end of the open swim.  I am sorry.  When you have someone else's kids - you stay with them!  So I stayed and watched the kids - all of them...  They were wiped out when they got home for sure.  Jake started watching a Star Wars moving but didn't last 15 minutes.

Today we have our first lacrosse game.  So Jake is getting some lunch and we will be heading out for that.  Apparently my email of concern to the team has resulted in a team name - they are the Spartans, and I am now the team MOM!!!!!  How do these things happen???  Anyway, if it helps Jake have a good season, I am all for it.

Result of my appointment with the neurologist is that he wants me to have an MRI.  I really liked him.  He was older, which usually doesn't go over well with me and doctors for some reason, but this guy I liked.  I was comfortable around him and he seemed to have a similar sense of humor as me.  So we hit it off.  My exam came back normal so he wants to rule out some things with the MRI.  He showed me some pictures of what a tumor would do to the nerves to create numbness and such.  But he doesn't think that is what is happening in my case because I have feeling to the touch.  He didn't talk to me in medical speak but at the same time it is hard to soak it all in.  But he wants to rule out demylination (spelling is probably wrong on that) which is a signal for MS.  I am trying not to do too much looking around on the internet because I don't want to get wrong information and freak out.  So will just take this one step at a time.  I have the MRI on the 18th and then the follow up with the doc on the 24th.   Will keep you posted as I find things out.  

Ok, time to pack up for a cold afternoon watching lacrosse.  Need to battery up the camera and find the umbrellas and blankets..  Get a water bottle for Jake and see if Tom and Lucas are ready to go.  They are building doors for the shed today.

Til next time,

Laura