Aurora Borealis

Long time no post!  We had a nice trip to Chicago at the end of May.  Agent Murphy was a real trooper in the car, even though we got stuck in construction traffic on the first day coming back (on Sunday!) so our planned leisurely half-trip ended up with our getting to our hotel in Kentucky very late.

We went to Lincoln Park Zoo and had hoped to make it to the Children’s Museum, but Mr. Tldz and I were both a bit under the weather.  On our penultimate day there, my mom hosted a get-together of family of friends, and it was good to see lots of folks.  And Agent Murphy receieved several gifts, for which thank you notes are forthcoming.  Saw my sister and her family briefly Sunday morning at Mass.  Unfortunately, we ended on a bad note with my mom, but hopefully little by little we will rebuild things.

Agent Murphy had his hearing screening shortly after we returned, and as we expected, all is normal there.  Last week he had his speech evaluation, and the therapist is leaning toward the idea that he has a lazy tongue.  So we’ll start weekly speech therapy in a few weeks when we hear back about scheduling. Her sense is there’s no reason to think he won’t respond to therapy, that just a little boost should be enough to get him started talking.  We’d sure like that!  So now I have a bunch of handouts to read through with ideas to try to stimulate language, and we’ll work on that while we wait for therapy.

We had a big day yesterday.  Agent Murphy and I finally made it to play group at church for the first time in a long time.  He’s still pretty reserved there.  Then we went to Mobile Mother Goose at the library in what we hope will be our new neighborhood.  (Of course, I couldn’t resist driving by “our” house.)  He wasn’t sure what to make of all that.  We’ll try it again next week.

Speaking of “our” house…  The price has been reduced again.  It’s making me really antsy that someone will snatch it up before us.  We’ve had a lowball offer on our house.  We’ve countered and are waiting for the response.  And we’ve had a couple more showings.  But we’re on the verge of changing realtors if this current flurry of activity doesn’t yield anything this week.  We met with a guy on Saturday who has ideas about actively marketing our house, rather than the “let’s list it and wait and see who shows up” approach our current agent takes.

Had RW and S. over for dinner Saturday a week ago to thank them for keeping an eye on the house while we were away.  It’s always fun to catch up with them and we rather enjoy the challenge of finding onion-less recipes to serve to S., since most of our recipes start “chop 1 onion” (or more).  Ah, but the pork tenderloin with poached plums that we like has no onions. Yum!  We look forward to getting together with them again around mid-July.

Mr. Tldz and I both had physicals last week with our new primary care doc.  We need to schedule our blueberry picking outing, and a day trip to the dairy north of here.  And I need to carve out some quality time to spend in the basement getting organized down there so we can be ready for the move when the time comes.  Other than that, it’s the same old same old around here.

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