Jellybean And Peanut

(I have to preface this by saying that I normally wouldn't post such personal details about the boys' lives online...but over the past few weeks I've been thinking about this issue and realized that perhaps other kids and parents are dealing with similar...

Over the past couple of months, we've had some un-fun stuff to deal with. Don't get me wrong, we've had some really fun things going on, too...but for at least the past couple of months the un-fun stuff is what is sticking with me.
After Jellybean and Peanut came home, we learned that Jellybean had sickle cell disease. It wouldn't have mattered to us had we learned about it before the boys came home, but it came as a bit of a surprise to learn it after they had arrived home. But...

Have you all been watching this? We LOVE the Eagle Cam at our house...it is so much fun to watch the eagles taking care of their young. The boys' classrooms are watching the eagle cam and making journal entries as well.
I've been keeping the eagle cam on live streaming when we are at home and we just watch for a bit when we happen to be walking by the computer or sitting down for a bit nearby....

I've been more than a bit absent from the blog life these past few months. It isn't because we haven't had interesting things happen, or because anything is wrong...we've just been busy and updating the blog has pretty much fallen to the way-side.
The biggest event of the past few months was that Z was away from home for military officer's training for 4 months (August through November). This meant that it was just me and the boys managing things at home. We managed just fine, but life was admittedly...