411 The Walters Bunch

  T's last honor guard event. He can't participate after he turns 18. First, and most importantly, both my dad and D's mom are home from the hospital and both are recovering nicely. My Dad's platelets are at 384,000 after being at 2000 when he checked in to the hospital! He is responding very well to his treatment. He has 4 more weekly doses and then they will switch him to a maintenance plan. He will always have to get treatments for his cancer since it's not curable, but he should be able to maintain a fairly normal life by getting the treatments.  C and H had their first official obstetrician appointment this week. The new due date is December 5 and yes, they found out what the gender is and no they aren't telling us until June 14 at the gender reveal. I personally think it will be a girl. I know H's family is really hoping for a boy since they have no boys on that side. I don't really care what it is. I am just super excited about having a grandbaby ...

  The past couple of weeks have been a little crazy with my dad being in the hospital and now D's mom being in the hospital. D's mom went in to have a planned surgery and unexpectedly, right before being sent home, developed blood clots in her lungs that they had to do an emergency procedure to remove them. It was by divine intervention that she was still at the hospital when this occurred or the outcome could have been a lot worse. She was transferred from the surgical hospital to the main hospital and is now in ICU. Unfortunately, after several clots were removed from her lungs, one developed in her thigh that made them decide to put a filter in to catch them before they could make it to her lungs again. It does carry the risk of the filter becoming clogged causing her to have an issue, but she will be on blood thinners for the rest of her life so hopefully that won't ever happen.  My dad has been slowly improving. When he checked in to the hospital two weeks ago, his cou...

These tractors are huge! Things have been a little crazy here. We have been working on finishing school, scheduling the things T needs to get done before he can start college in the fall, scheduling his graduation party, and trying to help my mom while my Dad is in the hospital. A and I also were able to find an hour to go to our local farmers market. Our town has grown so much over the last couple of years! It feels more like your typical suburb now instead of the quaint little town we moved to 10 years ago. Our quiet little two lane highway has now become a bustling 4 lane road with medians. We have several commercial shopping areas going in, though I do actually really like having a grocery store in town! It's only 10 miles each way now to go get groceries instead of 30! We have an actual apartment complex now and multiple housing developments going in. I am NOT excited about all the new neighborhoods, but so far it hasn't really reached us yet. All the developments so far a...

  I will miss having the entire place to ourselves this summer when everyone is on break. At first this week was just roaring by. We are finishing school, knocking out the things T needs to do before college starts, planning parties, and organizing our summer. We even went to play pickleball this week and with my new Reebok Nano cross trainers A said I played like a "real person". Apparently, in her mind this a compliment. However, she was right! I love these shoes! They are really sturdy and keep your ankles from rolling so I had no issues making hard lateral movements. In fact, the adults only lost each of our games by no more than two points and one game went into "overtime".  The kids seemed confused as to what was happening.😂 T also finished the Trail Life equivalent of his Eagle Scout award! He sought donations, planned, and supervised the installation of a basketball goal for the youth ministry at church. They were thrilled! T even talked to the managers at ...

Congratulations 🎉 🎉 👏 👏 We can't wait to see your dreams come true!! This past weekend we went to T's highschool graduation!😢 I can't believe he is really done.....well almost. We actually have a couple of weeks left, but this was when he had his ceremony. It was held at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. We ran into so many wrecks on our way to downtown Ft Worth that it took us almost 2 hours to get there! D ended up taking us by his old childhood home. Apparently, he never realized it backed up to the college!😂 This was so much better than when L graduated. There was only 2 ceremonies in Texas for homeschoolers so we had almost a 100 there and the announcer went too fast and everyone kind of backed up. This time there was only 43 and each student got to have their moment until they were completely off the stage. It was about 45 seconds per graduate. We didn't invite anyone to attend with us because it was pretty far, at night, $15 a ticket, and not handi...

  It was a little warm in the sun, but at least it was behind us. What a week we have had! At first, it was pretty slow going. T asked me if I wanted to go watch his girlfriend's softball game with him. I thought it was very sweet he invited me to go so of course I went with him! We had a nice time and met most of her family. Unfortunately, she ended up not playing! I guess she had been in the past few games so they used the other catcher. It was still fun and I learned more about softball. It is way different than baseball and I don't know a whole lot about baseball!  The best and biggest news we got this week is that C and H are expecting!!! We are so excited! H tried her best to tell us in the most special way she could. In her version, she mailed us a package that we would all open together while on the phone with them and we could experience it together. The package told us to choose wisely and when we opened the box, it announced they were expecting and they had filled i...

We had a great time! This week was very interesting. Since we were unexpectedly down to one car, we have had to adjust our schedule a bit. Mostly meaning that T can't go to his extracurricular activities unless A is home to take him and I can't run errands for the same reason. Since A has a Ford Spark, it is SLIGHTLY bigger than D's little 3 cylinder (I thought the salesman was kidding when said that) mirage, her car is the new family car. Seriously, it can not only hold the four of us (barely), but can actually accommodate all our groceries on a regular trip to the store. In fact, before the Tom Thumb in town opened, she use to pick up our grocery order on her way home from work since there was a Tom Thumb on her way home. It's been months since she had to do that, but she did it this week and I had a pretty big order. We also had made plans to visit C in Bonham. T's girlfriend was playing softball there so we thought it would be fun to grab dinner with them and go...