Movin right along....

So surgery down, 4 weeks post-op, went to the dr and he informed me that I have an extra vertebrae in my back and thats why they had such a hard time making sure they got the right one... who knew?  Apparently by back is still broken, and the 'fusion' doesn't start taking place till week 12.  They want me to extend my fmla leave so I need to see what I can do about that, he said there is no way I could go there and sit for 10+ hours a day, he said at the most I'd last 4 and be wiped out.  This is taking a whole lot more time than I anticipated and I'm rather impatient.  I was driving the boys to school 4 days after my surgery and haven't stopped... grocery shopping, dr appointments, laundry, outings.... the dr said that most people 4 weeks out are still on their walker and their pain killers aren't cutting it and are on morphine, so considering I'm walking on my own and not on morphine I'm doing well.... probably doing a bit too much but my life really doesn't allow for down time... guess down time will be when I go back to work.... maybe?
I'm not sure when all of this is going down, I'm going to try to extend my fmla to the end of July, but only if I can still qualify for the leave bank so I still get paid.  If not, back I go.... just have to convince the dr to sign off on it... hmmmm.  And while all of this is going one we're moving... again...
This time we're leaving the valley....  I think I've done my time, and while I love my friends and family here, Salt Lake has been no good for me... there's nowhere I could live that didn't have some kind of memory attached to it... Salt Lake just hasn't been lucky for me.  So we're going to try on Layton for size.  Now that Shyanne is done with school we're free to leave the valley....  so the first place I inquired at let us walk right into a place, and considering our rental history and my credit, I took it as a sign it's suppose to be this way. We'll be closer to mom and scott, I've never lived close to my parent since I've had kids, it might be interesting and even fun to pop in and visit without it being an all day ordeal...
So here's where we're going in Layton....

 

it's affordable and will be home for the next year at least.  I have my concerns... Hunter mostly... got brought home here by the cops for damaging a neighbors fence.... he's so discombobulated and just doesn't deal well with the change and chaos and acts out...  I feel so bad juggling him around like I do, he needs stability, a foundation, roots... the other kids seems to be able to roll with the punches, whether they like it or not doesn't matter, they adapt... but Hunter... well, I don't think he knows he's acting out but every other day I have some nasty lady yelling at me for him throwing dirt clods or whatever it is he does.... he's a boy. He does boy things... He doesn't follow the social norm very well and marches to the beat of his own drum, I respect him for that... but it also makes life so hard.  I hate seeing him in trouble all the time.  I'm tired of him always being wrong or bad... it hurts my feelings... maybe I'm too sensitive, maybe I worry about him too much... he is sooooo smart, he's freaking brilliant and I hate to see people catagorize him as a bad kid... I don't want him to cause any trouble at the new place, I just want to fly under the radar and Hunter seems to make that impossible... my fingers are crossed, my prayers are said... , I love the kid with everything I have, I just want to have things simple for a minute... or two....

wish us luck...