Well, some of my former plans are changing now. I went to the plastic surgeon yesterday morning and he told me that I need to have a skin graph done now. He said he admired my effort to let the hole in my foot heal on it's own, but now he really thinks surgery is the next best step. I won't go into a bunch of gross details, but please do be praying that the he will be able to do a skin graph after preparing the area or he'll have to do a flap. You don't want to know what a flap is...believe me :p If he is able to do *just* a skin graph I will have to have my foot elevated (yet again) for two weeks straight. I will only be able to have it down to go to the bathroom and that's it. At least this time I have some warning that I'm going to be totally laid up for a few weeks and can prepare the house and myself a bit in advance. I most likely won't be on the computer much at all. I will need to have my foot elevated above my heart and, um...that's kind of difficult (and possible painful) when you are sitting in an office chair ;) I won't be totally bored though. Tim has already said that he will bring the tv down stairs for me so I can stay in the living room, on the main floor. He has also offered to bring down our rocker/recliner love seat! It's a pretty heavy piece of furniture so he will need to ask a buddy to help him out to get it downstairs. My homeschooling stuff should be coming in on Tuesday now! That will be another time filler for me when I'm down. I've been trying to prepare Josh for starting the schooling, but he isn't very excited.

So, about plans changing. In light of me being out for two weeks and who knows what will happen after that, I have decided to not go to the ladies' Bible study on Tuesday mornings or Awana on Wednesday nights :( I would for sure be missing two weeks there, and after I can be up again I just think it might be too much for me to handle at this time. I feel really bad that I have to keep the kids out of Awana. Tim and I have discussed it a little, and there may be one other option for us, but it's not decided yet. Not being in Awana might actually be easier on Joshua though. Both of the kids will be missing out on the much needed interaction with other little kids though! That is one of my big concerns in me home schooling them. I don't want them to be the odd man out when hanging around other kids. I was watching Joshua at the Awana start up night a few days ago and saw how he tries to get in with other little boys. If they say something he just repeats it and if just one of them laughed about something he was all hysterically laughing! I was seeing something in him that I rarely ever see. Him wanting acceptance from these little boys. When we go to McDonald's he is never like that. Boys usually latch onto him and they run around pretending to be army men or monsters or army men trying to get the monsters. He is very confident at these times, but he seemed sort of unconfident at Awana. At least he will still have Sunday school and children's church on Sundays. That is a lot better than never getting out!

On a happier note, I have been thinking about posting all of the old picture pages of our kiddos for family and friends to be able to look back on! It will be a big project most likely, so I don't know how long it will take exactly. I think I will open up another Topcities account though so I will have 150MB of space and just have to deal with either a pop-up banner or an ugly banner pasted at the top of the page. I am totally out of room at our main family site! We only get 10MB of space and it goes away fast... There are some new pictures that Tim has processed that need to be posted still too. I think I'll work on that a bit now while he is still asleep :)