i'm back! '-)

my phone line has been down since saturday! kane and i have been dying! we have been trying our best to use my phone for some stuff, but all you can really do is look at email. i was so glad that i did have my email...but i NEED my Internet!!! the man came this morning. when i got home from taking shep to school (he is the last drop on the but route) i was so happy! it was too bad that he had to come inside and see the huge mess left by the morning rush. oh well, i'm not that worried about it. he said that he had raised four kids and now has three grandkids. i usually DO NOT let repair men inside if i am home alone (crazy phobia i have, long story) but i HAD to have the Internet! anyway, he didn't kill or rape me. that doesn't mean he won't come back tonight! i always think the worst.
so, casey is still gone. it totally sucks. he has been gone twelve days now. we have seven more days to go. it has been VERY HARD. wow! no more three week trips! shepherd has been so mad at casey, anytime i am on the phone and the other kids talk to him shep refuses. i will put casey on speaker phone and shep gets sooo mad. he hides his eyes and covers his ears. eleanor has slept in one of caseys shirts and then she holds one at night.
so much has gone on since the last time i blogged. i will be trying to get it all in , but it may be random.
all my kids have been sick this week, but are better now. i took all three of them to the doctor on monday. that was a treat! casey's dad (jim) went with me, thank god! what a life saver..so nice to have great family. i really don't know how i would do it without them. kane and eleanor had strep, they thought shepherd might have the flu, but he didn't. good thing that we went when we did. they are all better now. thank god for amoxicillion.