A life without wine...

Hello!  After not being able to get to work the past 2 days for obvious reasons, I am heading out there today, which means missing the Wednesday lunch and wine drinking.  And tomorrow Brian and I had to cancel our date, which was a wine tasting at Perissos, because we are not comfortable leaving our kids awake with the babysitter, and we would have to leave here at 5:30.  So, no wine for me.  :(  We are still going out to dinner on Friday, since the kids can go to bed at 7:45 and we can leave at 8:15, so one day I am hopeful that there will be wine again!

You are probably all wondering what happened at the family meeting last night, and if our lives are miraculously all better now.  The meeting was great, I think.  I, of course, did all the talking, well, Liam and I.  The 2 loud mouths of the family!  We talked about the events that had led up to me having to convince people that we were OK, and I am pretty sure that one of the people is still not at all certain.  In fact, she has not returned any of my calls since we made our decision to stay as we are for now.  But, back to the meeting...Skyler seemed to really care, he said he was scared and he wanted to stay, he cried and tried to think of ways to make it better for himself.  He totally missed the boat though, and I am not at all sure any real or deep thinking happened.  I laid it out for him that it was not going to be easy.  That Brian and I had been working tirelessly for him, and we had literally exhausted our last favor, and now it was up to him to convince everyone he was where he needed to me.  Liam cried a lot and told Skyler he loved him and was so sad and didn't want him to go away, so please to stop being scary and to stay here.  I think that impacted Skyler a little bit, since he saw that someone really was crying out of love for him.  I'm not sure that has happened much in his life.  But then, this morning it took 15 minutes for Brian to get him up and out of bed, and they may have been late for school, so who knows!  At least sleeping in is a normal 11 year old kid behavior, but we had hoped he would make an effort to be extra good for a while, not just be less super bad!  

Brian didn't say much at all, I think he is still on the fence.  He was so sad yesterday thinking about what would happen to Skyler, but there was probably some relief in the sadness too, and now we are sort of right back to where we were before.  But not exactly.  We will have some pretty big answers in a couple weeks, and have a chance to sit down with professionals and figure out, based on data, where the best place for Sky will be.  I am fairly certain it will be here with us, but if it's not, we will cross that bridge when we come to it.  And whatever the outcome, that night, I will have wine!!!