It's been a crazy month. After Jamie's article came out, well, really in the midst of it, we got word Jamie was getting approval to go to Camelot. We are SOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!
We picked him up on a Sunday afternoon from the hospital and we left 6 hours later to head to Camelot. We arrived early in the am and checked into the motel, and met the admissions coordinator a few hours later. To say that Gary and I were wiped is an understatement!! The twins and Ian were awesome...Ian especially.
We know that we have made the best decision possible, as hard as it was to leave him where he is. Camelot was amazing. He has his own room...and it's good sized as well. It's super structured and very nicely staffed. His "classroom" teacher was amazing and his class consists of seven other children. We were so relieved to find they really were all that they had said they were.
We talk with Jamie by phone three times a week...and with the therapists on a weekly basis. We will visit monthly. We are leaving to go and see him Thursday night :) and even Ian and the twins are excited. Of course...that could have something to do with the "breakfast bar" that is at the motel where we will be staying....LOL... It has clearly been a LONG while since I had stayed in a motel...They now have belgian waffle makers as part of continenetal breakfasts.
So...since Jamie was safe, the tax refund came in and we went and purchased a new bed...and new fangled foot and back massagers...and Gary told me to go ahead and get a "Featherweight" that I had seen on glorious Craigslist. I have already made a quilt top which will probably become Jamie's. The funny (or sad depending on how you choose to look at it) is that the quilt top pieces were cut about 18 years ago and have sat in ziploc bags all this time. The Featherweight came with it's own little quilting foot and I was set on fire. It also came with two cases, the original antique one, that has broken clasp locks and a new antique reproduction one. There were ALOT of feet/accessories that came with this machine too. I probably paid a "tad" too much for the machine, but all the restoration grunt work was done, and while that part is often the most fun...I wanted a machine that I could EASILY take with me when we travel...and now I have that. It was worth that little extra...and that fact that it came from a quilter...oh just that much sweeter.
You can see a Featherweight here http://featherweight221.com/ . I love the little table that folds up on it for storage.
I have a new quilting task at hand. I mentioned earlier that we got our new bed. It arrived yesterday. It was supposed to be here last week, and it was also supposed to have arrived shortly after 9 am yesterday but that didn't happen either....lol. Anyway...Gary got a wild hair and decided we needed to paint our bedroom...he got this "idea" at 8 pm Friday night...LOL One might learn that I usually follow his wild hair ideas....lol So off we went to Lowe's to pick out paint colors, buy the paint...came home rummaged through the shed in the rain to get the paint supplies out...and we painted. ALL NIGHT LONG. We had dark blue on our walls so we had to prime first. However, with all the crazies with jamie and getting him placed...household organization has taken a back seat to everything...well...half the bedroom is now organized...the other half...well...it still had to be painted...so it will happen.
I have to make a quilt to go with the new colors...and choose a pattern too :)
WE NEEDED THIS. It is a back to "us" type of thing. We find the paint color names amusing. We put "Honesty" on the wall the bed faces...lol...our therapist will have a field day with that one :) The other walls we have "Misty Surf". We did chose equally amusing color names for the family room...one of them is "lettuce" . The "WE" things......and the therapist told us just this week not to let things go "boring" because Jamie is settled...LOL....as I said...she will have a field day with this one :) but all in a good way...
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