Big week! My son’s 11th birthday was on Thursday and I let him have a friend stay the night. We took the kids to a movie. That about did me in. I had a difficult time navigating the theater with the vertigo. They were up half the night giggling but they had a good time.

My grandfather passed away Saturday morning. This is hard… I want to be with my family but I just don’t think that I can handle the stress right now. We are not telling my son until after his birthday weekend camping trip. We go every year for his birthday and I really want to make an effort to go because we have missed all of the other camping trips this summer. I don’t want him to always remember that his great grandfather passed away on his birthday weekend. I will tell him when we come home.