Breaking News!

As some of you may have heard, Starbucks was set to discontinue selling breakfast sandwiches in October. Here's the scoop:

Howard Schultz made the announcement in his Wednesday conference call with analysts.
"The scent of the warm sandwiches interferes with the aroma of the stores," he said. (WHATEVER)
Stores will still offer warmed pastries. (I don't want warmed pastries, thankyouverymuch)
The warm sandwiches "are going to be out by year's end." (Sad)
Serving sandwiches got in the way of employees' "ability to make the perfect shot of espresso." In other words, spending time on sandwiches took away from the focus on coffee. (Something else that I don't really care about - I mean really - I go to Starbucks now for the sandwiches and a drip coffee, so they don't even have to use the espresso machine on my account)
The sandwiches will be replaced with "a breakfast menu that delivers what our customers are asking for." (Hello, did you hear me? I'm asking for Breakfast Sandwiches)
"We're going to be in the lunch business; we're going to modify it." (Again, something I don't care about)

Well, I am here to tell you that I have first hand information from a former VP/FancyPants at Starbucks that I had lunch with on Friday (she left Starbucks just weeks ago) that they have re-considered this (I would imagine due to public outcry and death threats on Howard) and...

"Starbucks is now NOT going to discontinue selling breakfast Sandwiches"

You heard it hear first. I myself celebrated this morning with a Low-Fat Turkey Bacon. (my personal favorite) I would recommend you do the same.

Thanks Howard!!

Update on Jeremy

The exciting news of the day is that Jeremy no longer needs to walk on his toes - he can actually stand flat footed! Jeremy had his every other month check-up with the fabulous Dr.'s at Children's Rheumatology as well as check up with the Children's Physical Therapist yesterday.

I really wanted to talk to them about when we will be backing him off the Prednisone, as he has been on a pretty high dose for 3 months. We were told that since we started doing the Methotrexate injections once a week about a month ago that we would be able to back off the Prednisone soon. Good thing because we can hardly afford to feed him anymore. :) We no longer order off the children's menu, which was fine, often too much food in fact, 3 months ago. We used to order chicken nuggets and fries wherever we went, and I kid you not, he ordered a steak and mashed potatoes last night. He has gained almost 25lbs in the last 3 months!

So, anyways, the Physical Therapist thought he was progressing nicely. She sent him home with more exercises to do at home, as well as some to do in the hot-tub. He is still very tight in his legs and feet. The Rheumatologist also thinks he is progressing nicely, but is still concerned with how tight he still is. She did think it was time to back off the Prednisone though, so we will be tapering down in the next two months. We will also be continuing with Adam, the Physical Therapist Jeremy sees 3 times a week in Covington.

So, that's about it on the medical front. He is making slow progress, but it is progress, and I have to remind myself that they told us from the get to that this would be around a year long recovery process. I'm just not a very patient person (I know, shocking).

Jeremy starts his new school in a couple weeks, Jenkins Creek. He is really nervous, but I have great hopes that he will be fine and even hopefully meet some new kids that live close by. He is VERY worried that he will not see his buddies anymore, but I have assured him that this will not happen.

As we head into fall, he is trying do decide if he wants to do Tae Kwon Do at the place where he will be going to for before and after care this fall (it is right across the street from his new school) or start swimming again. We'll see. He has decided to hang up his cleats and not play baseball this fall, which pain's me as his baseball loving mom, but I have to tell myself it's not about me. We will also be starting back with Scouts - I keep telling myself we graduate in 6 short months (yeah!) as this is when the boys will graduate Cub Scout Webelos and cross over into Boy Scouts.
We hope you had a great summer and I'll continue to update this blog on our activities as well as how Jeremy is progressing.

Waterpark

It's been so HOT we decided to take Jeremy and his friend Daniel to the Henry Moses Aquatic Center, which is a swimming pool/waterpark in Renton. There are water slides, a wave pool, a lazy river, a couple pools and a water fort. We had a great time and were able to cool off for once

this weekend!

Family Fun

Jeremy has been off this week with Uncle Dave going to Hunter Education class. I am happy to report he passed and only missed 3 of the 75 questions on his test. So, he's all set to go kill something. I'm sure you all know how happy this makes me, but what are you going to do? I love the relationship Jeremy has with my brother so this is "their thing" Jeremy asked Joe if he wanted to go hunting, but I'm afraid the only thing Joe would do on the trip was chase off the deer. Can't you see him running through the woods "Run Bambi Run, Save Yourself!"

Jeremy is off to Lummi this week with my mom and Joe went back to OH to get his mom and help her get home (see post below) so yesterday we had a family fun day. We went out to breakfast and went down to Gameworks. We tried to go to the Market, but it was an absolute zoo so we stopped at Krispy Kreme and went home. Later that night my fabulous friend Melinda came over for Taco Salads and to play Rock Band. I do an amazing rendition of "Roxanne".

Happy 40th Birthday Joe!!

We had a BBQ with family and some of Joe's friends to celebrate his 40th Birthday! Of course this meant that he HAD to finish the new deck by then so he worked on it weekends and most nights (sometimes with me holding a flashlight) to get it done. I must say, he did a great job and his BBQ Birthday party was lots of fun! Happy Birthday Babe!!

New Deck

Of course with a new hot tub, you need a new deck so the boys (mostly Joe) have been working hard to get it done. It is looking great! It's two stories, the main level you walk out of the house onto, then you can go down a few stairs to the level that goes around the hot tub. The built in bench seating was my idea (pretty good one, huh?)

Looking down from up top