The wheelchair mommy

We have finally (sadly) decided home school will wait. For now.

Do you send your kids to public or do you swing for private?

We have to make a decision FAST.

We are leaning to private because we have a spot and it’ll be impossible to ever get one again. We totally lucked out.

It’s just a little far so that will be a pain for pick up (dh will do drop off). We’ve heard amazing things. We’ve also heard a couple of bad things.

The bad things that can happen in public are just scary … but a fact of life.
ugh.

I just need to talk I guess.

Ugh.

I’ve been stressing SO much over sending Will to public school or homeschool (a little potential for Private thrown in but basically it falls into the public list).

The only thing holding ME back at this point is what my baby wants. He seems so excited to go but at the same time I know he’d get more out of it if we stayed home and he had the opportunity to play soccer, advance in TKD and join the swim team. He can’t do all of those things in public school. Plus I am not ready to let him go yet. He’s still my baby. I want him to flourish and not be held back because 1/2 the class isn’t ready to move on when he and some of the others are ………ugh .. it goes on and on.

That’s my ramble for now. I could go on.

and on.

and on.

I won’t.

I’ll continue to update this week as I check in on my baby. This is his first big trip away from me and I’m not sure how I’m going to handle it! We’ve been planning this since December but it all came up SO quickly. It’s really difficult to watch your kids grow up and away. He’s only 5.

Anyways …. we left yesterday around 1 pm. I called to check in this morning and he said he’s having lots of fun. Last night they went to eat Mexican food and then stopped in at Dairy Queen for “oreo icecream with mint in it”.

I thought his voice was starting to sound big but then I talked to him on the phone and all that changed. He still sounds like such a baby!

What am I going to do???????????

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On the Lucas front:

Will announced he has a loose tooth. I checked and sure enough he does!!

He is SO excited. I’m happy for him, but so sad we are about to run out of milestones!!

And he can blow bubbles with gum! He told me today is kind of s big day for him!

Check out this video on YouTube:

My first Pflugerville pfavorite is going to be a restaurant; that is what everyone searches for in a new town anyways, right?! We all have to eat.

Click on photo for facebook fan page! (photo stolen borrowed from my friend at Austin City Mommy!!)

Ncredible Crust pizza opened Spring 2010 (I can’t remember the exact day, but that doesn’t really matter!!)in the Windermere Shopping center downtown (they are across from Wal-Greens).

We practically live in that shopping center between TaeKwonDo and the Book Box, (I’ll get to those in time!!)so we tried them right away. We have had pizza/games once a week for last year and a half, so this was our kind of place.

When you go in, there is a play area with a mini slide, a big foam puzzle and lots of random toys. The owner (Wade and his wife) put a little porch/deck in the  back, just in front of the kitchen, so kids can climb up and watch them make the pizza. This is Lucas’ favorite spot. They keep threatening to put him to work if he doesn’t get down  and eat. I can’t forget the mini arcade or the small room in the back with a TV for games or parties! I don’t know the details on the back room so I’ll just leave it at that!

The pizza itself, is just amazing ncredible and the prices are so budget friendly, too! They advertise that it’s in the crust and it is!! You can get hand tossed, thin or deep dish; on top of all that you can leave your crust as-is or add one of 3 flavors. Tomato Basil, Garlic parmesean, or flavor of the month (in the past he’s had a coconut, oats and honey and my favorite so far, mediterranean . ) I should be ashamed, but I do not know what July’s flavor is. I guess you have to stop in for yourself to find out!

William almost ALWAYS eats ranch with his pizza. The first time we had Ncredible he did not. He made it very clear that the pizza was SO good he didn’t even WANT ranch!! How that for honesty?

When they first opened, there was a salad bar. They took that away and now offer the most amazing Italian dressing tossed salad you will ever eat. I’m usually a ranch dressing girl but this far surpasses a ranch dressing salad any day!

OOOH and don’t forget to try the apple. YUm. Yum Yum. That’s all I need to say (granny smith covered in Caramel, covered in white chocolate, rolled in sugar —- best. thing. ever.)  WHat’s that saying? An apple a day…….

So there you have it! We have quickly become regulars there. The owners take the time to talk to you and your kids and they REMEMBER you!

P.S. They just started delivering so make sure you call and ask if you are in his delivery area. You can also pick your pizza up at the back door if the kids are screaming, sleeping or you just don’t want to get out of the car. Just call ahead! The phone number is on the facebook page.

If you go in tell them Lucas sent you and make sure you come back and tell me what you thought!

ETA: Instead Let’s call it Pflugerville Pfavorites!

Pfirst Pfriday Pflugerville!! (so yes that means in just a couple days my first post will be published!!)

This is going to be a new series of posts I will write just for grins and giggles.  No one will be paying me to do these (unless other places catch on and decide to).

I’ll call it the PPP for short. I’ll do it the pfirst pfriday of every month.

If you are not from here just get over the annoying Ps …. it’s a Pflugerville thing.

When you live in a small suburb, you find small businesses and awesome people that run them; I want to tell you about those places.

We have a kreuig coffee pot. We love it. There is no way on Earth we could live without it. Ever. In fact we just took it with us on vacation. Really. No joke.

So www.greatcoffee.com is where we order our never ending supply. We have a favorite blend that we order more than all others.

Just last week Charlie handed me a cup and I immediately asked what the heck it was. He looked at me like I was crazy. It was my usual, of course. Um.. No it was not. Was it?!

It was. I didn’t know it but he just opened a new box. We had 6. All of them from the same lot number. He opened another anyways and made another cup. Also gross.

Oh, boy! So what do we do with $xx coffee that taste bad? Well Charlie emailed them and said we what happened, gave them lot number on the box and asked to replace the unopened 4. We didn’t hear back.

We were leaving for vacation on Friday (less than 4 days? After the email) and there was a box. It had 4 boxes of the same coffee from a new lot. We made one. It was perfect.

How often do you get no questions asked service like that?? They have a customer for life in us.

( this was a totally voluntary review… No free coffee; I don’t even know if they have a social media presence!)

I wanted to wait until this evening to write this post because I didn’t know what I wanted to say. I still don’t.

It’s been 5 years TODAY since I got the call around 8 am that my dad had died earlier that morning. I saw their number on caller ID and my heart immediatly sank. Charlie had just left for work.

We had been expecting it but I was instantly devastated before I said hello. I was expecting a photographer to be on the way and thought maybe he was looking for directions because he was lost and got instead I got some of the worst news ever.

Wil was only 5 months old. He’ll only know him in pictures (I made a 20 minute video collage that I thought I was going to watch today but didn’t … Lucas has yet to see it because I hate (but LOVE) to watch it.)  Lucas, of course, never met him.

It’s brutal to lose a parent; whether you expect it or not.

Daddy in the 1950s

Daddy and I in May 1999 (just 4 months before I was paralyzed)

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