Wow. Officially a month since I fell off the edge of the cyber-world. Again.

But, today is a good day to come back, seeing as its' Mike's 33rd b-day. That's right. I'm married to an old man. Who's married to a slightly less-older woman. We had our red velvet, our lunch date, then our dinner date together. I'm going to risk sounding a bit hyperbolic right now, but I truly believe I have luckily married one of the best men in the world. He has been such a strength to me, and such a God-send as a father to our boys. He constantly amazes me with his tenacity, his insight, and his unfaltering faith and love in me and in our family.

He is constantly making me smile. And that's just by being himself.

Anyway, stepping away from the pinnacle a bit, let me go into a bit of what else has been happening.... which is not a whole lot, but, I will try to fill in the month's gap of time.

Ben has continued on the early intervention pathway and has been evaluated through the school district for speech and occupational therapy. And then today, he was evaluated for cognitive function, which was all very technical stuff, but basically boils down to this: Ben does what Ben wants. Period.

The evaluating staff was kind enough to drop it after the first 40 minutes of testing this morning, and allowed us to come back in the early afternoon. Which he then promptly screamed his way through. All they wanted him to do was stack a couple of blocks on top of each other, match some cards, do some mild algebra.... nothing major, but it was a no---go. Which is, to wildly understate the case, exasperating. Because Ben is brilliant, and everyone should know that. Not that one test is gonna determine anything definite, but.....

If he wasn't so annoying with his defiance, this whole situation would probably be cute. Maybe.