Hello Everyone! I'm sorry I haven't been posting on here. We don't have Internet in our apartment in Gainesville so I'm not able too. I have been going to a little coffee place every now and then that has wi-fi so I had a serious talk with myself and I'm going to start just writing it on Microsoft word and then coping it to my blog. Soooo....there will more posts.

Another reason I don't blog much is because not much has been going on. We still don't have a van so we are pretty much home bound. We have to ride the transit handicap bus to go somewhere and you have to call two days ahead and it only runs Mon. thru Fri. 8-4. He rides that to therapy every Tues. and Thurs. However, we have been able to plan ahead and had two outings.

The first was to Wal-Mart. It wasn't so much the shopping that Benjamin enjoyed but the smooth vast open floor. I would be looking at something and talking and slowly realize I was talking to no one. He would just zoom off to zig zag in and out of the aisles. It was raining that day and Benjamin has learned how to drift in his chair when his wheels are wet. He had quite a time.

The last one was to the Gainesville mall. Benjamin wanted to get some longer pants because he felt like all of his other ones looked like high waters when he was in his chair and to get some other things. We had a good time there too. It was lame though because the aisles in department stores aren't really made for handicapped people. The big main aisles are but not when your trying to look in and out of clothes racks. Sometimes he couldn't fit or would knock clothes off and tables and what not. So a lot of times we had to bring the clothes to him. Which was fine, it's whatever, we still had a great time. Benjamin got a lot things he enjoys wearing.

Mr.Greg rented a van for about a week and a half and we came home for the holidays. (I'm writing this from the comfort of my own home. It's nice) It was lame though because he waited until the day before we we were leaving and was only able to get a mini van. Which Benjamin is to tall for, so when he gets in and out we have to lean him forward so his head doesn't hit the top. He needs a full size van. We make it work though. We drove home on the Thursday before Thanksgiving and then Benjamin's birthday was that Saturday. He is now officially 20. Yep, I date an older man now, ha! It just so happened that Saturday night was the night of Benj Fest. Benjamin's friends that are in bands had their bands perform and all the proceeds went to Benjamin. Benj Fest was held at The Barn in Pelham (a very cool place) and the bands that played we're Triple Vision, King Palm, Neural Implosion, and Last. It was a whole bunch of fun because it was like one big birthday party for him. Someone from the WALB also came and interviewed him. He was on the news that night. You can check it out if you want on their website.

Sadly on Sunday he came down with a UTI. He felt terrible. His temperature got up to like 103.8. He just had to take antibiotics and wait it out. By Wednesday he was himself again. He and his family had planned to leave that day to go to Alabama for Thanksgiving. (that's where Mr.Greg's family lives) However, his Dad thought they should stay home since he had just gotten over being so sick. So, they spent Thanksgiving at their house. I spent it with the Eunice family. Then that night Benjamin and I attended the Festival of Lights on the Square. Of course we couldn't move more than a foot an hour (not really, but that's what it felt like) for all the people coming to talk to Benjamin. It was all good though. We enjoyed seeing everyone again. Once again Benjamin enjoyed driving on the open street and weaving in and out of people.

The rest of the holiday break was spent just hanging out with all our friends and family. We had such a good time being at home. Bummer we have to leave. The Daniels left today to go back to Gainesville and then I'll be leaving tomorrow.

You will be hearing from me more. I left my camera in Gainesville so I wasn't able to take any pictures of us over the break. (I'm very mad at myself) I put some kind of recent ones. Hope everyone had a Great Thanksgiving!!!!!!