Hi !! It's been a while.....

Hey, it's me Jeanie. It's been a while since I've been around. Thought I would update you all on my life. It's pretty darn good, to say the least. Anyway, Brent is with us this weekend, but he acutally got to come over tonight and gets to skip school tomorrow. His Special Ed class went to the Twins Game today, and they an extra ticket so he was able to ask Bruno to go, and of course he jumped all over that!! They mailed the ticket to our house so Bruno just met them there. Our best friend Keith, (Bruno's Best Man) works for Wells Fargo and they had some type of booth or something there, so they were able to hook up and see him and watch the game with him. They had a ball. All of you who know Brent well, know he is NOT a sport kid, total theater and singing, etc. Well, he is used to Softball, which is only 7 innings- not baseball with 9 innings. Well wouldn't ya know it, the game went 11 innings!!! AND WE LOST!!!! So, anyway, during the times where he thought he was going to be on TV, I guess he was dancing.. like his dad. Joda and Deb, and Rich, you have seen him dance. Ummmm wow, no "Circle me Bert" there. But I guess it was hilarious, he even did the moon dance. Bruno said the whole section was just rolling. That's our Brent.
Then, just about an hour ago, I walk out to the livingroom where him and Bruno are watching the original Freaky Friday. There is some kid on there with long hair and guess what I hear Brent say?
" If I was a girl, I would date him". This is not the first time I have heard him say something like that.. we just look at each other and crack up quietly. Tonight we went to Buffalo Wild Wings, (with our friends Keith, Tina and their daughter Angela. Brent was up talking to the waitresses at the register, soon enough there were 6 of them there!!!! And he was HAMMING it up. We hope he likes girls.

Ok, so this is getting long, and it's all about Brent, and ya know what? I'm glad. Going 2 weeks without seeing him is tough, really. Especially on him. Most of you know that he lived right down the road from us, you could walk out on our driveway, look to your left and see the deck to his apartment. I was in there several times, you can see our house "good". He even called a few times when he saw his dad get home and asked to talk to him, but Bruno wasn't even out of the truck yet. And one time he saw his cousin Anna "borrowing" his sweatshirt and he called and said "don't let her take that". I told him to shut his shades. hee hee hee
He told us that when he goes to school on the Mondays after he leaves our house, he usually cries and has to go talk to his Special Ed teacher.
That breaks our hearts. That is why I have come to appreciate -much more -our time together. We have family meals, games, movies and just plain old fun. (yes, we even sleep in the camper!!) We're used to being within 5 minutes of him, now its 75 minutes.

Thanks to Deb, Jim, Rich and Joda for being so good to him; Dave and Ron, I am not leaving you out, these guys see him quite a bit and-- well you know what I mean. It sometimes seems you are more patient and understanding of him than I am. But I am learning. And I am appreciating.
And he loves me to death.