Back to School

After lots of debate on our part as to what to do with him and school and home bound or when to go back and so forth we finally decided that we would just send him back when he was ready to go.  Well today would be that day.  He really missed his friends and school so off we went to school and everyone was beyond excited to see him.  Once we got him re-enrolled he was in art and everyone started hugging him.  It was so great, I peaked in the door and he was showing off his new “button” I was surprised actually.  In the car he was making the debate on whether he would or wouldn’t…I even left his book about the button with Mrs. Matuni in case he wanted it.  I’m glad to see he wasn’t ashamed of it or anything and actually seemed quite proud! LOL  Anyway usually I know I do the weekly update with pictures, but had to share our day today, it was like the 1st day of school all over again and both kids looked adorable as always!   By the way, you’ll notice his hands in his pockets a lot more now, that’s his new thing so he doesn’t hit his button as it still hurts…pretty smart kid don’t you think?

Hope everyone had a great Monday.  Things are slowly getting back to somewhat normal around here.  We’ve done 3 feedings on our own, but they haven’t gone 100% smoothly yet, but in time we will all get it worked out.

Holiday Magic

Okay well lets just start with on Sunday Savanna had her first dance recital, or more so performance I guess you should say.   We pretty much were sure she wasn’t going to dance, she’s a bit shy at first but she kept saying YES she was because she wanted Aunt Lisa to watch her.  So everyone came on out to see Beanie dance…Aunt Lisa, Uncle Shaun, Meme, Dad, Grandpa, Nana, Linda and Greg.  She looked adorable, check her out before we left the house!

When we got there, with a little coaxing and bribery she sat down with her classmates and all the other little dancers.

Then it was time to line up and she saw Uncle Shaun and Aunt Lisa…

Little FLIRT!~

And then it was SHOWTIME!  And instead of explaining it, I think I’ll let you see for yourself how it went! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you notice the owner bribing her with a sucker…she’s a sucker for sucker’s but even this wasn’t worth a sucker! LOL

THE BRIBE…

And nope didn’t work this time! LOL  But she seriously thought about it at one point, I saw a foot barely move! LOL

Okay well I actually felt really bad for her, I know she had to be petrified.  She had never been in that situation before and certainly had NO IDEA what was coming! LOL So she has this same performance a few more times before Christmas so we’ll see if we get better results on the next attempts!  Until then, at least she’s stinkin’ ADORABLE!

After she danced/cried we went to pick up Payton…she didn’t make it long…the recital fell right at nap time so no nap for my girl!   BTW, she’s in Payton’s car seat because while we were in the hospital car seats got moved around with her and somehow I have misplaced hers as of today! YIKES!

And here’s a cute picture I got of Uncle Shaun and Aunt Lisa.

Thanks everyone for coming!

The final days…LONG DAYS

Well I owe everyone an apology as I haven’t been home to update nor had the computer at the hospital to update but I will do it now…better late than never as they say right !

Now if only I remember where I left off.  First night after surgery (Monday night) he slept great!  Was still pretty much knocked out but did good.  Tuesday it was a hard day.  He was sore constantly and couldn’t move.  He was 100% afraid of his G-button and would let NO ONE see it or talk about it.  He did eat Popsicle but that was about it!  He did get up a a few minutes but that didn’t last long and he was VERY slow moving!  He continued on his pain medicine.  That night was horrible.  Not only was his still on IV fluids they started his first night feed to see how he tolerated it.  They ran it a full 8 hours or so.  He woke up 3 times to use the bathroom which was an ordeal to get him and all the pumps and wires into the restroom.  He was in so much pain after that he didn’t sleep until 5am with them of course to come in at 7am wanting to start everything.  Needless to say that was a tough night!  That day wasn’t much different than the previous day.  Didn’t get out of bed much nor want to move and still in denial and mad about the G button and how much it hurt, but his main complaint was the Fundo and the lack of swallowing ability.  Things feel like they are getting stuck so that’s bothering him as well as him getting air bubbles he has a hard time releasing.

But he did give us smiles even at his worst times.  He hated if we made him laugh because it hurt, but somethings were just to easy to not say! LOL  Sorry bubby!

Here’s how he’s hooked up for the feeds.  2 cans of the formula are placed in the bag…

That runs down through the pump, which is set to drop 55ml per hour…a total of just over 8 hours right now to get rid of it all.

It then runs down the tube…

where it is locked into the G button.

Wednesday we did finally get him to get up more but was moving VERY slow and still connected to IV’s and so forth.  He had another rough night like the previous one but we got him over his fear of the G button itself and he actually gave himself some meds through it as well as clean it and move it around.  He’s still VERY unsure of it but has been glad to show a few people how it works.

Since he was still sore and our vest hits his G button they brought in a kind they had there…it worked great, but now we have to figure out if we can get one because he liked it better! UGH!

Also when he cleaned out the book fair I figured out why my child is so smart!  He could have gotten anything and instead he gets the Children’s Encyclopedia and YES we had to read it, we’ve made it half way through so far and the book about how baseball started and the icons of baseball.  I actually was thrilled he wants to learn so much!

Thursday was a great day!!!  Although he was lacking on sleep they unhooked his IV and he was roaming the halls, wandered down and spent all of Pop’s money at the book fair going on and even made 2 trips to the cafeteria as well as a nice LONG stroll around the prayer gardens.  It was such a beautiful day!  He never got back in bed at all that day till it was time to hook him up for his last meds and begin his 3rd feeding.

After playing outside for a while we headed back in and he and Ms. Ashley took a picture…she’s an Aggie so the others put up their hook’ems but Payton told her she had to turn her thumb upside down…she wouldn’t do it but he tried! LOL

He also enjoyed listening to himself! HA HA

He’s tolerating the feedings great.  He’s not eating much still but were slowly trying to get him to eat.  The stipulation for going home at this point was a good night!  And guess what…Thursday night was JACK POT!  We had a great night!!!!!  We didn’t get up to use the restroom at all and we slept through all the meds in the middle of the night!  WHOOOOO.

Bright and early Friday morning (well okay 9am) they came in and we chatted and guess who got to go home!!!!!

Before we could start the going home process he said he needed to go visit Mrs. Phyllis, one of his teachers.  He had made a thank you note for her son that sent him the NASA stuff.  She was so excited to get it and also her daughter had sent her more stuff via email so they were checking it all out!

They have a wall that all the kids made people for and here was Payton’s hanging on the wall…so cute!

And Payton and Mrs. Phyllis

He got the mid-line out and it went amazing!  They had this stuff (why they never used it before you got me) that was an oil and it came right off with little issues!  They also found him the H1N1 vaccine before we left so at least he’s got it now and we will continue to hunt for ours!

My TOUGH TOUGH boy…two band aids…1 shot and one pull out of the mid-line and NO TEARS!  I was/am so proud!!!!!!  And he still has that adorable smile on his face!

So… Friday at

we got in the car…

And we headed home!  It was great!!  Only bummer about it was Savanna was up all Thursday night throwing up and so she’s now sick still, again whatever you want to say so he didn’t come home to a huge hug from her, but he did go straight for the remote and turned in on the NASA channel immediately to make sure he didn’t miss anything! LOL Things are looking like they are coming to normal! HA HA HA  It took about 6 wagon trips to get all his stuff out of his room and filled up both cars.  Of course that included his new IV pole and his new pump and all the new equipment we now have.  He was so excited to be going home!!!!

Thank you with all our hearts for all your support, prayers, thoughts, well wishes and so forth.  That was a L O N G 18 days in the hospital and it would not have been near as tolerable without all the family and friend support we have.  Tonight, well I’m a bit nervous as we have to figure out how to run his feeds and all that stuff by ourselves, but I will update how we did as new G button owners in the days coming up!

AGAIN…THANK YOU and we send our love to all!!!!

PS.  Think I have some work to do unpacking (this is JUST the stack from the hospital and not even all of it – half ended up in the kitchen!)

That will just have to wait…I’ll wish upon a star tonight for it to magically get clean!

Beanie Girl

Okay you know I can’t do one without the other!  She’s been busy with Dance this week as her recital is Sunday so has 3 practices this week.  She’s having a blast.  I only stayed home one night this week so there will be photos of her going to school that day.  Also her playing with the book and doll set bubby picked out for her at the book store.  She’s hanging in there, tired and stressed like the rest of us, its taking a toll on her as well.  She’s sick still/again…today with throwing up all night and morning!  Since Payton’s now home I’m HOPING and PRAYING we can all get healthy and enjoy being a “normal” family again!   What a beautiful princess I have if I do say so myself!

And Savanna took this one of me didn’t she do good!  Especially since she was using the BIG camera?

I have another set of fun photos of her my dad got while at the park, but I’m exhausted with WAY TO MUCH to get unpacked so that’s for another time!

Surgery Update

I’m so sorry this is so late coming out but today’s surgery was a success, bottom line.  He did great!  Now that that’s out of the way, here was our day!  But first lets start with Payton’s last real meal for several weeks last night.  He had to stop eating at mid night last night…so after eating his dinner of corn dog nuggets he ate enough smarties to fill the room not to mention 4 Popsicle!

We also had a nice visit with Billy and Eric last night, thank you both for coming up!!!

While eating all that we played LOTS of cards, watched the world series and even whipped out the new Scrabble game GranStan and GranDotty sent!  We had fun.  We finally got into bed around 1130 when all meds were done and stuff but neither of us could sleep.  We watched a movie together and snuggled in my bed till 1am when it was med time again.  At that point we both fell asleep and he seemed to sleep well, with I could say the same!

The came in bright and early around 715 and took him and his bed down to the prep room.

We had actually been in that room with his sinus surgery last stay so we were familiar with it.  He was incredibly scared (as were we) and he was hiding under the covers, very quiet and was shaking awful!  It was heartbreaking and we were feeling the same way just watching him but trying to be strong.  He only cried once, which of course took everything I had to not cry with him, thankfully he had rubbed out some eye lashes and we made lots of wishes on that and made a game out of it.  We got him to smile and joke with us before they gave him his “silly” medicine through his IV.  Immediately he jumped up with a huge grin and tried to jump out of his bed and yelled “WATER SLIDE!”  It was hilarious.

We told him no and he laughed and we laid him back down and then they took him from us!   We walked one way he was rolled out the other way.

Psalms 91:11–He shall give His angels over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.

It took another 45 minutes or so before they called us to let us know his surgery was finally under way and about another 1.5 hours for the surgery and another 45 minutes before we got to see him.  It was the LONGEST morning ever!

When we walked with him to the room he was still totally out of it and stayed that way till late afternoon when he woke up in pain so was immediately given Morphine and that in turn knocked him out the rest of the day pretty much.

He got up to use the restroom tonight and that went okay and also tried to get a Popsicle down.

His button is being vented every 3 hours to release air and otherwise he’s being given IV fluids for today and tomorrow.  He’s on an ice chip and Popsicle diet.  Wednesday is when they will teach us about the night feeds and all that stuff and we’ll see how his system takes it.  He has 4 incisions on his belly, one being the actual button. This is what his button looks like for now.  In 8 weeks they will actually change it out, were not sure if its to a different one or just a new one.

There are several other pictures that are really cool, if your not grossed out easily, but that’s for another night b/c I’m too tired to scan them tonight.  Sorry!

He’s a tough kid, but our hearts are breaking knowing he’s in pain.  Please continue to pray for him.

At 3pm they had the kids toy auction and he really wanted to go.  We got his wheelchair ready but it hurt to bad to sit, so Meme and I went down and bidded for him.  Nothing really good but got him the best things we could find.  He was happy with that!

Otherwise that would be the days update.

Other breaking news is that Savanna went back to the Doctor (thank you mom for taking her) today again and has strep yet again or STILL were not quite sure.  I tell you when it rains it pours!  But this too shall pass and life will go on as it has in the past just with an extra little button in our lives !

Psalms 30:5b Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Trick or Treat

We meet my parents over at Crista and Mike’s when we left the hospital.  Their neighborhood does a cook out from 4p-6p with hayrides and the whole bit and then all the kids take off to trick or treat.   Mat and Lindsay’s job was pass out candy and we kept up with the kids around the neighborhood.  Wish I could tell you Mike and JOhn’s job, but they rode in the golfcart and drank beer….Hum saftey first they say right? LOL  Actually Savanna couldn’t keep up with Will and Luke, so the boys kept up with them and us girls kept up with Savanna.  She was planning to be sleeping beauty, however when the day came she decided she wanted to be Snow White, thankfully we had that costume already anyway, thanks to Matti! She looked cute as always and had a GREAT time!  She was all into trick or treating even when the bucket got heavy! LOL  She made one big block and we came back to the house, then she ended up getting to go again with Uncle Mat and Grandpa!  We had a great time!  Thank you guys for inviting us, we’ll see you again next year!    Only this time Payton will be with us…it wasn’t the same without him!

Here’s Uncle Mat ready to take her, wait till you see the bucket she had since this round was for Uncle Mats candy! LOL

And here we are finishing up as the candy was about gone! 

Happy Halloween everyone, hope you had a great Halloween!

The Weekend Update

Well the weekend was fun even though we were still here.  We are on day 13 as I type this with probably another 3-4 days to go so definetly on the down side, but also the hardest side we’ve ever dealt with yet.  Payton’s surgery is scheduled for 8am tomorrow (Monday) and will last a few hours.  Then our adjusted life will begin until we make it the normal life once we get home.  We think/know he will do great and after the first few weeks as good as new only with a new little “button” on his stomach!  John and I have both been worried about it but I must say thank you to all that kept us company this weekend and kept our minds off of it as much as possible!  Are hoping for a good nights sleep, but as the Dr. said Payton will probably sleep better than us! He has a point! haha

Anyway lets get onto this weekend!  Saturday morning Uncle Mat took Lindsay to work and then came up here to hang out with Payton and I.  Not only that but he brough homemade Chicken Pot Pie (THANK YOU LINDSAY) as well as my FAVORITE…Rice Crispy treats!   Home cooking and my favorite desesrt, life was good.  Not to mention the time I got with my brother and the fun Payton had playing with him.  When Mat got here it was time for the small Halloween party they were having downstairs.  We took him down for a while so he got to play BINGO and make a craft as well as get some yummy juice and cookies!  Then we came back up and the boys played baseball in the halls!  Its becoming the daily occurance now!

We were so tired of picking out Payton’s meals, we let Uncle Mat do it today so that way if Payton doesn’t like it, I can blame him! HAHA

After Uncle Mat left about 20 minutes later Uncle Shaun and Aunt Lisa came up with a goodie bag for both kids!  One Almond Joy and Payton was bouncing off the wall!  We didn’t even let him get into the awesome Halloween cookies that Aunt Sissy sent!  Y U M M Y …thanks you guys.  When they got here the weather outside was AMAZING and perfect for going out so thats just what we did.  We headed out to the prayer garden and then the play ground as well.  The boys played baseball outside until Uncle Shaun had to come in and try out the hospital cafeteria.  It wasn’t too bad huh Uncle Shaun?   He actually put clothes on to go outside…looks funny now! HA HA

Thanks to you all for coming to play with Payton. 

Soon after they left, about 1 hour later, John showed up and then Meme and Pop.  Meme gave him a bunch of space shuttle surprises from her and Pop which made his day, then she spent the night so that John and I could go meet up with my parents who had Savanna to take her trick or treating and spend the night with her.  It was perfect!  When we got back up here Sunday morning we heard that poor Pop got hosed again as Payton whipped Meme in cards and took his money!   Sorry Pop!

We couldn’t leave however till Payton won all of the money John had brought…YIKES!  No worries didn’t take long at $1.00 a game! LOL

 

That would be a real Apollo 11 patch !

After we all got here today (Sunday) GranStan and GranDotty came up to visit and brought Payton LOTS of yummy candy and Scrabble for his birthday.  Yet another way I’m sure Payton will take my money! LOL  Anyway we had a GREAT visit with them and Payton even won $.50 from GranStan playing WAR.  They also played UNO but came out even thankfully!  GranStan might not have come back if he lost much more! HA HA HA

GranDotty cut up his spaghetti ( and let me go ahead and confess…Mat you did good, he ate it almost 100% gone!) for him.

Thank you both for coming up and visiting with us.  Its always a treat to see you guys and we certainly miss not being at the Ranger games with you since season is over!

Now I’m here for the night and were watching a movie together having some quiet time.  Got to love the movie “Hotel for Dogs.”  If you haven’t seen it, its really cute!  

 Please continue to pray not only for Payton, but for his surgeons, and a speedy recovery.  We know he’s a fighter and a tough kid and will do great!  We will be in touch tomorrow sometime when its done and let everyone know how it goes.

Jeremiah 30:17 “I will restore you to health and heal
your wounds,” declares the Lord.

The Decision and Fun!

Well lets start with the decision first and them move onto the fun part.  We have decided to get Payton the G-button and Fundo surgery.  It is scheduled for Monday  morning and he will probably be in through next Wednesday or Thursday with that being done.  It was beyond a hard decision to make and we are trying to do what is best for Payton at this time.  We are praying we have made the right one and know we have a long road ahead of us, but we also know we are beyond blessed with support from family and friends and we can get through it!  I think once its in and things are “normal” or our new “normal” it will be fine and we will have less fighting with him about his eating.  His take is he’s the only kid that can burp out of his belly.  Hey whatever works right?  It will be a huge adjustment so please continue to pray for him.  Pray for a successful and safe surgery and a quick recovery.  He’s very tough we all know that and if anyone can take it in stride, we know he can.  He’s got the most amazing “I’m going to beat it all” attitude we know he’ll do good!  They came in and showed him what it would look like and how it will be in and so forth and he said he’s ready….not excited but he’s okay with it.

Now lets move on to the FUN part of  today they had the trick or treat for the kids in the hospital and it was great!  Every department had their own booth and goodies and theme.  So cute and they did a wonderful job!  Of course there were lots of pictures to take so let me just share!

First he had to go to school after all his treatments…but he was NOT about to leave the room without his costume on so he even wore it to school.  I keep telling them its not a costume but a daily worn outfit! HA  I think they are starting to believe me!

When he got back they wanted to do his CT and his PT but we asked that he get to go downstairs first which worked out because they closed it up shortly after we got there!  So here he is trick or treating in the atrium!  He got more compliments on his costume and lots of questions on where we got it!  Pretty cool!

After trick or treating he had lunch and treatments and was awaiting his CT.  The CT went well and looked just like his last one.  That was a good thing, no change is what we like to hear!  Here he is going through the CT machine!  Pretty cool huh?

 

Well your probably thinking, wow what a fun day, well let me just tell you, it got BETTER!  You ask how, well Mrs. Phyllis, one of his teachers sons works for NASA and she had a surprise for him today.  Wait till you see his face and all the COOL stuff that her son sent him.  Talk about him feeling special and what an amazing thing she did for him!  Hey you don’t need my words, the pictures are PRICELESS!

 

So cool and thoughtful of them.  We are grateful.  Payton has been wanting a real mission patch forever so this was a HUGE thing for him!

After all this he had dinner, treatments you know the usual stuff and then after dinner my parents and I brought Savanna up to play with Payton.  They had fun playing football together and she enjoyed checking out his goodies he got trick or treating today!  It was fun to have them together.  She headed home with Nana and Grandpa for a spend the night since John has to coach baseball in the morning!  She had dance today so we came up after that and dinner (hints the reason she’s still in her dance attire!)

 

And of course there was a game of baseball too!

And with that I think I shall head to bed, I’m EXHAUSTED!!!

Good night!

Isaiah 41:10 “…do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.”

 

Savanna’s Parties

Today Savanna had a parade at school in their costumes, unfortunately I couldn’t be two places at once and John had to work, so no pictures of that but I was able to make it to the afternoon party part and had fun with her.  She was a crack up and wanted to take pictures with her friends.  Well the friends got all into it to and they were posing fools but all so cute!!!!  So here’s some pictures of that!  Oh and she was Sleeping Beauty today at school in her beautiful princess dress I know you’ve seen pictures of already anyway! She however told me tonight that tomorrow she wants to be Snow White so we’ll see…luckly she has that beautiful dress too so no running around for me!

Oh and please excuse the Christmas shirt with the Halloween pants, that was supposed to be her under shirt to her short sleeve Halloween shirt, but she apparently told them she didn’t want to wear it and dad sent her with yesterday’s hair so he didn’t have to do it! LOL This me not doing it is rough! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA  But I’m so grateful for the help so its all good!  Her teacher even told us to just bring in her costume and they would get her ready so John didn’t have to mess with it!  We love her school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After that we headed home to get ready for dance, where after her class they also had a party for the girls and as a treat we got to watch them perform.  Her first recital is this next Sunday, Holiday Magic, so it should be interesting.  They say she does great and dances in class and she started out good with me watching but then decided…NOPE not doing it for you so just stood there!  We’re talking about how she just has to get up there and do it and also plan to “hide” during her recital.  Should be fun!

Anyway that was Savanna’s fun day.  She’s at Nana and Grandpa’s having a spend the night now after visiting here and tomorrow my hope is to get to take her trick or treating, but know if I can’t Nana will do it!  Its hard not being able to be two places at once! GO figure right?

Update Wednesday & Thursday

Well sorry I can’t seem to keep on top of this.  I’d like to say much has gone on and were at home, but not the case.  Honestly the last few days have been the same usual days.  Meds, School, Activity, more school, PT and lots of card playing!  He’s still having a good time (he always makes the best of any situation I will give him that!)  Otherwise lets see anything else,  Wednesday we meet with the pediatric surgeon and his PA.  We were very impressed with them and they put us at ease on many questions we had about the Fundiplication as  well as the G-button.  We have been torn about the right thing to do on this and still haven’t committed one way or the other.  There is another CF patient on the floor that is 15 and he has one.  He let Payton come down and see his and talk to him about it so that was a help for Payton.  I think he’s feeling the stress we feel and is worried about it all as well, but he’s not talking much about it other than he does like the idea that he would be the only kid in his class that could burp through his tummy!  Hey whatever works right????  The staff has been excellent as well in talking to him and brought a book we’ve read together that is pretty funny actually we both laughed!  Anyway please say prayers for us in making this decision in the best interest for Payton.  Payton was scheduled for an upper GI this morning (Thursday) and did great.  He thought it was super cool to see his body in motion digesting the Barium he had to drink.  He wasn’t thrilled about the drink but did fine with it!  As always a trooper!

Oh I did forget the most drama we’ve had yet, can’t believe I almost forgot that…the DRESSING change on his mid line…I know it had to hurt pulling his arm hair off and skin and boy did he yell and cry enough to break everyone’s heart.  Felt bad for Becca having to do it!   Sorry Becca!  But once it was done he was fine and he has a clean bandage…gee can hardly wait till dismissal time to do it all over again!  Anyone want to volunteer to have your hand squeezed until it turns purple this time?

On Thursday we met with Dr. Dyson and his concern was Payton’s immune numbers still being elevated.  He thinks he might have pin pointed the issue but not all the evidence is leading to it and so he’s torn.  Some shows that yes that a specific fungus is growing, yet it did not grow in the lab and his lung Xray looks great along with awesome PFT’s.  So with that said and him not sure what to do, if he should give the meds or not, they have scheduled a Lung CT for tomorrow sometime.  Hopefully these help make the right decision for what’s needed.

Savanna got to come visit today for a short time and that was good, unfortunately Payton fell asleep doing his vest and breathing treatments so not much of a visit!  Either way we were together as a family! Won’t give that up for ANYTHING!

Okay well enough of the garbage, not to much to report until we get things rolling and that will be updated when we know more or make a decision!  For now, lets get on with some pictures!!!

Here he is ready for school, don’t you wish we could all go to work and school in our jammies!?   The new shuttle went up for testing this week and his teacher was so nice she brought him the newspaper on it to read since we didn’t get to see it!  Pretty nice huh?

 

So he literally comes back from school at 11am and always heads straight to activity time.  So much for wanting to hang out with mom!

Wednesday’s dressing change…very dramatic but he has reason to be!  But did I mention we blew up gloves and made turkeys out of them!?

Slowly coming up and I mean SLOWLY!  He would not just let anyone pull it!

Relaxing afterwards but it looks much cleaner now!

We discovered Chicken Giggles Wednesday night too and they were cool…he actually ate them ALL…yep that was a miracle in itself!

and Peaches, his repository nurse played him in WAR (that was the new game we whipped out for Thursday night)…he kept beating me at everything else so thought MAYBE I could win this one…NOPE even Peaches didn’t beat him and it was her and I versus him!  BUMMER…more debt for mommy!

After all treatments and him whipping us girls, he headed out to the hall to play his own world series game!  He even persuaded a nurse to play with him…he won no worries, his skills were as amazing as ever!

And there you have it, the life of Payton these days!   More tomorrow or sometimes soon I promise!   Good night to all, I’m exhausted!