I have been so busy lately. There is so much going on in our lives right now. It would be difficult to describe everything in any type of detail, but I will attempt to give you the semi-short version.

Jeremy and I have decided to put the "house purchasing" on the back burner for right now. I mean.. we are still buying a house and hopefully everything will go well and we will be moving in by the end of summer, but it's not our number one priority at this moment. There are a lot of things we need to gather to take into the mortgage rep and we are not going to kill ourselves trying to get them to her in the next week or so. We've decided to push the meeting back a few weeks until everything else settles down. What is "everything else" you might ask? Really only one thing, but it is so much.

Evan is having more and more difficulty staying focused and keeping his behavior under control - at school and at home. A year and a half ago when his 1st grade teacher presented the possibility that he has A.D.D. I completely blew up at her. Now, I am beginning to think I was wrong in doing so. Jeremy and I took him to a child psychiatrist yesterday. We met with a psychologist for an initial evaluation - the first step in determining the cause of his behavior. At first it was the three of us in her office. She asked us questions and then she asked Evan questions. She made notes on her paper and nodded and "hmmm'd" a lot. Then she sent Evan out to play in the childs waiting room while the adults talked. We expressed our concerns in a way to help her understand the desperation we all feel regarding this matter. She tried to say that perhaps it is an anxiety disorder or maybe even that he is being defiant in order to gain attention. She suggest weekly therapy would do the trick. Jeremy and I - as well as my parents - strongly disagree with her opinion. Evan is a good boy. He doesn't purposely act out to make us angry or attract attention - negative or otherwise. We honestly feel that he does these things without thinking. He just goes, goes, goes and doesn't think beforehand. The proper way of doing things is obviously to think before you act. He, on the other hand, simply acts without thinking. So, I am pursuing another avenue to deal with this situation. That is our number one priority at this time.