Days with the Dorans

The boys left EARLY!! I'm baaaack! After much too long not blogging, it is time for me to get back in the saddle. I'll be going forward and backward to fill in the gaps because clearly...  a lot has happened. The last post I made, Joey was in high school and he is now a junior in college. Covid did a number on me I think but I'm ready to start telling our story again~ I do love to write and my family is of course my favorite subject! Spied them on social media... Want to know what Z wasn't doing... TEXTING ME! The boys left early! I was sick (later I found out it was Covid) so Jeff dropped them off. I did wake early (2:30am) to get that first picture of them and hug them goodbye! I gave them instructions to update me and send pics like their sibs did back when they went to Disney as a freshman and sophomore. Well... they weren't doing so good. Sean and Hayden. Hayden is the son of two of my high school friends! So fun! They were roomies on the trip and both play cla...

After what felt like forever it was finally time for the Bigs to fly to Florida with the marching band. Ali was fine the week leading up though she's decided she's not going to do marching band next year but that of course all changed the night before (just like I knew it would). They had to be to the school by 3:30am so I had Jeff drive them (knowing Ali would ask me until the last minute if she really had to go~ she did). I had mixed feelings- sad that she was dreading it but hopeful she'd have a great time. There was no doubt that Joey would have fun. They were on different buses. Joey was so good at sending me picture updates. I worried that I missed something but I knew there were people (adults) there that could stand in if there was an emergency. Ali didn't really communicate with me at all. Shannon posted some pics on FB for me and I was glad to see this. Jeff didn't take any pictures when he dropped them off. He said he got there and the kids...