Ribbon cutting for VWI

On May 5 Victory Walk Inc. had their ribbon cutting ceremony.  It was supposed to take place at 4:30 and we got there in plenty of time.  Unfortunately, I was the only client there at the time so they volunteered me to do the cutting (with the real scissors, not the prop ones).  For those of you who know me, you know how much I do not like being in the spot light plus I don't take good pictures and they were going to be doing that too.  I did argue with Lynda a little bit, she's the co-founder of VWI.  She told me I had hands so I could do it, I argued that Austin also has hands and she quickly came back with the fact that Austin wasn't there yet.  I reluctantly agreed to do it.  I try not to be too difficult.  Life is short...who cares if I don't take good pictures (I DO!!!) and at least I didn't have to do any talking.

Kinda funny...

There's a cemetery in Rogers that I drive by often.  It's at an intersection so on occasion I've found myself stopped at a red light, right in front of this particular gravestone.  As I read the name on it aloud in my head and it always makes me laugh.  It only reads "Dye"...I chuckle as I type it.  A few weeks ago we happened to be stopped right next to the headstone on our way to church.  I quickly grabbed my phone and stumbled with the buttons as I tried to take a picture.  The light turned green and we had to go...just as I snapped the picture, which also distorted the image.  Awesome!

I can drive!!

On April 7th I finally had my driving evaluation.  We drove down to Baptist Health and Rehab in Little Rock where in no time, I was sitting behind the steering wheel of a big (to me) car that I wasn't familiar with, in a city I didn't know, driving on busy streets in the middle of a thunder storm.  Just one of those factors would have made me a little nervous driving as an able bodied person, so all of them together made me very nervous driving using hand controls for the first time.  But thankfully, all went well, and after about an hour of driving, we were heading back home.