Sadly, the pocket nest the orioles made blew down either last night or early this morning. Luckily it had no eggs or babies in it... R brought it in the house this afternoon, and it is about the most amazing nest I've ever seen. You can see how the birds actually wove the nest using horse hair, bits of grass and even some thin shreds of some kind of plastic. It is very soft (unlike the hard, muddy robin's nest) and really is just beautiful.

The kids are doing ok. M has been very edgy lately, and we've had a couple of very "tense" car rides over the past day or so. (those of you who've ridden with us when M is edgy and volatile will know what I mean...) I'm not sure what we're going to do with his meds. We were in the middle of adding a new medication when he got worse, so we stopped and decreased that med a bit.. in case it was making things worse instead of better. So now we have to make the decision to try increasing it again...  hoping that it will work... or just stop it. I'm guessing we'll start doing something with it over the next week or so.

The pdoc feels strongly that we need to treat R's OCD, and I have to say that I agree.     I was really hoping medication wouldn't be necessary... but she's not settling down and she's miserable most of the time. We are still waiting on the results from the blood work the pdoc wanted (checking for strep) but as soon as it's back (hopefully tomorrow) the pdoc and I will talk and decide what medication is likely to work the best, and cause the least amount of problems.

Ocean_mama asked what people are doing for Memorial Day...  We're probably just staying home for the day. I'm hoping some of my grown kids will come for dinner. I'm going to make fried chicken, potato salad and corn on the cob...  Mmmm, I can't wait!