Matthew's Home

So glad to have Matthew, A.K.A Chandler, back home from Falls Creek.  He was extremely tired and ready to, and I quote, "Take a shower in his OWN shower!  Sleep in his OWN bed! And eat Chick f'la!"  He left on Monday with two suit cases of clean clothes and $100.00 in his wallet. I get lots of text from him throughout the week, but on Wednesday, he is ready for me to come get him.  On Thursday, he never wants to come home.  On Friday he has no clean clothes left and on Saturday he is Starving to death and has $1.00 to his name. What did he spend $100.00 on his dad asked.  "Icies!"  Matthew said.

When we go to pick him up, he drags to the truck after saying goodbye to like 800 friends.  We take him to Chick f'la and order him not just one #1, but two...  #1's... which is $15 worth of chicken and make sure he got "lots of ranch and lots of BBQ sauce."  We come into the house and he swears our house has a new house smell and everything looked different.  (nothing was different).  He even thought we had planted some new trees!!!  Sitting there, at the table he begins to dig into his meal(s)  at this point he is making some serious smacking noises!  His dad asked him to bring all his dirty clothes to the laundry room so, Matthew, a.k.a. Chandler, stuffs another piece, or three, of chicken in his mouth while he goes to get his suitcases.  Bringing them to the laundry room he dumps BOTH suitcases in the floor and walks away.  Dennis looks at the mound of clothes and spies his two pair of still folded swim trunks and asks... "Did you swim?"  Matthew who has gone back to the table to finish scarfing down his food mumbles something inaudible that sounded like. "No."  When Dennis went to pick out the swim trunks, Matthew corrected himself. "Well, wait... I fell in the lake, so I sorta went swimming... but I had on my regular clothes." and he went back to eating his food.  After he finished off both #1 meals, he climbed onto his bed and fell asleep face down for 4 hours.  So blessed to still have a kid in the house!