1. I write this from my bed, where my kid is passed out, upside down. He periodically opens his eyes to make sure I'm still here, then goes back to sleep.
2. He/we slept like sh!t last night.
3. I got up, had breakfast and coffee, and came back to lounge with him.
4. This cold is a drag. I felt okay for the concert and remarkably fine for my demo class yesterday, and then it was like the adrenaline stopped, and I crashed.
5. Became insanely congested overnight.
6. Hopefully can clear myself up before my next demo class tomorrow! Hard to sing with a blocked nose!
7. I am in love with teaching this music class! I'm starting to get more comfortable now, and it's just so fun. The demos are going great, and I'm hopeful I'll have enough people sign up to have a class of my own to teach for the spring session.
8. My inlaws are driving in from PA for a barely-24 hour visit this weekend. They must really miss DW & DS!
9. I have managed to put off grocery shipping all week...not exactly sure I have anything to cook for dinner tonight... Grilled cheese and scrambled eggs, anyone? LOL
10. DW and I had a fantastic time at the concert. We've both been so busy, and the random Tuesday night date was so nice. We met up in the city, on the sidewalk, both kind if in a daze - like, "Oh, hi...I guess we're going to a concert now...?" The show was awesome, and it was just a really nice break from the grind.
1. I just signed JB up for a sibling prep class at the hospital where I will give birth. It's a few days after 37wks so we'll see if her siblings are here or not by then.
2. Now I'm on the phone (on hold) trying to order my breast pump since the ACA now requires that being covered. Woo-hoo!
3. I have an u/s in a little bit. Yeah!
4. And another one on Monday. As many of these as I've had, I always get a slight worry just before we see the heart beat.
5. K thinks I'll be out of work by the beginning of May. I said I'm hanging in here as long as possible and joked that I'll just get a bell to ring whenever I need a coworker to go get something for me. :-p
6. The event I'm in the middle of planning is turning out to be wildly successful and is breaking all of its previous records.
7. Oops, forgot I was still working on this.
8. Better go get some work done, guess I'll tap-out at 8 today.
Post by bluedaisyus on Mar 28, 2013 9:07:49 GMT -5
1. I'm sick of this cold. I'm feeling better, but my wife is miserable and I slept like crap because she did.
2. I'm having mixed feelings about my wife's possible promotion at work. I really hope she gets it because it would be a great opportunity for her (and obviously financially beneficial for our family), and I think she deserves it, but it would mean having her go back to third shift. I'm not excited about that.
3. We are finally making progress on potty training!
4. I'm going out for lunch with a coworker from downtown. The one I wish had applied for my boss's job (and would have gotten it).
5. I almost just sent a different coworker a catty email, thinking I was sending it to someone else. Thank goodness I realized it before I hit send.
6. I'm so over work this week. Just one more day after this...
7. I'm happy I finally got an issue resolved that's been going on for weeks.
8. I went to counseling by myself last night because my wife is sick and we would have had to pay a fee for canceling. It was weird.
9. I miss my regular chatting with friends during the day. One became a SAHM so she's not online much, and the other is just super busy at work. *ahem*
1. Yesterday I had my 19 week OB appointment, my anatomy scan (complete with cervix check), and a dental cleaning. I'm feeling violated.
2. The baby looks great! Kicking around, as happy as can be. We didn't get a good, long look profile, since it was head down, face down almost the whole scan so I'm still on the fence as to what 'it' is. With N, I took one look at his face and knew he was a boy. This time, I'm guessing boy but only because I've had next to no symptoms, similar to N, and statistically it's more likely. K says girl. We'll see in about 20 weeks!
3. I can't believe this is half way over. Holy shit, the second baby/pregnancy is soooo different than the first. With N I read and obsessed and chose furniture and names with utmost care. This time, I have nothing to read or obsess about, we're not buying anything and we have a list of about 10 boys and 10 girls names and we will just wait to meet him/her. No planning, no obsessing, no fuss. It's really weird. I feel like he/she being cheated.
4. I got another job offer about 10 min ago. It's the job I really wanted. I'm going to take both and see what happens. It's only one night a week but it means free swimming, tumbling, etc. classes for N. I'm psyched.
5. our life is running in overdrive right now. Between work and softball and appointments and..stuff.. I feel like I haven't sat down to breathe in a month.
6. going to the post office with a toddler is my least favorite chore. I don't know why I loathe it so much but man, I have stuff piled up that I have to mail, return, send and I refuse to do it.
7. I have to work every day until Monday, including all day tomorrow. Next week it slooooows way down. Thankfully.
8. Will someone go to the post office for me?
9. I'm meeting Hensmum at an open gym when N wakes up. I should probably go shower so I'm ready to go...
1. Owl and I are going to see the Ortho this morning, I'm hoping they can help with her feet/legs/gait.
2. I know I've said this before but raising a special needs child is hard, it's not all doom and gloom but it's tough. It's especially hard with Owl because she's not "special" enough or "typical" enough, she is bright and silly but there is a lot of disconnect cognitively. I need support and want to talk with other SN parents but don't feel like we fit in anywhere.
3. Apple is having a language explosion, climbs everything in sight, and is starting to look more toddler-ish, my baby is growing up.
4. Our taxes were a nightmare this year. The whole bio mom claiming Iz thing messed it all up, the SSA paperwork we sent was disregarded and a child tax credit removed. Thankfully it was solved with a call to the IRS fraud dept to clear up the name change stuff.
5. Owl's back on a high calorie diet, she hasn't gained weight in a year.
6. I feel like we've come so far with Owl but we still have no answers for anything - weight, delays, tiny size for her age - I just want to know what all is going on so we can help her.
7. We are dying Easter eggs today.
8. The vacuum finally broke in a way that can't be fixed, it still runs but makes this sound like it's going to explode, time to find a new one.
1. My goal today is to clean up my pig sty of an office. I need to crank up the tune and get cracking.
2. My work husband cracks me up. I wish he worked in the same physical location as I do, but e-mailing all day is fun too.
3. I want to go to happy hour. Happy hour is one thing I really miss from my pre-kids life.
4. My wife may get her wish this year and not have to go to Pride. She hates Pride, but goes for me - this year we might be out of town.
5. There is a kid with autism in the exam room next to my office. My heart goes out to his parents - he is super super super loud and non-verbal. Plus he is combative.
6. L picked one of our kids up from the principal's office yesterday for pouring little milk on a classmate's head in aftercare (cause he thought it would be funny - not because he was mad.) Sigh. Lat night was not a fun night in our house.
7. The kids' brought home their first long term school project - a book report and to build a diorama. REALLY? Sigh. I hated doing this stuff when I was a student. I am not looking forward to it as a parent.
8. A parent is supposed to be coming to pick something up from me. He said he'd be here around 11am. He still isn't here and I am trapped in my office until he arrives. Hope he gets here quickly.
9. I am trying to figure out where to go for our mini vacation with the kids. Philly? NYC? Rehoboth? Probably shouldn't be NYC cause of $$$. I really want to go to NYC with the kids.
10. I am excited for camp tomorrow and all of next week. We get to leave home 30m later than we do for school. Ahhh.
1. My sister is here to spend the last few days of her spring break with us, and it's so good to see her.
2. She asked if we could do Easter on Saturday so she could go back to school early on Sunday. No silly child.
3. We had tea sandwiches for our Downton Abbey season 2 marathon, and we have all this leftover deliciousness we never buy. I had a ham and brie for breakfast.
4. One of the jobs I'm applying for requires written answers to hypotheticals. I was dreading doing it but now I'm having fun . . . which might mean that this would be a good job for me, ha.
5. We finally came up with a name for Jen's small consulting business. It was harder than I expected.
6. I need to get my teeth cleaned. I've been putting it off since I don't have dental insurance, but it's more-than time.
7. It was so sunny and gorgeous yesterday. More of that please!
8. I'm on the hunt for white chocolate M&Ms. They only come out at Easter and I can't find them anywhere this year.
9. Everyone slept badly last night - babies up and down, one of the dogs sick, the other one obsessively licking her paws (WHY in the middle of the night WHY). I'm kicking the dogs out of our bedroom tonight.
10. Tonight is the second-to-last meeting of my career transition seminar. I'm going to miss it.
I don't know if you want to go through the trouble, but Amazon has them. That is where I get my Lindt milk chocolates with white chocolate centers after the stores run out of them.
11. We got a clear dx this morning... Ataxic cerebral palsy.
I know it can be hard to get a dx - but now you know what you are working with. Plus, it is often 100x easier to get appropriate services with a specific dx. (heart)
11. We got a clear dx this morning... Ataxic cerebral palsy.
I know it can be hard to get a dx - but now you know what you are working with. Plus, it is often 100x easier to get appropriate services with a specific dx. (heart)
Thank you. The dx only covers her motor skills and there is nothing that can be done to help her pronation, gait, voice tremors, etc (all a part of the dx), it's just something we have to accept now. As much as I wanted a dx, this is like a punch in the throat, cerebral palsy had never crossed my mind. We are still looking for other dx's for her cognition/speech but I'm glad to finally have a firm answer on something.
Post by seattlekari on Mar 28, 2013 14:05:15 GMT -5
1. Hugs for everyone needing them...lots of things going on for many of you.
2. Butterfly- I'm glad you have an official diagnosis. I hope now you'll be able to get an effective treatment plan and the support you need.
3. My folks arrive tomorrow afternoon. Tonight will be a whirlwind of cleaning and prep.
4. I hope E can help me and/or entertain herself, it's going to be a quick night.
5. I found out from my SAHM friends on my culdesac that there is a tamale lady who delivers to them. As in she makes them, packs them up in a cooler, and delivers them still warm. Yesterday I got the text that she would be delivering today. And she charges $1/tamale which seems like a steal. OMG yes please!
6. So dinner is at least partly taken care of. I don't think E has had tamales, hopefully she likes them.
7. We have a couple in their 60's on our street, one of whom has needed a lung transplant for a while now due to a rare lung disease. He is now recovering in the hospital post-transplant. SO AWESOME!
8. Where did March go???
9. One month until our first GS campout at an official GS campground. We are not supposed to bring extra food unless we are sharing with the entire group (and aren't supposed to store in our bags due to animals) but a mom who went last year said she was hungry the whole weekend because the portions were super tiny.
1. I went to a meeting this afternoon with head honcho types from the govt agency that oversees my program and other people at my level or above at other agencies. At the end of the meeting a woman I had never met came up to me and complimented me for the way I spoke during the meeting, and told me she wants to tell my director I should come to the directors meeting sometimes. I suspect she'll forget to actually tell him, but it was such a nice compliment...especially because speaking up in these situations does not always come naturally to me. 2.I went back to the gym tonight for the first time since I stopped going in the craziness of getting ready to go to Thailand. I was happily surprised that while I certainly didn't gain any fitness I don't think I lost any either. Still much to work on in that department, but Day 1 is done again. 3. I hit crazy heavy traffic in an unusual spot on the way home from work (Good Friday traffic maybe??)...and then my low gas light came on. Thankfully I made it to the gas station. 4. I am excited to have a weekend at home - the last 4 have been spent traveling in some capacity. Home is nice sometimes too! 5. We bought a new covered litter box for the cats because they peed over the edge of the old box one too many times...right now we still have both out to give them time to adjust. But, they don't seem to like the covered one. Hope that changes quickly when the old one disappears.... 6. I am long winded tonight apparently. 7. We're getting free lunch tomorrow in honor of social work appreciation month. We got breakfast last week for the same reason. We usually never get free food! 8. The dentist I went to last week basically cleared me (one small cavity)....which is good, but I still have a different tooth that I feel is not quite right. I told her, and she said xray looks fine. Not sure where to go from here. 9. We basically have nothing planned for Easter... feels like we should do something I suppose. 10. I am thinking of my friend who got some crappy frustrating news today.
11. A box arrived from my MIL that I am nearly positive is our girl scout cookies!!! (MIL loves to support her local troop, so she buys them and sends them to us. )
11. We got a clear dx this morning... Ataxic cerebral palsy.
I'm so sorry, butterfly. I know that's not the type of dx you were hoping for, so I'm sure it's a lot to take in. It's positive to be able to move forward with getting her the right help, but it's also okay that you need some time to grieve.