One Year!

I stayed up way too late last night playing on the computer. My head is killing me this morning because of it. I feel like I have a hang over, but I didn’t even have a drop of alcohol.

While scooping out the blog some, reading old posts and all I realized I’ve been blogging for ONE YEAR! I was kind of excited. (YEAH, it doesn’t take much.)

I was super excited too because there is another mommy that same on the forum and announced her daughter was in foster care for the past week, she has an adoption plan, but since the moment her daughter was born she fell total in love with her. All of a sudden all of her reasons for the adoption didn’t matter anymore, she wanted to parent her daughter. (Don’t I know that one.)

Of course I replied screaming, GO GET YOUR DAUGHTER!!! I also PMed her and she replied back that she was going to talk with her councellor today and was 100% sure she would be getting her daughter. YAY!! I hope she lets us know how it went.

Elijah called me at work on Saturday from camp. He is having so much fun, however there was a sadness in his voice. There were people in the background so he was also speaking very softly, he doesn’t like others listening to him talk on the phone.

He’s been busy with craft projects. I guess he made a really big castle out of cardboard and is worried he won’t get it home. Anybody got a truck I can borrow? I told him I would leave the stroller at home so maybe there will be enough room in the trunk. He been playing a lot of chess, but is frustrated because he hasn’t won any games. They have have gone bowling and he won 2 games. He’s learning how to cook and said he’s going to make us some almond pudding and gingerbread cookies when he gets home. MMMMMM!

He expressed how badly he was dieing for a soda, but didn’t have 50 cents. I reminded him of the 10 dollar bill in his sunglasses case. He said he knew, but nobody had change. I asked him if he asked one of the adult. “NO! Why would I ask THEM?” was his reply. I had to laugh, guess he figures adults NEVER have any money. He went to the Renaissance Fair on Sunday, so now he has change.

Yeah-he called on Sunday too. This time he had an opportunity where nobody was around and he confessed, “I want to come home!” My heart broke, I want to just hop in the car and go get him, but I knew that he would have fun this week and he could hold out. We talked about all the fun he was having. His attitude got a bit negative, everything was “stupid and boring”. YEAH RIGHT! When he had to get off the phone I promised to call him Monday night.

Talked with him last night and he is fine. Yes, he’s homesick, but he had another fun day and was happy he stayed. He stated it was getting hard to wait to see me and PooWee though. He’s just so excited to see us he can’t wait much longer. He also had his first soda and said it was, “GOOOOOOOD!!”

I have strict orders to call him again tonight at 6:30. I sure do miss him! PooWee and I are trying to keep busy. Last Thurs. evening I didn’t know what to do, so PooWee and I headed to Elijah’s soccer game that he is missing. The coach had to chuckle at me for showing up and my son wasn’t even there. Hey! I’m BORED, and PooWee loved watching the kids play.

I got back downtown yesterday morning to finish shooting the rest of the chalk drawings. I was excited it didn’t rain. I wanted really bad to get a better shot of PooWee on Aaron’s work too. We got down there and the drawings were washed out! I was so disappointed. Mom and I debated back and forth if it did rain, she thought some kids may have gone down there and destroyed them, or that possible the morning dew had washed them out. Then a lady answered our question. Here someone forgot to shut of the timer for the sprinkling system. Yep-someone got in trouble at work yesterday! It’s a real bummer too, because so many people come down to look at them. Betcha this won’t happen again.

Aaron is coming over tomorrow to hang with PooWee and I. It’s been awhile since he’s come over during the week. Usually he picks him up from the sitters on Sundays for a few hours. I guess he has off and seeing he was doing the chalkfest this past Sunday he didn’t get PooWee. I’m thinking I’m going to take advantage of Aaron being here and take a shower when he’s here. WOW! I’m excited, I will get a shower without a lil guy pulling open the curtain and throwing toys in by me! YAY!

Bruce is growing…well…like a weed. I have to laugh, I just can’t pull him out. Bruce has become apart of our family. PooWee truly is proud of him. He walks up to Bruce and says, “WOW” and give him a kiss.

Today I have to do laundry, clean up the apartment and wash PooWee’s pool. I was lazy and never ran to get a tarp to cover the pool and there lots of debry and bugs that found their way in. So we drained it last night and today we will wipe it out and put new water in. Yes, I bought a tarp yesterday.

Andrew’s dad ended up in the hospital yesterday. I took him up there for awhile. Mike was in super bad pain, I believe he had a bowel obstruction. They were waiting to see they results of the CT Scan were and if he would need surgery or not. Of course I had to make sure he had a good doctor and care. His doc is top of the line awesome, so he had my approval to continue on with him. Right after we left Mike got rushed off to surgery. I called Andrew at 11 last night he hadn’t heard anything yet. This morning I got Andrew out of bed at 10:30 and he didn’t know anything yet. I told him to get up and find out! Still hasn’t called back.

Well, I guess I better get going on my chores for the day or they will never get done!

Happy day to all!!

Meet Bruce…and lots of pics!

Bruce is a huge weed that grows in our driveway. In the past years Bruce has been unable to thrive due to us constantly pulling him out. He was always determined to win and constantly grew back. This year Bruce has a friend, PooWee. PooWee loves Bruce and takes good care of him. I believe Bruce may have even gotten a few kisses now and then.

It all started with me watering our berry bushes,

  

or the flowers that grow behind our garage. It’s somewhat sad they hide behind the garage by the alley where no one sees them.

  

PooWee then needs his turn to play with the garden hose.

And as you can see, he waters what I neglect. The weeds truly love him! I’ve pulled them out only to get “yelled” at by him. He truly scolds me for doing so. I have left them alone and he takes care of them.

Bruce…Bruce is his favorite. I think Bruce is a very happy weed this year, thanks to PooWee!

Moving on…

We are missing Elijah. Took him to Janesville on Sun. Here’s a picture of his bed for the next two weeks. It’s the only picture I took when we dropped him off.   

 

 

There’s four beds to a room, however only one other boy in with him. His group that he will be with actually only has three kids. One is a girl, poor thing having to deal with two boys for 13 days!

He took his journal along in hopes to write in it each night. OH-I hope he does, I can’t wait to hear what he all has been up to! When I checked him in I had to sign a permission slip for him to learn how to throw knives and an axe! (Yes, you read that correctly!) Being the theme of the camp in Medieval Times he gets to learn these “skills”. He thought that was just awesome! I however am, worried he’ll want to practice at home!

Bought PooWee a pool. Seeing Elijah’s gone I’m not going to spend $5 to go to the local pool for a few hours.

And let me tell you…PooWee OWES me BIG TIME! He will be 16 years old and I will remind him of the day I pumped up his pool…

WITH a LITTLE FOOT PUMP!! I should have timed myself. Let’s just say, I started in the living room at night when he was sleeping, carried downstairs and finished the following afternoon.

HE LOVES IT THOUGH! Anything and everything he finds has been thrown into it. He’s tried to throw rocks in, was successful twice and then learnt, NO ROCKS IN THE POOL!

See that yellow foot pump on the right? YEP! That’s what I used.

Grandma went strawberry picking. She brought some over for the Poo-meister and he LOVES ‘em!

He ate so many, she gave us another bowl full for him. Don’t tell, but I snuck some too! THANKS GRANDMA!

One of PooWee’s favorite games is hiding within the clothes hanging on the line. Isn’t he just so adorable?!

Andrew popped in the other night. He ended up spending the night.

Teddy Bear made himself comfortable. Teddy must have gotten a call on Andrew’s cell and PooWee was gracious enough to hold the phone for him. Sure hope he didn’t rake up the bill on me!

Well, I guess that’s enough for today. It is Thursday, so I want to finish up on this weeks chores and get ready for the weekend, before PooWee wakes up from his nap. Once he wakes up, I promised him a bike ride to the park.

Hope everyone is having as much fun this summer as we are!

Is Spring Break Over YET!!!!!

What a week! The boys had spring break this week, which means I had a house full of boys. BOYS BOYS BOYS BOYS BOYS!!!!!!!!! Video games, soda, pizzas, chips, and BOYS! Where oh where are the pretty lil girls?

What is it with boys that they have to be so loud when the play the video games. Why do they hoot and howler at the TV? They consume the entire living room with TVs and XBoxes. PooWee would make a mad run for any controller left unattended. He thought he was way cool hanging with the big guys.

I managed to squeeze my way into the couch to fold laundry yesterday. I step out for two minutes and return to find my underwear getting thrown back and forth! My bra (Oh the beautiful nursing bra that it is) is being worn by friend # 13, carefully stuffed with some socks.

I must say it was rather nice when they all decided to go see a movie at 9:30 last night!

However, when I woke up this morning and Andrew was not home with my car I began to freak! He did text me saying he was with B. The text lacked details though. Like, “I’m going to spend the night!” Wise child that he is, left his cell phone at home and I did not have B’s number. Chad had left the house right before I got out of bed, so I gave him a jingle. He was off to his girlfriend’s house, but gave B a call to have Andrew come home. BIG OOPS on Andrew’s part, now he’s stuck going to the grocery store with me! WaaHaaaHaaa- he hates going to the grocery.

Chad’s mother and I had a good conversation. We both would like to see Chad quit a job. Chad is wearing himself out fast. We want him to go out for lacrosse, I will be emailing the coach to see if he can still get in. (Lacrosse started 2 weeks ago.) She wants Chad to communicate more with her on the baby’s needs. He just always tells her he has it under-control. She is looking at moving back to Wisconsin, but not here. Which is why she is in Wisconsin then back in North Carolina then back here. Chad will be going to visit her this weekend. It appears that Chad is treating us as two divorced parents. Getting money from her and me! (LITTLE SHIT!) I can’t be too upset, as it doesn’t surprise me. Kids will be kids. Andrew likes to tell his dad stuff and then me. Andrew found out quickly that his father and I are good communicators and I think Chad is finding that out too!

Well, I guess “my time” on the computer is up! You would think the kids paid the bills!

Hopefully, next week I’ll actually get an INTERESTING post out there!

Summer Can’t Come Soon Enough

Is summer really coming? I can’t wait for some sunshine and toasty weather!

Elijah’s summer is getting all planned out. Summer program forms are being sent home from school ever Friday these past few weeks. He seems to want to join everything from Invention camps to tackle football camps.

So far he’ll be going to the Wisconsin Lions Camp from July 20th to 25th. I want to go too, it is SO BEAUTIFUL there! He went there last summer for the first time and LOVED it! He only had one complaint. His group didn’t get to jump into the mud pit because the girls didn’t want to. (Those darn girls!) Elijah was actually nominated as a future camp counselor, because he helped out so much with the other campers. At camp Eli is “Top Dog”, he can actually sees better then majority of the kids. I was so happy he learnt to assist the others and was such a helpful young man. The theme of last years camp was crafting and my boy even got the Camp Crafter award! He got a patch and we put it onto his camp sweatshirt. He’s excited to go back.

He just turned in his registration form for a Camp Inventions at his school. That will be the week after Lions Camp. He is really excited about this too. One of his friends were in it last summer and told Eli all about it. He gets to take a VCR apart and other electronic items. He’ll turn into my Little fix-it boy after this camp!

Then there are two other camps he was really interested in. These camps are held by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Unfortunately the one he really would like to attend is during his Lions Camp week. This one is Touch the Stars, he loves his telescope and looking into the sky. We are getting information on the Folk Art Fables and Fantasy camp. This is a two week camp based on medieval times. Should be fun. However, he’s (and myself) are concerned that he’d be gone for two weeks, come home for three days and then head off to Lions Camp for a week. That’s alot of time away from his mommy!

Yes- all those donation boxes you see at the checkout for sending blind and visually impaired children to camp really do work! Eli attends all these camps FREE OF CHARGE! THANK YOU to all that donate! It doesn’t matter if I made $100,000,000 or $1,000 a year, he goes FREE! We always put our change in. Infact, last time I got $37.87 back as change and Eli was SUPER EXCITED to put so much in. (Even though we all know $37.87 really isn’t THAT much!)

KS-Eli’s VisuallyImpaired teacher just told me about a sports camp too. She not sure of the dates or if the deadline has gone past already, but she’ll be getting me more information. KS is looking into other activities for him as well.

To add to all that, we need to get him into his swim lessons, gymnastics camp and anything else he’s interested in. Soccer season is an all time favorite too. Unfortunately, he’ll miss three weeks of it due to the camps I mentioned above.

I’m excited to say Andrew will be around more for the summer this year. He will technically be with his father, but his father has now moved back to Wausau. So, this allows Andrew to join his Cross Country camp and run all summer in the summer running club. He is also planning on joining LaCrosse camp.  He enjoys his time with his father, but he didn’t like being two hours away all summer long. He would come home for one week a month, but was still unable to join summer programs with his friends.

Then there’s the PooWee man! HE GETS TO GO BIKING THIS SUMMER! I AM SO EXCITED TO JUMP ON THE GOOD ‘OL BIKE!! It has been two summers since I got to go out and bike my lil butt off. (First I was pregnant and the next PooWee was too small.) I’ve missed it terrible!

I have a bike trailer from when Eli was my little guy. It’s nice, but I’m really looking into a bike seat too. Now they have bike seats that go in the front of you. Anybody use one of these? I kinda like the thought of them. HOWEVER, how many times do you think PooWee will throw his head back and smack me in the face? OUCH!!!

I like the trailer for picnics and lugging extra stuff with us. The one I have seats two kids. There are just times that I didn’t like having it behind me. Plus, I did tip Eli in it once. I rounded a corner too fast. OOPPSS! He was fine and actually laughed and told me to do it again!

Eli also thinks PooWee needs to join Toddler Tumblers class at the YMCA. He wants PooWee to follow in his footsteps as a gymnast. I’m thinking about it. Eli has gymnastics tonight, so we may just check it out. PooWee sure would love his chance to get out and play on the mats just lie his big brother. My mom has been watching him lately during gymnastics because he’s just too hard to handle. He wants out by big brother, to jump and roll and run around on the mats. The parallel bars are quite intriguing to him as well. 

Summer, I can’t wait for it to come. I LOVE the heat! I love the sun shining in my eyes! I don’t even mind cutting the grass. I get to hang my clothes out to dry and then they smell so fresh! (And don’t forget the savings on the electric bill!) MMM, I can’t wait to grill fresh veggies on the grill. We are outside from morning to night in the summer. I just can’t wait to get out of this house and have some fun!

I Elfed the Boys

Check it out! Wait till they see it. Andrew will probably wanna kill me! Elijah will laugh like crazy. And PooWee already loves it! It was fun!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1196267247

Winter Sweater, Santa Hat, and 3 Nice Things

The sweater is DONE! What a feeling!! Two sweaters in one, I thought I was never going to finish it. I LOVE it! It’s so soft and sure will be warm for PooWee. He’ll be toasty in the 10 below zero weather.

     

PooWee wasn’t all too cooperative for pictures. I’m lucky I got the one I did. He was too busy playing with Elijah and I was interrupting his time.

Now, I suppose I should do Coco asked.

Three nice things about me…..

1-I’m a pretty good single momma. I seem to be able to manage everything fairly well. My older boys are respectful to others and are turning out to be very talented young men. I can only hope for the same for PooWee.

2-I love our mother earth. I pick up litter. And yes, I hug trees.

3-I love to give. Especially if it’s something I have made. I have been known to talk money given to me for my birthday or Christmas, and find something for someone else. I love to surprise people with a treat.

There, now I did and now as Coco said it’s your turn!

Excepting the past

I feel that I have a conclusion to my adoption story. I feel that I am satisfied as to why things went the way they did.

For me, I believe I had to go through the “loss” of PooWee to really respect mothering him. I find in stressful times, when a parent feels like pulling their hair out, I tend to just hold him and be thankful I have him. I feel my tolerance level is so much higher than it was in the past.

I have the energy to do all that we do and take care of a 16 year old, 9 year old and an 11 month old all on my own. A task I saw impossible one year ago. They all have their necessities and then some, they are fed, sometime all at different times too, and I get quality time with each. I’m actually kinda impressed with myself.

I have three awesome sons, whom I completely adore. They are true brothers. They get along great one minute and the next they are in an argument. Yes, PooWee has even yelled and hit at the older boys. Mainly, because they have taken something away from him.

Andrew and Elijah have been fabulous big brothers. They help me out with PooWee, so I can make supper, take a shower or even run to the store.

Andrew is showing me what a wonderful father he will be someday. He’s been more help then I had ever expected. Many time he has carried PooWee without me asking, or grabbed all the bags from the car so I could carry PooWee.

Elijah enjoys helping with bathtime, getting PooWee dressed and has even changed more diapers than I ever expected.

PooWee’s eye light up at the sight of his brothers. The rock his world. He stands at each of their bedroom doors and just watches them do their “thing” in their rooms. He has shown his disappointment many times when one of them have walked out the door to go someplace without him.

No, PooWee may not have his own room, but he doesn’t seem to mind sharing with me. Elijah can’t wait to share his lower bunk with him. No, his father does not live with us, but he is apart of his life and their own quality time together. Yes, PooWee is alot to care for as any baby, but I’m handling it just fine and I have an awesome support team. No, I don’t have as much money as J & P have. However, I make ends meet. Andrew and Elijah have not shown any dissappointment in the loss of extra stuff, for they have gained a brother. I do receive some daycare assistance, but I know there will be a time I won’t need it anymore. Yes, things can get stressful, but he is always a reminder to cherish every moment because, I ALMOST didn’t have him.

I also look at J & P’s experience. Though it took til now to see why they went through what they did, there were reasons for them to go through it as well. I don’t like the fact that I am the one that gave them the pain, but I really can’t do anything about it, but accept what had to be done.

J and I use to joke that I should carry twins for her. She always wanted twins. LOOK she got her twins. She apparently is very happy. She will make a good mother to her boys, and P a good father.

J had told me she wouldn’t go through an open adoption with anyone except me. (As I said many times before, I feel she would have closed it though.) Well, she’s got her closed adoption. I hope she will teach the boys of their heritage and speak respectful words of their other mother though.

She also said she wanted a newborn baby. Well, she had one for two weeks, I gave her the closest experience she could ever have to pregnancy and birth without being pregnant herself. I wish I could just do all over, and live my pregnancy and delivery the way I would have, but I can’t dwell on the past.

Maybe they had to go through  the turmoil of a failed newborn domestic adoption to get the twins that needed them more than PooWee did. Maybe they too, have more tolerance, for raising twins has got to be alot harder. Perhaps they had to undergo their pain to appreciate the gift of a family as well. These boys needed J & P to be their parents. The twins were in the orphanage waiting for J & P while I was pregnant. If I had gone through with the adoption, would they still be waiting for parents?

I don’t have all the answers I only have my own thoughts. I feel comfortable with my reasoning now though. In life we all suffer pain at one time or another. We can either except the pain or fight it. I’m beginning to except my pain. I’m beginning to understand why J & P had to go through their pain. I believe it’s become easier now that J & P have their children.  Now, that they have their dream, maybe I don’t feel as guilty for taking that dream away.

Someday, I do wish we could all just set our anger to the side and move on. Anger is a strong emotion that I do not like carrying with me. I find my anger is getting lighter as time goes on. I’m learning from what went wrong, I’ve made mistakes and so have they. 

I’ve learnt that my adoption experience has affected my life. It’s made me appreciate my boys more than ever. It’s made me drive to make adoption better for the future. so, if there’s ever anything I can do or should be doing, please allow me to help.

Just babblings

PooWee is feeling better. We got some eye drops which he can’t stand. His eye are all puffy. He looks so pathetic, poor lil guy. And of course my eyes just seem to itch just looking at his.

Pretty much all day yesterday we just rocked, read some books, and watched James and the Giant Peach. Today he is playing ball with the kitties and getting into my knitting, so I think it’s safe to say he is getting back to normal.

Today I have to play catch up on my cleaning. I don’t like cleaning. It feels nice to have the home nice and clean, but I just don’t care to be the one doing the cleaning. Lately, I’ve been throwing stuff out too. I can’t believe how much a person can accumulate. 

Currently PooWee is in my room, which is  a nice big room. Once he decides to sleep through the night, Elijah and him will share my room. I then plan on moving to Elijah’s room. However, I’m thinking maybe Andrew should move to my room and Elijah and PooWee to Andrew’s and I to Elijah’s. My room is in back of the apartment, actually I think it use to be an outside porch that was closed up. Andrew and Elijah’s are right next to each other. HHHMMMMM-decisions! Who knows, maybe by the time PooWee sleeps through the night, I be able to buy a house of our own. Either that or he’ll be off to college - he loves his num-nums at night. He just purrs.

Elijah has a free private karate lesson tonight. Way back at out Labor Day parade he won a free week of lessons. I’ve finally got around to calling on them. The instructor decided to also give him a free private lesson, so he can evaluate Eli’s visual acuity some. It’ll be a busy night for Eli. He has wrestling right after school til 4:30 then it’s straight to this karate lesson.

I think one of the reasons I held off on arranging these lessons is because I know he’ll want to continue them. Which of course means I’ll have to pay for them. I think I take the money out of his disability that I get for him. But, that hurts towards saving for his CCTV. Though our local Lion’s Club may be helping fund one for him. His Visual Impairment teacher has put a referral in for us.

Karate actually is something that would definitely benefit Elijah. Especially if his vision deteriorates more. Actually, it should “connect” him to his father abit too. JW, Eli’s dad grew-up learning karate. JW’s father had his own karate school. (JW’s father was actually killed by a drunk driver when JW was 14.) Though, I’m don’t really agree with some of JW’s father’s “ideas” for raising children. He would make JW punch brick walls to break up his knuckles. JW knew all the pressure points of the body and yes he used them on me many times. Sometimes I wouldn’t be-able to move. Anyways, Elijah is excited to start. So, now he’ll have karate and gymnastics every week. Plus, any school activity he decides to join. He also keeps reminding me of the free horseback riding lessons he is eligible for. A lady at church told him because he is disabled he can do these free. UUUGGHH!!!! Can’t we just stay home!!!

Andrew’s cross-country team missed state by 2 points. They are so disappointed. He has an awesome team. They are truly family and very supportive of each other. He loves it. His season is done now. His awards banquet will be next week. YEAH-I don’t have to make supper that night!! For, the winter he just basically hangs out. In Spring he use to lay LaCrosse, but this year he is thinking of joining Track. We’ll see, he has time yet.

HEY-does anybody know the name of this book? It’s about a caterpillars. They are all piling up on each other and trying to get to the top of the pile to see what is up there. They will do anything to get there. One particular caterpillar (boy) does meet a girl caterpillar and they become friends. Boy decides to get to the top. He fights and fights, makes it and at the top is a butterfly. He eventually comes back down and him and girl caterpillar turn into cocoons and then butterflies.

The book is AWESOME. I bought it years ago when My mom, Andrew and I went to see my sister in Arizona. He loved it. Elijah loved it and then I borrowed it to a friend. YEP-never got it back. This friend has moved away like 4 years ago. I need to get this book again. The book has such an awesome moral for everyone. I CAN’T REMEMBER THE NAME OR WHO WROTE IT THOUGH!!!! If ya know, PLEASE tell me I wanna buy it sooooooo bad. I remember the cover saying something like for little, big and all types of people.

Alright, I must get to cleaning and then some knitting. It’s getting cold and I have TONS to do on PooWee’s wool sweater!

Yick-Thursday!

Yesturday was a nice relaxing day. PooWee played, I got laundry, dishes and floors done. And found some time to knit.

                            

Last night was a quite night at home for PooWee and I.  Poop went off to a Bible class and Andorable was hanging with some friends. My friend Ann stopped over during tubby time. Of course PooWee showed off his splashing skills. After Ann left PooWee and I read some books, and prepared for bed. Then just as it was bedtime this is what happened…

    

YEP-AIRPLANE RIDES!!!! Courtesy, of the one and only Andorable! YYYAAEE they are so much FUN!!!

This morning PooWee and I headed to good ol’ WalMart for some child gates. Andorable and Poops have been keeping their doors closed. And poor PooWee just cries when they go in and the door gets closed on him. They both wanted gates, because they felt so bad. Now PooWee can look in on them. Plus Poops has rabbits and guinea pigs that PooWee LOVES to watch. Now he can! Poops also has a turle and a hermit crab! YES-he LOVES animals and takes good care of them! Wants to be a vet.

                            

Today, I must pay all those bills I’ve been neglecting. I don’t like paying bills. They take all my money - I’m HORRIBLE at waiting til the last minute. It’s sooo STUPID of me, I’ll have the money, not spend it, but don’t pay til they are due! BAD HABIT! But, then again it feels good to be ABLE to pay my bills. HHMMM-better way of looking at them!

I made PooWee a lil braclet today. Kinda cute. He really hasn’t noticed it yet.

                   

I don’t care for Thursdays too much. They mean I have to go to work tomorrow. This weekend is going to SUCK too. I have one weekend a month that I have to work with the 3 people that have a HUGE issue with me keeping Poops. And well, this is the weekend. Their rude and VERY HARD to work with. I don’t care if they like me or not, but THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH ME! And they don’t “play in the sandbox” with me very well. I’ll tell them they have a phone call and they don’t respond back, so I don’t know if they heard me or not. One of them will let the call ring back a few times, even though I know she heard me. That is bad customer service. Once she even yelled at me in front of a patient’s visitor that I never told her. The visitor was awesome and said, “Sure, she did. You rolled your eyes when she told you! You knew!”  These three honestly love to sit back and talk about me-n-all. It’s actually rather funny and childish if you ask me! Oh well, I’ll do as I usually do….go, do my job, and BE PROUD OF MY CHOICE!

Their done!

PooWee’s Jester Booties are done! Cute-aren’t they? They are still big on him, but he loves them. Next are the Surf boots.

      

Hey look at that - I just noticed Poops put the couch cushions on backwards after practicing his head stands last night! Ha!

The baby sweater for my friend will get it’s zipper put on today. I work with her this weekend so I really want to get it to her.

Powee’s Donkey sweater is ready for the liner sleeves, hopefully I will get a start on those today as well.

And I started a Dragon hat for a Pharmisist friend at work. She gave me some organic baby food, that her son refused to eat anymore. He’s a big guy now and eats what Mommy and Daddy eat! She refused to take money for it, so I promised a new knitted hat. Poops had this hat when he was younger and wore it for years. It was his all time favorite! Gonna try to complete that by this weekend too.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Badger-Knitwear-Projects-Toddlers/dp/1561584142

Sure looks like I have alot of knitting to do. Who wants to do dishes when ya could knit! Figure, I’m stuck home today anyways, so why not just sit around and knit! Andorable took the car to school. His cross cuntry practice is out at 9 mile park, this way I don’t have to run him all the way out there and then go back to get him when practice is done. 9 mile is out a ways. Good ol’ G-ma took Poops to school and will pick him up for me.

PooWee had a ruff night last night. He didn’t wanna nurse he just wanted to rock. So I spend alot of time “sleeping” in the rocking chair. I am fortunate he only had maybe 4-5 nights like this. Though, they somewhat suck, I treasure them too. What better feeling than having your child all snuggled up on your chest, signing to him, rocking him, and comforting him in time of need. I love having his head on my shoulder with his arm on the other. We hug each other and he falls fast to sleep. When I did get him in his crib I just had to snap this pic. He is just too darn cute for words.

  AAAWWW-I just love him sooo much. - As all my boys!

Tomorrow evening I have 2 meetings to goto, both for Poop’s school, both at the same time, but different locations.

The one I am NOT going to goto is at his school, concerning their reading program. The kids read for a certain time each night and after so many they get prizes, leading up to a T-shirt at the end. Poops earnd the T-shirt last year, even though he was there for only 1/2 the year. I guess some kids that were there didn’t even get 1/2 that far. It’s only 15 min. a night, why don’t parents encourage this? Poops goal is to be the first one to complete the program. He’s upset I’m not going to this meeting, but I’ll get info from school on it.

The meeting I am going to is a district wide meeting for parents who have children in the Gifted and Talented program. Poops earned his way into the program last year. I’m curious to know how they are going to “challenge” him. Seeing last year I was upset, he wasn’t being challenged enough. Most of the stuff they were covering in math and other areas we had already covered in homeschool. I kinda feel like the end of his school year was a waste.

This year has somewhat upset me already. Do to his visual impairment, he does need some specialized equipment, papers, maybe even treatment. For example, they are taking an additions test with 100 problems, they have 10 min. to do it. Well, all 100 problems are on 1 page and small font for him. Mind you he needs things to be magnified 7 times the actual size. Well, the first time he was upset he only got 84 of them done. All were right too! He said they were hard for him to see. He needs to strain his eyes and sfocus more than the norm. His Special Needs papers specifically say he additional time on timed tests. HHMMMM why didn’t he. His Visual Impaired (VI) teacher came to visit and Poops discussed this test with her. She did see the need for change and talked with Poop’s teacher about 1 giving him an additional 7 min. or enlarging the font for him. Cool! Well, the 2nd time he took the test -no change! I took it upon myself to copy the test in larger font and send it to school. 3rd time test was taken and STILL NO CHANGE!!! I EVEN MADE A TEST FOR THEM!!! GGRRRR!! 

Then they do reading groups. They get to sit anywhere in the class room and read together. Well, Poop’s group as yet to sit by his CCTV. Poop’s doesn’t say anything because he doesn’t want to upset his teacher. But HE NEEDS TO BE BY HIS CCTV. It’s VERY dificult for him to read the font in books. He reads very slowly and strains his eye. Ya would think the teacher would know this after much discussion already on his visual needs.

Then there’s how I was told the school needed to provide EVERYTHING he needed outside the norm for his educational needs. This including special paper and erasable pens instead of pencils. Well, if I hadn’t gone about it myself to purchase these items for school, I’m not sure he’d have them yet.

His mobility specialist is going to bring him a minocular. (Like Binoculars, but for only one eye) This is for watching movies and seeing assemblies-n- such. Well, here we are on the fourth week of school and he just found out he will be getting this NEXT month. So, he needs to watch, or should I say basically just listen to videos, and miss the viewing of assemblies for 2 months.

The school told me last year that everything will be in place for this year. I’m upset because they don’t seem to be. But, when do I say something. I don’t want to sound like a whining parent. Not sure when or even how to voice my concerns. And then to who? His classroom teacher, the VI teacher, Special Ed. teacher, or the principle? I’m thinking about emailing his teacher today. Sigh! - I just want him to get what he needs.

Andorable’s dad is buying him a car. Will be nice not to have to “share” mine. Though we are “fighting” over who gets the garage. I GET IT!-Right! I did my time scrapping snow off my cars when I didn’t have a garage. He thinks he should get it, because his car will be older and will need to stay as “warm” as possible in the winter for it to start. He’s good isn’t he! I told him whoever needs to leave the house first parks outside because then we don’t need to play switch-a-roo with the vehicles in the mornings. (Good point-right!) Well, he came back with that wasn’t fair because he leaves earlie than I do most days! SOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Mom wins - side with me here! PLEAS!!!!! I HATE scrapping my car in the early winter below 0 weather! Actually, I HATE WINTER!!!!!

Well, PooWee is need of some playtime. He thinks he can help me type. I think NOT!!!