The pacifier!

We have had a breakthrough.  Derek hasn’t been sleeping during the day for more than 5 minutes at a time and I was getting concerned.  As a last resort before trying cry it out (I don’t like the idea of that this young) I pulled out the pacifier.  He never liked it, would always spit it out so I thought it may be the same thing all over again.  But it my surprise he took it and napped for an hour yesterday.  And now he is snoozing with it in his mouth.  If it helps him sleep I’m all for it.  If he gets a nap during the day maybe he will sleep longer at night, or wait till later in the evening to fall asleep so I don’t have to go to bed at 8 with him… we’ll see how this all works out, I just had to share!

It’s finally raining this morning.  They had been promising rain for the last week and we only got a few sprinkles and a lot of fog.  I love the rain like no other act of nature.  This morning I was standing outside and all I could hear was the rain and the ocean.  Even the goose that lives down the street was quiet.  I wish I could record that sound and just play it over and over.  And if I could bottle the smell of the salty sea and the clean rain I would be in heaven.

So this week we have Lin’s therapy appt and the home visit that was supposed to happen last week.  I’m hoping that therapy will help her out of this nasty funk that she has been in for the last week and a half.  The last thing I want is to have the home visit and her being a brat.  We’ll see I guess… cross your fingers that it goes ok.

I did our taxes last night, we aren’t getting as much as we thought back but it’s significantly better than the $13 refund we were supposed to get last year or the $250 that we owed the year before.  It’s enough to get my tooth fixed and pay off some old bills and maybe have enough to play with a little bit.  I was crossing my fingers that we would have enough to move in a couple months but it’s not looking like that will happen.  But it may, I just need to put away a chunk of money each month for that and we might be able to do it.  By the time we move Derek should be sleeping through the night and can have his own bedroom.  I’m just hoping that we will be able to find a nice place that isn’t too expensive….  Wish us luck.

As I said…

In my twitter he waited until 6 am to get up this morning.  I couldn’t be happier.  Of course that means he waited until 6 am to want to play and be taken downstairs and that he actually woke up wanting to nurse at 1 am, 3 am and 5 am and spent the last hour sleeping on my chest while I dozed but still, 6 am is a great time to want to get up.  LOL!  Now he is in his boppy on the couch next to me enjoying his hiccups (he loves having hiccups…weird!) and chewing on his hand.  Soon he will decide that he is hungry so I’ll have to make this entry short.

Updates on the last couple days: no we didn’t go to Lin’s therapy appt, her therapist cancelled because her father had died and she was trying to make arrangements.  Sucks big time for us because that means we have to continue dealing with a very unhappy bitchy Lin but it’s ok, we’ll live. 

We were supposed to have a home visit so the respite company we go through could watch mom watch Lin but that had to be moved to next week.  I’m glad, I didn’t clean house yesterday.

Instead, yesterday I took Lin to the Dr.  She has been having a ton of stomach pain and other bowel problems.  2 hours at the Drs and the conclusion is that she doesn’t have an ulcer but if the new medication doesn’t help that she gets to be the lucky recipient of an endoscopy to check her stomach.

Bishop’s truck is still parked.  The starter went out on it and since it’s a manual transmission the clutch master cylinder is in the way and neither of us can get our hands into the little area between the starter and the heat shield to unbolt the starter.  (See, I told you I was a mechanic) So we are going to pay a friend of his $50 to fix it.

I talked to the lady that does Lin’s horse back riding lessons about starting my lessons again.  I rode at her place for about a year before I had the ectopic and I haven’t been back.  I want to get going again and I got the go ahead from her, she even has a lesson time picked out for me that works because mom can watch Derek while I ride.  Hopefully starting in February I’ll be riding again.  Yay!!!

Ok, Little man is tired of chewing his fingers, better get the boob out for him.  Hope everyone has a great day!

Who am I?

I think a better question is what am I.  Trying to explain who a person is is difficult, telling what a person is may be more revealing to who that person really is.  Actions speak louder than words sometimes.  So I am going to try to make a list of what I am even though I know I will miss a lot of things.  It is in no particular order of importance, it’s just my list.

• To others I am a wife, mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin, second cousin, aunt, sister in law, daughter in law, step daughter, step sister, great niece.
• For others I am a friend, therapist, pharmacist, doctor, confidant, lover, personal shopper, cook, maid, seamstress, personal assistant, financial consultant, muse, entertainer, driver, vet, hair stylist, make up artist.
• In general I am a plumber, mechanic, handyman, painter, wood worker, maintenance crew, general tinkerer.
• For myself I am a connoisseur of fine foods, adventurous eater, social drinker, smoker, reader of anything I can get my hands on, watcher of movies and TV, artist, dreamer, composer, beach comber, cat lover, nature lover, computer addict.

Like I said, I’m sure I’ve missed a lot in each category and I’m sure there are other categories that I could find but for now I’m tired and have a full day ahead of me to deal with.  If I think of anything else I’ll add to the list.

He is sleeping…

So I have about 10 minutes, maybe less, to type before he wakes up…

Ok, less, the phone rang, it’s mom, but he seems to have gone back to sleep.

Just a quick update for now. I’m pissed about the holiday on monday, it seems like the bank wasn’t closed that day but my work was so my check wasn’t processed. That means I have a bounced check sitting in there waiting for my paycheck to show up. Grrr…

I’m getting overly tired of when ever mom sees me and Derek that she ignores me completely until she is holding Derek, and even then it’s only a half-assed attempt to say hi and talk to me about anything. Today we have Lin’s therapy appt and mom is going with us but that means that we won’t be addressing the problems that we are there to talk about. Instead mom and the therapist will be chatting about everything else but Lin and I’ll be sitting there thinking that this was a waste of time and gas. Not looking forward to it.

Oh, yeah, and since mom is our respite worker, basically watches lin/takes her to do stuff and is paid to do that for me, she gets to have a supervised respite day on Friday at our house. That means I have to clean. Great.

Ok, he is awake now. Gotta go…

Mindy’s Party!

So her theme this week is Anti-valentines day.  I totally agree with the concept.  I like so many married women in the US feel somewhat disappointed that out partners don’t do anything, or do the very minimum (Dollar store candy, stupid cards that mean nothing, little stuffed animals to collect dust) when we have thought of everything (nice dinner, either out or made at home, good movie to watch or something special to do, a card or a gift that had a lot of though put into picking it out).  So I’m throwing in my little bit of the party… it may take a few days to get it all in but enjoy all the same…

Here is the definition of antivalentinism…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivalentinism

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