Not-so-thirsty Thursday

[mcktymck]

Happy almost Friday! We're still snowed in and I just realized we're almost out of coffee creamer. This is no good. What's everyone else up to today?

[sarcaztic10]

No work for me or H. Today H and I have the initial meeting with L's psychologist as well as his pediatrician. The meetings are really close together so we will be rushing and pressed for time this afternoon. Tomorrow is our meeting with the school.

Right now S is taking a nap and I am meal planning for the next 2 weeks.

[cabbagecabbage]

I downloaded my fitness pal last night. I drank 300 calories of cream/sweetened coffee this morning. You can borrow my creamer. I think I have to cut back.

Also, my stupid stupid gym I just quit sent me a "rate us" survey email. Um, they could read the detailed quitting form I submitted.

[icaughtfire]

Jan 12, 2017 11:33:25 GMT -5 cabbagecabbage said:

I downloaded my fitness pal last night. I drank 300 calories of cream/sweetened coffee this morning. You can borrow my creamer. I think I have to cut back.

Also, my stupid stupid gym I just quit sent me a "rate us" survey email. Um, they could read the detailed quitting form I submitted.

Do you like/can you drink soy milk? I always used too many calories with creamer so I switched to vanilla soy milk. 1/2 cup is only 65 calories.

I have an appointment for DD at the pediatrician today after work. She's been having a lot of "tics" for over a year that everyone has kind of brushed off as kid being weird, but they're getting worse & the school nurse called me. I think she may have Tourette's syndrome (according to my prestigious Google medical degree) so I'm interested & nervous to see what the pediatrician says.

[mcktymck]

sarcaztic10 I hope everything goes well with your appointments!

cabbagecabbage that's annoying about the gym, I would just ignore the survey haha

icaughtfire Dr. Google is the worst! I'm glad you're getting her into the doctor, I hope everything turns out well.

[cabbagecabbage]

icaughtfire I hate soy milk. I just can't handle it, even flavored. I don't milk nut milks or coconut milk though. Really I just need to get back to using much less in my coffee. I even like black coffee. I just really love sweet creamy coffee and I let myself go wild with it throughout pregnancy since I was having only one cup a day. Now I'm having 3 and I'm used to it all sugary. Good luck at the pediatrician. My niece has tics and we're waiting and hoping they work themselves out. I hope you get good news.


mcktymck I am ignoring it but I gave a bit eye roll.

[sarcaztic10]

icaughtfire I hope you get some answers from the pediatrician

[jewelsofthenile]

Ugg so rainy here today. Had to clean the basement this morning as the water was backing into it. My husband is said "So you wanna finish this basement out?" Haha Yes dear so we have carpet and dry wall to rip out every couple years when this happens. Anyone wanna disinfect my basement and wash toys? I am willing to buy beer. 😀

[jewelsofthenile]

Jan 12, 2017 12:49:18 GMT -5 sarcaztic10 said:

icaughtfire I hope you get some answers from the pediatrician

+1

[katelou]

Good luck at your kids' apointments sarcaztic10 and icaughtfire !

I had a nice walk around the mall with only the baby, now I'm waiting for MIL to bring DD1 home. I learned that DD1 has epic manipulation skills. She asked to call MIL because she missed her, then proceeded to lay on the guilt trip ("I never see you any more, I miss you so much, I am looking at pictures of all the fun times we had together and it makes me so sad..." like omg where did she learn that???) so MIL took her this morning. Hahaha.

The winter storm is aiming for us tomorrow and it looks like we might be stuck inside alllll weekend, and the baby shower I was excited to go to was cancelled. Is it spring yet??

[littlesthobo]

Jan 12, 2017 13:11:36 GMT -5 jewelsofthenile said:

Jan 12, 2017 12:49:18 GMT -5 sarcaztic10 said:

icaughtfire I hope you get some answers from the pediatrician

+1

+2! Hopefully both your appointments go well, sarcaztic10 and icaughtfire! Keep us posted.

[mcktymck]

Having the urge to tp H right now. He hasn't worked since Fri due to the snow and has done NOTHING around the house aside from hanging out with Sam. Sam's taken two naps so far today and each one H sits up on our bed playing on his phone the whole time. I went up and asked if he could maybe do something like vacuum the carpet and he got angry and said he should be able to relax when Sam's napping. Dude you've had SIX DAYS of relaxing, get off your ass and do something productive!

[sarcaztic10]

We are back from L's psychologist and pediatrician. H and I both really like his psychologist and feel confident that she can diagnose him and give us some good strategies for coping for him and for us. The pedi prescribed L the lowest dose of an ADHD drug to start ASAP. She said that the dosage or medication might have to be adjusted as time goes on and I am instructed to call in a week to let her know how it's going. She suggested getting some of that Carnation instant breakfast so that he can get enough calories at breakfast to last through the day since he most likely won't be hungry on the medicine.

Tomorrow is the school evaluation.

[mcktymck]

sarcaztic10 I hope that with the combo of the ADHD meds and the psychologist that you start noticing a difference with L quickly!

[melody330]

Good luck with the school psych eval sarcaztic10!

Definitely try and push those Carnation drinks. They help a lot!

[Ray]

Jan 12, 2017 17:38:02 GMT -5 sarcaztic10 said:

We are back from L's psychologist and pediatrician. H and I both really like his psychologist and feel confident that she can diagnose him and give us some good strategies for coping for him and for us. The pedi prescribed L the lowest dose of an ADHD drug to start ASAP. She said that the dosage or medication might have to be adjusted as time goes on and I am instructed to call in a week to let her know how it's going. She suggested getting some of that Carnation instant breakfast so that he can get enough calories at breakfast to last through the day since he most likely won't be hungry on the medicine.

Tomorrow is the school evaluation.

We always get L (middle kid) to eat a big breakfast then take his pill. It crushes his appetite. We encourage him to eat as much as he can for supper, but whatever he doesn't eAt we warm up for him when he gets RAVENOUS around 7:30/8pm. Otherwise he'd just be snacking on crap all night because he's hungry and needs the calories.