My mom and I have started this thing where we go out to lunch every Tuesday. We alternate who pays, but whoevers week it is to pay also gets to pick. Well it is her week to pay and she picked a place that does not sound good. At all. Like I can't think of a single thing I want there. It is a bagel shop, and bagels sound awful, so not many options. But also free lunch so can't complain!
zonagirl, that sounds like such a nice little routine with your mom! Might the bagel place have other things like muffins or sandwiches? Or maybe you could snag something nearby if bagels still sound terrible by the time you get there - I'm sure your mom would understand!
Yeah I looked up their menu and I'm gonna get some soup and salad, which doesn't sound half bad. Plus healthy. But the real score is that she is bringing it to my house!
I'm digging Gibbz @betweenthelines! Just told H to listen.
Awesome. The guy is a musical genius. We used to just sit in his basement and he would put together songs for us playing literally every single instrument.
4 years ago, at this exact time, i was told to come into the hospital at 11:30 pm so they could start the induction of my first born. She wouldn't make her appearance though until the 7 pm the next day - after 5 hours of active pushing and an emergency c-section.
We went to speech therapy this morning because they said we could come in as long as he didn't have a fever. He was kind of all over the place but he's making progress which is great. We're both still sick but we kept it together for the appt. Haven't caught up. Going to go rest.
esgrunner we have had to re "sleep train" many, many times. Lately for motn struggles we have done going in and playing music, going in with a hand on the back, talking to her through the monitor, or just ignoring completely. Unfortunately, the ignoring is the only one that always gets her over the hump. Anything involving us going in there may work for a night or two but just ends up making the problem worse. If she stays laying down and crying we completely ignore. If she stands up, I talk to her one time through the monitor to remind her that we are still there and to lay down and go to sleep. And then ignore.
We went to speech therapy this morning because they said we could come in as long as he didn't have a fever. He was kind of all over the place but he's making progress which is great. We're both still sick but we kept it together for the appt. Haven't caught up. Going to go rest.
Do you have a diagnosis for speech therapy? I'm sure you've discussed but I haven't been around here.
We've been in speech therapy since January and it feels like the hugest waste of time...I'm beyond frustrated with it. She is "borderline" behind with no diagnosis but literally zero change in almost 4 months now. Just a lot of time and money.
MIL tells H yesterday that she wants to have dinner on Friday. We respond that to do so I have to be leaving at 6:30 to get M home and you bed. Apparently we keep him up late all the time, but refuse to do it for family
Most of the times he's been out pat his bed time lately have been at her freaking house! It doesn't end well generally. Yes we went to a few events that we have no control over the time of, and I leave early with M.
So. Frustrated.
H brought up maybe letting her keep him one day a week again. Nope. She can't get anything off the floor, can't run, and has trouble picking M up. Not exactly meeting levels of mobility I'm comfortable with.
2dumbdogs M is in speech and I'm not terribly impressed so far. He's in our state's early intervention program, do they bill our insurance and we don't have to pay the difference.
M refuses to say anything during speech, and isn't a fan of being in his highchair during the session. He doesn't repeat things when he's put on the spot, but will randomly when I'm talking. We have a meeting with his case worker and therapist next week. I'm going to discuss some different methods.
His speech is improving, but i don't know that I would credit speech for it so far.
2dumbdogs M is in speech and I'm not terribly impressed so far. He's in our state's early intervention program, do they bill our insurance and we don't have to pay the difference.
M refuses to say anything during speech, and isn't a fan of being in his highchair during the session. He doesn't repeat things when he's put on the spot, but will randomly when I'm talking. We have a meeting with his case worker and therapist next week. I'm going to discuss some different methods.
His speech is improving, but i don't know that I would credit speech for it so far.
This is pretty similar to my experience. Except it's expensive.
Thanks, ampaints and zonagirl! We're going to try moving bedtime a little earlier for a few days and see if it helps with the wake-ups too. We'd let it creep closer to 7:30 (because really, who likes getting for bed at 6:30 even if they need too?!) but we're going back to 7 and we'll see.
We've actually never done anything about MOTN because it always just seemed impossible with E's....persistence. My will doesn't go too far at 2am. Or even 10pm for that matter because I've already been asleep for like an hour. We don't use music at this point but I'm thinking it could help.
I just played Cards Against Humanity online with some GKU peeps...we need to do that here sometime. Has anyone set it up before? I'll give it a try sometime if I think of it. (Not tonight...going to bed!)
Post by tuscanlatte on Apr 25, 2017 20:09:46 GMT -5
I got the job at the lottery place! They came up a little bit in pay so that is great. I still need something a little more, so I may have to get a part time job on top or DH can work overtime if it's available, but it's something. I have to let them know by tomorrow and I am just hoping against hope that the engineering job I applied for comes through and is more money. But the end of my unemployment is near!!!!
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