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Sheesh
I have lots of reasons to be cheerful and grateful today, but instead I'm grousing. Happiness really is a state of mind, isn't it?
Good news:
We spend a lovely week at my parents' in Pennsylvania (teachers get spring break - yay!). They bought (and had custom-built) a new house last year, and this is the first time we got to see it. Very, very nice. The kids would have been excited with any place with two flights of stairs, but we all had a very nice time. We went to Hershey and rode the Chocolate World tour twice. Emma really, really liked the singing cows. Myself, not so much. But lots of fun.
My son is using signs! They've been working heavily with Luke at school on getting him to make just one little sign, with no apparent progress, and now, suddenly, he's doing it! He started with "more" and has moved on to "yes" "popcorn" "open" and "water" among others. We're trying to get him to learn as many as possible so it doesn't turn into a meaningless mannerism. He has to be strongly prompted, but hopefully we can ease him into the self-initiated sort of communication. This is a big milestone - and it's been a long, long mile.
Ryan rolled over for the first time two weeks ago, and while we were at my parents' carpet-filled house, he became quite the pro. Of course this means we can't leave him alone on the bed or the couch now, but overall I'm glad he's reaching all of his milestones so far.
Emma turned three on Saturday, and we celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday. Hooray!
And then the bad news:
Spending a week in my parents' spacious house only helped to remind me as we came home just what a cluttered mess we live in. Ugh. I could do some cleaning here and there, but it won't get much better until we can move into a bigger place. Which is a whole other pile of stress.
Our computer is going wonky. It keeps freezing up, and this evening the monitor just stopped working, for no reason we can discern. We have several old computers lying around here, because my parents always give us their used ones when they've finished with them, and when we've worn them to the ground, we don't know what to do with them (or we're too lazy to do anything with them...) Anyway, we had an old monitor that we were able to hook up, but it's pretty junky, the resolution's lousy and makes me wonder if I'm going blind, and there's dried-up white-out from when Emma decided to paint the computer. I was trying to figure out just why this current set of computer woes was vexing me so much, and I realized - this is my only real link to any sort of social interaction. Pathetic, isn't it? But I can't drive anywhere during the day, and I'm not very neighborly, so I don't know anyone who lives in walking distance. So this is my sole connection to the outside world. Sigh.
Focus on the good news. Sheesh.
Good news:
We spend a lovely week at my parents' in Pennsylvania (teachers get spring break - yay!). They bought (and had custom-built) a new house last year, and this is the first time we got to see it. Very, very nice. The kids would have been excited with any place with two flights of stairs, but we all had a very nice time. We went to Hershey and rode the Chocolate World tour twice. Emma really, really liked the singing cows. Myself, not so much. But lots of fun.
My son is using signs! They've been working heavily with Luke at school on getting him to make just one little sign, with no apparent progress, and now, suddenly, he's doing it! He started with "more" and has moved on to "yes" "popcorn" "open" and "water" among others. We're trying to get him to learn as many as possible so it doesn't turn into a meaningless mannerism. He has to be strongly prompted, but hopefully we can ease him into the self-initiated sort of communication. This is a big milestone - and it's been a long, long mile.
Ryan rolled over for the first time two weeks ago, and while we were at my parents' carpet-filled house, he became quite the pro. Of course this means we can't leave him alone on the bed or the couch now, but overall I'm glad he's reaching all of his milestones so far.
Emma turned three on Saturday, and we celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday. Hooray!
And then the bad news:
Spending a week in my parents' spacious house only helped to remind me as we came home just what a cluttered mess we live in. Ugh. I could do some cleaning here and there, but it won't get much better until we can move into a bigger place. Which is a whole other pile of stress.
Our computer is going wonky. It keeps freezing up, and this evening the monitor just stopped working, for no reason we can discern. We have several old computers lying around here, because my parents always give us their used ones when they've finished with them, and when we've worn them to the ground, we don't know what to do with them (or we're too lazy to do anything with them...) Anyway, we had an old monitor that we were able to hook up, but it's pretty junky, the resolution's lousy and makes me wonder if I'm going blind, and there's dried-up white-out from when Emma decided to paint the computer. I was trying to figure out just why this current set of computer woes was vexing me so much, and I realized - this is my only real link to any sort of social interaction. Pathetic, isn't it? But I can't drive anywhere during the day, and I'm not very neighborly, so I don't know anyone who lives in walking distance. So this is my sole connection to the outside world. Sigh.
Focus on the good news. Sheesh.