Pet Peeve

I have a new pet peeve. When people put their relationship status as "it's complicated".

One I know for sure is actually "unhappily married". Another is "unhappily divorced". Both should be single!

Why do they put anything? You can leave it blank.

Another funny is what people put under "interested in". I guess that could be taken any way. Some put friendship, men, women or both. I wonder if those who put men and women actually know what that sounds like.

I've learned to hide people on Facebook and I love that.
I wish real life was like Facebook. Where you can just delete the connection if they offend you or you just don't like what they say.

Kindness

Isaiah got an invitation to a birthday party yesterday. He's been talking about it. Saying that this boy was having a party and he was invited. We kept telling him we'd need something in writing. You know how kids are! This kids parents could have been planning a family only party and here he goes to school and invites everyone! But yesterday he brought home the invite. We had thoughts of going away for Spring break but nothing has been written in stone yet. This boys party was 2 days into Spring break. I told my parents that any plans they may have thought of would have to work around this. Isaiah really wanted to go and this boy is a little odd. I think he gets picked on. I know even Isaiah has lost patience with him before because he's sort of immature and whines a lot, that sort of thing. But Isaiah did bet him a birthday card and some Pokemon cards and wrapped them up himself and gave to the kid. I told mom I thought Isaiah better go because with the timing of the party other kids may be out of town, no to mention he's not Mr. Popularity.

My mom said Isaiah told them one weekend that at lunch the kids were picking on another little boy and saying he had cooties. He'd try to sit down and the kids would block him and say "no you have cooties". Until Isaiah spoke up and told him he could come and sit by him. I guess the teacher said something to him, praising him for being kind to that boy when no one else would.

He's such a good soul!

March Already?!

Naomi turned 4 on March 7!

Well, haven't been on here in a long time!

February was pretty uneventful. Mostly because we were snowed in! It was the snowiest month ever! The first really big wave came February 5 and there is still spots of snow out on the ground now! The kids used all 5 of the snow days that are incorporated into the school schedule. They also had several 2 hour delays. Naomi missed lots of therapy. She goes on Tuesday and Thursdays and that seemed to be the popular day for a new storm systems to blow through. Usually we get all our really bad weather from the north. This year I think every bad storm we got came up from Texas! It was weird! The last one to go through went past us and didn't drop much snow. Then it went out to the coast turned around and came back and dumped snow on us! The weirdest thing ever!

Naomi has a new therapist. The local hospital where she goes for therapy cut benefits on 400 of their employees! Her OT was caught up in that and had to quit pediatric therapy so she could pick up extra hours doing therapy at nursing homes where she'll make more money and be able to afford to pay the COBRA insurance. Her husband was recently laid off, she has a 6 year old, a 6 month old that they adopted in Aug. after fertility treatments and going through 3 different adoption agencies. Now, she's pregnant, due around the babies 1st birthday! So being with out insurance is not an option! I really hope they find a break somewhere!

Naomi turned 4! Time has just flown by! We all went to church and there were tons of kids there. That tickled her, she likes watching them. I just see a lot of kids 1/2 her age twice as developmentally advanced. UGH. But then I look at her and can't even imagine her at a normal development! There is a lot of little quirky things we'd have missed if she was "normal". She's growing like crazy! She's definitely had another growth spurt. I put lighter weight pants on her that used to fit fine. Now they look more like capris!

Since starting on Zonegran or cutting back calories she's evened out on her seizures. She has about 30 a day and most of them are very light. Some just look like she got light headed for a split second and it's passed. Last week I was feeding her 11G of pineapple at her 2nd meal of the day. I noticed her seizures seemed to increase some so I took the pineapple away after a few days and sure enough! They went back to how they had been before! I then realized when she seemed to be going downhill in January she was eating pineapple then too! So, is it Zonegran? calorie reduction? or having no pineapple?! So frustrating!
She's been faithfully wearing her helmet. She doesn't mind wearing it but screams when putting it on or taking it off! Oh well, scream away little girl! It's saved her head more than once already!

Well, maybe I better stop. I may think of something else and squeeze another post out of it!