04.30.08
Whirlwind
Each year the entire behavioral health department attends spring training week. This week started on Monday with Management of Aggressive behavior, the last two days spent discussing Women and Girls’ trauma and healing, tomorrow Advanced Motivation Interviewing and the ending on Friday with Wellness, Recovery and Self Care. Basically an entire week of blah, blah, blah. Most of the presenters are great and really do provide us with great information and teach us necessary skills to do what we do everyday. However, it makes for a LONG week!
Working only part time I have become accustom to seeing my precious angel the majority of the day. My current schedule allows me to attend play groups and take him to the stay and play times at the library. I have missed out on everything this week! It breaks my heart! Yesterday he woke up early and was down for his nap before I came home for lunch, so I didn’t see him for over nine hours. I wanted to cry! I don’t know how full time Mom’s do it?! They are true hero’s!
I am tired and feeling the effects of getting up and having to rush out the door. Two more days…then I am taking a good portion of next week off (since I have so many overtime hours this week, I have to balance out the pay period) to spend time with my family before Dad-Oh starts fishing and missing his special time with his little buddy.
Sometimes being grown up sucks! Why can’t we all be rich and have great health coverage?
04.28.08
Happy Birthday…
…To my MUCH OLDER and not so wiser BFF! 
I thought about calling and wishing her a very happy birthday, but at her age the dementia has prolly set in and she wouldn’t have any idea who the hell was on the other end of the phone! Tried to think of the perfect present, but a gift certificate to Sizzler just didn’t seem to have that WOW factor. Thought about making her day with a bouquet of tulips (cuz I know they’re her fave), but again just didn’t seem to have the sha-zam I was looking for. And then…it came to me….what is better than old photos of us looking like idiots?
Starting with the most recent: December 2003
July 2003
Going WAY back: May 1995! Thank god for photoshop and the zit removing tool! We had some doozies! Ah, to be a freshman again! HI PAM!
Bet you didn’t think I could go back any further….oh contraire! Winter 1993! SEVENTH grade, right after we decided to stop hating each other! 
So there you go, a trip down memory lane revisiting your youth. You know I love you, and subtly pointing out how much older you are than me is SO in the BFF contract, right after a clause about strings! Just think, two years from now I’ll still be in my TWENTIES and you’ll be THIRTY!!!!! (Totally deserves multiple exclamation points!)
04.27.08
Story Time With Mommy
My little guy is becoming a smart little cookie. He’s at the point now where you can tell he is really starting to understand most everything you say and he tries his best to communicate his thoughts back. He has been really absorbing his ABC’s from starfall. He can recognize and name about ten letters of the alphabet. He knows what sounds they make too! His favorites are “S” and “P.” When I click either of these he says, “S” and then starts making the sssss sound, and is doing his very best to perfect his mimicking of “skateboard!”
Here is a little video of him finishing the last line of each page of his book. Well, for the first three pages anyway…then, well he IS.OVER.IT! 
04.25.08
Sun Shine Day
Today was an action packed, sun-filled day. Aidan slept great last night and didn’t wake up until after seven this morning. It could have gone down hill from there and still been a good day! But it didn’t! Aidan and I got up and went downstairs and let Dad-Oh sleep in–until NINE FIFTEEN!!!
I made Aidan his oatmeal with blueberries while he played with his toys. When it was time to eat Aidan decided he was going to fish out every.single.blueberry in the bowl and refuse any of the actual oatmeal! Good times! Oh, well aren’t blueberries really high in antioxidants?
We headed out the door for play group, ON TIME and Aidan hung out with all his buddies. He knows exactly where we are going and runs all the way from the car to play group. Which is actually pretty far. It’s held in in the third floor chapel of our old folks home.
We had a yummy lunch with my co worker and her little blue eyed cutie before heading home for nap time. After nap time our Nanny came over to learn the routine. Aidan was on his best behavior! Such a good boy he is. Then we were off to the park to get some outdoor exercise. He loves climbing up the stairs of the big twisty slide!
Did I mention Dad-Oh slept until NINE-FIFTEEN? I better bold that just in case you missed it!
04.22.08
Organizing
Aidan decided he was going to pull everything out of his drawer in the kitchen and put it in the fridge. Why? Who knows. He’s a toddler and that’s reason enough!
