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[liesel]

Kathy Sending lots of your way. I hope the seizure was just a one time thing. Hang in there!

Lindsay Congrats on your evaluation! I can't believe your boss said that! Yes, people want to get paid what they deserve. I'm glad that they are trying a few strategies with Ryan instead of immediately jumping to medication.

Rose Good luck with Mike's ongoing job hunt. I'm sure the right opportunity will come along soon.

Nancy for your mom and your snarky friends. I don't know why people say things like that.

Hi Maria, I hope all is going well for you.

Lisa I hope your training is going well.

I've decided that I need to hit the running store tomorrow and get new shoes. This was finally made clear to me when I took my shoes off yesterday and my tendon practically screamed with relief. My shins are all better, I feel like I just need a good stretching routine and I'm good to go, but my tendon is still bothering me. I've been walking in my shoes all during this rehab process and I think they are the tendon culprit.

On to better news, 9 days until Kauai! So we are celebrating 3 birthdays, DH and the kids each get to choose the activities on their day. The day after we arrive is DH's 40th. So far he has chosen to go out for macadamia nut pancakes and go snorkeling. I made a dinner reservation for us too. I thought of you Rose when I made the reservation because they have an entire gf menu complete with rolls and actual desserts. Anyway, DD's 6th birthday is two days later. She wants to go tubing. There is a tubing excursion that goes down the old sugar plantation irrigation ditches. It sounds like fun. Then she wants to go snorkeling in the afternoon and see a sea turtle. DS's 10th birthday is the next day (so glad he wasn't born on September 11th, but I did have some really bad contractions that day and thought I was going to have him there for a while). I am doing a surfing lesson with him. DS and DD haven't chosen their meals yet, but I think they will have a better idea of where they want to go once we are there. I need to go volunteer at the school, talk to everyone later!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

I've decided that I need to hit the running store tomorrow and get new shoes. This was finally made clear to me when I took my shoes off yesterday and my tendon practically screamed with relief. My shins are all better, I feel like I just need a good stretching routine and I'm good to go, but my tendon is still bothering me. I've been walking in my shoes all during this rehab process and I think they are the tendon culprit.

On to better news, 9 days until Kauai! So we are celebrating 3 birthdays, DH and the kids each get to choose the activities on their day. The day after we arrive is DH's 40th. So far he has chosen to go out for macadamia nut pancakes and go snorkeling. I made a dinner reservation for us too. I thought of you Rose when I made the reservation because they have an entire gf menu complete with rolls and actual desserts. Anyway, DD's 6th birthday is two days later. She wants to go tubing. There is a tubing excursion that goes down the old sugar plantation irrigation ditches. It sounds like fun. Then she wants to go snorkeling in the afternoon and see a sea turtle. DS's 10th birthday is the next day (so glad he wasn't born on September 11th, but I did have some really bad contractions that day and thought I was going to have him there for a while). I am doing a surfing lesson with him. DS and DD haven't chosen their meals yet, but I think they will have a better idea of where they want to go once we are there. I need to go volunteer at the school, talk to everyone later!

the trip sounds lovely!!! i hope hope hope you will show us lots of pics. in particular, i would like a picture of the macadamia nut pancakes. i know, i know...but i LOVE them!!!

and good call on getting fitted for some shoes. i had an injury in november and decided to get fitted at a running store for shoes and it was amazing the difference they made!

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dum dee dum....anything from kathy?? lisa, have you spoken to her maybe?

today was a big waste of time for me. boo. i left the house a little after 9:30 and didn't get downtown til almost 11:30. i wanted to hurl myself out the window and i had to pee so bad. parked in a lot, waited in line to sign in for the audition and was given a form to fill out. i went to the bathroom line and while i was waiting started to fill it out. thomas decided to take off a million times and GOD FORBID anyone let the 7 months pregnant lady get back to her place in line!!! at the way end of the form it asked if we were available for the following dates: all dates that we're on vacation.

peed, went to the check in lady and asked to take my name off the list as we won't be there. too bad, so sad. $21 to park for not even 20 min. back in the car and home. grr! at least the traffic on the way home wasn't too bad. we were home at about 12:30.

little guy is still sleeping so i may just have to go wake him up. my dad emailed me today again saying please call mommy and then told me how he ran 2.75 miles yesterday and that was the farthest he's even gone. said he wants to do a 5k. then said he didn't know how i ran so far. that's the only acknowledgement he's ever made pretty much of me doing the princess. nice. still haven't called. not ready, don't feel like it. in my head i wrote a big email back to them. but instead i laid in bed and cried. lame.

i'll be back on to check if kathy comes on. xoxo

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Good Afternoon and !

How is everybody doing? Are you enjoying days of endless rain and gloom -- you must be located near me

Ok, got the stuff done I had to accomplish this week. Tomorrow morning I'm going to a meeting, then back to the office to tie up loose ends. Every once in awhile I have to spend a Friday afternoon at work. It's pretty rare, so I am a lucky ducky.

I ran 3M this morning, but I think I just blew it downing mini candy bars like they were going out of style. I don't quite know how it happened, it just did

It's Thursday, so that means whatever we had on the menu will get scrapped for takeout -- this is not without precedent . I may just have too many carbs, it's one of those days After all, this is the week my BL weigh in doesn't count if it doesn't go down

Lisa -- New shoes make a huge difference for me! Wow, you and Nancy have dueling countdowns, how awesome is that?! It sounds like your bday plans for everyone will be a lot of fun.

Lisah -- I'm feeling your pain with the work schedule! If things go like I think they will, I will spend a lot of time at my desk tomorrow afternoon with nothing I really have to do -- DIS time Today was Ben's first day of school. I can't wait to get home to find out what language he was given (they get to put down their preferences in order, but no guarantees for # 1), how his day went, all the good stuff. And I better not get "Fine" for all the answers

Nancy -- How was the audition? I hope Thomas was channeling his Happy Place I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who's addicted to those little travel size toiletries I actually do use a lot of them, but I have been known to take things that I really doubt I'll ever need. Apparently the people around you are insensitive morons. Clearly you should ignore them as much as possible. Just think, while you are bouncing along with Pooh, they will be in the sludge and drudge of a saturated, smelly City. It's good to be you, isn't it?

Rose -- Did I miss a TR from you? I probably need to go back and look a few pages. I want to know all about your wonderful b-day trip! I can't believe W&D is so soon! Before you know it you will be lining up in your corral...I'm eager to hear if you think they listened and made improvements this year.

Kathy -- I hope everything went well today. Ben spent three days in Children's when he was 3 days old (he was dehydrated, turns out he and I did not make a good breastfeeding team), and they could not have been better. Unbelievably excellent care. I bet you are spent. There should be beergaritas in your Friday forecast I am a huge Zappos fan. I order all my running shoes from them, because they always have the style I need and the color I want I also like ordering other shoes, too, because they have a better selection than any shoe store, and I can tell right away if they have it in my size.

Lindsay -- Um, I agree with everyone else. Your manager has a screw loose. That is a lovely speech to give to a teenager who doesn't know better. For a grown adult with skills and experience, it's a bit insulting. His ideal employee is SpongeBob. I understand why you are concerned about Ryan. At Ben's second P/T conference in K (yep, we had one for Pre-K, too), his teacher told us she was very concerned because he talked too much. We heard this again annually -- he was making straight As, but he just liked to chat -- and he asked to many questions . I think sometimes teachers don't realize that it's rare for boys to be able to sit still and just do their work like girls tend to do. They have a lot of energy, and it has to come out some way. It's good you have high expectations, and he will live up to them -- it's also good the teacher is on top of things, but don't worry too much and let them shake out a little. You are right that 15 lbs should not come off in 2 weeks! Just the fact that you are out there running -- I would never be that brave to do it so publicly. I'm an anonymous giant crowd of 17-27,000 kind of girl! You are amazing, and don't you forget it!

Everyone have an awesome evening, somebody eat healthy for me

Maria

 

[mikamah]

Here I am. A bit spent.

EEg went well, he did so good and was able to fall asleep pretty quickly. So I'm sitting in the dark and the tech and his student are watching the monitor, and I'm getting anxious every time he points something out to her. I know it didn't necessarily mean anything, but I wanted to know. I had to just close my eyes and take slow deep breaths through it.

We went to the neurologist, an NP who was great, went over everything with us, and was just waiting on the eeg report, but gearing towards the benign focal seizures of childhood, but they usually occur at night or early morning and his was during the day, so because of that she wanted an MRI too, but when the eeg results came in, she expected to see just increased activity on the left which caused the seizure the other day, but there was increased activity or irritability throughout the scan, meaning he is at an increase chance for seizures anywhere, not just from the one area. Since he had a questionable small seizure earlier in the summer, he felt a similar spasm to tuesdays seizure, but it was much quicker, so never mentioned it until we were in the Er, she felt he should be treated with an antiseizure med. She called it Simple Partial Seizures. She had the neurologist come in and talk to us as well, and he agreed. So they are sending that in. I'm going to wait til tomorrow night to start it so I'll be with him for his first couple days. They said some people do not want to put their kids on meds and it was up to me, but they both recommend it. I've been thinking on that whole thing too, but feel that the risk of a seizure and him hurting himself during it outweighs the risk from the meds. But I guess it will depend on how he tolerates the meds. This is when I wish there was another parent to bounce things off.

He has his MRI scheduled for tomorrow morning at 7:15, and they both gave him the ok for football, even without the mri. She doesn't think the mri will change any treatment, but they want to look and if he's had seizure activity sometimes it changes the way the cortex develops, and they would see that on the scan. I guess that would just confirm that he's had the seizure like activity a while. And of course rule out the stuff we don't want to talk about.

So that's the scoop. I'm ready for bed, but it's only 5 oclock.

Thanks for all the good thoughts today.

 

[Rose&Mike]

Kathy--where are you??? I am anxiously awaiting an update. I would text you, but you don't do texts do you???

Lindsay--Forgot to tell you--I laughed at the thread comment. It was mostly moving fast yesterday cause I was on so much.

Maria--so what kind of mini candy did you have today? I just ate 4 bite sized snickers. Uggh. I hope Ben had a great first day.

Nancy--what turds--I can't believe people said that to you. The size of your butt is really notdb. Goodness. My mouth would have been hanging open. You will show them when you run the wdw full next year! What about communicating with your dad and ignoring your mom for a little while?

Liesel--your trip sounds so amazing! I am so excited for you.
My trip report is on my journal. I have done Thursday and Friday so far. I will probably get to Saturday tonight.

Lisa--I hope your crazy week slows down soon.

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Ok, the weather here blows chunks! It was 60 and heavy drizzle on the way home. YUCK! 60 is below our normal low. I am not going to handle winter very well, I don't think. We are supposed to run tonight, but neither one of wants to get on the treadmill this early. Yes, I have become a hothouse flower.

So you know I said I finally had t.o.m. again--first time since mid-june. It only lasted a couple of days and last night I had some sharp pains in my right side. What is up with that? I really don't want to go to another doctor. We'll see how the next couple of weeks go.

Ok, ttyl.

 

[Rose&Mike]

Kathy--I'm sorry it wasn't as positive as you had hoped. Do they know what causes it? Are there side effects from the meds? I don't know what else to say, other than I love you and hang in there. Do you still have my number? Please call me if you want to talk. I hope the mri shows nothing new.

 

[liesel]

Kathy Hang in there, I know its a tough decision with the medication but I am so glad they are taking action. I hope the MRI goes well.

Rose I had the pain in one side a couple of months after my miscarriage a few years ago, it was so bad I actually went to the ER. The doctor thought it was because I had started to ovulate again. Apparently if you don't ovulate regularly, when you do it is often painful. I hope you can figure it out and get better.

Maria I completely forgot to mention I read your Montreal TR. Sounds like a fun trip. It won't be too long before you get back to Disney, though. I loved your comment about Spongebob being Lindsay's boss' ideal employee.


Nancy There will be plenty of pictures, especially of the macadamia nut pancakes, so I can look back and remember. Sorry the audition was a waste of time. Have fun packing! I know I have trouble resisting travel sized toiletries at the day spa where I get my hair done. I'm going there next week, so hopefully I can resist.

I'm off again to a PTA meeting, hopefully they will stay more focused this time. I've been OP food wise 2 days in a row coming off a bad holiday weekend, but its been more difficult than it usually is. I need to continue to be good if I'm going on vacation soon. Talk to everyone later!

 

[dumbo_buddy]

maria - so, we did the take out thing yesterday and even though i so want to order out again we're going even healthier by me making frozen chicken nuggets, kraft mac n cheese (my favorite food on earth), and frozen veggies. perhaps i can add a little salt to that??? lol! what are you guys going to order? i had one of those days today where i just ate bread. seriously. i ate two rolls. i guess one for each butt cheek. you ran 3 miles today though so it totally balances all the mini candy bars out...duh!

rose - i'd love to just communicate with my dad. but i swear he's afraid of my mother. he usually won't talk to me without her around. it's a really screwed up situation. meh. and yeah, the weather sucks. it's going to be a big change to be in a million degree heat and humidity in florida!

liesel - hey, 2 days OP is better than i can say for myself! nice job! and yay for pancake pics!

kathy - wish i could come up there and give you and michael big hugs. how is he handling this all? is he a little scared? does he know that he has the ok for football? well, i guess the outcome of the eeg was pretty good. i mean, not perfect but the fact that they are ok'ing football just HAS to be a good sign. what are the side effects of the meds? what a long couple of days for you. get to bed early. have a little drink. thinking of and praying for you.

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

I will need to catch up officially tomorrow because I have a million things to still get done tonight and Im beat but wanted to say hang in there Kathy. Sorry it wasnt a simple dont worry about it thing but at least you got the answers quickly and hopefully he will adjust well to the meds to prevent anything more from occuring. I am sending you a million hugs because I know it is quite a hard thing to deal with this on your own and it doesnt help the fact that your a nurse and I know from experience your medical mind travels to all kinds of horrible scenarios causing the anxiety to be even worse. I had horrible anxiety when ryan was born because he had alot of bronchiolitis and wheezing as a baby and every time I was certain he would end up in the hospital with RSV and die. I think our knowledge only makes it worse as a mom vs better. Anyway you know I am hear if you need to talk and you could always call me too. If you need my number again just PM me. Good luck tomorrow with the MRI. Send hugs to Michael too.

 

[dumbo_buddy]

kathy - did you get some much needed rest last night? i hope so! how did the MRI go? was it one where he lays down or was it the stand up one? i've had a few MRIs and as an adult i was a little afraid! i hope michael's went smoothly and you get results quickly.

i don't think we've talked enough about lisa's upcoming half marathon next weekend! i can't believe it's here already. didn't you just do one??? lol! you are a half marathon junkie! where is it? how far from your house? what's going on with your tummy issues? what are you doing for nutrition and hydration? what are you wearing? i hope you'll do a race report!

good morning to the rest of you lovely ladies! finally we have a bit of a reprieve from the rain and i had a nice 3.5 mile walk this morning. slow but it got the job done. i need to make sure to keep drinking water. i think i've been running a little low on the water intake lately.

thomas starts soccer tomorrow! we got an email from the super soccer stars program and it had the lyrics to the song they are going to sing. it's to the tune of if you're happy and you know it:

I AM HAPPY TO BE A SUPER SOCCER STAR
I AM HAPPY TO BE A SUPER SOCCER STAR
I AM HAPPY TO BE PLAYING
I AM HAPPY TO BE LEARNING
I AM HAPPY TO BE A SUPER SOCCER STAR

YOU CAN NEVER TOUCH THE BALL WITH YOUR HANDS
YOU CAN NEVER TOUCH THE BALL WITH YOUR HANDS
YOU CAN KICK IT, YOU CAN HEAD IT
YOU CAN CHEST IT, YOU CAN KNEE IT
BUT YOU NEVER TOUCH THE BALL WITH YOUR HANDS

i am telling you right now i will be having more fun at this than thomas!!

 

[Rose&Mike]

Nancy too funny! I am just picturing Mike (who coached soccer until Tom was 9 or 10) singing this song.

Lisa--I didn't realize the race was so close! How is your tummy? I feel like I have been a slacker friend this summer. My brain was in too many places.

Kathy--thinking of you today.

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We ran last night. The weather was icky, but it was a good run. 4 miles in under 40, so I was happy. My foot is really not happy. But it's not typical pf. I am trying taping it so the fat pad is under my heel better and see if that helps. We are supposed to run 14 Saturday--not sure if that will happen. I'm also going in search of some everyday shoes today that will be easy on my heel.

The new challenge starts today--and I am not in charge. I needed the break. Nothing big going on around here, but I am feeling residual stress leftover from the summer and I just need a mental break. Tom is doing well, he's only called me once this semester with a mini break down. I've talked to him every couple of days, only one meltdown. He said the meds are really helping him. I'm trying to let go of the Mommy guilt that we didn't deal with it sooner.

I hope everyone has a great day! It's gloomy here again, but I think it's supposed to get back to 80 this weekend. Woohoo!

 

[lisah0711]

Hello Princesses and Belles!

I'd done such a lovely reply to you all and then it went "poof." I hate it when that happens. This will be a little shorter 'cause I think I'm getting all "talked" out after doing a bunch of replies on our busy, busy Fall Challenge thread.

Kathy, thinking of you and Michael and sending tons of prayers, and . Hoping you both can get some rest and relax this week-end.

Maria, hoping that you can get some rest and relax this week-end, too. How is JT liking school?

Lisabelle, your trip sounds like so much fun. Hope the PTA meeting wasn't too bad. I was so happy when DS insisted that I skip that when he started middle school.

Linday, hope you can get some rest and relax a bit this week-end, too. It's good that you can give Kathy some help from the nurse's point of view -- everyone knows that the nurses know more than the doctors anyway.

Nancy, thanks for helping me get the happy soccer song stuck in my head. Now I'm going to have to listen to It's a Small World a few times.

Rose, sorry the foot is still bothering you. I hope that you can get some shoes that will help. I was calculating the weeks until the W&D and holy cow, it's so close! I'm so jealous that you get to see the Halloween decorations again.

i don't think we've talked enough about lisa's upcoming half marathon next weekend! i can't believe it's here already. didn't you just do one??? lol! you are a half marathon junkie! where is it? how far from your house? what's going on with your tummy issues? what are you doing for nutrition and hydration? what are you wearing? i hope you'll do a race report!

Thanks for asking about my half, Nancy. It's in Sandpoint, Idaho which is about 45 miles away. Sandpoint is the home of Coldwater Creek. One of the big features of the race is that you run across the long bridge on Lake Pend Oreille -- the largest lake in Idaho. It's two miles long. Here is a little picture so you get the idea.

It's an out and back course so I will be on that bridge for almost 1/3 of the race!

Tummy is okay. We will see how that goes on my easy 5 miles tomorrow. I just want to finish in under 4 hours. Since I walked my 1/2 in May in 4:18 I think that it totally doable. Then it's on to Tink training.

Have a wonderful day, ladies!

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Good Afternoon and !

Things have finally settled down, and I have about an hour before I'm leaving for the day -- it's DIS time, Baby!

Rose -- I'm glad to hear the National Merit Scholar yay:, I know you are so proud!) is doing well this semester. It's hard not to think about things we would have done differently. But obviously you did much better than "good enough". Tom is a fine young man, and that is a credit to you and Mike! I'm glad you had a good run, that really change your outlook. Yesterday I had Butterfinger and Baby Ruth -- and they aren't even my favorites. That's actually why I bring them in for the communal candy -- I figure I'll be less tempted to indulge. Apparently that is working so well for me.

Nancy -- Well I am loving the Soccer Star song! That is so precious! I know you will be beltiing it out, too We ended up ordering from the barbecue place, which didn't have to be bad. I could have had the bbq shredded chicken and green beans. Ok, I did, but I didn't stop there. I also had some baked beans and cornbread Next time I will stop with the non-carby goodness.

Lindsay -- You are having quite a week -- I hope you get some down time to relax this weekend. You have clearly earned it

Lisa -- Ready to leave on that trip yet? Are you all packed? Honestly, when I read about Lindsay's boss I kept thinking of how he would like to see her standing there, with a spatula in her hand, jumping up and down, yelling, "I'm Ready! I'm Ready! I'm Ready!"

Kathy -- I feel your disappointment because it didn't turn out as you might have hoped, but I have to think it's good to know and to go from there. I hope the MRI went well.

Lisah -- I agree with Nancy, I want to hear all about your plans for your upcoming Half! This is big news -- you are a running machine! I hope you can relax after your busy week at work.

So, tomorrow I am going to Dennis's friend's wedding. I was trying to figure out what to wear, and found a dress in my closet I bought a couple of years ago, but never wore, because I bought it thinking I would get into it because of the weight that was going to magically melt off of me I decided what they heck I'll try it on, and it fits! It is a deep chocolate brown polished cotton, if it looks decent I'll post a photo on FB. I'm glad to be wearing it, especially since it is a size I haven't seen in a long time on my bottom half, a 14. I'm not ready for jeans or pants in that size quite yet (no muffin tops! I want pants that fit but are not really tight), but I am making progress. This is progress! I also wore pants today and boots I haven't had on since last winter, and they went on with ease. I am getting better at the lower carb all the time, I just have to keep trying

Off for my hair appt. so I don't scare the other wedding guests

Maria

 

[lisah0711]

Good Afternoon and !

Things have finally settled down, and I have about an hour before I'm leaving for the day -- it's DIS time, Baby!

Woo hoo for DIS time, Maria. But an even BIGGER WOO HOO for finding a "new" dress in your closet for tomorrow in a smaller size! I am sure that you will look lovely.

 

[mikamah]

Hello friends,

I only have a sec because I'm at work, but I saw some emails from facebook for your posts, and just wanted to let you know the good news today. MRI was done this morning, and is perfectly normal. So that is a big relief.

In talking to the np, there is a good chance that he can still outgrow the seizures, so that is also good news. It's a little different from the other type, but in his situation, it could be similar in how it plays out. So we'll treat with the med and hope he tolerates it well.

I'm feeling much better about the whole football thing knowing that the mri is normal.

Thank you so much for all the good wishes and prayers. I am so grateful for you all.

 

[lisah0711]

Hello friends,

I only have a sec because I'm at work, but I saw some emails from facebook for your posts, and just wanted to let you know the good news today. MRI was done this morning, and is perfectly normal. So that is a big relief.

In talking to the np, there is a good chance that he can still outgrow the seizures, so that is also good news. It's a little different from the other type, but in his situation, it could be similar in how it plays out. So we'll treat with the med and hope he tolerates it well.

I'm feeling much better about the whole football thing knowing that the mri is normal.

Thank you so much for all the good wishes and prayers. I am so grateful for you all.

That is great news, Kathy! I know it is a big relief for you especially for the football thing. I sure hope that you can take it easy tonight. Rest and have a big old drink because you sure deserve it! I'm so happy for you both!

 

[Rose&Mike]

Kathy--I'm really glad it was a good mri!

The foot has gotten bad. Who am I kidding it's been getting worse and worse over the last couple of weeks, I have just chosen to ignore it. I've been told I have a high pain threshold. A couple of weeks ago during our 12 mile run, I wasn't even landing on my heel during the last couple of miles....Yes, DeNile is a river in Kentucky.

So not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow. Maybe ride my bike while Mike runs. It's killing me. I could really use a break on SOMETHING!!!!!! I am really starting to think it's a stress fracture cause the pain never goes away.....And it's gotten pretty bad. It's starting to radiate up the back of my heel and my ankle is swollen most of the time. Another thing that may or may not be worse cause of the gluten/malnutrition thing. So Monday, unless a miracle happens I will be calling the sports medicine orthopedic clinic. I'm still hoping I can do w&d, but it's not looking good. Oh well, I can drink around the world while waiting for Mike to finish. That will still be fun, right???

 

[mommyof2Pirates]

Kathy- I am so glad to hear the MRI was normal. What a relief. How is Michael feeling????

Lisa- Wow next weekend already that came so quick. That is one long bridge but looks like some great scenery. I know you will do great. You have been working hard.

Maria- Woohoo on the dress and the new size. That is so exciting. Have a great time tonight and I would love to see a picture.

Nancy- Love the song. We tried Nick playing soccer at age 3 and he cried and sat on the sideline. I hope thomas has a blast!

Rose- uggh so frustrating about your foot and I think denile is a river in PA too. you would think we would learn by now but we dont. Either way I hope you the docs can figure it out and form a miracle so you can run at W&D but if not the bright side is you are still going to be in Disney with lots of drink options surrounding you.

To follow up on your ADD comments. If you remember we talked about it at the end of kindergarten and I was saying I was concerened because of his attention span and focus. I mean we can barely get through a page in a book without having to redirect him. I am not going to jump the gun but its in the back of my mind.

I figure we will see how the first month or two goes as he starts getting into new material...right now its just review. If he is still having issues I think I am going to make an appt with the pediatrician. I know he is young but I want to avoid that mommy guilt feeling of why didnt we address this sooner. So will see. But thanks for all your advice.

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I took nick to his first hip hop dance class last night and he sat on the sideline and cried. So that was that. Im sure someday he will find his thing. He kept crying on the way home because he thought we were going to be mad at him. I wanted to say why should I be made your saving me 25$ a month.

Today we have house clean up, car clean up, and I have to make a side for my after race party at one of the moms houses tomorrow. Then Ryan has his game at 6.

Tomorrow is my relay. My leg of the race was derouted due to flooding so hopefully they didnt add in any big hills. We are leaving at 530am so I need to make sure I get to bed early tonight.

I need to make my way over to the new thread....only a day late.

have a great weekend.

 

[mikamah]

Good morning princesses!!

It's been a whirlwind of a week. I'm pooped, and I think Michael is too. We just played some sorry sliders, and in 20 min have to go for football pics. His first game is at 4. In between I'm going to borrow my brothers bush trimmer, and do some much needed yard work. I'm a pathetic homeowner, and I hope the lovely couple I bought my house from never comes by and looks at it. It was so adorable when I moved here, but now the bushes are overgrown, all weeds, no mulch. lol.

Michael started his med last night, and he did fall asleep about 90 min after while watching tv, but i think it was more the combination of the week, lack of sleep, and first full day of school/fun club/ football practice. He's psyched for his game today. He did fine at practice, and I'm sure he'll do fine today.

The main side effects of the med are drowsiness/dizziness. The most worrisome is personality changes/agitation/agression/anger/depression/suicidal thoughts. You know, all the possible side effects of any type of psych med. I only told him about being tired and maybe weak, and how important it will be to be extra careful for a few weeks to make sure he doesn't hurt himself. He dreams of being a professional daredevil you know. I'll hide the scateboard for now.

Rose- I'm so sorry the foot is bothering you. Glad you are going to get it checked out. You are right???? We'll be waiting to hear. Hang in there. I hope you're able to do wine and dine. I was thinking about you and ds and his meds that he takes, and how hard it must be to let him go off to school, and be in charge. I think of michael, and hate to think of him having to deal with taking meds his whole life, and just want him to be carefree, and have no worries. It's so hard, but I know that you are doing the right thing for Tom, and I know that I am doing the right thing for michael.

Lisa- WHOO WHOO WHOO WHOO HOO!! One week til your half you half marathon maniac!!!! So exited for you and I know you are going to be amazing and beat that 4 hour time goal!!!!

Nancy-DISNEY BOUND IN LESS THAN 24 hours!!!! Is that right!!! I'm so happy and excited for you and hope your trip is amazing and magical, and if you and dh have a little tif or two, it is brief, you'll laugh about it, and you'll get over it quickly and enjoy every minute of that trip!!

Lindsay- Poor little nick with the hip hop. It sounds like so much fun too. Good luck on the relay tomorrow!!! You're going to rock it!!!

Maria- Have fun at the wedding this weekend, and congrats on the new dress!!!! You are so on the ball!!

Hello to everyone else. Off to picture day! But I'm only spending 20 bucks on a memory mate group and indiviual pic and one magnet!!! I'll be strong!!!

Have a great day and weekend. I'll be back later, I hope.

 

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lisa - wow that bridge is beautiful. it would almost make running something bearable for me!

maria - have fun at the wedding! and AWESOME about the dress! pics please!!

lindsay - aw, poor nick. maybe he just got a little scared? will you try again?

rose - ugh, sorry about the foot. i really hope you can do wine and dine. how frustrating! i feel like foot injuries keep coming back. i've been having some pain in my foot lately and i thought i was all done with it after november's injury. major bummer.

kathy - so glad the mri went well. phew! hopefully michael will adjust the medication and maybe eventually he won't need to take it? i hope his football game goes well! how did the pictures go? oh and yardwork? ew. i'm glad we have little to no yard. all we have are hedges that need to be trimmed and we don't cut them nearly enough. our drunk neighbor behind us cuts it sometimes for us. how embarrassing! lol!

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well friends, this is a much shorter post/reply than i had planned. we've been out and about all day and need to leave in a few minutes. got up this morning and went to the diner for breakfast. left there and went straight up to westchester county where thomas had soccer. it was half fun and half disaster. there were 5 or 6 other kids and all their parents knew each other. and let's just say they were very hoity toity. look, i've been around my fair share of hoity toity (hello! i went to HS in fairfield county, CT for goodness sakes!) but it's just not me. anyway, pretty much every kid whined and cried. i was really frustrated because even though john was there, thomas just refused to let me out of his sight. "mommy! mommy!" ugggghhhh. i told john in a not-so-nice way afterwards that he MUST take him when he gets home from work every night for a walk or some sort of daddy/son time. thomas just HAS to be able to be without mommy for five seconds!!

after we got home i did some laundry and went to jcpenny for a friend's kid's bday present, hit up kmart for moleskin (john insists he has a foot disease - it's a broken blister), and modell's for a replacement met hat since i can't find thomas's other one. back home, packed the dog up and we all dropped her off and "nannny and pappa's" house. now we're heading to friend's for cake for the little girl's bday. after that, finish up packing, showers, bed, wake up, cab, airport, disney!

i hope to get on again tonight. if not, you'll probably catch me on fb b/c i tend to update alot while at disney have a great rest of the day and if you get a chance tomorrow, say a little prayer in remembrance.