The child developent class

I know this was a very educational class for me in high school. My dear daughter is taking this class as she puts it for a third time. But this time around it is a very different class. My teacher retired last year, so this year we have a new younger teacher. Brianna dose not like change so it took a few weeks for her to get accustomed to the new teacher. She had seemed to adjust very well and started to like it a little bit. Then a we had last week. First the class was paired up and each group had to pull a random birth defect out of a bag. The intention was that the group would get a defect that they knew little about and do a report on it and then present to the class.

Guess what she got?

Yep, Spina Bifida. So the group was suppose to research and then do a presentation with visual aids for the class. My little girl goes way over board. She does enough research for a documentary, goes though the baby book and gets personal experiences, then makes copies of pic. with Nat in his different things, and we went though and picked out some of his braces to show what they are. Her partner get to type up the final draft. If you have met my daughter you will know that she struggles with writing so this is very fair for her.

Then today she received a baby. She gets to raise this baby doll for the next week. In our house we haven't had much sleep here lately. We got 2 new puppies last week. They are so cute but they are like any other infant, sleep all day, play all night. Then the girls have been sick for the last week and keeping Mommy up when they are up. So we have spent alot of time doing laundry and bonding in the bath room. Now we still have the puppies, Josie is still sick, and now their is a new born baby doll, no, not too much sleeping will be going on here. I found out this afternoon that she is one of two of the first in the class to take home the baby. They were given the option of doing a report on teen pregnancy or take the baby. Well every one in the class was. Not Brianna. Earlier I mention that Brianna refers to taking the class before, well she says she took the class when Mommy was pregnant, and when she was 1 with Daddy. So the teacher decided that doing a report on teen pregnancy, parenting and the effects on the child would just be copies of her baby book so she wasn't really given the option.

Now Brianna loves babies, so she was very exited to get the baby. but the joy is quickly diminishing. I made her push the cart in the grocery store, load the car, put the cart away while i ran to another store, so she had to push the cart back then take the baby back to the car, make her own dinner, and take the baby to the bath room to try to get a shower.. She says she is still happy to have the baby, but it isn't as fun when you can't hand them off to someone else. The puppies keep thinking she brought them a new lick toy. I wonder how she will be holding up by Sunday, after the football game, work on Sat. and the toddlers coming over for the weekend.
I hope this will be enlightening for her.

Night to all, I'm going to try to get some much needed sleep, before all the needy one interrupt it.

Will the Blaaaas ever leave?

So as I was growing up both of my parents battled depression, but we didn't call it that, it was known as the blaaas. So I have noticed that lately that it seem to creep up on me more and more. I do get up but the joy of seeing the sunrise and set just is not their as often. It seems that I keep moving but do not get the amount of things that I need to done. List are normally my friends but I haven't even been able to settle my brain down enough to write them, much less do them. Today we wrote the first list in over a week, and did not get half of it done! These are things that i should be able to do, but they didn't get done. I come home and ask if my kids are really hungry or can we have cereal or Ice Cream for dinner. How bad is that? I am finding my self going to bed early each night, only too wake up at 2 or 3 and stay awake until 5 then the alarm goes off at 6. I don't seem to even find the energy too do things that I shouldn't Like read, or watch t.v. when I should be working or doing laundry. I have food going to waste because I didn't cook for this week on Sunday and I just don't want to deal with it tonight. I had a job interview and I felt so bummed about after and I just don't quite know why. I have never had an interview and not had a job offer but I don't think that I will be having a call back. How negative is that? I need to do something fun, crazy, or rewarding just to get me out of this mood I am in? Can anything come to mind that doesn't take energy, because I just don't have it right now.

On a very cool note, I have a painting from the grandfather of my childhood, that I adore. It is one of my most prized possessions. My dad has been on a big "hang the art" kick. The painting had come loose from the frame, and my parents had started a ocean room that it would look so cool in, so I took it to them and asked if they wanted to hang it, they did and so they took it to have it re framed. Yesterday they come home with the painting re framed and another one blown up and framed. It is just perfect, I started crying. Now I have the original little one and a big poster size one. I just need to find somewhere to hang it.

We have had a very busy week, and I think it might be coming to a close. Thank Goodness!!!

I am a pretty decent cook, But after the week of non stop going I totally messed up many parts of dinner. I went to the store to walk aimlessly up and down the isles, hoping that dinner would just jump into the cart for me. Nope didn't happen so Jo and I decided to have chicken fried steak, corn and mashed potatoes. Quick easy and conforting, we also each got a pint of our favorite ice cream. pretty good right? well we get home and we have many people. So I try to start dinner, I burnt the garlic, pizza for the kids and others who wonder through the door, the butter for the gravy, and forgot to put the ice cream away. If you know me you know that I like soft ice cream, but this was soup. This was not my night! I think it is time for bed!!!

Off to dream land I hope.

I am Back!!!!

I am a bit computer challenged. But the last couple of months have made being online and doing anything with the computer very hard. About 2 0r 3 months age our Internet at home started to be very intermittent. My dad finally got help and we were told that we needed a new router. So off to best buy he goes, gets what ever they tell him he needs and brings it home. There it sits for about a week while my parents keep looking at it.

So my VERY computer illiterate father decides he can install it. Umm did I ever tell you that my dad has severe memory issues? So he goes and installs it and the desktop is working great! Yea Dad. Now can we get on the Internet? Nope, not any of the lap tops can. So another week or so goes by and still no one can get on. I have had a hard time at work with the computer, fan printer, and basically anything that takes electricity.

So tonight I am fed up with all electrical thingies. I will master the Internet issue! So I start tinkering, and running diagnosis, and trying the factory password, then I try the password that My Dad reset it to. Well he always uses my name because he thinks he would never forget it. So off I go and typing my name, you know easy, I couldn't even mess that password up. Nope, not it the password had to be 8 charters long and Faline is only 6 long. So what now.

I gave up on trying to guess what he renamed it to, so I reset it and started the installation process all over again and I got to choose the password. Just to be a little shit to my Dear Dad I choose ......



donotforget

Now we are back on line and you all know our password so if I have this problem again I can get on somewhere and find it out.

Oh and my computer monitor at work has decided that it quit and will not turn on, so no computer there either.

I think the computers have been hanging out with my kids too long, they follow directions about the same.