Hello – I am trying to find to post daily again.   I need to start making my to do lists!!!  I have so much I want to get done before the summer vacation starts.  I am de-cluttering each room of my house.   I have the vets coming for a pick up again on May 19th.  I did a huge donatation last month.  I still have plenty to fling!

I was up and out the door at a reasonable time this morning.  I am hoping to work 6 hours today.   This week I am focusing on my bathroom and computer room, jsut like flylady zomes!    Last night I scrubbed my tub real well.  

Well I best get a to do list done and get busy!

Figure out YMCA schedule for Erik
Call VETS for Pick up
Fax Daycare form
Weekly Cleaning
     Sheets
     Dust & Vacuum
     Sweep & Mop
     Mirrors & Doors
     Clean the Computer Desk
     Check Bathroom Supplies and Replenish
     Clean out Under Sink
Bedtime Routine

Hello – I am trying to find to post daily again.   I need to start making my to do lists!!!  I have so much I want to get done before the summer vacation starts.  I am de-cluttering each room of my house.   I have the vets coming for a pick up again on May 19th.  I did a huge donatation last month.  I still have plenty to fling!

I was up and out the door at a reasonable time this morning.  I am hoping to work 6 hours today.   This week I am focusing on my bathroom and computer room, jsut like flylady zomes!    Last night I scrubbed my tub real well.  

Well I best get a to do list done and get busy!

Figure out YMCA schedule for Erik
Call VETS for Pick up
Fax Daycare form
Weekly Cleaning
     Sheets
     Dust & Vacuum
     Sweep & Mop
     Mirrors & Doors
     Clean the Computer Desk
     Check Bathroom Supplies and Replenish
     Clean out Under Sink
Bedtime Routine

Time has slipped away from me again and I haven’t updated.   Let’s see, if I can recap last week for you.

MONDAY –

We bought a new 2000 Blazer/Trail Blazer.  Brought it home and took it stright to our regular car dealership to have it inspected.   Chiropractor appointment and spinal class.  Reviewed my x-rays and I have two major areas that need adjusting.   My car insurance should pay for a majority of my treatment.  I think it is important to take care of this while I am younger. 

TUESDAY –

Chiro and Spinal class again.  Worked some…..gee can’t remember much else.

WEDNESDAY –

Chiro appointment after work.  I actually went to FamiliesFirst at church for the first time in a month or so.   Wow..can it really be a month since my accident.  Argh…I want my life back!!!

THURSDAY-

Maundy Thursday – work a partial day and stop at Northwestern Book Store on the way to work to get a 1st Communion gift for Erik.   We went to Maundy Thrusday service and shared Erik’s first communion with him.  I was in great pain after that so I took a muscle relaxant and percocet and went to bed.   Erik came home with us after service for his weekend visitation with us.

FRIDAY – I had to take Friday off since daycare was closed.   I finally went buy some Easter things for the kids.  ARGH….it is very unlike me to be so behind.   The rest of the day we jsut stayed around home.

SATURDAY – we went to the Easter Egg Hunt at church, got groceries.   Tommy and i took a little nap.   Josh had a bonfire with his friends.  

SUNDAY – went to church.  The sermon had me i tears…I hate crying in public.  He talked about how a friend of ours had died that previous morning.  I had not known she had died.  She had been in our Families First Progam with us a few years ago.  She had been battling cancer for the last two years.  We took her meals during Chemo, etc.  She was a wonderful person and only 35.  She was survived by three children and her hubby.   It was so sad.  Her oldest son was from a previous marriage and he had lost his father to cancer when he was younger.   Now to also lose your mother and he is only 16.  He is friend with my son Joshua.  She had two small children as well.   

Sunday we took naps….common theme on weekends around here.  Tommy hasn’t been sleeping though the night again so I try to catch up on sleep when I can.  We went to a Easter Brunch with my hubby’s family.   After the brunch my BIL & SIL and kids came over to play until bedtime. 

not exciting…..but caught up!!  LOL!!        

Time has slipped away from me again and I haven’t updated.   Let’s see, if I can recap last week for you.

MONDAY –

We bought a new 2000 Blazer/Trail Blazer.  Brought it home and took it stright to our regular car dealership to have it inspected.   Chiropractor appointment and spinal class.  Reviewed my x-rays and I have two major areas that need adjusting.   My car insurance should pay for a majority of my treatment.  I think it is important to take care of this while I am younger. 

TUESDAY –

Chiro and Spinal class again.  Worked some…..gee can’t remember much else.

WEDNESDAY –

Chiro appointment after work.  I actually went to FamiliesFirst at church for the first time in a month or so.   Wow..can it really be a month since my accident.  Argh…I want my life back!!!

THURSDAY-

Maundy Thursday – work a partial day and stop at Northwestern Book Store on the way to work to get a 1st Communion gift for Erik.   We went to Maundy Thrusday service and shared Erik’s first communion with him.  I was in great pain after that so I took a muscle relaxant and percocet and went to bed.   Erik came home with us after service for his weekend visitation with us.

FRIDAY – I had to take Friday off since daycare was closed.   I finally went buy some Easter things for the kids.  ARGH….it is very unlike me to be so behind.   The rest of the day we jsut stayed around home.

SATURDAY – we went to the Easter Egg Hunt at church, got groceries.   Tommy and i took a little nap.   Josh had a bonfire with his friends.  

SUNDAY – went to church.  The sermon had me i tears…I hate crying in public.  He talked about how a friend of ours had died that previous morning.  I had not known she had died.  She had been in our Families First Progam with us a few years ago.  She had been battling cancer for the last two years.  We took her meals during Chemo, etc.  She was a wonderful person and only 35.  She was survived by three children and her hubby.   It was so sad.  Her oldest son was from a previous marriage and he had lost his father to cancer when he was younger.   Now to also lose your mother and he is only 16.  He is friend with my son Joshua.  She had two small children as well.   

Sunday we took naps….common theme on weekends around here.  Tommy hasn’t been sleeping though the night again so I try to catch up on sleep when I can.  We went to a Easter Brunch with my hubby’s family.   After the brunch my BIL & SIL and kids came over to play until bedtime. 

not exciting…..but caught up!!  LOL!!        

Silly Tommy story….

He is such a sponge.    Tonight I was cleaning his room and I had a box in the hallway.  he went up to the box and said something…I couldn’t figure out what he said.  He repeated and I finally got it….he wasn’t speaking english!!! LOL!!!  

He said “Mi Casa”.  He wanted the box to be his house..>LOL!!  I have no idea where this comes from.  It has to be Dora the Explorer but how can you pick up so much from a little show.  

Speaking of Shows….I am working on limiting his TV watching even more.   After hearing again the research about the link of small children watching TV and the increase of chance of having ADD.   My stepson is the prime example!!    I want to do all I can to limit the chance of Tommy having similar problems.  So tonight instead of watching a little video in my bed before he goes to sleep.  We took a bag of books and crawled into my bed to read….I hope this will catch on as well. 

I do sometimes have him watch a video while I make supper if I am home alone.   He does watch TV at daycare too…so I think that is enough.   

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OUR DAY……………………………

Tommy enjoyed sitting with the Easter Bunny.  He sat beside him 5
times and when I would remove him he would scream.

Mommy and Tommy looking for Eggs.

My bag is full Mommy…..can I open my eggs yet???

While waiting for Erik’s egg hunt to start we all played in the nursery.
Erik, Tommy, Amy (Josh’s GF) and Josh

Erik getting ready to start his scavenger hunt.   Josh and Amy helped him
out with it a bit.

Then we gave AMy a ride home and stopped at the grocery store to get some treats
as Josh was having a bonfire tonight with his friends.

Hubby and I have the egg Hunt ready for our older two boys in the morning.  We tried to make the clues harder for them this year.  It is getting harder to trick Josh!!  Tommy has his own little egg hunt on the front lawn.  We didn’t get a chance to dye our eggs today, but will do them tomorrow after church hopefully.

I hope you all have a great Easter.

HAPPY EASTER!

 Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from the Easter Bunny

 Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
 The best things in life are still sweet and gooey
 Walk softly and carry a big carrot
 Good things come in small sugarcoated packages
 Everyone needs a friend who is all ears
There’s no such thing as too much candy
 Keep your paws off other people’s jelly beans
 Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day
 All work and no play can make you a basket case
 A cute little tail attracts a lot of attention
 The grass is always greener in someone else’s basket
 An Easter bonnet can tame even the wildest hare
 To show your true colors you have to come out of your shell Some body
 parts should be floppy Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits

 Happy Easter!

CLoudi –  Erik has been stealing for a few years.  It now has gotten very compulsive and out of control.   He steals numerous times in a row while be punished.  He steals from siblings, parents, cousins, grandparents, neighbors houses, stores.   We have all exhausted ideas on getting him to stop.   He has always had special needs – he is developmentally disabled (low IQ) and has ADD for which he takes medication.  Now they have added the diagnosis of Anxiety Disorder with kleptomania (steals).   He also lies very frequently.   This is a problem in all settings, school, community, our house , his mothers.   Erik is the middle boy.  He is my stepson.   He will be moving in with us for the summer soon.   Should be interesting.  

Argh….don’t you hate it when you write a long blog…and the xanga god eat it!!!  Argh!!!

Here goes again……….The weekend was ok.  I was able to do the dishes on Saturday, though it took me most of the day.  I could only do a bit at a time.   Sunday I cleared off the dining room table and did laundry.  

MONDAY……

I had a chiro appt. this morning.   I was late and he didn’t seem to like that much.   He reviewed my X-rays with me.   I do not have the correct curvature of my neck, my lower back is wrong as well and my spine is not centered correctly.   I have to go again tomorrow to finish the rest of this report process.  He will talk to me tomorrow about the actual treatment plan for me.   I have to be there even earlier tomorrow and I better not be late.   I was in a fair amount of pain following the adjustment today.  I hope tomorrow goes better since I want to go to work tomorrow.

After my appointment I updated my checkbook.  Then my hubby wanted to go test drive the blazer at the dealership again.   We ended up purchasing a 2000 Chevy Blazer – Trailblazer.    It is like my old truck with a few additions we didn’t even know about until after we bought it.   It has auto start (nice for cold winters), On-Star and a CD Player otherwise it has the features my other blazer had.   It has quite a few less miles than mine had.   I think we got a pretty good deal on it.  Now my new truck is at a different dealership.  The one we normally go to, to get a good looking over it for repairs, etc.   I should be able to pick it up sometime tomorrow depending on what is needed to be repaired.  

Then we went to Toy R US to buy a new carseat for Tommy since his was in the accident.   We ended up buying the floor model for $10.00 off since they didn’t have any in stock.  This was the second time we went to buy this car seat!  They are always sold out.

Erik had his first appointment with the Psychologist to address his stealing last Friday.  They gave him more diagnosed to add to his growing list.  He is now also diagnosed with anxiety disorder with kleptomania.   Hmm….that would explain the stealing…LOL!.   They recommend something called Thought Field Therapy, which we are still reading up on.  We are not so sure about it.  I am asking around to others that work in my field and children’s mental health to see what their experience with the therapy is.   I was reading some very contradictor things.   Either Paul or I will be sure to be at the next appt.   Neither of us could go to the first one and the next one is the same day I have to take three clients to the hospital for surgery.  I haveto have them at the hospital at 6:30am so I hope to be out in time for Eriks appt.   We didn’t schedule Erik’s appts.  his bio mom did and she wouldn’t be aware of conflicts.  So hopefully one of us can go.   My hubby wants it to be me, but that can’t always be the case.   That is entirely a different blog…LOL!! 

Well I best wake up hubby and see if he will give Tommy a bath for me.   He is having his second nap for the day, hubby that is.   I think I will try to wash a couple of dishes and then head to bed early since I have to be at the chiro early tomorrow.   Later All!!  

I have about 1/4 of my dining room table cleared off.   Now it is time to sit a bit as my back does hurt a lot today.  I finally took all my pampered chef items out of the boxes and stored them.  Hubby pot my new stones up in the cupboard for me.   THey aren’t ones I will use that often.    I took some meds a while ago, but continue to have a bad headache.   I have another chiropractor appointment on Monday morning at 8:30.  I doubt I will be able to work after it.  

Later!!  I am going to lay down and watch TV.  I am watching Hardballs on TNT.