update

Yesterday my baby Nathaniel had his tonsils out. I was completely stressed out. He came through OK with no problems, except that he didn't want to wake up from the anesthesia :) That's my boy. Knows how to sleep that is for sure. He is eating alot of mashed potatoes so far, but not really enjoying the popsicles. On the way home yesterday we got a milk shake for him, and he enjoyed that. This morning his throat and jaw are swollen but not drastically. I had the alarm set last night for 1230 and 430 to give him his pain medicine. I don't want to give him the chance to come off of it until later this afternoon. I wanted to get him eating before I do. It's gonna be an interesting couple of weeks.

Tomorrow we go for our follow up appt with Dr Knowles, Garret's neurologist. I'm not overly concerned with this, as I figure if there were anything terrible they would have called us before now. We recently have been given a diagnosis of PDD, Pervasive Developmental Disorder. This is on top of the anxiety disorder and the sensory disruption. Basically it is all rolled into one. Theoretically I suppose they could have found something on the MRI that is indicative or treatable and is related to this. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

I have spent today putting together our lesson plans for this coming school year. Our new year will be starting the first week of April. I have done things much easier this year (as far as planning goes) but I also think it is more inclusive than the hodge-podge we used this year. I'll post my choices later.

Time to go make some dinner. Any idea how hard it is to creatively feed a child who can't swallow anything harder than mashed potatoes???

long time no see

Well, it sure has been a while since I was on here. Sorry about that. Life gets in the way sometimes. Sometimes I simply have nothing to say, but usually life is to blame.

Every now and then I feel like I need to reconnect. This really doesn't make much sense to me, seeing as I am connected to just about everyone I know via facebook, text messaging, email, etc. But there are times when I feel like this digital age is not enough. I want to connect to PEOPLE, not words on a computer screen. I want to be able to actually hang out with friends and play REAL games, like Sorry and Sagarian and Password. Maybe even play Farkle with REAL DICE. (yes, it actually exists... Santa put one in my husbands Christmas stocking this year :D) I've never been much for the bar scene. I prefer to have people over. Have some drinks, have some snacks, watch a movie or something. The problem with this is everyone is SO BUSY. Everyone has so many things to do it is simply ridiculous. Between baseball games and work and school and doctors and shopping and family obligations it simply never ends. People these days just don't slow down enough to relax.

I'm not innocent here. I, too, have lots going on and it makes it difficult to do as much as I would like.

I guess for now I will simply have to make do with chatting on yahoo or keeping up with friends on facebook. Maybe once it is warmer people will be more apt to get out and about for purely social reasons.