Wedgie Free

I went underwear shopping for Lauren. She is very thin and weights ninety-eight pounds therefore she wears clothes in the 7-16 girls section,even though she is sixteen years old and certainly done growing. I am very thankful for the fact that she is so thin because hauling a stiff , uncooperative, CP body around is one thing but if that same body weighted twenty pounds more it would be a completely different thing altogether. Anyway I found the pretty, very girly, with flowers, lace, and cute little designs all over panties. One of the national name brands had printed in large lettering, on the front of the package "wedgie free guarantee". I think that Lauren with her lack of coordination, stiff fingers, and little resistance control can manage to give herself a wedgie with no problem and I am pretty sure that these panties will prove to be the same as all of the other ones she has had. I wonder if there is a money back guarantee that goes along with that statement here as well?

Paperwork

Paperwork is something that NEVER ends here. It is the end of the month so the bills have to get paid, then there is tax paperwork that finally went to the accountant yesterday, the profit and lose paperwork for Dad`s business needs to get done so we can pay some more taxes, and then there is the stuff that is always there to be done for the kids. I just figured out who is working when for the next month, however that may have to be changed depending on the outcome of two meetings that take place next week. I figured out payroll and got that ready to be signed and turned in.

I had to get all of this done this afternoon as Paul was gone to therapy therefore out of my office.

After I finished with all of that I looked at the schedule for the next three months and decided that I had better just take things one at a time otherwise I would be overloaded and nothing will get done.

To make my day even more fun Hanna has "girl issues" again, sigh. That means until about Wednesday I will have to try to get things done with her super nasty attitude in my face all of the time.

I am going to go help Karre make tarts for a birthday party she is going to. They are playing a mystery crime game where everyone dresses up as a character and they try to figure out who done it. The time period of the event is the 1920`s. It sounds like great fun four some sixteen and seventeen year old kids. Karre did some research and decided that tarts would be something served at a party during that time period so we make tarts.

PJ Day

It is PJ Day at Paul`s school. I do not find any issue with the idea of having that event when they are talking about bedtime in the classroom, but do they have to have it when it is -9 degrees outside?

I made Paul wear long johns under his pjs, but he was not happy at all with that idea. He does not understand why he is wearing two pair of clothes and he does not like the feel of it at all. The other thing he was all bonkers about is that I made him wear socks and shoes with his pjs and of course he never wears those things at bedtime.

Maybe they should learn about bedtime at the beginning of the school year when it is still usually warm outside.

Chilled Just A Bit

It is a little bit chilly here this morning, okay it is down right cold outside but the sun is shining and it will warm up in time. Two of my kids had chilly issues this morning as well.

Hanna ate a frozen croissant, yes it was really frozen, straight from the freezer. I have no idea why she did not put it in the microwave as she usually does. When I told her to stop eating that and warm it up she stuffed the whole thing in her mouth. Eating frozen croissants does a wonderful job of destroying the orthodontic work in the mouth, guess we will be making a trip to Gillette much sooner than I would like. Sometimes I think the mess in her brain rearranges itself every day.

When I took Paul out to wait for the bus he was trying to march on the ice. He fell down several times, he slipped and slid but kept right on trying, and then he says "this to hard for big boys I be little". I think he better just practice his marching in the gym at school until the ice is gone.

My Little Boy

Here is Paul talking to his new little buddy Baby Andrew. Andrew is our PCA Angie`s baby. He came into the world a little early and was tiny, but he is growing and Paul is still trying to figure him out. He is always telling him "it`s okay baby, don`t cry". and his way of saying he has had enough of the baby is "you go home with Angie, okay baby". I guess he still wants to be the baby around here..

Today when Dad came home from work Paul crashed into him asking if he wanted to play cars. Dad told him that he wanted to eat lunch and use the bathroom first.

Paul says "you a big boy daddy, you go potty, good boy now".

I guess I have given him the big boy potty talk enough if he is going to use it on his dad.

Awesome Kid

Yesterday I went and got groceries more then $500. worth so after spending all of that money and hauling all of that stuff around you would think that I would have everything here that I needed to spend the afternoon preparing meals to go into the freezer, not quite I forgot to buy corn.

After taking a really good look at my schedule for the next three months I decided that I had better get busy and get some meals prepared and in the freezer as things are going to get really busy. I was really on task and getting things done when I discovered that I did not have the corn for the hot dish I was making so I asked Karre to run to the store and get four cans of corn.

Karre being the awesome kid she is decided that she was going to take all four of her younger siblings along with her to the store. No one told her that she had to take any of them with her as she was not working and taking them along is a LOT of extra work.

She had to make sure that Allen and Paul had used the bathroom
get Hanna to put her shoes on the right feet
get shoes on both Allen and Paul
get leg braces and shoes on Lauren
get winter garb, coats, hats, and mittens on all four of them
get them all into the van seat belts, in car seats, and Lauren`s wheelchair
get them all out, take them into the store, load Paul into a cart, Allen pushes the cart, have Hanna hang onto cart so she does not steal anything and Lauren follows with her wheelchair.
get them all back into the van again
get wet shoes and winter garb off and hung up again

Then they all come traipsing into the kitchen Lauren, Allen, Hanna, and Paul each carrying one can of corn, and Karre says "I was not going to let them all have their own bags so I let them just carry the cans that way".

I had a good chuckle at that awesome Karre who took the time to make an adventure out of getting four cans of corn.

I Can Not Fix It

Hanna has done something that is socially not acceptable and then some kids were being rude and making fun of her for doing it, (of course they made sure there were no adults to catch the action). That is the way some kids are, they enjoy creating trouble whenever possible. Hanna has no boundaries and is not able to figure out the possible consequences of her actions until it is to late.

She is furious with Mom and Dad because those kids were mean to her. We were not there when this all took place and she certainly should be angry at those who hurt her feelings, but then again maybe it is better to take it out on us because she does not know when enough is enough.

This is an all to familiar situation with her and it is unfortunate that kids can be so cruel. There are also adults out there who will do the same things and because Hanna is different some of those people will always be out there to hurt her. Will she learn how to stop and think before she acts? Most likely not because she does not have that ability. This is why she always needs to have someone else to help her run her life, every single day of it.

I wish I could fix it so that she would not get hurt but I can`t do that so I will just have to let here scream at me for the rest of the evening. She will have forgotten all about this whole thing by morning, that is unless those kids bother her again, sigh.