yes, strings attached

So yesterday, I posted about LP’s fourth birthday, how smoothly it went, how I hardly even paused a moment to help him hiccup over the transition, or myself really. I didn’t spend hours remembering his birth – just a moment or two – and I wondered why exactly that was when with my other two [...]

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marked all as read in google reader…

all of ‘em. I’ve been frazzled, busy, having fun and doing end of school year chores and making plots and plans for summer, trying to buy a new vehicle and following election results (!!!). Me and what seems like 150 of my closest people are all in varying states of transition, which is mildly stressful [...]

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marked all as read in google reader…

all of ‘em. I’ve been frazzled, busy, having fun and doing end of school year chores and making plots and plans for summer, trying to buy a new vehicle and following election results (!!!). Me and what seems like 150 of my closest people are all in varying states of transition, which is mildly stressful [...]

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Sitting on my hands

Yesterday was our big OT evaluation at the children’s hospital. LP was feeling non-compliant. A little bit oppositional perhaps. It was, in fact, his nap time, but I wanted the opening. I took it. Apparently, I had made some sort of unconscious choice. I noticed myself helping him less – significantly less – than I [...]

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Sensory Sunday: Heartbreak Edition

Recorded after Valentine’s Day at preschool, celebrated by a mother-child tea. My day was hard. Seeing LP at school sort of blew my world apart. I find I don’t spend lots of time with other kids his age. We both find it exhausting. Apparently, he does very well at school. However, today was quite difficult [...]

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Sensory Issues Saturday: The Good and The Bad

So, it’s time to share. The life of Little Puppy thus far has been a puzzle, an uphill puzzle. One piece that has just placed itself is his Sensory Profile. The Good: What we learned by filling out a short questionnaire is that he experiences noise, motion and sound as stress. The questionnaire asked me [...]

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That time when Motherhood kicked my ass – and I kicked back. Part Two

Apparently, a baby can have GERD that is silent. Not silent as in quiet or absence of noise, but silent as in no vomit or spit up. I think at this point LP had spit up maybe 5 times in 4 months. So, spitty he was not. However, if a baby throws up inside his [...]

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That time when Motherhood kicked my ass – and I kicked back. Part One.

Did I ever tell you about Little Puppy? I mean really, all of it? He was born June 04. It was an easy labor – really easy. I started of 5cm dilated in prodromal labor, the kind that is non-patterned and not hurting. I arrived at the hospital in the wee hours of the morning [...]

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By the way….

His EEG was yesterday. I was very focused on the process. We kept him up until 11:15pm and woke him at 6. He had no food or liquids from 10pm onwards. He was sedated (yes, it took two doses), hooked up, monitored, woken and monitored with big flashing lights and sounds. Dear Matt took him. [...]

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The week taken to bits, part the second

Congratulate me, friends. Against all odds, we made it to Chess Club at the library yesterday, which meant bravely shifting nap schedules around for the sake of Thinker’s love of the game. As the much oldest child of our family lots of his passions seemingly fly out of nowhere from the perspective of my toddler-vision. [...]

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