Sick and Heathly; Mom and more

Welcome to any new readers out there……hopefully today’s post will satisfy some interests.

I’m having a bit of a identity thing today not so much a crisis but one of those days where the weight of all of the parts of my life are colliding so instead of dealing directly with any one I’ve decided to take some time to catch up my reader with all that is happening here in dear old Wisconsin.

Well this morning I found myself answering the question of “how are you this morning” with “ I’ll have a chest x-ray with a slice of pink-eye”. Griffin was to have a follow up on his latest bout with pneumonia ad Holly woke up with a pussy, puffy, pinky eye. So Bill, bless him, took them both to the doctor. Griffin didn’t have an x-ray and was pronounced clear and holly was pronounced gooey-eyed and sent home with eye drops and had to stay home which for those of you who follow this will see that Bill and I have to use more of our benefit time which is diminishing fast. Work today, and all of last week, although better than most times that one of our biggest district has Spring break, was to be a bit hectic.

I work for an agency that supports the idea of inclusion of children with special needs in childcare settings. I have a caseload of children that I follow their progress in their day care, summer day camps and other such programs throughout the year. On days that school is not in session we have more kids with more services happening. This means we are busier. One particular program insists that we need to come out and watch them take a young man to the bathroom. For a non-profit with huge budget short falls this is a costly and wasteful thing seeing that all that happens is that they take him into the bathroom and convince him to go (all totally his work) occasionally they have to change his wet pull up which he does most of but they are so afraid that they will get in trouble legally we have to go watch. So for me today that meant I had to go out twice which meant that I had to drive a total of 1 hour (four 15 minute trips) for two 5-15 minute visits. Which is an approximate cost of $36.38 or 4 hours of paraprofessional time with another child who may need it more. Silly really.

Meanwhile I am headed home to put a DVD in so I can work on my home computer and get some stuff done that has been waiting to get done. I don’t feel like a “good mother” for having my daughter watch movies while I work when she is home with pink-eye.

Well now that time has passed we have discovered that Holly has more than simple pink-eye and has spiked a 102 degree temp. Great now I feel worse and there goes more benefit time.

On another note I became an aunt again last Monday to a beautiful baby boy. I have yet to meet him because of sick kids. We were supposed to take the long holiday weekend and go pamper the new Moms and distract the big sister but a new Bay needs to not get exposed to what ever my two kids are brewing. So we stayed home. My parents should be there now helping out. With the busyness of the up coming months schedules I don’t know when I’ll get to meet him.

Tomorrow I will be at home for a while at least and hope to be able to post some more I have plenty of thoughts on stuff about mothers and some intereing thoughts having just seen the real outtakes from The Incredibles