*Moo - B'H, Moo is doing very well.  We switched SEITs and found a perfect match.  He has started really participating in school and really thriving.  For the first time a couple of weeks ago, he responded to and expanded on a class discussion.  This is such a big deal.  Before, class discussion time was, at best, a wash for him.  If they could get ( Read more... )

I struggle a lot with what I should post publicly and what I should keep to myself or friends-only.  Then, I see ho wmedia portrays "reality," and what we should be trying to live up to, and I decide on fuller disclosure.  So much of what I feel and experience is raw and not pretty.  I wonder if someone out there is feeling the same way or ( Read more... )

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I was making someone a sympathy card (using stamps and such) and Moo asked what I was doing.  I explained that I was making a card for my friend because her Mommy went to Shamayim and she is sad.

Moo said, "With Adelle Shayna?  She's coming with Moshiach?"

"Yes, but she's very sad until she comes back."

So he said, "I want to make a picture to make ( Read more... )

Miss me?  You know you did. 
ANYWAY.  I'm in this rather odd state of mind where I oscillate between being overwhelmingly busy and lapsing into periods of staring off into space.  I feel like my brain is just not functioning properly and I spend a lot of time feeling clueless and awkward.  I imagine this has a lot to do with lack of sleep and That ( Read more... )

Today Moo had his second session of Play therapy.  His Therapist's name is Mimi and when I told him, "We're going to play with Mimi," it registered, but he *also* heard, "We're going to play with Minnie," and when we were done with Therapy asked when were going to see Minnie Mouse.
Anyway.  After the first session I thought it was a bunch of hooey ( Read more... )

I don't know if you know this, but my Moo-pie is the most delightful, adorable, funniest person that has ever walked the earth.  Today we were both having kind of a rough time - him because he's little and me because I'm stressed out.  He was screaming and reaching for random things and I would give them to him and he would scream more and he was ( Read more... )

I went to Flatbush today.  Hubby's boss had emailed him and told him to be on-call (and then never called or emailed today.  Sigh.) so, I took the monkeybear with me.  He was AMAZING on the subway, which was great because I was most worried about the 1 hour subway ride but he was totally happy in the stroller eating and watching the world go by.
My ( Read more... )

*Yesterday was pretty much made of awesome, despite Moo sleeping until 1something PM.  Moo went to a Gymboree make-up class and then  stayed for playgym and after that we headed toward Lincoln Square to go to B&N and meet Mel Brooks!  On the way I stopped and bought myself an adorable pair of mittengloves - moves? glittens?  Ooh, glittens.  After ( Read more... )

Did I think tempura was a good idea?  I know why.  Because I have delightfully fond memories of tempura.  Of the Japanese restaurant in EPCOT. The waitress (in her kimono) brought me kid's chopsticks (which I kept for years and years and years until the rubber band dissolved).  Tempura, you have forsaken me.
The truth is, I can't eat fried food ( Read more... )