How do you spell the sound a cricket makes?

• Our yard is rife with Morning Glory seeds and sprouts. I am hoping they will all come up and we will just be crawling in color. I am pretty sure the ones along the front stoop will, less so about the ones in the backyard where our towering tree (with whom I have a love/hate relationship) shades most the yard for most the day.
• My time is being eaten up week by week and while I like being busy, I am also finding myself falling behind in some of the things that really ought to be done. Sometimes though, people ask me what is taking up my time and I feel like I don't have an answer. Today I decided to make a list for my own sake. I will share it with you, beause I am sure you are dying to know: 1. the kids (of course), 2. working out/taking a lot of classes at the Y (this week I tried out three new ones, plus the one I have been doing: Body Pump (have been doing for about 6 weeks now), Core Conditioning, Cardio Dance, and Body Sculpt). I find the classes MUCH more fun and motivating. Plus, who doesn't like to burn calories while doing the Dougie?, 3. Chalice Circle (although tonight was the last one until fall), 4. The DS Parent Group (we only meet once a month, but there's always this or that to do for that), 5. Poety Group (we've dropped to every other week, but it stills takes up time. I am thinking about dropping this though b/c it turns out I stopped writing poetry for a reason--it just doesn't speak to me in the same way anymore. Writing it, I mean. I HAVE found that I miss reading it.), 6. I have been seeing a PT for my bum hip and a few other docs which have been taking up time, too.
• Wait. Why did I list this out?
• Oh, I am also doing book reviews for BlogHer (as referenced in my last post), and while I love it, reading the books takes up some down time, too.
• Why is it so hard to find a decent, not entirely ridiculously expensive, rug?
• Had G's IEP meeting last week. No surprises, which is EXACTLY WHAT WE WANTED!!! G will be going up the street to her home school next year. This will be her fourth school in two years!! Turns out she went to her first private church preschool with her new teacher's son and two of the other kids from that school will be joining her as well. THAT is what going to school in your community means!! THAT is a big reason why we want her to go to school with the other kids from her neighborhood--so she has the opportunity to meet and grow up with the kids from around the way.
• G has made SO MUCH progress this year and we are EXTREMELY proud of her. She is now coloring and painting (she really hated that stuff before) often, she is talking SO much more (though it is still one of her biggest challenges), and she is really pushing past a lot of other obstacles.
• That said, the anxiety is still a big bummer. It really--REALLY--sucks to not be able to bring your kid to parties...or even regular old places like the grocery storee...without there being an issue. Not that there's ALWAYS an issue, but it is so painful for her that we generally don't push it. If we go to the store, it's and in and out kind of thing. When we are walking to the park together if we come upon adults (kids she is fine with) she doesn't know her hands go up to her face or she runs the other way.
• That said, did you catch that? She's WALKING TO THE PARK WITH US! I am still over the moon about this. Almost four and a half years it took, but I can now say "Hey, Alex, Georgia and I are going to the park, see you later!" And walk out the door with my daughter and take her to the park and back.
• Turns out G's SLP lives two streets over from us and she LOVES (LOVES LOVES LOVES) her SLP from school. I honestly think if she could she would go and live with Miss Dana. I don't know how we didn't realize it, but it came up at the IEP meeting. The next day who she would stumble upon walking her dogs (while Georgia and I were WALKING to the park)?? Miss D! You should have seen the look on Georgia's face! Thankfully, Miss D seems to love G as well and she has alreay emailed me promises of playdates after school gets out.
• Let's talk about Rainer. He is getting so BIG! I mean, big and grown up and WHERE'S MY BABY?? He is really pretty awesome. I mean, he has his days, but the kid is just a sweetheart. (It helps that when I come home he acts like a doting puppy and shouts something like, "Look, Daddy! It's Mommy! Mommy's home! Hooray!!!" (I kid you not, he says "hooray!" up my arrival. Who wouldn't be in love with that?)
• Runnnnnning ooooout of steam here.
• Will try to be a better blogger. Since all.....what? Are the crickets not even reading anymore??

Comments

[Meghan]

I will never stop reading! Try a home consignment store for rugs. We have one here called Home Consignment Center. It's not free or anything, but the selection in ours is always good and it's way less than retail.

[Jen]

I'm still reading! Sometimes I fall behind & have to catch up on all my blogs a couple weeks-worth in a couple of days, but I'm still here. :) And as for good rugs, have you tried World Market? They have a fun selection and their prices aren't bad. Also, csnstores.com has all kinds of neat things. :) Happy hunting!

[Tommie]

Being a parent is sometimes all about the busy-work. I think we all get that. Add in iep meetings, other support groups and sometimes the busyness is overwhelming. Just wanted you to know I'm still reading too, whenever you choose to post.

[Kate]

It's cheesy, but try Ikea for a rug. They have a wide span--some are quite expensive, to be sure, but some are really very affordable! (Like $15 for 6 x 4 or something...)

[Nora Sawyer]

cheep!

Are there any Costcos near you? Because they had some decent looking rugs the last time we were there. (And when did I become such a square, anyway? Costco!?).

[Elizabeth]

I am so excited she is walking to the park!. Go Georgia! I knew she would do it. I knew it.

Everyone seems to buy rugs from overstock.com, so I'd look there?

[Chrystal]

OMG, I am so Dougie'ing over here. Playing catch up, but now your FB post from way back when makes so much more sense! I love that you love your classes!