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17 September 2014

How has everyone's week been so far?

I've been scarce. Worked Saturday and Sunday then have been/will be working overnights Mon-Thurs, then will work Saturday and Sunday again. So technically have Friday off but since I will be getting off work between 4 and 6am or so on Friday morning it probably won't feel like I have any days off on this 9 day stretch =p Then still homeschooling and just very tired this week. My husband was off Tuesday and will be off Thursday. He tried to do Homeschool while I slept Tuesday but it just wasn't working out that well and I ended up finishing the homeschool for the day. I did manage to sleep from a little after 6am to 11am, so 5hrs isn't bad.

Warning, Mini Vent from an Autistic Child's Mom about her Husband (I love my husband, but he knows better)- I took Tris to Tae Kwon Do yesterday evening for the first time this school year (3rd class this year). Found out that Dad hadn't been making him do the stretching that they are suppose to do during class. He kept arguing with me about why he didn't want to do it. Then when I took him out and told him if he couldn't do the stretching and kept arguing we would have to go- because I wouldn't be able to trust he wouldn't argue with his teacher and not do what he was suppose to be if he was going to argue with his mother about it. He said he would but when we went back in class he told me his knees hurt too bad to stretch (the growth disorder causes some joint issues, but like with any child Tris is not above seeing what he can get away with using it as an excuse). So we got his shoes and left. This of course immediately changed his tune to "I want to stretch, I want to stay" etc... But at this point we'd been struggling over this for 15 minutes and I not going to give in (plus giving in would have cemented the fact that he can get what he wants by arguing and protesting). I found out that the reason Tris was so set on arguing me around was that my husband had been letting him argue him around both classes last week. If hubby had just been firm that he had to do it that very first class it never would have been an issue.

Tris will argue about things but as long as you are firm from the get go he'll do it the way it's being presented as is. In the same form, if you buckle at the get go when he doesn't want to do something that becomes the new way of dealing with it for him. Like any autistic child Tris does not like doing new things or any change in routine. In the Jr Tae Kwon Do class the instructor led stretching, so doing it himself was just outside his comfort zone and too different from the routine of the last two years. If you firmly establish the new routine at the get go it's ok. Sometime that requires a breakdown the first day and then moving past it. With a non autistic child (like our youngest) I understand that maybe allowing them to not do the new thing the first day and ease into the new routine would be a kindness. It's not a kindness with Tristian though- it's establishing the norm for that class and then makes it that much harder to get him comfortable doing it the right way.

So instead of a normal breakdown last week at the change we had a major breakdown this week because we were effectively changing two routine norms now. Of course that was fantastic when we were suppose to be at a going away party during his class for a co-worker. So instead we had to deal with the breakdown, call my parents and pray they could watch him (they could) get him there and then get to the get together half an hour late. Then leave there, go pick up the boys, go home, get ready for work and then go work overnight. After waking up too early in the morning and finishing homeschool. Then Trevor is out of town today at a business meeting so I'm doing homeschool from the get go today and am just totally exhausted. I did leave at 3am last night so I got about another 5hrs of sleep today. Could be worse. Luckily the hours aren't written in stone.

I use to be a GM manager at another store in the same chain and the store we are at now recently had a lot of management change-over. The result is a lot of things having not been done (or done correctly) for way too long. So I am helping the GM here to cycle count overnight and try to get that under control befor the official inventory. The inventory is way out of control, I do not envy the GM manager here at all. The last manager seems to have had a serious issue with not knowing when to pass up a 'good deal' and the result is way too many items with no place to put them and no way to market them all effectively. It's going to take a lot of work to get that under control and probably another person, at least. I would be lying if I didn't say I was glad that person is not going to be me and those days are behind me ;-)

Anyways, so this week is really really exhausting and I've got 5 days to go. I think I may work our hours around so that we have Monday as a day off school... even homeschool mom's need a teachers work day... right? Lol, except it would just be a sleep in and go play at the park day ;-)

Hope everyone is having a great day!

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11 September 2014

How is everyone?

Found a giant blue storage tub of pre-pregnancy clothing from before I was pregnant with my youngest. Sizes range from 2 to 10. So I've been going through and hanging up any in the guest bedroom that are too small, setting aside the too large for a cousin who is a size 10 and putting those that fit in my closet =) Unfortunately any of the jeans that were hemmed to wear with flatter shoes are too short now. I have the same growth disorder my boys have and continued to grow into my 20s, I'm more then an inch and half taller then I was before my youngest's pregnancy when I was 24... Gauging based on the fit of the hemmed pants at least an inch of that growth was in my legs o.0 I guess on the pairs that fit or will fit I could hem up to capris or shorts. Decision for another time. Not a ton of tops in the tub (and those that are tend towards the size 2 rather then size 6 or above) but a lot of skirts and pants. Including some favorite skirts I thought were long lost =) So last night was very fun trying stuff on that wouldn't have fit me in 2013- going to finish that up today.

My oldest took his CLE/GLE Missouri Language Arts standardized tests Tuesday. We use those to fill the record of evaluation requirement in the Missouri Homeschool Laws. He scored in the 98 percentile for 2nd grade with the test placing him in 5th grade. The grade that corresponds with his chronological age in public school- although if we had put him in public school he would have been in First Grade this year. He's a summer baby right before the grade cut off and with his growth disorder, social and motor setbacks we would have put him in where he'd be the oldest and bridge some of the gap rather then the youngest with no hope at being on par with his peers.

The 98 percentile is a little deceptive because one of the disabilities Tristian has is Non Verbal Learning Disability- which is often misdiagnosed as gifted. The children end up with average knowledge and learning ability as they get older, but when they are younger they learn more rapidly and have a higher learning ceiling then their age-wise peers. This is traded off with motor and social problems as well as often having issues with how to communicate what they know- like Tristian's inability to write things down on paper without seeing them first- even if he can say them, form the letters and spell the words. He is physically incapable of taking them directly from his head and putting them on paper without transitioning somewhere else first (that's where the non verbal as the disability name comes from) which in our case means he tells me the words, spells them out and I write them on a chalk board for him to copy. Luckily the tests are taken on the computer and whatever keeps him from physically writing words without seeing them first does not affect his typing. Anyways- against the national averages he looks really high right now, but against peers with his disability he would probably be more normal. Also he will eventually slow down and test more normal as he ages. Only rarely are there children with this disability who are also Gifted, so it's possible he will continue to test above his age-wise peers into adulthood, but not likely.

Anyways, have a great Thursday!

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10 September 2014

How is everyone today?

Yesterday was the first Tae Kwon Do class of this school year for my oldest. He's now in the 7yrs+ class (which ranged from 7 year olds to upper 30s atm) and he is so excited. He's been in the class for 5&6 year olds for the last two years and they don't wear martial arts uniforms. The older class does and he was so excited to put his new uniform on last night.

Tried to bike this morning since we got a late start on homeschool and there is something up with the side of my left calf. The closest description of how it feels is when you sleep wrong on your neck. How it's tense/stretched and if you could just pop your neck it would feel ok again? That's exactly what this feels like, but on the side of my calf muscle on my left leg. I tried popping my knee (I know, I know)- didn't help. So that is kind of odd. Maybe I just slept wrong on it... ;-)

Also, been feeling a bit nauseous since I woke up (main reason for the late start). It rained pretty heavy over the night so I have a feeling that mold counts are mostly to blame for that. I sometimes get nausea with asthma flares (not as uncommon as you'd think, makes some sense with where the muscles asthma screws with are). I didn't think about my lungs until I tried to eat, started gagging and went into an apocalyptic coughing fit o.0 I hate vomiting... trying really hard to avoid that. Probably a loosing battle. I didn't notice until really late that the nausea was worse then the normal upset tummy from waking up with sinuses clogged. By this time there's probably a whole chemical reaction going on in my tummy that isn't going to quit til it's out of there =( Also, realizing it may be a long time before my internal meter gets caught up recognizing asthma flare status. Thought it would be by now but I guess I was so low for more then 3 years and it's going to take more then that to reset.

So biking probably wasn't a great idea today anyways. I did a treatment, have my inhalers sitting on the table next to me and put on an old dress to take pressure off my tummy area =p

Health stuff aside I feel much better today about the property deal. Just going to get it put back together, get the niece moved in and the place on the market.

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!

Weigh-in: 144.4 lb

lost so far: 29.6 lb

still to go: 25.4 lb

Diet followed N/A

(2 comments) gaining 0.2 lb a week

09 September 2014

So... about all I have good to say about the house we finally got to repossess today is that it always could have been worse. Right?

I mean, besides trashing the yard to the extent that it was declared a public health hazard, they put a hole in the new shower that we bought and installed last summer when we remodeled the bathroom (and the hole had to be intentional, you would understand if you were there). They glued crap down to the new countertops we put in last summer... including black painted paneling. And in the words of my best friend, "I'm sorry but it looks like they took a jack hammer to the kitchen backsplash, I just don't see any way to salvage that. It's going to have to be replaced." Then there's the window they left open so that there is mold growing on the entire side of the kitchen wall- just going to have to pull out all the drywall, sanitize the area and replace the drywall. Also, roaches. Now we lived there for 5 years and NEVER saw a roach. EVER. PERIOD. How do you infest a place that had nothing for you to work with starting out with roaches in a year? Needless to say we super bombed the place (and it didn't blow up, contrary to what the instructions warn about...).

So yeah... that is exciting.

Idk even where to go with this journal tbh. Just a little ticked atm so I think I'm just going to sign off here.

Have a good night everyone.

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08 September 2014

How has everyone's day been?

Ours has been good. Second week of homeschool. We are studying about biomes in Science. We did the desert last week and are on the rainforest this week. Fun ;-)

I biked for an hour, so that was nice =)

Not much really going on today, been a nice change from the last few weeks that had a flurry of activity. Tomorrow will be interesting, we can finally take possession of the house we rent out- kind of afraid of what we are going to find out there. The sheriff was finally able to give us a day they could be out there (required by law here when an eviction is court ordered). The renters last paid rent (late) in May and we are just now legally able to get the property back in September- a little ridiculous when there was a contract lease that was up July 1st. I get the court ruling being necessary during lease periods, but I will never understand them being necessary and not allowing self evictions in a state when non renewal notice is not required when a lease is up. If the landlord was required in the state to give notice of non renewal of lease I'd even understand there, but here we aren't- so when the lease is up, it's just up. Requiring to go through the courts in this situation when the lease is up just allows tenants to screw over landlords. It does nothing fairness wise for the tenant, because the lease is up there is only one possible ruling. All it does is drag the cost and time factor out for the landlord.

Anyways, hopefully we will have the property fixed back up and this whole situation behind very soon. The stress from it was insane and the monetary loss is going to pile up for a while more, but we are at the end of the stretch dealing with this- THANK YOU GOD!!!!

Hope everyone has a great evening!

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