Rigmarole

Rigmarole... I'm not even sure that's how you spell it, but it's a pain.

Sometimes I just wish things were easy. Why does everything require 90 steps to complete it? This is especially true about appointments.

A couple weeks ago I had to figure out who we wanted the kids to see for the dentist and eye doctor and speech therapist. So I went online and researched all over to find the qualities I wanted in each and the specifications of each. They needed to be good with special needs kids, cause I wouldn't be able to contain my mouth if they were rude or mean to my kids.

And let me tell you, as I get older I'm having more and more trouble controlling it. My filter is becoming thinner and thinner apparently and who knows when it will break completely. Every time I have to use it, it wears more and more.

But anyway, so I did all of that, then Joe tasked me making the actual appointments, cause he didn't feel like calling them. Come to find out both the eye doctor and the dentist had online appointment schedulers. I thought I'd scored big time. Nope. I did schedule them, but those were followed up by phone calls about the same crap I would have had to provide to them if I had scheduled over the phone. The only good part about online scheduling is that I could see when they had available appointments and decide based on what I wanted to do.

I have a confession though. I called the speech therapist's office and left a message because on their website they were wishy washy about their feeding therapy. I wanted to verify they actually had feeding therapy. They did, but I hemmed and hauled about calling them back because I was scared that it wasn't going to work out and I was going to have to re-research everything all over again to find a new place to contact. I mainly was scared that they didn't have after school appointments. But as time went on, I felt guilty about it, so I ended up emailing them on Monday.

A lady emailed me back yesterday and confirmed they do have after school appointments, but they are in high demand and wanted to schedule Caleb for a time slot before even seeing him. Wait a minute... hold up. I don't know your rules or your fees or any of that important stuff. You haven't even seen him or talked to him and you want to schedule him for two days a week? This is just going too fast. So I politely put on the brakes and said we wanted to do an evaluation first to make sure everyone was on the same page. We will see how that is taken and what the response is.

In other news, Elijah has a dentist appointment today to which I was interrogated for my credentials because I didn't have a card from my dental insurance to give them a member number. Does this stuff happen to other people or just me? There has to be a better way...

Mommy Brain in Full Effect

Apparently I forgot I even started this blog, but it seems to be an annual occurrence that I feel like starting one. I got the idea in my head the other day and was scoping out the situation today when I stumbled upon this gem.

So please excuse the years worth of dust. I hope to update pretty regularly as part of my half way through the year resolution.

Now I'll update with what I planned on updating about. My kids and their eating habits.

Being totally transparent here, my kids have some of the most limited diets I have ever seen. Caleb only currently eats goldfish, teddy grahams, potato chips/pringles, tortilla chips, fruit juice, yogurt and soy milk. Yogurt has been thrown in recently and I'm trying to figure out a way to put it in his lunch without it being a huge mess.

Elijah has a pretty good diet, but most of the time I still have to make a separate dinner for him. He will eat breaded chicken and breaded fish in most shapes and sizes, french fries, apples, bananas, grapes, pound cake, cake, teddy soft bakes, zebra cakes, doritos, popcorn and potato chips/pringles.

Because of this we are looking into feeding therapy for Caleb, cause I can't take much more of it. Hopefully they will be able to help us to get him to try more foods. Then we can take that knowledge and use it with Elijah as well. I'm also hoping this comes about quickly, because we found a great place in Lewisville that did PROMPT and feeding therapy, but we were on their waiting list for months waiting for an after school slot to open up. After about 5 months we gave up on them calling and started looking around again.

I emailed a place in Plano to see if they had any openings and could help Caleb with both, but haven't heard anything back from them yet.