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.

One Month

Today marks one month since the boys and I officially moved to Texas. What can I say, it has been quite an adventure. New everything is hard to adjust to, even when you think you are prepared for it.

It really has been an emotional roller coaster for everyone. We were sad to leave all our friends and family back in Maryland, but we had faith that God would bring bigger and better things. We haven't really made friends yet, but it has only been a month. Can't expect too much too soon.

I think we possibly have found a church though. The only thing I don't like about it is that the music is super loud during worship. But the good outweighs the bad. The teachings hold my attention and are engaging. The worship would be great if it were more quiet. The kids love the Sunday school and actually tell us about what they learned about without being asked. And lastly, the people seem really nice. I could totally see us getting involved in a small group there.

Everything else is going well. My job is going great. I really like it there. The commute is kind of horrible, but I like everything else about it.

The kids are adjusting well to school. I just updated with pictures on Instagram last night. They seem to like their teachers and most of the kids are nice to them. The only incident we had was when two little girls said they didn't want to play with Elijah at After the Bell.

But that's about it in our little world. Hoping to visit Kevin and Jacqi this weekend, but we will see what happens. Weekends are always a crap shoot.

Happy Labor Day

Today is Labor Day and we celebrated by hanging out around the apartment and unpacking. It was super exciting... We also went to the pool, so it wasn't a complete non-celebration.

Also something of note, we had a shortage of gasoline on Friday and Saturday due to people freaking out because they thought there was going to be a shortage of gasoline. Everyone and their mother decided to fill up their gas tanks (and extra canisters) because a rumor started that we were going to have a gas shortage because of Harvey. It turned out not to be true and things (while way more expensive) are back to normal. No more lines.

While that was all fine and good, because of the gas freak out we had to post pone getting together with Kevin and Jacqi this weekend and decided to unpack instead. It all comes full circle...

Also in short supply was eggs. They still can't be located and the people at Market Place (Wegmans of Texas) said they were sold out because of Harvey. Going to try to locate some again sometime this week.

So... You're moving to Texas?

This blog will hopefully serve as a day by day update on our progress of moving to Texas. It will probably consist of short paragraphs and not many pictures, initially (who has time to post pictures when you have a multitude of things to pack), but as we get settled in maybe more pictures will show up.

As of right now... We have gotten through the really hard part (I think) and Joe has found a job down there, through a temp agency. So that means we will be making the trek to take him and the van down to Texas to stay until I get a job. This week we will be packing more in prep for the trip down, then when I get back I'll continue to pack for the big move.

Keeping the faith though. God has shown us many times this is what he wants us to do and he keeps opening doors when there are plenty of opportunities for them to be shut.