One Happy Dog Speaks

I was ready to get some insurance on my computers and electronics… I thought my boys were going to wear them all out. Then they discovered… BeyBlades. Yep. Tops that fight each other. They have different pieces you can change out to make it more stable or more active or better defense. It is funny watching how it works. Trying to help them figure out why it works that way… what a great science discovery… though my oldest was online and reading reviews. They had high reviews for fun, long lasting and low reviews for educational. Those people don’t know how to add science to this stuff. It is cool!

So cool, that my hubby plays with them just about every night. Baw hahahahaha.

Between the new insurance and a sloppy doctor’s office I am out of my medicine. I paid full price for it a month ago when all of this started. $170. I cannot do that every month. I can’t believe that is how much it cost without insurance. I just about croaked right there. I believe my husband should take extra life insurance out on me and soon. Why? Because I am now not taking my medicine. Yaa. Bad news. I know… but I couldn’t afford it. I have called the doctor’s office, I have called the insurance, I have worked with the pharmacy. For weeks.

I have to say, I love my pharmacy. When I told them what was happening this last time, they faxed the form to the doctor’s office SIX times. No joke. When I called later that day, the doctor’s office told me they got it this time. Yaa. I bet they did. Still… it can take up to 14 days to get through the insurance system before they will allow it to be paid by them. What a mess.

Have you ever seen those comparison sites? Like the ones that compare Blue Advantage to Blue Options? I wish I could decipher all that mess. I freaked in our last insurance because they gave us only 60 physical days to get occupational therapy for his dysgraphia. This is not a broken arm. It is a lifetime issue. Then we switched insurance via my husband’s work. Now he gets occupational therapy without an issue but they won’t pay for his vision therapy. Shoot me. I really need to get a handle on this but there is so much going on right now. Hmmm. Don’t think I’m going to go into this here right now. I’m tired, sick and have a long day in front of me. Yaa… time to sign off!

Another mark in the post… another grey hair… how ever you want to phrase it… my boys are going to get me to the funny farm sooner than later. I think we may want to look at term life insurance quotes because my term may be up soon… what is it about boys trying to ‘exert’ themselves. Don’t they know that I’m older and more treacherous than they are or will be for another 40 years? Luckily I am very patient right now. Why? I can’t tell you… I have had very little sleep, stressed about finances (aren’t we all?), worried about my oldest and his dysgraphia in school, worried about the youngest and his hypoglycemia at school, wondering how I can balance Karate, Cub Scouts, School and keeping house. I look around me at the women who have 3 or 4 kids all going different directions and passing school and healthy. What is the trick to this? Organization? Insanity? Type – B so you don’t care if it is chaotic? Sigh… I can do this. I can do this.

I’m thinking we need to get more term life insurance on me. I can’t believe what has been going on in my life. Between my youngest being sick for almost 3 weeks. Which means I don’t get any sleep… to dealing with the oldest who feels left out and doesn’t notice the extra attention I have been giving him… to the whole housework issue. When I am tired, it is close to impossible to function on all levels. Home schooling, vision therapy, insurance discussions, money issues, children issues, doctor visits, shots, school medical records, did I mention housework?, finding time for friends. I think you get the idea. I need a long walk in the woods with no kids. Just nature and me. Don’t get me wrong, I love my children and my husband… I just never realized how much I needed some time to myself. I was getting up before 6am to go out bike riding until I started getting only 1 to 2 hours of sleep at night. Now I haven’t even had that ability. Sleep is a necessity if I’m not to go completely nuts with two kids all day long and a list of responsibilities that make me feel inadequate with sleep. I don’t know how most mothers cope.

What in the world did I do to get this back at me? I know God has an odd sense of humor, but somehow I’m just not seeing it this time. Maybe in a week or two I’ll see some humor in all of this. Certainly need that upswing soon!

Seems I inherited bad teeth. Sucks to be me. I need cheap insurance for dental work. That pays a lot out. Because I have TWO infections. One below the roots on the right and one below the roots on the left. Sucks to be me. Next week is going to be a long week. Anniversary coming up, just after Easter and tooth surgery. On two teeth. Did I say it Sucks to be me? It does. I want to crawl away… first because as much as I love my children, it has been a long week. They have sinus infections – yaa both of them. What was that saying… Sucks to be me. The only thing keeping me going is looking forward to the weekend. Yep, that should be fun. On to other things. Maybe I’ll get another post in today.

Ever searched for something on the web and got something totally different? I searched on short term and got short term health insurance NC. Strange. Of course I got more specific after that… I am still searching on dysgraphia stuff for my oldest son. I saw this paragraph out there:

Dysgraphia is a kind of disability where a person finds it difficult to write things. He has distorted writing. While writing, the afflicted person will commit spelling mistakes. Such people will also find it difficult to put their ideas across the paper.

And found it humorous because I have always had a hard time putting my ideas on paper. Oh, I can do it. But short and sweet. Writing this blog has been interesting. It has increased my writing skills… well ok, maybe not, but it certainly has me writing more. While I certainly do not have the problem my son has, I can understand his frustrations with it.

While looking for ‘short term help for dysgraphia’… ya ya, I finally typed it all out… I found this list:

* Allow use of print or cursive – whichever is more comfortable.
* Use large graph paper for math calculation to keep columns and rows organized.
* Allow extra time for writing assignments.
* Begin writing assignments creatively with drawing, or speaking ideas into a tape recorder
* Alternate focus of writing assignments – put the emphasis on some for neatness and spelling, others for grammar or organization of ideas.
* Explicitly teach different types of writing – expository and personal essays, short stories, poems, etc.
* Do not judge timed assignments on neatness and spelling.
* Have students proofread work after a delay – it’s easier to see mistakes after a break.
* Help students create a checklist for editing work – spelling, neatness, grammar, syntax, clear progression of ideas, etc.
* Encourage use of a spell checker – speaking spell checkers are available for handwritten work
* Reduce amount of copying; instead, focus on writing original answers and ideas
* Have student complete tasks in small steps instead of all at once.
* Find alternative means of assessing knowledge, such as oral reports or visual projects
* Encourage practice through low-stress opportunities for writing such as letters, a diary, making household lists or keeping track of sports teams.

It will soon be printed and posted up on the wall… to remind ME of what I need to do to help my son. It can be very frustrating. Even today trying to get him to write five vocabulary definitions. Ugh. We’ll get there, but with all that has been going on the last couple of weeks, it seems a little slow. Sigh. Too much on my plate even now that the yearbook is basically done. Sleep might help… yaa sleep and exercise. Need to get back on track. Breath, oh yaa… got to remember to breath.

Seems I have been forgetful lately. I had all these grandiose plans to check out insurance quotes for the house, the car and life. I have done NOTHING. I can’t seem to concentrate on anyone thing for any length of time. I have strung myself too thin. I need to remember there is more to life than all the insane things I volunteer to do. Then again, when I volunteered I had no idea all these weird things were going to happen to me. We’ll see how it goes when I get my blood work back in the next week or two. Geeze, I hope I turn out all right. I need a break!

Some days I just wonder about my children and what goes through their heads. The other day while waiting for the bus, the oldest asks me why the earth doesn’t burn up from the center outwards. I have one of those *blink” moments trying to figure out where this came from. I hear the youngest say something about lava and the heat of the center of the earth. Ohhhhhhhhh… Brain is still not kicking in but at least I don’t have to worry about term life insurance prices at Wholesale Insurance because the earth is going to blow up. Then again, I could not for the life of me remember why we aren’t one big ball of lava. Why are we cooler out here? My brain went to water and said something on those lines. Maybe it was the water that kept us cool… Then the oldest came up with … the rain cycle. The rain goes into the earth, helps keep it cool and then goes into the clouds to come down again. Makes sense to me.

Now I have to explain how when you get further away from the heat source it gets cooler and how even though the heat is contained under the mantel and crust… oh this just isn’t going to go well is it? Guess I’ll hit the science books tonight.

I might need to look at more home insurance quotes if i keep letting my kids work in the yard. But isn’t he a cutie?

I love the hat and glasses! If that wasn’t enough, look at my oldest! Click to enlarge any of these.

The man with the truck is a friend of mine. He has a yard business and came over to cut some limbs and help get the yard cleaned up. The kids wanted to earn some extra money… win win situation. Of course being boys, they did want to pick up the little limbs… ohhhh noooo…

It was a great time by all this weekend. Just taking me a while to get all the photos and stuff together. I have such good kids. It makes me wonder how they can drive me over the edge so fast!