Teeth and Lights

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christmas, dentists, holidays, kids, lights, santa

So yesterday was the dreaded, Lylah’s dental work day. What a fiasco that was. Lylah was being put to sleep for dental work because this poor child would not even let the dentist look in her mouth or clean her teeth, and she had cavities that needed to be filled. So we signed her up for “moonlight” dentistry. Where they put the child to sleep, do the dental work and then ta-da all done. I like this idea because it keeps them from having fears of dentist (like I have).Yes it is a little more risky because they are under anesthesia. So they are not supposed to eat or drink after midnight.. no problem, I figured we would have a morning appointment, I can handle this. No, they call and tell me my appointment is for 12:30PM. Umm.. yea, no, that is not going to fly.. so by the time she eats it will almost be dinner time? I called at 9:30am because she had already stated “I am so hungry my tummy is growling like a bear” they told us to go in at 10:30.. Thank goodness! She was given her giggle juice (this is what I call it, it makes them act semi-drunk and silly because they feel good and it keeps them from having memories of going into the OR) She has had giggle juice before and I was totally prepared this time. Last time I cried my eyes out watching my 2 year old acting drunk.

“An ELEVATOR MOMMY. I gonna go in the elevator”(there were no elevators)
“Give me your fingers, I gonna bite your nails and your bad fingers”
“I like to bounce. There is the blanket fridge. I love you momma”

Those were all the “happy” moments. The dentist took out her two front loose teeth that she was having anxiety over, so we were happy the tooth fairy was going to come! A little concerned because the adult teeth are already growing in, but they are too far back, we are hoping time will help to correct itself. The not so happy moments. Watching your child cry and not being able to help, nothing you do helps, only to discover she woke up as they were taking the breathing tube out of her nose. 😦 Yea kiddo, I would be sad too and scared. So we left there and the crying continued in the car for most of the ride home, then we had some silly talk. Little by little the Lylah I know and love came back to us. And them we went out with my friend Heidi and Lyz and the rest of the clan to see some amazing Christmas lights and the girls finally got to see Santa (I feel like such a bad mom because they hadn’t seen him yet)

The girls with Avery and Delany. A and Kay are around the same age and D and Ly are around the same age. They had fun together 🙂

I finished the teacher ornaments last night and got them ready to go to school with the girls today. Tonight we will be working on school bus candy bars for all the bus drivers!

Can we say slacker?

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christmas, elf on the shelf, holiday concert, kids, snow, violin

I have been off the grid for a bit, but it has been good. I have officially gotten myself all on the same page. I am out of my funk and ready for what life has to bring..which has been busy! Let me first tell you some exciting news! Children and Youth came for another visit this past wednesday. I was rolling my eyes about the whole thing because, well, I don’t see why she needs to be coming to check up on us anyway. Really, I do get it, they have to look into every call they get and yadda yadda but if anyone KNOWS knows me, they would know I have zero need for these people in my life. So we sit down and she says “Is there anything I can help you with?” so I kinda laughed, and I said I am sure I could find something.. it would be nice to have a maid, a babysitter (for some me time or so maybe I could possibly date), someone to do my grocery shopping, a personal driver.. the list could seriously go on and on. But I told her really I had everything under control, no matter how crazy it gets, I still got this. So she told me that I should expect a letter in the mail because she is going to ask her supervisor to close the case. Praise the lord!

Kayleigh has been a busy bee since the beginning of school, learning the violin. She does not practice as much as she should, but she can’t seem to keep a focus on too much for too long anyhow (she suffers from ADHD) but for someone who doesn’t really practice, she is doing amazing 🙂 She had her holiday concert Friday night because Tuesday’s was postponed from snow.

She is wearing the lime green top all the way to the left. She was extra excited about this because Grandma, Daddy and Aunt Kimmy drove all the way from NJ just to see her play for 3 minutes! It was an extra special evening!

I love them. A little more every day!

Now about that snow. Tuesday I had off from work and we had a snow day, so me and the girls were home together and we had such a great time! It was snowman building snow!

Which also means….

Snowball fighting snow too!!

Life has been crazy but amazing. I am blessed. Now a little update on Lylah. It is always something with this one. We were supposed to get evaluated on Tuesday, but snow prevented that, so now we have to reschedule! We also went to the Dr last week for another ear infection! Loooks as though the tube finally fell out (she had tubes put it 3 years ago) so because of constant ear infections, we have to go back to the Children’s Hospital to see her ENT and see what our next plan of action is. More than likely she will need a tube in that ear, but I really have no idea what they are gonna do. I just want them to fix my baby..  I am worried with all these horrible ear infections it is going to hurt her hearing.

It’s almost Christmas and I am sooooooooo ready.. so I shall leave you with this..

Good things Come with the Bad too

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coffee, crafts, kids, pay it forward

Yesterday I stopped on my way home to get things we need, the typical boring bread, toilet paper.. milk.. you know. But I also stopped for construction paper, paint, glue 🙂 More fun things! When I got home, before I started dinner (which I tried a new recipe and it was ah-mazing!) we made hand turkey cards that we are going to send to Grandma in New Jersey. it was fun smearing paint all over the girls hands “Ewww this is gross” “that tickles!”

Lylah on the left and Kayleigh on the right.

We had out neighbor pal Riley over for dinner and then they all cut out construction paper and made different pictures.

All in all we had a nice quiet evening.

This morning I was running late because Lylah started to have one of her fits last night at 4:30am and I was able to talk her out of it and close my eyes a little before having to actually wake up, which in turn, I didn’t open my eyes til 6:45am… 45 minutes later than I should have! So I called work and warned them I was running late, got dressed, fed the kiddos, and then out the door to swing by the Dunkin Donuts drive thru (I cannot live without coffee) It was the most awesome way to start my day. The guy in front of me paid for my coffee!

I shall pay it forward today. You should too! 🙂 Tis the season!

The Simple Life

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kids, life, stress, tantrums

Lylah’s fits have been getting drastically worse.. my mom, whom lives with me, has been not too much help.. this leaves me greatly troubled and stressed out.. and then Kayleigh has these medical issues which causes the school nurse to call you on a daily basis and you are now on a first name basis with everyone in your child’s doctor’s office..

See, I know I am overwhelmed and stressed because things that should not at all be an issue, make me wanna crawl in a whole and die and over react about everything. Are things in my life pretty crappy? No doubt, but yesterday… Yesterday I hit my breaking point..

I woke up yesterday at 6am like I always do, and I woke up with very low spirits.. Lylah had a fit from 1:30am-2:15ish.. so I am already tired.. we have breakfast and I am looking forward to a day of doing nothing but cleaning carpets because everything else is done, I have no work, and I deserve a damn break.. well.. then I notice Kayleigh has bumps on her wrist and thumb and elbow again (rewind: a few weeks ago Kayleigh had spent a weekend at her BFF’s house, came home with bug bites that spread, which I thought was poison Ivy, which turned out to be scabies *insert loud banshee screaming here*.. I was livid, already stressed, this just made my life worse and turned me into a paranoid crazy lady.. so we treated it and it went away after two weeks of crazy washing and vacuuming everything.. back to present) so I notice these bumps on her thumb when she hands me the brush.. I then inspect her body and find them on her wrist and elbow and I am freaking out! Lylah is not having a fit on the floor because she wants to wear a dress and I am making her wear tights and she doesn’t want to because they “bother me”.. she is screaming and I am trying to get Kayleigh out the door to catch the bus.. we finally get outside (Lylah is still screaming) now we are outside watching the bus, neighbors and kids are staring but this has become such a regular thing they don’t question. Lylah is butt bumping the screen door which then gets jammed.. I cannot open it.. I am locked out of my house with Banshee screaming Lylah in my jammies and my hair all a mess. Lylah then tries hitting me and telling me this is all my fault. I walked away. Luckily one of my neighbors has a son and she went thru this with him. So she went and took Lylah to her house because I was bawling and cursing out the maint. dept. on the phone at this point. We get inside, I get Lylah off to school, and once both kids are gone I sat down and turned on Sons of Anarchy and tried to relax.. which turned into me crying for an hour and being pretty fed up with this life that I got “stuck with”. I felt pretty sorry for myself, I won’t lie. Then, the school nurse calls (it was 9:32am to be exact) about Kayleigh’s itchy bumps.. Yes, lady I am aware they are there, yes, I was going to call the doctor, I was just trying to have a me-moment. I get off the phone.. deleted facebook (not sure why but I think this may help), took a hot shower and cried and cried and cried and cried some more. Called the Dr made an appointment for Kay. Laid in bed til it was time to get her.

The verdict: This doctor does not think it is scabies, even though they are in the same spots and look similar, this doctor thinks they are just hives. Prescribes prednisone and if not better in a week she will have to have her skin biopsied o_0 Ok. Cool. Took her back to school and relaxed til the kids came home. Once they were home, while I was cooking dinner.. Lylah had ANOTHER fit. Another one.. that is THREE in 24 hours. This one she continuously hit me and she bit me!

Needless to say, I have hit my breaking point. I have been over my head with everything and feeling more than just stressed out. I have been feeling as though I cannot do this by myself anymore! So I deleted facebook in hopes that I can create a simple, less stimulating life for myself and my children so I can focus on the roots of the problems and fix them.

I got an e-mail today, I was accepted into a small review panel to read a book and give my reviews and point out quotes I thought were good and helpful. The name of the book is “Say Goodbye to Survival Mode” it is about a mother who found herself overwhelmed and what she did to make changes and make things better. I don’t think this could have possibly come at a better time. I am only on chapter one and I cannot wait to read more!

School and stuff…

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first day of school, fun, kids, park

Happy Labor Day!

Last Monday was Kayleigh’s first day of Third Grade… yes, I said it, THIRD grade! *sniffle* Where o where has my baby gone? Where o where can she be?

It was great seeing all the kids out there waiting for the bus stop this year, there are quite a bit more children that I have seen in the last 4 years, I think.
Kayleigh and her best bud, Riley.

Miss Lylah pants was upset because she still has to wait a week before she starts her school. So, we decided to have a semi-special day, just me and her. We went to Sonic and got lunch and then went over to the “red park” (the girls call it the red park because most of the jungle gym is red?). We ate lunch at the park and just hung out for a bit until it was time for us to head home so I could get ready to go into work for the evening.

The next day was… dun dun dun… Lylah’s evaluation day. So, we got Kayleigh off to school and then had to hop in the car and head to “the city” to her evaluation. The woman, basically told me my daughter is fine, she is completely normal. o_0 She has the personality of someone with OCD, but she doesn’t think Lylah has OCD, she just feels that she likes things a particular way and orderly. If things do not go her when then this creates anxiety and that is why she throws her lengthy fits. So she said we just need to teach her some coping skills and she should be fine. Which should make me feel relieved, but idk, I just don’t think that’s it. I’m no expert but it just seems like there is something more than that. The other night she threw a fit for an hour because I wouldn’t turn the volume up on the tv for her (it was already loud enough AND she knows where the remote it, why would I do it?) Who knows, we’ll see I guess!

Tomorrow *sniffle* Lylah starts school! There will be a post, with lots of pictures!

Stay Tuned….

Busy… Busy… Busy… Did I mention, Busy?

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fun, kids, kitty, pets, rides, school

So, as I mentioned before I was waiting patiently to hear back if Lylah was getting into the full-day program. I had also told my neighbor friend about it as well so she could apply for her daughter, I thought it would be fantastic for the girls to have friends in their class. Well, Neighbor friend tells me she heard back (via e-mail) that her daughter AND son were accepted. I am puzzled so I frantically (kicked my mom off the computer) went to check my e-mail, and there was nothing…. So I call the school, I didn’t even need to state my name because she already knew who I was o_0 She then explained to me that Lylah was placed on the waiting list and if one of the 20 people they accepted into the program either denied their spot or were absent for 10 days (they would be removed from the program-opening up a spot) then, Lylah would remain on the waiting list. Needless to say I was VERY unhappy.. and I have been having a bit of an unlucky streak lately, so at this moment I felt like the world was coming to an end and everything was out to get me (obviously not the case but I was being overdramatic).

So, I did not bother dwelling on any of that, what was the point? I quickly moved on back to my busy life. I had been promising the girls ALL summer that I would take them to Dutch Wonderland. So we previewed the park Wednesday evening from 5:30-8:30 and then went the following day (ALL DAY LONG) 11-8:30. I am Dutch Wonderlanded (yes I made this word up) out.The girls did have a BLAST.

I can honestly say, I do not know where Kayleigh got her non-adventurous personality from. Her father and I used to go to Six Flags every summer and LIVE on the roller coasters, but this child right here? Will not step foot on one! And the one at DW is a tiny baby little itty bitty thing. Well, Lylah on the other hand, it is like I created her without any help at all. This girl wanted to go on the big roller coaster with Mommy. After getting off the first time I asked her how it was… “THAT was totally AWESOME” and we went again. Then to be fair to Kayleigh we went on other rides til the end of the night. There was NO line at the roller coaster, so Lylah and I went on 4 times in a row! The second time around, she turns to me “Mommy put your arms up, like this!” Don’t get me wrong, I love both my children the same.. but Lylah, there is something about her. She is my true Mini-me!

We all had an equally good time on the swings, probably the only ride we ALL agreed on.

So Friday, it is back to work and back to the real world. Well, did I mention I work at a hotel? SO, I work front desk and there are a number of us gals. I got a text from my co-worker Thursday night that two of the girls quit. Same day. Leaving us, just me and the co-worker who text me. Seriously? While at work friday morning, I got a call from the Hildebrandt Learning Center. Before she even finished telling me a spot opened up and asked me if I wanted it, I had already said yes. I could not be any more excited for Lylah, this is going to be SOOOO awesome for her, plus less stress on me trying to figure out 1/2 day schedules with my 7am-3pm work schedule! Goes to show, everything works out in the end, one way or another. Kayleigh will start school Aug 26th, going into 3rd grade and Lylah will be starting her Pre-K class Sept 3rd. This year is going to be amazing and I cannot wait!

That’s enough for now! TTYL

PS- This is our 5 month old Kitten, Figaro… How CUTE is he? With his little mohawk!?! Love him! My furbaby!

Long Time Coming

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doctors, kids, school

I have been meaning to get back to blogging for quite some time, and I just keep putting it off. I started writing in a journal for a while and even that slowed and then came to a halt. As you get older, your circle of friends gets smaller, or perhaps even nonexistent. Don’t get my wrong, I have some friends, but they live so far away I barely get to see them and keeping in touch doesn’t always happen, so I need an outlet of sorts.

The school year is only 19 days away (how crazy is that?!), Kayleigh will be *sniffle* going into 3rd Grade this year with Mr Paul, and Lylah… well, I am a little unsure about her at the moment. She is currently enrolled in a half-day preK program, but there has been a new full-day class that opened up at the Hildebrant Center by my house where transportation would also be provided, so I am trying to get her into there. Also, she is going for her evaluation on the 27th to find out what is going on in that tiny brain of hers! I am actually excited to hopefully get some answers so we know what we can do to help, because living with Lylah is almost near impossible.
(background info) Lylah is almost 5 years old and she has these uncontrollable fits that can last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and a half! You never know what is going to start one, you never know when one will stop. She has recently escalated to throwing things, hitting herself (or others) and banging her head on the wall. The Dr kept telling me this was all normal toddler behavior (maybe they forgot that I do have an older child and I have been thru this already?) FINALLY the visit for her school physical, which was with a different doctor, he agreed that there was something going on and we need to investigate. So… We shall see, I have my fingers crossed we get answers, not because I want my child diagnosed with something, but more because I feel it will be closure, and also will help us to identify what we can do to help her!

Other than that, we are all happy and healthy and trying to enjoy what is left of our summer before school kicks back in!