RETIRED: Target chit chat

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Man, it is starting to storm big time here. I think I may call it a night early. DH is not feeling well and is headed to bed. I suspect he'll be waking up the baby anyways... I think sometimes I'm the only one in the house that knows how to be quiet.

Noah is by far my best nurser. Mini and JJ were 5-10 minute snackers. This kid will eat 20-45 minutes every 1.5-2 hours. I told J what goes in must come out. I'm just glad I'm stocked up on diapers and buttpaste.

I find that drinking heavily also seems to help!

And we have a new record from DM...Hope you continue...

Just when you think you have finished organizing, there will be more T bags lying in the car, garage, kitchen, living room..you get the picture...

Oh. my. lanta. That is how it is here too.

Good news! Tanner is home. I am sooooo glad. I was a little apprehensive about him coming home. I had this idea in my head all along that he'd be "healed." I guess I compared his hospital stay to that of a patient in a regular hospital with pneumonia. A few meds, some rest, and all is well.

We have an in-home therapist that is coming and she is awesome. At first I was a little worried that we wouldn't "mesh" well but the more I listened, the more I started to wish she was the baby manual when baby arrives. lol She gave us a lot of good suggestions about how to handle temper tantrums, tanner's violence and aggression, and responsibility and accountability. I'd be happy to share this with anyone if you're interested.

I know we have a very long road ahead of us. It isn't just tanner or my other kids that need to change, it's me and daddy as well. Over the years my frustration has made me very short tempered and I yell. I don't like to yell and, even though I realize it gets us nowhere, I cannot help myself. It's like as natural as breathing for me. I have to change that.

So the therapist is coming back tomorrow morning to talk to me and charles again before she talks to tanner. The plan is to get down what we want to set as boundaries, rules, and consequences. Then she will come back when tanner is home and our entire family will sit down and go over all of the rules together. The kids will get to decide the consequences to their actions and we will ensure their safety in the event that they are angry and having a fit.

I really like her ideals but charles is a little more reserved. I think he's scared. I think he's afraid that our entire lives are going to be changed under the control of someone else. What he doesn't realize (but soon will) is that if these methods work, tanner has a chance to grow up and become an integrated part of society where he can function normally.

The psychiatrist diagnosed him with 4 disorders, 2 of which we knew about. Mood Disorder NOS, PDD NOS, and the two we knew of: ADHD and Selective Mutism. It's a mouthful isn't it?

I'm just so happy he's home. I missed him so badly and just having him here is a stress relief. For the duration of the week he will do what they call "partial care" where he goes to the hospital from 8:00 to 4:30 for group therapies, gym, and other things, and then home at night. That way we can see how he adjusts at home but while still having the "comfort" of the staff there. So far he's only on one medication, Trileptal, but I would like to see him back on his ADHD meds, Focalin. That's something I will be talking to the psychiatrist about.

In other news, I'm upset with his school because he has (and always has had) an IEP in place for special services. The school re-evaluated him and decided that he no longer qualifies for services because the issues are not at school but rather at home. I think he still needs the services. (special help with reading and math) Though he seemed to score right above or below the 50th percentile, he still has many struggles. I refused to sign the paper and disagreed. I don't know for sure where we go from here but I won't go out without a fight.

So that's my looooong update. lol

I'm glad he's doing so well. Does he seem to be doing better on the breast milk than JJ did? I remember he had all those allergies and crap like that.

There is no such thing as a too fat noodle. We like 'em fat and chewy. Hmmm, I hope you weren't expecting anything at all like dried noodles in the bag from the store.

I usually end up with too dang many noodles and not enough broth. I don't thicken it, it does a little on it's own just from the extra flour on the noodles. The amount of meat is up to you. We don't really want much (if any) meat in ours but we are a little weird. A lot of people eat them over mashed potatoes. Hubby and I don't but both set of parents did. So, how were they?

I'm trying to remember how old JJ was when his symptoms started rearing their ugly head. So far so good and I'm super OCD about inspecting the dipe for streaks of blood or change in color from mustard to green. I he doesn't have the milk protein/soy allergy like JJ but they do say he's more likely to have it. Which sucks b/c JJ still cannot tolerate milk. He's fine with cheeses and what not, just not straight milk.

Sorry for butting in...

Sorry for butting in...

My fav leftover noodles is to combine them with saute onions and cabbage...
Mix it all together..All mushy and delicious.

A good polish recipe

Sooooo... my TP Craft site was featured over on another craft blog and THIS is what she wrote about me...

Stop by and check out some of her other cardboard tube shenanigans!

Immediately made me think of you guys!

Yes, I started reading the sookie stackhouse series, read 2 books then RL started getting in the way I need to start again..I was enjoying them..

if you haven't done the ink at staples yet, you might want to consider this scenario.

Push, plop.

Hell, who am I kidding...I'll never be fully organized!

g'morning o-fluffy one