I've become the blogger I hate....

Only updating sporadically. But work is really kicking my ass this year, in a mostly good way. We're attempting to make a radical change this year (going from 60% of kids passing the test to 80+% and beyond), so we're doing a lot of things differently. Most of which eat into my mental downtime at work. And then at home, it's play on the farm with the Yo Gabba Gabbas with Kitty, make/eat dinner, bathtime, bedtime, veg for an hour where I don't much want to type because I'd have to sit up higher for that, and then bed. And, I get my need to share met by Facebook quite a bit these days. The longer blog posts suffer because of the ongoing oneliners there. Friend me if you haven't already.

Theo got a job! Which means that K started Montessori school today. She went off with her lunch box and monkey dress on. I took an early morning photo ("Mama, is it night or is it morning?" "Morning" "But, the sun is not out!") that I'll post this evening. Theo reported a few tears, but she was reassured that I would get her this evening. He even got to work 15 minutes early! Tomorrow I have my exercise class, so he gets to do the am stuff solo. Today went very smoothly--she woke up easily, didn't fight getting dressed, and ate oatmeal and applesauce for breakfast. This is a huge change in her life as she has always slept as long as she wanted and grazed until lunch. I hope she can stay on a steady course!

She made me a little mushy as I was buckling her in T's car when she said, "I don't want to be all by myself!" I told her that there would be two teachers to take care of her, and all the kids would be her new friends, and she won't be all alone. She seemed to buy it.

I had some major stress from an insurance issue when the drug maker recalled the only form of the drug that BCBS covered for me. As in, they paid in full for the multidose pen form, but refused to pay anything at all for the powder form. The inital compromise was either I pay an unreasonable amount more to keep taking at home, or I go into the doctor's office 2-3x a week for them to give me the shot. The shot that I can give myself in 30 seconds at home. It made me so angry. But apparently the right information trickled down (ie, IT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE. YOU HAVE TO COVER A SUBSTITUTE) and BCBS will cover it like normal now.

We had a truly lovely holiday weekend. All quiet and zen. Just what the doctor ordered.

Here are some "almosts" from the third annual chase Kitty around with the camera for an hour to get a good holiday card photo shoot.








You can click through the photos for about a dozen more.