I was in a blue funk for like a week straight and I know Ryan will say AMEN....if he even logged onto our blog but, it was really starting to get me down. It can also be refereed to as the blue-eee blues ( according to Wow Wow Wubbzy ). Widget got it once and I related to her. Anyways.....I was just being angry and frustrated and and and - didn't know why and I talked to Jillian about it for a quick moment. Of course -- she has 900 things going on at once and I always seem to call her around 6pm and want to discuss it and she is making dinner - telling kids no - feeding Trenton etc. Well....my mom was out of town and I would have called her first ( no offense Jill ) but, she just wasnt available. Soooo I called Jill and was sympathetic to what she was doing and what she does everyday so, there was no need to add to the chaos. I was missing my mom. Well....mom decided to go out of town and visit her Dean ( her husband ) for Valentines day. Why would she leave town when I had the blue-eee blues and not be there for me??? Geeeezzz!
Well....Ryan and I ended up going out on a date and I realized that I just needed to get out and spend some FUN time with my hubby. I think the fact that my kids have been totally sick ALL WINTER LONG....it has been really hard for me. I needed to get out and have some adult time and enjoy my husband. We decided that on Feb 15th we were going to have my mother in law come over and spend some time with the kids so we could do this. We ran up to target and dropped my tire off...being that the morning before it was flat and was unreplacable -- and then off to lunch. We went over to Uncle Sams which is one of our favorite places. We had a couple of steak and cheese hoagies and had some good conversation. Then off to bowling! Ryan and I love to bowl. We played 3 games and made a bets on two of them that I would beat him and I would win whatever I bet. Well....I lost all three games!!! Sigh.....
I already took care of one of the items but, I also owe him a back rub! BUMMER!!!
Actually its totally ok -- because I just had a massage from a professional courtesy of my wonderful mother a couple weeks ago.
I totally got out of my blue funk and realized thats all I needed. I needed to get away from the kids for just a couple hours and have fun with my hubby. He is a fabulous man for sure!!! Dates are super important in a relationship and super important for Mrs. McMullen.
Thank You honey for a fun day/evening -- I think you are the most amazing man out there and I am so blessed to call you my husband!
Everyone else.....go out on a date with your husband -- it helps the blue-eee blues!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Trenton....I love you
I know that Jill totally wants to post this on her blog and rightfully so but, I cant resist putting it on mine. My little nephew Trenton just LOOOOVES his aunt Lindsey. lol And rightfully sooo...I am totally cool and the word on the street is everyone just loves me! j/k I seem to make him laugh a lot and we got a video of him busting a gut so hard that he had tears in his eyes. Enjoy my little buddy! I sure do.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The "running" process
I have NEVER liked running....its hard on my knees and joints and being tall just doesn't help! I sound sooo old saying it like that. Well, I started running. One of my neighbors Christy also runs -- so we are taking the challenge up together and got started on Tuesday morning. I was up all night tossing and turning anxious that I might over sleep ( even though my alarm was set ) -- or maybe I wouldn't be able to keep up or or or. Well, I got up at 5:34am and got geared up for the jog. Ate a banana and off to her front door where she was ready to go. I have to say...we ran 2 1/2 miles and I did great! I felt soooo good afterwards.
I really just need to do some exercising in my life because it helps me mentally and not to mention -- it helps keep things up instead of having them fall in time (which is starting to happen).
Ryan and I went to the mall last weekend and my wonderful husband let me purchase a pair of fun running shorts by Nike. I say "let" because we dont spend money that is unnecessary very often. This was definitely not a necessary purchase. My goal is to wear these cute running shorts and look GOOD in them sooner than later. Right now I am not quite ready to sport these babys but, there will be a day. They are a little short sooooo....it encourages me to work the tops of my thighs.
If you talk to me in the next two weeks and I sound energetic....more positive....excited -- you know that I am still working out and progress is being made. If not -- I am leaving you all a full responsibility to get on me about not keeping up with a simple goal. It works out well that I am doing this with someone because to tell you the truth -- I totally wanted to sleep in that morning. We are running again on Thursday night -- had to take a couple days off because Ryan is out of town. Is it ok to leave the kids in bed in the morning and go running with monitors??? I mean they are sleeping and safe in their beds. lol j/k I am not that dumb! And obviously the monitors don't reach out that far.
I know anyone who reads my blog of course will be dying to know my progress...teehee
soooo, I am going to update my blog on how I am coming with my goal. Stay Tuned!!!
I really just need to do some exercising in my life because it helps me mentally and not to mention -- it helps keep things up instead of having them fall in time (which is starting to happen).
Ryan and I went to the mall last weekend and my wonderful husband let me purchase a pair of fun running shorts by Nike. I say "let" because we dont spend money that is unnecessary very often. This was definitely not a necessary purchase. My goal is to wear these cute running shorts and look GOOD in them sooner than later. Right now I am not quite ready to sport these babys but, there will be a day. They are a little short sooooo....it encourages me to work the tops of my thighs.
If you talk to me in the next two weeks and I sound energetic....more positive....excited -- you know that I am still working out and progress is being made. If not -- I am leaving you all a full responsibility to get on me about not keeping up with a simple goal. It works out well that I am doing this with someone because to tell you the truth -- I totally wanted to sleep in that morning. We are running again on Thursday night -- had to take a couple days off because Ryan is out of town. Is it ok to leave the kids in bed in the morning and go running with monitors??? I mean they are sleeping and safe in their beds. lol j/k I am not that dumb! And obviously the monitors don't reach out that far.
I know anyone who reads my blog of course will be dying to know my progress...teehee
soooo, I am going to update my blog on how I am coming with my goal. Stay Tuned!!!
Beginning of payback 2 Jill!!!
If you ever jump over to the Strong Family blog you will notice that my loving sister posted a horrible picture of me. I left a comment and made sure that she was aware that I will in time return the favor. Here is the BEGINNING of payback. Love you lots Jill!!!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Battling Speech
Brady is going to be two this month and soooo much has been going on in the last couple of months that there has been no time to blog. Well, no time for this mom anyways. I know there are super moms out there who can "do it all" but, I am just not one of those moms.
My family including me has been sooooo sick this whole winter. Will vomiting, high fevers, to coughing up part of our lungs -- its been a never ending battle. Thankfully, these are all common things that every family tends to go thru during the winter and we can get past it. We are all in pretty good health and I am very thankful and feel blessed for that.
Back to Brady turning two! I cant believe that my first born is already going to be two. I decided to have Brady tested by AZEIP (AZ early intervention program ) for his speech. He gets quite frustrated when he is trying to tell us things and we are not understanding because its all jargin. He will usually just get up closer in your face and say what he is trying to tell you over and over again. He knows exactly what he wants and is a smart little boy. He is just having a hard time with his expressive language. Of course Brady is our first born so all of these new obstacles and battles are new for me. My sister Jillian and friend Christine are well educated in the education department and both of them have children that have received services for speech. They both encouraged me to have Brady tested and have helped me out along the way with the path I need to take to get Brady the help he may need.
Clint -- the speech pathologist came out and tested Brady last week. He asked me a few questions and spent about 10 min. running around with Brady who was just speaking chinese to him the whole time. We discussed a little about what he thought and he said he feels like he is a little delayed but, will meet with the team and they will call me to let me know if he would qualify for services.
Brady did in deed end up making the "cut" for speech services that will be rendered with Clint. HOWEVER......he will only be receiving once a MONTH services. I consulted my sister and Christine and they both got on their boxing gloves and said ...let me at uhm! hehe They both felt that once a month was not very beneficial and I needed to talk to Clint. This would come down to 6 hours a year that Brady would get some help with his speech. Uhmmm.....if ya put it that way -- sounds totally Lame huh!
I called Clint and spoke to him and he agreed that he felt that Brady would benefit from having weekly services but AND I QUOTE.....he just doesnt have time.
Hmmmmm.....ok sooooo you are telling me that my son would benefit from services more often then once a month and once a week would be better but YOU DONT HAVE TIME??? WOW!!!! I MEAN WOW!~!~!
The conversation went on and I asked if I could find someone who HAD THE TIME to service him if he felt that was the next step I should take -- he agreed. I then asked him if he would make that recommendation for Brady to be serviced once a week and he declined. WHAT??? Soooooo - hmmmmm - totally confused at this point. Everything this man has just told me he is now back tracking and is obviously being a bully. He encouraged me to call AZEIP and express my feelings and that he could only service him once a month and thats just the way it is.
For all the parents out there who don't have a Jillian or Christine -- you would totally be walked on at this point if you didn't have any insight about this process. I make a phone call over to Amy who is above Clint and we sat on the phone for about 30 min. I stressed my concern with my conversation with Clint and she in a round about way -- supported him and threw out a developmental specialist to come into my home once a week. To a some what educated mother -- this sounded like a great plan and I had made some progress. WRONG!
A developmental specialist-- Christine told me -- is someone with a degree and has nothing to do with speech. In fact -- Christine use to BE a developmental specialist. Its really just going to be play time for Brady. GRRRRR!
Soooo.....here we are with Clint still coming out only once a month and developmental specialist going to come out once a week. Who knows -- maybe Brady will really make progress and I can cancel all of this all together. He is such a smart little boy and his receptive language is amazing. We just would like to see some more progress with his expressive language. I will stay on top of updates on the blog with Brady's progress.
Which leads me to Brady and turning two. I have decided that I am not going to buy Brady any toys from Target or Wal-Mart or or or -- I am going to spend some money for his birthday and get him learning things from Lakeshore. Stacy ( who is Connors Speech Therapist) comes into my home twice a week and works with Connor. Brady LOVES getting into her bag and pulling out stuff that he can just sit and play with and LEARN while she works with Connor. She has a lot of learing boxes that focus on colors, shapes, and letters. Brady loves to pull things out of these boxes and rattle off what he thinks they are to me. I really would like to make some progress with Brady on my own so, I can tell AZEIP where to put it. I only want whats best for my little man and hope that we can attack this obstacle. Stay tuned!
My family including me has been sooooo sick this whole winter. Will vomiting, high fevers, to coughing up part of our lungs -- its been a never ending battle. Thankfully, these are all common things that every family tends to go thru during the winter and we can get past it. We are all in pretty good health and I am very thankful and feel blessed for that.
Back to Brady turning two! I cant believe that my first born is already going to be two. I decided to have Brady tested by AZEIP (AZ early intervention program ) for his speech. He gets quite frustrated when he is trying to tell us things and we are not understanding because its all jargin. He will usually just get up closer in your face and say what he is trying to tell you over and over again. He knows exactly what he wants and is a smart little boy. He is just having a hard time with his expressive language. Of course Brady is our first born so all of these new obstacles and battles are new for me. My sister Jillian and friend Christine are well educated in the education department and both of them have children that have received services for speech. They both encouraged me to have Brady tested and have helped me out along the way with the path I need to take to get Brady the help he may need.
Clint -- the speech pathologist came out and tested Brady last week. He asked me a few questions and spent about 10 min. running around with Brady who was just speaking chinese to him the whole time. We discussed a little about what he thought and he said he feels like he is a little delayed but, will meet with the team and they will call me to let me know if he would qualify for services.
Brady did in deed end up making the "cut" for speech services that will be rendered with Clint. HOWEVER......he will only be receiving once a MONTH services. I consulted my sister and Christine and they both got on their boxing gloves and said ...let me at uhm! hehe They both felt that once a month was not very beneficial and I needed to talk to Clint. This would come down to 6 hours a year that Brady would get some help with his speech. Uhmmm.....if ya put it that way -- sounds totally Lame huh!
I called Clint and spoke to him and he agreed that he felt that Brady would benefit from having weekly services but AND I QUOTE.....he just doesnt have time.
Hmmmmm.....ok sooooo you are telling me that my son would benefit from services more often then once a month and once a week would be better but YOU DONT HAVE TIME??? WOW!!!! I MEAN WOW!~!~!
The conversation went on and I asked if I could find someone who HAD THE TIME to service him if he felt that was the next step I should take -- he agreed. I then asked him if he would make that recommendation for Brady to be serviced once a week and he declined. WHAT??? Soooooo - hmmmmm - totally confused at this point. Everything this man has just told me he is now back tracking and is obviously being a bully. He encouraged me to call AZEIP and express my feelings and that he could only service him once a month and thats just the way it is.
For all the parents out there who don't have a Jillian or Christine -- you would totally be walked on at this point if you didn't have any insight about this process. I make a phone call over to Amy who is above Clint and we sat on the phone for about 30 min. I stressed my concern with my conversation with Clint and she in a round about way -- supported him and threw out a developmental specialist to come into my home once a week. To a some what educated mother -- this sounded like a great plan and I had made some progress. WRONG!
A developmental specialist-- Christine told me -- is someone with a degree and has nothing to do with speech. In fact -- Christine use to BE a developmental specialist. Its really just going to be play time for Brady. GRRRRR!
Soooo.....here we are with Clint still coming out only once a month and developmental specialist going to come out once a week. Who knows -- maybe Brady will really make progress and I can cancel all of this all together. He is such a smart little boy and his receptive language is amazing. We just would like to see some more progress with his expressive language. I will stay on top of updates on the blog with Brady's progress.
Which leads me to Brady and turning two. I have decided that I am not going to buy Brady any toys from Target or Wal-Mart or or or -- I am going to spend some money for his birthday and get him learning things from Lakeshore. Stacy ( who is Connors Speech Therapist) comes into my home twice a week and works with Connor. Brady LOVES getting into her bag and pulling out stuff that he can just sit and play with and LEARN while she works with Connor. She has a lot of learing boxes that focus on colors, shapes, and letters. Brady loves to pull things out of these boxes and rattle off what he thinks they are to me. I really would like to make some progress with Brady on my own so, I can tell AZEIP where to put it. I only want whats best for my little man and hope that we can attack this obstacle. Stay tuned!
Friday, February 6, 2009
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