Progress!!!

Finally!

On the foot front: I now have no stitches, a removable walking cast, a temporary disabled parking permit and a wheelchair on the way (so I can manage to get my Christmas shopping done and go to fun events with the family--impossibilities on crutches). It feels so much better to be able to put SOME weight on my foot.

The loan on the house is another thing. Weird, I tell you. The first one we tried was crap--they're trying to close operations so they ramped up the interest rates. Dumped them quick. You know those Lending Tree commercials where they have all these lenders in your living room waiting to talk to you? Well, it's not much of an exaggeration! I have been on the phone all afternoon with them! Things are looking up in that arena.

Kids are getting sick. Thing 2 has been, but seems to be going downhill. Hopefully I won't have to bring her to the main office of the pediatrician's (painted cement stairs I've nearly fallen down without a foot problem).

Overall, exciting day!

New House! Kids at the Ocala, FL Sarah Palin rally!

I wish I could have been there with them, but we feared me being trampled on crutches due to the aforementioned foot surgery.

We lost a bid on one house and then bid on another and we're getting this one! We would have originally bid on the one we're getting since we like it better but at the time it had a contract on it, and the contract fell through. It was meant for us! We should be moving during Christmas break. The kids will stay in the same school for the rest of the school year, then moving to another one for next year. We're all very excited!

Anyone want to buy a house 10 miles from Disney World?

It's real cheap compared to most of the country. I'm in the area with the biggest downturn in the market because it had the biggest upswing in the market when investors decided to buy up a ton of houses hoping to sell quick for a huge profit that never materialized. And it's the hardest hit from the bad mortgage deals. Fortunately, my development isn't getting the tons of foreclosures many are, but we still get hit with the devaluation.
On the upside, it really isn't breaking us since we bought this 10 years ago when the market was low so now we'll still make a profit and want to get something bigger--and we can get it for a steal!
Looks like we'll be putting in an offer in this neighborhood: stevensplantation.com. I won't post the listing because I don't want my future home searchable here. Needless to say, it's HUGE, and a cavernous fun time! People will love wandering around in it. And it's less than 2 years old!
How's that for an upbeat post for a change!

The bully most often overlooked

is the one who seeks to get someone else in trouble in order to make himself feel good.

I knew there would be another shoe to drop since Thing 1's behavior improved so greatly in school--making it harder for others to tattle on him for nothing. So apparently it's a huge sin that someone chose to stand too close to him and got lightly tapped with his outstretched belt as he re-fastened it. And standing next to the other kid who was off his medication today and decided to mock the assistant teacher's English accent suddenly made all the other kids accuse him of the same behavior. No, my child's far from sainthood--but his own speech issues make it nearly impossible for him to fake a foreign accent.

So my sensitive child cried as he was told that he would get a detention next time these things happened. By adults he trusted.

Sister

So my sister teaches dance classes, mainly the little 3-5 year olds, but a couple of adult "mom" groups. This one in particular can be a bossy pain in the rear end and she's had to put them in their place more than once. The owners don't want to teach this class!

So now she's showing at 14 weeks. One of them had to yell that to her. So she said, "No, I'm just fat." Goofy woman.

We haven't told my kids yet. I figure we'll let her handle that in a phone call before she comes down for Christmas. I think I'll have her handle the fact that she's not married yet with "well, God made it happen anyway!" I think my kids will buy that. The benefits of Catholic schools, LOL! Hopefully that won't backfire into an expecting the second coming of Jesus thing, LOL!

Flu shot follies

So the CDC wants all children, let alone the ones like mine with asthma, getting flu shots. Yet I can't get my kids in until mid-November, and me (also with asthma) around the same time! My doc has run out, and I'm not about to make a special appointment with him to pay an extra $15 copay just for that. I already played that game last month when getting my pneumovax. The kids' doc has them plenty but only does flu clinic at certain days and times--and all the afternoon after school times are booked until mid-November! So the kids who have always been on the must-have list even before this year's expanded list have to wait. GREEEEAAAAT. They'll surely get the fu waiting, especially since when we do go, I'll have a cast on my foot. Seems to me that the ped's office needs to hire some temps just to get flu shots plugged away.

Only other way to get the kids a shot before then is if one gets sick and I have to take him/her in for a sick appointment--as long as s/he doesn't have a fever at the time. I can get one anywhere offering it, but again I'm not about to pay another copay to do it, so it has to be under $15. I missed the local urgent care's free event. Maybe I'll have to find another one.

Anyone know how my kids can get flu shots under $15 and not at their ped's office?

Politics

So, this online group I'm in likes to discuss politics from time to time. They say they are open minded. Their posts about it, however, right from the title of their posts, don't leave a bit of room for dissenting opinion. Thankfully that's not why I'm there...

Update on drunk neighbor and her dogs: She came by sober today because a piece of my mail was left in her box by mistake. She also said that she has her dogs, herself and her friend (must have 1:1 dog to person ratio) in a sheriff's department obedience program. Sounds like potential progress!