Month: February 2012

Well, not sure if it was the sleepy kids or the sleepy parents.  Dave had a presentation today at work, so he was working on it late last night and didn’t get much sleep.  I’m recovering from the rough week, though short, it meant that there was more work to do Now treating erectile dysfunction is not as expensive as its branded counterpart and purchased that levitra tab 20mg it offers you flexibility to switch a dose from lower to higher one. Biliary means connection to bile, gallbladder, and bile ducts. cialis 5 mg Although not much common, it generic cialis samples is experienced by most of the men around the world. It eliminates prolactin and safeguards the getting cialis testosterone. in the time I was actually at work this week.  That meant the kids were down in bed by 7pm.  That was books read with Peyton, and quiet reflection time for Brandon, and then both were out and unheard from shortly after that.  We’ll see if this backfires tomorrow morning.

Dave picked Brandon up today and the teacher made a beeline to him to inform him of today’s events. Today, Brandon was observed taking someone’s goodie bag.  Not sure the details, as I get the filtered version from Dave, but Dave drove him straight to the police station, just seconds after I’d texted him to do so.  He was already headed there despite my text.  Apparently, Brandon started crying and wouldn’t get out of the car as they sat in front of the station. Dave said he didn’t want to cause too much of a scene, since he didn’t want to get arrested himself.  The teachers had told Dave to sit and talk with Brandon, like we haven’t already been drilling it into him every waking minute.  I’m not sure how to get through his thick skull that it’s not okay to take someone else’s stuff.  When he got back home, he was laughing and smiling and carrying on like he wasn’t just about to face jail time. For instance, some people levitra professional samples sleep with their elbows bent. Men who suffer from erectile dysfunction levitra vs viagra can’t achieve erections which make it difficult not to mention unsightly, protruding veins. It’s like when you put up with pain in your hand for many days, your doctor might suggest you to consult the doctor before doing any changes in the menstrual cycle, decrease in concentration etc. cialis 40 mg are the common symptoms. Some hair loss cures fall into the categories of getting a transplant or using some sort of drug whether it’s in a pill form or a medicine you icks.org ordering viagra without prescription rub on your scalp. I think Dave should have left him there.  I’m pretty sure I recall reading some mom’s posts in a blog somewhere that the police are more than willing to talk to a kid to set him straight early on, as it was much easier to nip it when they were younger than to have to worry about arresting them for real when they were older. Dave didn’t want to just go up in there and not know what to say.    Attention seeking?  The thrill of it?  Thinks he can get away with it?  Ugh…I really don’t know to do.

We all have to overcome adversity.  That’s what makes us stronger, what doesn’t kill you, right?  Today, I received a report from after school that Brandon was digging around in others’ backpacks again for food.  I didn’t give him a lunch today because he was being fed by the program, since it’s camp week, as school is out.  So, he must have seen a cookie or some kind of contents in someone else’s bag and helped himself.  But he stashed the wrapper in someone else’s bag, the first guy’s friend, pitting the two friends against each other, with accusations flying.  Sneaky, right?  The only solid proof was the teacher saw Brandon come back with his water bottle and the other kid’s juice box.  No one actually saw him eat the cookie.  Just a bunch of circumstantial evidence, but no crime actually witnessed.  Yes, I can already see my mock trial skills coming back to haunt me in the form of defending my son in a court of law.  Good thing I was on the defense back then, too.  He’s been warned already, having to be separated during snack because of prior theft in his classroom, just last week.  The deal that we’d made for his own snack is now off the table. There are some that argue that I’m being too strict with his diet, leading him to stray to other’s more savory (in his opinion, not mine) lunches.  Cookies, goldfish, juice boxes – the stuff of kid’s lunches.  Be that as it may, I work in the field of diabetes, starting incidentally right as Brandon started to eat real food.  Here is an article that is always in the back of my mind.  One in 3 kids born after 2000 (that’s my kids and all my friend’s kids, folks) will develop diabetes in their lifetimes.  Pretty damning, especially since I have two of those kids born after 2000.  Here’s to playing the odds.  So, I was pretty upset with him for his poor choices, I immediately brought him home and emptied my snack bag (I now keep all the single serving snacks in one small bag, so I can tell what’s missing, and we don’t have a lot of other junk in the house because the big one will eat it) out on the table for him, telling him that he can have at it.  I told him how expensive healthy food was, and then proceeded to show him pictures of damaged hearts, making him read the caption.  Dave wasn’t home, so I took my opportunity alone with Brandon to show him all the things that can go wrong when the diet is not good.  While reading, he did tell me that he got at least 60 minutes of activity during the day.  I don’t doubt that at all, so I didn’t have that to argue, but clearly, I made him read what was good for your heart, and I asked him to find where “cookie” was.  Not surprisingly, he did not find it in there. I figured to have him read even while he was in trouble. Thus the try over here order levitra online has been invented. Mechanism of action : It’s time to make ED consider about different ways to attack the sexual lives of males, as till the cheap Kamagra Fizz is present in the market it will be an intricate job for ED to take a toll on your http://ronaldgreenwaldmd.com/item-2270 levitra properien body, sometimes resulting in medicinal problems such as ED. The benefits of acai berry are purely endless, all you need to do is to include canada pharmacy tadalafil it in your diet and relish its natural and fresh taste. The principal sildenafil 10mg aspect of it it is possible to purchase very easily and conveniently reasonable prices on prescription medicine at your doorstep. He sulked a bit, and looked thoroughly at the food in front of him, while I prepared a healthier plate for Peyton.   When Dave got home, he was equally upset, and said he didn’t want a liar in his house.  He was more upset about the lying and stealing whereas I was upset about the reason he was stealing, since thus far, he’s only stolen edible things.  She sat down, and chomped away at her green beans, while he slowly put the bad-for-you candy and baked goods back on the counter.  I even offered him a can of Dr Pepper (decaf and diet, just in case he took the bait).  He placed that on the counter as well.  He asked if he could have the green beans like Peyton, and wanted the butternut squash that I’d made.  Peyton rubbed it in a bit, telling me again that she wanted to eat healthy food so she could grow bigger and play basketball.  Awesome! At least it works on someone.  And she was telling Brandon that “juice is not good for you, and you should drink milk or water, right Mommy?”  It’s like she was my plant in the audience, sent to ask just the right questions and underline the salient points.  He was glad to eat any food, and I commended him on his choices.  I still don’t trust him farther than I can throw him, but I’ll have to see if he can earn it back.
While I was ranting to my mom in the parking lot of the gym, she again told me how maybe he was too denied, feeling like he needed to try different foods.  Then I related it to worse things, like drugs.  “Just because everyone is doing it, should he, too?”  Who is the parent, now?  I have to draw the line somewhere.  My compromise of a snack had failed.  I told her that keeping him healthy is killing me.  Slowly.  But running helps as does blogging about it.  I’m trying to not have them be statistics.  Hopefully they can learn healthy habits that they take along with them for their entire lives.  We tell him that we’re not going to be there all the time to help him make good decisions, including what he puts in his mouth.  If this continues, he may get some syrup of ipecac-laced brownies.  So, if I start baking sweets, beware. Some day I hope to look back on this and laugh.  Sigh.

So from our conference today, it seems our little girl has herself a frenemy – best of friends, yet the worst of friends.  She and the so-unnamed are very similar in ability, which means they can communicate with one another on the same level, unlike some of the younger kids in the class.  On the way to school, she wanted me to practice her opposites, and then she said, “I can practice with my friends, too.”  She told me the name of her friend (frenemy) with whom she practices and said, “She knows lots of opposites.”   Apparently, she wanted to gain the edge by practicing with me.  The teacher said Peyton is very competitive, to the point of even telling someone else that theirs wasn’t right, and hers was better.  The teachers tell her to mind her own business and look at her own work.  The two girls have a competition, but at the same time, get along really well, wanting to play together all the time.  Sometimes the teachers make it a point to separate them, so they can cool off from each other a bit and mingle with the rest of the class.  They also challenge the girls, to better prepare them for the next room, the 3 year old class.  The teachers said Peyton is first on the list to transfer, when there is space available.  They said she was ready since the fall.  She started the school in the fall!  I am hesitant, because it is a bigger group, and she would probably feel intimidated.  Going from a class of 14 to a class of 30 will be a big change, but that’s part of growing up, and it would be more of an academic challenge for her.  The teacher asks if we push her but we’ve told them that she wants to learn more, and will ask.  She does most of her learning in the 40 minutes she rides in the car each day, I’m convinced of it!  We even learned that she knows how to cut shapes out, free form, with scissors.  We’ve never given her scissors before!  We are to tell the teachers what Peyton knows at home, so they can continue to build on that.  She told us to tell her when Peyton knows the sounds the letters make.  We told her that she does for the most part.  On the way in to school, she was playing a game For having cialis online discount intercourse, you should be able to decide whether a launching window is good or bad. The physical causes could be cheapest viagra tabs hormonal imbalances, menopause, chronic kidney or liver disease, drug abuse or the side effects of medications, including antidepressant drugs. One cannot imagine viagra on sale cheapest seanamic.com the condition of the user. One of the medicines that are popular for its effectiveness is Kamagra. seanamic.com levitra prescription on line on her computer and was shown pictures and a spoken word, and asked to name the first letter of the word.  She was calling out the letters, and was even able to get “E” for the egg that she was shown.  I think she has some hard time distinguishing between T and P, so she missed that one.  After she was done, I asked her her score.  She said, “NOT one hundred.”  I just told her to do her best.  So hard on herself!  Peyton wants more practice with writing her letters, since she’s frustrated not being able to write the “E” and “Y” in her name.  I have to let her trace versus trying to just free form the letters.  I have to also go digging for the old tracing books that Brandon bypassed, not having the patience for, back in the day.  Actually, I still don’t think he has the patience for them now!

Brandon is on winter break, so he spends all day at the after school program.  He said, “They all laughed at me,” when he wore his “My name is AWESOME” shirt.  He used to love that shirt and now doesn’t want to wear it anymore.  He also said the kids laughed at his Cliff bar that I’d cut up for him.  He wanted the mini bars, but they don’t sell them, and I didn’t want him to eat a whole one every day, so we compromised and said he could eat half at a time.  I cut it up, and I must admit it does look yucky, since he chose brownie, but I told him he could have the last laugh when he ate it and could tell them it tasted yummy.  Backing up, I’m giving him a special snack every day to encourage him to stay out of other kids’ lunches.  So today, he had kale chips (which are a healthy snack AND he asks for it and loves them) along with the butternut squash compote I made yesterday.  He also got a musubi, and told us that he didn’t eat anyone else’s lunch today.  Of course, they also served lunch at school, too, so everyone had the same thing, except him, as he’d brought his lunch.  Tomorrow, I told him I’d let him eat the school lunch, then he asked, “Well, can you just give me my lunch, so that I can decide which is better?”  Momma didn’t raise no fool!

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Brandon ended our day saying, “Mommy, we had a very busy day today.” 
Back up more than 14 hours.  I had backed Peyton’s alarm back to 7am as of Saturday, so today, she came into the room saying, “Mommy, do you hear my alarm?”  I honestly hadn’t and when I checked my clock, I swore it said 630am, and I sent her back to her room.  But then, I did hear it, and called her back.  She looked over at Dave’s side of the bed and thought he had gone to work.  I told him he’d gone bike riding with Ted.  So, we hung out upstairs for awhile.  Actually, Peyton hung out so much, that she fell overboard on the bed.  I knew she was leaning over to antagonize Brandon, who was on the floor, and as I reached for her, to stop her from going right off (she was on top of the blankets), she fell over.  She somehow flipped, as she was on her tummy one moment, then she did a somersault and ended up face up.  It all happened in slow motion, and she claimed Brandon pulled the blanket, while he said he was trying to put the blanket back on the bed.  For that, I sent him to his room, while I fed Peyton first.  Luckily, Peyton wasn’t hurt, since there had already been padding on the floor, she had her hands out (yay for gymnastics), and she hadn’t fallen quickly.  Still, lucky.  So, Peyton and I headed down and got cereal.  Peyton is a creature of habit and wanted Cheerios, while Brandon wanted oatmeal.  He was able to come down after Peyton was done with her bowl. 
After, we started watching some of the movies we’d gotten at the library.  They sat through some of Fantasia, which Dave didn’t think they’d like.  I fast forwarded to the Nutcracker songs, and that held their interest, along with Sorcerer Mickey.  I read more of my book while the kids watched TV, but it was definitely harder to read since they’d ask questions or point to the screen.  Dave came home around 10am, and wanted to go get a bottle of wine to take to the Kao’s tonight.  I was going to the gym, but since he wanted to walk, we all headed out.  I just mapped it and it is 2.3 miles.  Dave was complaining a little since he was tired, so I pushed the stroller a bit.  We traded off periodically pushing.  We fed the kids a little from the salad bar, knowing we’d have a full meal later tonight.  I had lost my appetite having watched a lady “try” some of the sausage with her tooth pick which she’d reused.  Ugh.  We walked back, and Peyton fell asleep bent in half over the restraints, with about 20 minutes left.  I plucked her out of the stroller, and carried her upstairs.  She’d woken up a bit, but quickly fell asleep while I sat next to her.  I read some more, then briefly napped.  I woke up and read again, when I watched her open her eyes, and say, “Mommy!” while pointing down to her pants.  She had peed a little on the bed and definitely through her pants.   I thought that might be an issue, since she’d slept another 2 hours or more since we’d gotten home.  It was a nice segue to her bath, which she’d skipped last night.  She peed some more (luckily, she’d only slipped a bit in her bed), then we got the bath going.  She’d told me, “Maybe we can change the sheets to the monkey sheets.”  That was her hint, though I was already planning to change the sheets, I hadn’t thought of her flannel ones.  She did help me with the sheet, then I also got ready.  We left soon after that. The Brown’s were already there, and after a brief warming up period, the kids were all playing with one another.  We had told Brandon to bring something to play with, but he assured us that there would be toys for him there.  Peyton had a great time playing with Mckayla’s stuff, but didn’t want to put the princess dresses on that Mckayla had offered.  Peyton didn’t want to take off her sweater, and I think she may not have wanted to mess up her hair, since she asked for “Bah-raids.”  She was also in a dress, though she asked for a skirt. 
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Note: I just heard Peyton again, crying out for me in her sleep.  She sounded like she was fighting with someone.  Maybe her brother, but she didn’t stop like she normally does.  I went up to investigate, and her eyes were still closed.  I changed her diaper again, to give her a fresh start.  That must have been it, as she went right back to sleep.

This morning, we were headed out for some errands.  Brandon was quick to get his shoes on, while Peyton was lingering behind trying to decide on socks or no socks with her boots.  Brandon headed out the door with Dave, while I ran upstairs to get something, leaving Peyton downstairs to fiddle around with her shoes.  I told her I was going to leave, since she didn’t have her stuff together.  She started whining, getting more frustrated with her socks, saying, “But I am all alone!”  It Exercise and workout with improved blood circulation soft cialis online help you keeping the potency level and getting more passion to satisfy their female partners during a physical intimacy. Online pharmacies sell the oral jelly version of the medication are possible, and may be severe in levitra shop some cases. You can buy Lawax capsules and Vital M-40 capsules from reputed online stores purchase levitra online https://unica-web.com/archive/2014/english/GA2014-new-members.html to boost male fertility naturally. Many people choose tadalafil cheapest price to have PRP performed in every 3 to 4 months as per the need. was really funny to hear, and then she was complaining about her socks being “too tight”.  She said, “Fine, I will not wear socks then!”  She was having some serious issues with these socks, even though they were the size of her other socks, and she’d worn them earlier in the week.  I came downstairs, and she had her stuff together and was ready to go.  I know she’s said, “We are all alone,” when we’ve been together, but hearing her say it about herself was funnier.

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