Thoughts from my rambling mind…

long crappy week

2011-03-31T08:21:00.001-07:00

Well it has been a really tough week which is why I haven't posted in a while. Baby Waffle is feeling under the weather and I have to admit that this coupled with his frustration from the speech issues is really starting to weigh on me. He was up all night the night before last(a first in a long time) and he cried the whole time. Needless to say I am still exhausted. Baby Waffle is sop tired he took two naps for the first time in a long time yesterday and then today he woke up around 7 and was back down for a nap by 10...who knows what today will bring.
In the mean time between speech, soccer, kindermusik, enrichment day, and gymnastics I have been finding it hard to balance school work too. I have been following a blog for awhile now that has a focus on working with a child Baby Waffle's age that I am starting to think has what I need to get balance. I am going to spend time trying to see how to impliment her ideas and hopefully that will get us some balance. (I will post a link to her site when I am at my computer instead of on my phone.
Lastly update on my school work not much to day here, with everything else going on I don't know where to find time when I am not tired BUT I do have a thesis committee so I guess that is something.
So that's it for now. I hope to have more to say more regularly. Until then...ttfn

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riding in my car...turn on the radio...

2011-03-17T08:38:00.001-07:00

Sorry I wandered. I am in my car and channeling old music as I rock out to the '80s on my satellite radio (gotta love Chevy) as I head down to the Great SouthEast Home School convention in SC. I am so excited not only for the information I expect to gather or the shopping I intend to do but also the fact that for the first tiime in nearly 20 months I will be with my hubby with NO kids!!
I hope to use some of this time to get caught up with so blogging I have been slacking on s expect to be bombarded.
So for now.....

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why i think home schooling is great

2011-03-10T21:16:00.001-08:00

Little Waffle reading while baby waffle plays with his balloon.

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Today was a good day!

2011-03-08T10:47:00.001-08:00

Baby Waffle joined us at the table while I worked on math with Little Waffle. Baby Waffle played with manipulitives while we did our work. We had all of our schoolwork done by 11 am. Then baby Waffle requested a nap during which I was able to do a work out on my new biggest loser for wii game (which I highly recommend btw) and I was also able to get my lunch in. Then he woke up and now we are preparing to go for his speech eval. I will update when we are done!

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i dont think he quite....

2011-03-07T04:54:00.001-08:00

Understands how knocking works. The dog wants in and baby waffle is on the inside knocking for her.

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psych.....

2011-03-05T16:14:00.000-08:00

I don't really have any thoughts together to post right now but just wanted to leave a little something for a certain friend to read...... hope you aren't as bored tonight!!!

one step forward, thirteen steps back....

2011-03-01T06:58:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was SUCH a good day for us. We were up and moving by 7 am, breakfast by 8 and by 10 am we had half our school work done for the day as well as a clean kitchen. We were able to get a couple of phonics lessons in and three lessons in math(Little Waffle LOVES her math and would do that all day if I would let her!)

Today on the other hand, I didn't even get out of bed until after 8 am. Baby Waffle had an awful night. I think it was because we slept with the windows open and it was storming outside. Now me, this makes for a fabulous nights sleep, the baby on the other hand was curious about every sound, move and wind blow. It is 10 am and we have just finished breakfast and I have Little Waffle working on some handwriting work. My kitchen is trashed and I have no energy. I think I picked the wrong day to skip coffee so I may have to break down and have a cup or I wont ever get moving!

Get moving I must, I have so much to do and when I get this way I just lock down and do nothing. I have pretty much decided, whether they will give me the financial aid or not for one more semester, there is NO way I can finish my thesis this semester, the forms alone that have to be turned in were late before I even started, so there is reason in itself. I will just have to find some way to pay out of pocket if they wont see fit to give me just one more semester to get it done. That actually helps because I was getting myself so worked up about getting work done that I actually couldn't do anything! This way I will have the rest of this semester and the summer to get the lit review done (which is good because I am still not fully sure what I am doing for the lit review!) and it gives us more time to get the actual research going that we have been working on. I am just going to have to find some way to actually get work done with these kids home. (and for anyone thinking well you could send Little Waffle to public school, well yeah maybe but SHE isn't the issue anyway and I wouldn't so it doesn't matter!)

Anyway, that is my story and sitting here typing about it isn't getting anything else I need to do done so I am out of here. If you don't hear from me for a few days it is because I am also trying to sort hang and price stuff for a big consignment sale. (it has to be done by Sat and I haven't even started! eek)

why I LOVE the South!

2011-02-26T11:06:00.001-08:00

I thought I would share a taste of this beautiful February day!!!!

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for those keeping track.....

2011-02-25T20:30:00.000-08:00

a quick update on Baby Waffle stuff. We got our appointment for the official speech evaluation, March 8th at 2:30 pm. I hope that at that time we can have an official idea of what is going on and dive right into a plan of attach as soon as possible.

I HATE being in limbo!!!

Quietly bawling...

2011-02-25T09:15:00.001-08:00

I am sitting in my quiet living room surrounded by Little Waffle's morning mess with Baby Waffle snoring away in my lap. I decided to take this time to try to catch up in my blogs that I have let built up, over 200 I am afraid. Anyway, the one I read first is from another home school mom who suffered the worst of all tragedies last fall when a dresser fell on her small son and he died. Many of her posts since then have made me heart sick and yes many brought tears to my eyes but his birthday was this week, he should have been two. The family celebrated his short life in a way I don't think I could but in their tragedy I actually found a little peace. I was bawling for the loss they have to deal with but also for Baby Waffle's issues and that was when I realized it can no doubt be worse. So I dried my tears and managed to accomplish a minor miracle.....Baby Waffle is taking his nap in his VERY OWN BED. (For maybe the second time in 6 months!!!
Not to teach little waffle some phonics and math!!

edited to add, Baby Waffle lasted in his own bed for about 45 minutes but then slept another 1 plus in my bed.......well, it is a start anyway!

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The price of gas today made me lose my happy thoughts....

2011-02-24T18:35:00.000-08:00

I literally spit out a few words I have not heard out of my own mouth since prior to having children but I guess that is our new reality. It sucks so bad but it doesn't seem like we will ever see the days of .99 gas EVER again! (ok so make me feel old how many of my dear friends don't remember those days to begin with?-- no really it wasn't THAT long ago!!!)

Then tonight Daddy Waffle came in and told me his friend wanted me to share some of my recent money saving discoveries with his wife. I guess that is because on Sunday I went to Harris Teeter (our best local grocery store that I love dearly) I I came home with $75 worth of food and only paid $23 dollars. I went BACK to Harris Teeter on Monday again picked up $75 of food and only paid $20. It was my first experience really working with 'super' double coupons (or really making an effort with coupons at all) and I am no HOOKED. Unfortunately that deal ended Tuesday but I have so many more things to share SOOOO I am going to make a new blog page for it. It will MOSTLY be local deals for my area but as I figure out where people are I will try to include everyone. I am by NO means trying to claim to be a pro at this but I figure I might as well share what I can right! If anyone would like to suggest a name for the new page I am listening. I just don't want to tie this page up as I am afraid I am going to have a lot of rambling to do in the near future as I learn more about what is going on with Baby Waffle.
Just to update the Baby Waffle situation, well basically there is nothing to update except that I am feeling more and more certain when I do finally get my appointment for his official speech evaluation with the speech pathologist we are going to hear that he has speech apraxia. Which I think I explained in my last blog but since I am not certain I will explain it again to the best of my understanding, basically he knows WHAT he wants to say but his brain can't make his mouth understand how to say it. If you are interested in more exact information it can be found at Apraxia kids .
I don't want to dwell on this too much at this time because like I said I am still waiting on an true diagnosis but all signs point in this direction and I would be lying if I said it wasn't just a little scary BUT for now that is why I am going to focus on finding all the deals there are to be found! I HOPE to at least get our appointment for the eval tomorrow so one way or the other I will update here tomorrow and I HOPE to have a list of deals started by the morning as well.
So off you go, enjoy Grey's Anatomy (or whatever guilty pleasure you may have!) night all....

Baby Waffle's eval was today

2011-02-21T14:08:00.000-08:00

So we went to the CDSA (Children's Developmental something agency) It's been a long day I just can't remember but it is a state run agency that will evaluate for all types of delays and set up referrals and plans of action and the like.

Well the just of the results are that he scored ahead on everything EXCEPT expressive speech. He is actually at a 0 to 1 month range for expressive speech (94% deficit)which leads the evaluators to think there maybe something causing him to not be able to make the words. Something gets lost between the brain and his mouth. They said he is VERY smart, just can't seem to find the words SO the next step is we are waiting for a call with information about his speech pathologist appointment where they will do an in depth speech eval and will be able to actually diagnose what is causing this and from there they will set up what ever other work we need to look into, the social worker in charge says 100% he will definitely need speech therapy but other than that I just don't know yet.

The one good thing that comes of going through the agency is that it is based on income and we fall into the 'if your insurance wont pay, we pay so you don't have to' range.

They did say he was one of the happiest little boys they had seen! He actually scored highest on social/emotional.

Well that is is for now. I will keep everyone posted as I learn more.

OH and in case you missed the update on his slightly shorter leg, we did see an ortho specialist last week and the doc seems to think he will grow out of it. So it is a wait and see kind of thing until we go back in 4 months for a recheck and compare the xrays.

So in the mean time, thanks for checking in and see ya later!!!

just another day

2011-02-16T12:03:00.001-08:00

take two, that first post was CRAZY. I am not even sure what I was saying. I was originally posting on my phone and Baby Waffle got his little hands in to the mix!

So I was saying I have been gone for a few but this time it wasn't lack of desire on my part, just got really busy! School has been going really well and I just ordered some more curriculum tonight for Little Waffle. We will be adding in First Language Lessons in a few weeks when we get a little further in our Phonics work. Math, well I LOVE this math curriculum, Right Start. We are going over things that many government school children will never see... she is even learning how to use an abacus.

We have also started to walk again now that the weather seems to be breaking. Seeing all the birds outside today makes me feel safe to say SPRING IS ON IT'S WAY!!!!

oh, one last thing, I got more information on the Purex insiders that I got signed up for. I will be receiving their new products to review and post about on my blog, so look for more information to come soon as they told us we will be getting something sent out in the next few weeks.

kassie, thank you thank you thank you!!!!

2011-02-13T14:29:00.001-08:00

Baby waffle is loving his new tub toy!!!