Quick Update.... Blahhhhhh

Ugh, blah. I feel like I haven't been here in forever, but my inertia is so bad that I'm not sure how long it's really been.

I woke up this morning with my period and what I think might be the beginning of an eye infection. Sigh. At least I can call the vet and tell them that I need another bottle of eye drops and they won't think anything of it, since the dogs are still supposed to be on them. Yes, I gave up. It was almost impossible to get them into their eyes, which seem fine now, anyway. Plus, I think I probably touched Baci's eyes with the dropper at least once, between his flailing and my trying to do things one-handed while sitting on him and holding him down, which means the bottle is contaminated, anyway. The vet told me when I asked last week about whether people could use those drops too that, technically, she couldn't say anything about people, but the medicine comes from the same place. That's good enough for me, people!!!! At least giving myself eyedrops won't be an ordeal!

My nephew is recovering. Apparently, he had a whopping sinus infection, and his snot was so extra-germy that it was spreading the infection to anything it touched (see, I told you he's got a funky immune system). His doctor, the regular woman he sees, said it's not MRSA, which she sees on a regular basis, and that the medicine he had been on would probably have taken care of it if it was. So, he's on something new, and it seems to be working. PHEW. Patrick's still not going down there this weekend, though, because, yuck.

Patrick's behavior has been a lot better lately. We're doing a new reward system - he has a necklace, and I bought a variety of beads. When he does well getting ready for school, he gets a bead. If he gets a 'green' behavior at school, he gets a bead. If he goes to bed well, he gets a bead. Ten beads = a playdate. He wears it all the time, and his teacher knows we're doing it, so not only does he get reinforcement at home, and from wearing it all the time, but also his teacher asks to see his new beads every day. This morning was his tenth bead, and he was so excited and proud! I told him I'd call his friend's mom and see if they could play together today, so I have to get on that in a little while. Hey, whatever works, right?!

I know I'm WAAAAY behind on reading everyone else's blogs, too. I still love you all, and will be catching up over the weekend. Between my period coming, which is always awful since I'm not regular and my PMS is usually an increasing thing over about two weeks rather than a few days, and the weather, and being tired from Delilah-watching, I'm just drained. Plus, I had MOPS babysitting on Wed morning and yesterday morning I babysat for a parenting class the church is running, and it was TERRIBLE. It's a mixed-age class, from babies up to prek, and while there are four of us in there, one of the women really only seems to like sitting in a chair holding a baby, and one of the others is that idiot who can't hold a baby right, and yesterday she literally laid on her stomach on the floor and wrote out a food journal while the room swirled around her. Meanwhile, I had a baby on my hip and six preschoolers/toddlers glued to me. Ugh. The class ends in a few weeks, and I CAN'T WAIT.

I will catch up on all your lives soon, my lovelies. I promise!!!!