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We were going to go to SkyZone first thing in the morning, but for the second day in a row, R. just didn’t wake T. up at all. Unclear why, and thus T. was late getting going, then he wanted to fill his hydration pack and I had trouble figuring it out. We wound up running so late, I punted on SkyZone, which is way the hell and gone the opposite direction for everything else we wanted to do and I was worried about range, AC, etc. I had a huge meltdown, because I got so frustrated. Eventually, I worked out that the reason T. didn’t get up was because R. didn’t wake him up and R. gets really mad when T. gets up early on his own. So R. put T. in a no win situation. I discussed this with R. for a while on the phone, because it is bad enough that it has somehow become my responsibility to deal with the kids when there is no sitter or day camp scheduled; abdicating the morning routine on top of it is actually cruel, especially when we’re all tiptoeing around R. depression/grumpiness in the first place.
Anyway. T. also wouldn’t eat breakfast because it was so tight on the timeline going to SkyZone, and I was worried about his grumpiness when he’s hungry. So he ate breakfast and we took an hour to recover, and then we went to Altitude in Billerica AFTER everyone’s food had settled and before we had lunch at McDonald’s. Then we still had a bunch of time before the 3:30 p.m. physical therapy appointment at Spaulding, so we drove over to Chelmsford (not as ridiculous a side trip as I had initially thought) to go to Famous Footwear. T. got 2 pairs of sneakers (Nikes size 104E Yikes — he outgrew the 94E). A. got one pair of lace-ups (I was pretty sure she had at least one Velcro pair at home that still fits, and it turned out I was right) and one pair of sandals (mules? Is that still a term?). A. also got socks, because she’d taken off her socks from the trampoline park and we needed them to try on shoes.
Spaulding appointment went well, but our efforts to register for the patient portal totally failed — the number they gave us didn’t work at all for the registration process step one. I told the woman there, and then I had T. try it and finally had R. try it from his work land line. It didn’t work for any of us. She didn’t know who to report it to. I’m not very impressed, however, it really does help explain why when one complains that something doesn’t work, people keep suggesting trying it over and over and over again in pointlessly different ways. It isn’t because they think that will work. It isn’t that they are in denial. It’s that they honestly don’t have any other ideas. Keep that in mind the next time you are frustrated with someone, and if they can’t come up with someone else to contact, maybe you can suggest someone. Odds are good that whoever is reading this is at least as clever as the person running the desk or phone is.
I looked at the Skechers, but they didn’t have any slipons in pink for A. and didn’t have much in my size; I’ll order something later. I don’t like to order T. sneakers, because I’ve had misdeliveries (send the regular when I ordered the wide type of thing). I’d rather get what we know works at the store (rare for me, I know!).
Anyway. T. also wouldn’t eat breakfast because it was so tight on the timeline going to SkyZone, and I was worried about his grumpiness when he’s hungry. So he ate breakfast and we took an hour to recover, and then we went to Altitude in Billerica AFTER everyone’s food had settled and before we had lunch at McDonald’s. Then we still had a bunch of time before the 3:30 p.m. physical therapy appointment at Spaulding, so we drove over to Chelmsford (not as ridiculous a side trip as I had initially thought) to go to Famous Footwear. T. got 2 pairs of sneakers (Nikes size 104E Yikes — he outgrew the 94E). A. got one pair of lace-ups (I was pretty sure she had at least one Velcro pair at home that still fits, and it turned out I was right) and one pair of sandals (mules? Is that still a term?). A. also got socks, because she’d taken off her socks from the trampoline park and we needed them to try on shoes.
Spaulding appointment went well, but our efforts to register for the patient portal totally failed — the number they gave us didn’t work at all for the registration process step one. I told the woman there, and then I had T. try it and finally had R. try it from his work land line. It didn’t work for any of us. She didn’t know who to report it to. I’m not very impressed, however, it really does help explain why when one complains that something doesn’t work, people keep suggesting trying it over and over and over again in pointlessly different ways. It isn’t because they think that will work. It isn’t that they are in denial. It’s that they honestly don’t have any other ideas. Keep that in mind the next time you are frustrated with someone, and if they can’t come up with someone else to contact, maybe you can suggest someone. Odds are good that whoever is reading this is at least as clever as the person running the desk or phone is.
I looked at the Skechers, but they didn’t have any slipons in pink for A. and didn’t have much in my size; I’ll order something later. I don’t like to order T. sneakers, because I’ve had misdeliveries (send the regular when I ordered the wide type of thing). I’d rather get what we know works at the store (rare for me, I know!).