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walkitoutIt’s 90 out there and unbelievably bright.
T. threw up last night, so he stayed home today (24 hour rule, basically). He had an on call, and called in early and they told him don’t bother to call in later today, just come in for your scheduled shift on Friday. I’m pretty sure that he screwed up with yesterday’s dinner at the theater. He had the steak and cheese spring roll, nachos and a sundae, and took 1 lactaid pill with it. Maybe he could have survived that with 3? But not just 1. And honestly, cream cheese is a mistake in general if you have lactose issues. While I in no way checked the ingredients on the steak and cheese spring roll, that genre of menu item looks like a spring-roll wrapped philly cheesesteak.
Oh well!
We had a zoom meeting with A., her a junior high school side special ed person, and the high school psychologist and the learning center person at the high school (who we know from CASE years back in 2017 +/- with Ted, so she’s awesome). I totally forgot about it, but got a reminder email with the zoom credentials. They no longer pay for the zoom license so they are stuck with free meeting limits. I may offer to host next time, LOL. I pay.
I went through email pretty extensively, mostly looking for the notification that the kids’ pediatrician is switching roles and will no longer be available (she’s focusing on medically intensive cases, and good for her!). I couldn’t find it, and had resigned myself to somehow having thrown it out inappropriately, and then belatedly realized, nope, that was _paper_ mail. Ooops! Anyway. I asked T. if he wanted a male doctor (after determining there was one at Acton Medical who was accepting new patients and that his webmd entry included all the relevant things for T.), and T. thought about it and decided that he would like that. I’ll try to talk to A. later today, altho there is no rush; her next physical is due in October. T.’s is due in December.
I ordered the new Ninjago city markets lego set; super excited about that. I even had the presence of mind to go check my VIP rewards and convert them to codes to use for the purchase. Whee!
Also, in the very best of news, my niece and nephew are signed up for the first 6 weeks of the summer program that is the same people that run the wraparound care they’ll be using during the school year. They have 1 week overlap with the nanny’s last week, and then 5 weeks are covered! Only need 3 more, and they are waitlisted for those weeks. They may have a staffing shortage that is limited how many kids they can take on, because I had _thought_ they only had 3 weeks available, but 2 that had been showing full had space. In addition to just plain being more developmentally appropriate and letting the kids make friends and go swimming and helping integrate the whole family more into the local community, this program costs 20% of what the nanny cost. One. Fifth.
It’s so funny, too, how I thought to do this. S., the kids’ mom, kept saying, I don’t know how other people do this. And I was like, you know, _I_ don’t know how other people do this, but usually there’s a wraparound care option that effectively extends the school day and the school year through the whole year. And sure enough, there was. R.’s sister, who lives in a nearby town, confirms that a bunch of people she knows who have small children make use of it, and speak highly of it, so fingers crossed it works out all around.
T. threw up last night, so he stayed home today (24 hour rule, basically). He had an on call, and called in early and they told him don’t bother to call in later today, just come in for your scheduled shift on Friday. I’m pretty sure that he screwed up with yesterday’s dinner at the theater. He had the steak and cheese spring roll, nachos and a sundae, and took 1 lactaid pill with it. Maybe he could have survived that with 3? But not just 1. And honestly, cream cheese is a mistake in general if you have lactose issues. While I in no way checked the ingredients on the steak and cheese spring roll, that genre of menu item looks like a spring-roll wrapped philly cheesesteak.
Oh well!
We had a zoom meeting with A., her a junior high school side special ed person, and the high school psychologist and the learning center person at the high school (who we know from CASE years back in 2017 +/- with Ted, so she’s awesome). I totally forgot about it, but got a reminder email with the zoom credentials. They no longer pay for the zoom license so they are stuck with free meeting limits. I may offer to host next time, LOL. I pay.
I went through email pretty extensively, mostly looking for the notification that the kids’ pediatrician is switching roles and will no longer be available (she’s focusing on medically intensive cases, and good for her!). I couldn’t find it, and had resigned myself to somehow having thrown it out inappropriately, and then belatedly realized, nope, that was _paper_ mail. Ooops! Anyway. I asked T. if he wanted a male doctor (after determining there was one at Acton Medical who was accepting new patients and that his webmd entry included all the relevant things for T.), and T. thought about it and decided that he would like that. I’ll try to talk to A. later today, altho there is no rush; her next physical is due in October. T.’s is due in December.
I ordered the new Ninjago city markets lego set; super excited about that. I even had the presence of mind to go check my VIP rewards and convert them to codes to use for the purchase. Whee!
Also, in the very best of news, my niece and nephew are signed up for the first 6 weeks of the summer program that is the same people that run the wraparound care they’ll be using during the school year. They have 1 week overlap with the nanny’s last week, and then 5 weeks are covered! Only need 3 more, and they are waitlisted for those weeks. They may have a staffing shortage that is limited how many kids they can take on, because I had _thought_ they only had 3 weeks available, but 2 that had been showing full had space. In addition to just plain being more developmentally appropriate and letting the kids make friends and go swimming and helping integrate the whole family more into the local community, this program costs 20% of what the nanny cost. One. Fifth.
It’s so funny, too, how I thought to do this. S., the kids’ mom, kept saying, I don’t know how other people do this. And I was like, you know, _I_ don’t know how other people do this, but usually there’s a wraparound care option that effectively extends the school day and the school year through the whole year. And sure enough, there was. R.’s sister, who lives in a nearby town, confirms that a bunch of people she knows who have small children make use of it, and speak highly of it, so fingers crossed it works out all around.