Cory went to stay with his mom tonight. She had some kind of procedure done today on her liver. She was diagnosed with a blood disorder where she has too much iron in her blood. I'm not quite sure what all this means. Tonight it means that if for some reason the boys wake up, I have to deal with them both by myself. Please pray for good toddler sleep tonight.

I cannot get my ipod to work. I think it is corrupted. Good thing it was one of the cheap ones. I guess I'll just buy a new one. I am too computer stupid anymore to figure anything out.

Deluge here.

Question:
Myspace - yes or no?

I did something that I usually recommend to my clients/patients. When I got angry, I did something positive - exercise.

Never in my life did I think I would awake to the words, "Mommy, I poopy."

Blogging on my lunch break... shh!

My most recent job change has been since January of this year as a therapist at one of our local mental health clinics. I decided at the end of last year that I wanted to pursue becoming a licensed clinical social worker. To do that you must: obtain your master's degree; provide clinical services supervised by another LCSW; obtain 2000 hours over 2+ years; have 100 hours of supervision; take a big fat test. I am about 600 hours into the supervised time so I still have a while to go. Our days here are really busy, with TennCare (Tennessee's medicaid prog.) standards we can see people for 30 minute sessions. An 8 hr day you could potentially see 16 people. Today I have 15 people scheduled and everyone has shown this morning. It's been a busy day!

Ok, well I guess people do still read me! thanks my pals!

Recent update: about a month ago, the boys' daycare closed. They were going to a home daycare, highly recommended, and we loved it. They were there for exactly a year and the owner decided to make a life change and close down. I can't blame her for it; 22 years with no benefits, no retirement, and she was offered a job where she could have those things. Too bad she chose to go to a child devel. center at a local hospital, open only to hospital employees :(. we miss you Ms. Tammy!
So we found a new daycare, quickly! It is a center, but it is small with only about 50 children total. The boys love their new teachers, and we even ran into one tonight, moonlighting at a local restaurant. So that was the most recent hurdle we've had.

Aidan and Cole now enjoy singing their little hearts out. Aidan's favorite is to sing a part of "Twinkle Little Star." He will sing, "Twinkle, wike a diamon in da sky!" He will often sing this over and over and over again. Cole likes to sing the ABC's, but usually only the "W X Y and Z" ... repeatedly, louder and louder. It seems that these days, repetition is the thing.

This evening, Cory went to the UT/ Fla game with a friend, and the three of us went to my mom's. I told them we would go to gigi's house, and Aidan then followed me around the house while I was getting ready saying "I want to go to gigi's house." I tried to affirm him and repeatedly tell him that as soon as mommmy finishes this or this we will go. over and over and over. It will literally wear you down.

In other news, my fondest memories from high school have resurfaced in a website. Let me preface this by saying I hated high school. I liked class, I loved to learn, but the social aspect of my school was not fun. My "group" was my chorus, and we had a special bond. We were the Halls High School Madrigal Singers, led by Allan Hoke. We rehearsed Christmas music from August to November. We performed almost every night from Thanksgiving to Christmas break. We dressed up in long flowing dresses, hats, gaudy jewelry, men in tights. We sang acappella 4-8 part harmonies with bell tone chords ending our songs. We sang Carol of the Bells hundreds of times a year. We took trips in the spring with long bus rides to compete with choirs from all over the country. We competed in Festival chorus where a score of a 1 was the expectation. This, my friends, is the ONLY thing I miss about high school. Halls Madrigals.

As i sit at home on the 4th day of strep sickness, i am trying to figure out what to do with my blog. My problems are many: I don't have the time that I used to have, Cory's real estate business has taken off and he hogs the computer all night, I do not want to blog at work because they monitor everything done on the internet. (I also have the tendency to get caught up in the blogging and not do my work).

I would like to re-do the pages but i'm not tech savvy enough to figure it out. I don't have any money to pay anyone to do it. i'd like to save the pages and pages i've written because there are some important milestones there.

so those are my dilemmas. anyone with answers? anyone still read? :)