Month: February 2014

Spending Saturday night trying to melt a block of ice from the inside of the fridge with a hairdryer. Exciting!

Edda’s been mad all day. We aren’t really sure why. She’s really happy when she’s sitting on the potty. I don’t really want to admit how many hours she has been on the potty today. It’s not fun hearing her cry all day. Jeremy thinks she’s a little under the weather. We’ve given her Motrin and Tylenol – hopefully it’s just a passing thing.

We tried to watch Ghostbusters with Vince tonight (I’d never seen it before & Edda was on the potty). We made it about 2/3 of the way through when he declared that it was too scary to watch. He’s kind of a sensitive boy.

Jeremy’s taking over the laundry duties from me. Apparently, I’m not very timely with the folding and therefore the dogs sleep on the clean pile and then the clean laundry ends up all wrinkled and covered with dog hair.  I don’t really have a problem with that, but I think Jeremy does.

Second week of nursing school is done! This semester is fun! Lots of hands on stuff (only on fake people though).

Snow day again in MD. We have used up all our allotted snow days. There are none left. Vince was bored. This is what happened:

Sunday night dinner did include the Super Bowl with all the traditional foods.

We didn’t stay very long, only until 7 pm – long enough to watch a few commercials and eat some more potato chips. I really wanted to ask Christine about changing a dressing on a pressure ulcer wound – when exactly does one switch over from regular gloves in the room to the sterile gloves with a sterile field.   Apparently, in the clinical setting, one does these things completely differently than the way I’m learning in school. Oh well. Just how it goes I suppose – I know if I was changing a dressing on a wound on Edda in a hospital bed, there wouldn’t be a sterile surface anywhere…

Janos came Friday night for a trombone audition this weekend. It’s been nice to hear trombone practice wafting out from the basement guest room. I don’t often get to hear trombone played except from 4th graders in an elementary school band, so it’s a treat.

He tried blowing helium through his trombone. Apparently it does change the pitch just like it does with your voice. Jeremy and I were a little nervous that he was blowing helium through the trombone the night before a big audition, but Janos seemed pleased with the experiment.

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Saturday saw Sophie and her daughter who has Rett Syndrome for lunch.

Her daughter, who is 2.5 years old, was in a great, happy mood for a couple of hours and then turned on a dime and went into inconsolable crying for about 45 minutes. I had forgotten, or blocked out, all the inconsolable crying that Edda did at that age, all hours of the day and night for 2-3 hours at a time. I tried to tell Sophie that, for most girls, the crying does end – it does take a couple of years. And I held and rocked her daughter for 20 minutes or so knowing full well that whatever I did, it probably wouldn’t work to soothe her. And 45 min after she started, the terrible mood ended and all was well.

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Today, brunch with some of my favorite people. We look pretty good for being tired moms.

Brothers who all have a sister with Rett Syndrome. I don’t think they ever talk to each other about their special needs sisters, but they love talking to each other.

Birthday girl!

I know I’m going back almost a whole week, but last Sunday we celebrated Jane’s 17th birthday and Gene and Bette’s new home – their senior living complex. We ate at one of the restaurants and they do serve properly portioned meals and one is so used to seeing gigantic servings at restaurants that the smallness of a proper serving is pretty shocking. Gene, of course, is hot stuff at a retirement community. We asked him if he had been propositioned yet and he blushed so fiercely that we all had to blush in return and give him congratulatory slaps on the back.