Month: May 2015

Jeremy went to PT this morning in the hopes of loosening a tight IT band and he found out that the office had moved locations because someone had driven their car from the parking lot through a plate glass window and into the main treatment area.  Luckily, the only severe casualties were some treadmills and resistance bands and bosu balls.

It’s been tough for Vince to shake this cold of his (going on a couple of weeks now), he’s still coughing and I’m trying to get him to rest more to get rid of it before a big Memorial Day weekend for him which involves: chocolate, violin, roller coasters, 5 am wake up, caves and not a single vegetable.

Edda also suffers from this mysterious malady – coughing and hard to put to bed. She’s moaning against my elbow as I type this at past 9 pm.  Too late to be up little girl!  Go to (*&^ to bed!

We all share in each other’s germs, I feel a tickle in the back of my throat that I’m hoping to overcome by my willpower, more sleep and intentional visualization (<- just kidding!  not doing that last bit!).  I don’t know what Jeremy is going to do, he’s starting to feel sick too, but he’s headed to LA for business tomorrow – no rest for him.

I have no photos today, I’m unhappy with my recent all iPhone photo blogging.  Photography is not satisfying with an iPhone for me.  I guess I should pick up my huge camera again, but I don’t really think that’s the right direction either…

So this is the photo that you get.   A peek into my texting relationship with Vince…

Edda enjoyed going to OT today, as you can see from the little video above.  There were four of us in the room, Deb (who is mom to a 30 yo), me (mom to a 11 year old), Keyla (who is 23 years old) and Edda who is 11 years old.  We all had a fabulous discussion about Taylor Swift.  (But first we had a heated discuss about bunions, so it goes both ways.) Who knew Deb was a Taylor Swift fan?!?  She was the one who was like – have you seen the new Bad Blood video, Doris?  You must see it.  Keyla nods enthusiastically.  Edda smiles.  I’m always the last to know.  Well, here you go.  I know none of the famous people in this video.  The new Taylor Swift video:

I ran for an hour on the Wootton track early Sunday morning.  It was very humid.  Summer is my
least favorite running season.  I’ll take super cold over humid any day.

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Vince hosted a sleepover on Saturday night.  I do enjoy having him host sleepovers at this age – as I told a friend, all I have to do is throw a pizza into the room and they are good to go.  Jeremy made a nice stack of pancakes for them in the am.

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Edda had field day today at her school.  We were invited to have lunch with them after they played around with water hoses.  It was soooo hot.  We met a bunch of Edda’s buddies and had “slow-melt” ice popsicles.  What weird polymer/emulsion/colloid did they put into popsicles to make the melt slower?  Ahh, just gelatin according to the internet.

Ahh, weekends with nothing scheduled.  A total luxury.  This is what I did today: laundry, bills, eat leftovers and make cupcakes for no reason.  I didn’t even really finish the laundry, nor did I finish paying all the bills.  But I did eat a lot of leftovers and I made all the cupcakes.

A few weeks ago, Jeremy bought this automatic frosting dispenser.

So I was able to swirl the cupcake frosting.

We’ve been introducing Keyla to the inner workings of the Lee-Martin household.  Fascinating all-around, I’m sure.  Because of the transition, I’m introducing her to Edda’s team – her school and her therapists.  I’m not often at Edda’s school nor do I go regularly to Edda’s therapy sessions, so it’s nice to catch up with these folks that I often email, but hardly ever see.  The above photo is with Amy, our local au pair coordinator, who is now a good friend of mine because she has seen me through many, many au pair adventures which started in 2008.

I took the opportunity today at Edda’s OT to make an appointment with the PT in the office.  Edda’s feet are flaring out because of her constant pacing and her feet now can’t be placed in the proper angle from her ankle.  If you know 2nd position in ballet, that’s how her feet are stuck.  There is some deformity in her ankle bones, so I need to get someone to look at them and make sure that it doesn’t get worse.  More worrisome, but probably something that we can do less for, is the appearance of scoliosis in her spine.  I can really see it now, it’s worse now than it was even 6 months ago, and it’s more marked when she’s awake and doing her repetitive hand motion.  Perhaps it’s worsening because her body is trying to grow taller as she heads into puberty.  I think the PT will be able to address the feet, but the back, I think I might have to head to Children’s to see an orthopedist.  This is my summer goal for Edda.  To make it to the ortho’s office and have a baseline x-ray taken, get AFOs for her feet.  Maybe a brace for her back.

Vince has been sick this past week.  I took him to school on Tuesday and we got a call from the nurse within the hour of drop off that he wasn’t feeling well.  The school policy is usually that if you don’t have a fever, they send you back to class after a short respite in the nurse’s office.  But the nurse knew that Vince isn’t typically a frequent flyer, so she called us (or actually, he called us).

It’s this an “adult” kind of sickness all of us slog through.  He feels pretty good when the Motrin is working, but when it wears off, he gets a little feverish and feels pretty crappy.  So he’s been going to school under the auspices of medication.  I can’t decide if going to school is the right thing.  When he’s under the spell of Motrin, he’s totally himself, but when it wears off, he’s totally not.  So should I keep him home and have him be all happy-go-lucky all day?  Dunno.  I wonder if he’s contagious. That is another issue.

Also, Vince and I text a lot.  It’s been interesting. We’ve even apologized to each other after a particularly bad fight.  If you have time and want to delight him, text him!

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It’s great to be back at work without school obligations looming over me.

Jeremy took me out for date night tonight.  I think I look espeically frumpy in this particular get up, especially standing next to Jeremy in his well fitting suit.

Jeremy took me to a book signing party at work – not entirely the most romantic date, but there was free wine and food.  And his co-workers are always very nice and welcoming and love to talk about the renewable fuel standard.   I get to practice my small talk skills between bites of shrimp or brie.

We did manage to cut down the mantles, so they ended up looking just regular.  Jeremy bought the mantles on the internet and, essentially, they were un-returnable.  If we weren’t able to cut off the extra 20 inches, we would have had to write it off as a sunk-cost which would have pained me to no end.  But we didn’t have to and they look fine.

The huge German chest got moved into our bedroom.  Our bedroom is now the land of the unwanted yet wanted furniture.  Any furniture that we like and don’t want to throw out is now in our room.  It looks like a mish-mash college dorm room now.  Overflowing and uncordinated.

It’s late!  Good night!

Edda was sleeping in our room on the eve of Mother’s Day, so she woke us up at 5:30 am with a very clear, well spoken, “Mom!”  Now that was a very nice Mother’s Day present.

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Jeremy made me a very nice blueberry crumb cake.  He made one for me on Saturday and another one on Sunday.

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We celebrated at Gene and Bette’s apartment.  We helped them put in some garden plants they had purchased earlier this week.

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We are getting some work done on the house. We ordered the mantle piece about 20 inches too deep. Ruh roh.  It was going to look like a a tunnel with a fire at the very end of it.

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Vince played in his middle school concert tonight.  No air conditioning!  It was smelly in that gym.

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I’m done, I’m done with the term!!!!!!!  Let’s dance.  Or at least let’s have a nice drink.

To the best mom ever!