Being Me…

Well, we should be getting closer to making some decisions about where to go from here with our son.  We’ve got a meeting on Wednesday afternoon with the people from the county to hear their recommendations.  I expect that it will involve the county school system, since this program that they actually work with only helps children up to the age of 3 and our son is now over 2 and a half.  We’ll see, I guess.

I am fairly nervous about it.  I’ve never thought of myself as “anti-government” but I just get nervous thinking about the county or any government agency making recommendations about my child.  What do they know - the government can’t take care of itself!  I’m going to try to reign that in and at least listen to what they have to say.  That much can’t hurt, I suppose.

The rest of the week should be ok.  I’m turning 38 this week; that is a bit depressing, but it is actually better than NOT turning 38, so I’m trying to keep it in perspective.  I get to visit with family later this week, and more than likely that will result in my husband and me being able to go out and have a nice, hot meal together.  That would be lovely.

We decided fairly abruptly yesterday to go along with (well, follow) my parents-in-law to PA to visit my husband’s grandmother. She’s 89 or so, so we know we should make the most of our opportunities. It was a lovely trip, despite grey, rainy weather.

We gave our littlest a bottle of formula before the trip and she napped almost all the way - a huge improvement over screaming for an hour of a 2-1/2 hour trip, let me just tell you. Our older child had a good time just looking out the window. Once we got there, we had a nice visit. Great-grandma held our little one and oohed and ahhed over her and made a big deal out of her latest accomplishments (being able to hold herself sitting up, once put in that position). Our oldest got to run around outside with various people to play with - that’s his favorite pastime so he was blissful as well.

We went to dinner at a nice family diner; it was a good break from chains and fast food type places. They made your standards: ham, roast beef, spaghetti, fried shrimp, etc. I had the fried shrimp, and that was very good; I had forgotten how much I enjoy that. After a relatively brief visit after the dinner, we headed home. It was about 2 hours and 45 minutes of visit and 5 hours of driving time, but it was great to see everybody and to get out of the house. I think it was a great change of pace for the children as well.