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MARCH 2005
ok we have even MORE snow today, this is way too
much, I can’t get out of our driveway so I don’t go in.
I continue on my spring cleaning binge. There is so
much that needs to be done to the house, the windows need replacing, it needs
painting, the kitchen tile needs replacing, and there is way to much STUFF in
this house.
The tax refund was a good one this year and
we’ll be using it on the house.
I have cleaned the Kitchen, and the living room and
the dining room – next stop my closet and bureau’s.
Keith gets a phone call from Dylan’s teacher.
It seems that when we were on vacation, Dylan went on one too. He hasn’t
done, any homework, nor does he do his class work, he sits and day dreams.
Keith asks her to get all the missed or incomplete
work together and we will get it done. This doesn’t go over well with
Dylan. Since now he has been found out, he has a huge pile of papers in his
desk, in various states of unfinished.
We get this all taken care of, and Keith
wants the homework left on the kitchen table to be checked by him in the
morning to make sure it’s done. So I back out of the homework stuff.
Note: I stumble on an ad for Laminate Wood Flooring
for $1.25 per sq. ft. and head out to get it right after work. I get 13 boxes
and 3 rolls of underlayment in my Mazda3 (and
it’s NOT a hatchback) The price for our new
floor, $448.59 Awesome.
Ahh we have yet another snow storm, this one dumps another
6 inches on us. It doesn’t bother us tho, we have a guy coming to give us
an estimate on new windows for the house and then we are going to start putting
in the new wood floor in the kitchen/dining area.
Mom gets
home and the boys are both still in PJ’s, not a
problem, I hadn’t planned on going anywhere.
We
install the new dining area light and work on Mom’s design for
nightstands, and matching headboard.
We get the window estimate 4-6:30 and set up a
date, and there is no more time left. so we call it a
night. Gramma B has arrived, she was headed to the
north shore when the roads got worse than she wanted to handle and then
didn’t feel safe to drive from where she was back to RI, so I told her to
come and stay with us.
1st
thing was a new foyer lamp – with a really short ladder, but my awesome
husband gets it done.
The new
floor goes in; the whole family is at it. Ian and Dad pull up the linoleum, I
cut it up and Gramma B, bags it for the trash, Dylan
is running around with the shop vac. We have the whole
kitchen stripped in 20 minutes.
On to the
flooring – we start empting the room at
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Here
is just a cute photo of an and Z
I get a
call from Keith telling me “thanks a lot” I ‘m wondering what
I did now??? seems that Ma loved the flooring so much,
she bought some for her house and Keith gets elected to put it in. Ok, when do
WE go do it?? I got you into it. I’ll help. LOLOLOL
Keith gets ANOTHER phone call from Dylan’s
teacher; it seems that she has been writing in Dylan’s Homework book
(otherwise known as BEST
BOOK) that he is again at the not
doing class work and not doing his homework.
Keith calls me at work to let me know this, now I
am livid. I asked him to his face last night if his homework was done. yep he tells me and come to find out, he hadn’t even
brought it home.
I split work early and head to his school. SURPRISE DYLAN – YOUR BUSTED!! His teacher and I spend at least ½ hour going thru
the kids backpack, it is stuffed full of papers he didn’t want anyone to
see. and the BEST BOOK is
forgotten when there is a note in it, that he thinks he’ll hide from the
receiving adult.
He has a
HUGE pile of stuff to finish, and it seems as if he has been taking Pokemon stuffies to school (with my approval – on the
condition that he puts them away when he is supposed to) and when he is told to put them away in his
backpack, he puts them in his desk. NOT Happening kiddo.
I take the pile of work and the toys home with me.
When I get there I then head to his room and collect the GameBoys,
the video game guide books and the games and controllers for his PS2. no TV
either for 1 month, since he had been on punishment for 2 weeks and within 1
day he is back at it.
When he arrives home, I tell him to sit at the
table and get started, he has a lot to do, he makes a fairly good dent in it,
as I am getting ready for bed, I tell him to do 2 more papers and he can call
it a night.
A few minutes later I hear him in his room, ”What are you doing?” “Coloring”
is the response. “Did you do those 2 more papers for me?” “Yep.”
“Good, Go get them” he takes of for the kitchen and then
doesn’t come right back, after a few more minutes I get up to fin him
searching his pile of papers for something he can pass off as done. He has LIED
to me again.
Mom just doesn’t get it?? Why lie over
something so stupid????? I send him to bed, no playing, no waiting up for Dad,
no nothing!!
We head to Ma’s and Keith attempts to
repair her broken bed frame, while I install the CD Burner that I bought her to
keep all her digital pictures safe from Hard Drive crashes.
Also Keith and Ma go to the store and pick
up her wood floor and bring it home.
Then we
all head off to brother Lance’s house for
dinner. They are living in Michelle’s parent’s cottage by the lake,
nice place, but the road getting there is the pits. I is
dirt and full of LARGE ruts.
We have
a nice visit, dinner and watch the
Keith and
the boys head to Gramma B’s, this is flooring
weekend. Ma already has the carpet up and a lot of the baseboards pulled off
(she is having 85% of the interior painted too) so they set right to work.
Keith and
the rest put in a 12 hour day and have made a big dent in what needs to be done.
I am at
work an have a quiet evening at home alone. Can’t leave the dog overnight
so I plan to head down in the AM
EASTER SUNDAY
I arrive
to find the house in chaos, but the bedroom is done, the hallway and the dining
area, all that is left is the living room. They have been busy.
We get things finished up around
Both kids
sleep on the way home, and are quick into the shower and ready for bed. I let
them wait for Dad to get home before they have to do lights out. He rolls in
around
Today is
another follow up visit to DR S. in
Dad goes
with us this trip, he was supposed to have Jury Duty, but didn’t have to
go.
The appointment is at
Dr S is pleased with Ian’s appearance and can
find no weaknesses (not evening his neck) we discuss the lowering of any
medications???? Ian listens with baited breath. if the labs all come back
normal, we may go down again on the cyclosporine, but he is not sure if the
drop will be to .40 cc’s or .30 cc’s
That news makes Ian’s day, since I have been
threatening him with a switch over to the shot form. Since he
has had so much trouble keeping it down. He gets himself all worked up,
because he doesn’t WANT to take it. Then the brain takes over and makes
him puke it up after he takes it.
I’ve been asking if he wants to get sick
again… the answer is of course NO, but I remind him that this medicine is
what is getting him well and it needs to go in and STAY in.
Dr S. then asks if we are interested in helping
with a study they are doing on Dermatomyositis. I
agree since they have taken such good care of Ian. I feel we should help others
avoid what we went thru if we can. (I was the same way during pregnancy –
they had all kinds of interns etc in with me – and we did the same while
Ian was here in Oct 03)
Ian agreed also (I wouldn’t have forced him
by any means) Dr S said there would be NO ADDITIONAL Dr visits,
nor would there be additional blood draws. They would on
The Bonus of doing the study is that his
original Dr. is the one running the study and we haven’t seen her in
ages. When she arrives, she is amazed at the change in Ian. he
has grown 2 inches since she last saw him and grown his hair longer.
She runs
thru the tests, even tho he can ace them, she remembers what he was like when
she 1st saw him.
We didn’t have time to get lunch prior to the
appointment, so we head to the Galleria and have supper.
We head for home at
The folks
from Amvets are to come today to pick up 1 of what I
am sure will be several loads of donations, since I am cleaning any area in the
house I can get my hands on. It needs to be done. But if we are relocating, I
don’t want to waste time moving junk we no longer need, use or want.
Around
Well the
day went for bad to worse. The folks from Amvets
were a no show, so I still have a room full of junk. And may
have it til mid April. Humph!
Next a friend calls and has news about our camping
spots for the NASCAR races in
I guess it is all about the money, tho it would
seem that as long as they get their money, they shouldn’t care how much
room you get. their spots are WAY to small and if this
is how they want to be, fine… when the tickets come up for renewal they
can sell them to someone else. They have gone from FREE camping to $125.00 a
spot and now 1 spot is all you get.
At other tracks the sites are much larger (at least
20ft wide) and if you want 2 fine, as long as you pay
for it, and they are only $50.00 a spot.
Maybe the sales will drop enough and they lose a
race date next year. And then they can see how much money they make.
Next the window guy calls and tells me, the person
that said the windows would be installed on the 30th and 31st,
shouldn’t have told me that and we aren’t even on the schedule yet.
Now I am REALLY not in a good mood. I am about ready to tell him to keep his
windows, after all the problems with the color selection, and now this.
Tonight
is the night that Ian and Dad sleep over at the
I arrive
home at
I tell
him I will look over the paperwork while they are at the museum.
They are supposed to be at the school at
There stuff is all packed in trash bags and Dylan
and I take them up to the school and then head home, for a quiet night just the
2 of us.
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