Seeking God Knows What

So Widget is giving us a real challenge lately at bedtime.  She used to go to bed with absolutely no problems between 8-9 PM.  Now if we try and put her down before say 10:30-11 PM, she cries, absolutely heart-wrenching cries :(  We’ve tried nightlights, leaving the door open, showing her there is nothing to be scared of in case it is nightmares or fears about the dark.  We’ve tried letting her cry and she will cry for over an hour, which is when I can’t take it anymore and I get her up.

She still naps in the afternoon most days for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours and she gets up around 8 AM no matter what time she goes to bed (occasionally she will sleep later).

Both T & I are at our wits’ end because of this and things get fairly tense every evening since we don’t know what to do.

I have been having technical issues while learning to use this version of WordPress.  I ended up locking myself out of my administration capabilities and I forgot to export before I began mucking about, so I lost my last post and I will have to rewrite it plus I lost my blogroll.

We’ve been having this issue with a slight smell in our basement laundry area and no idea what was causing it. We have a cat and we had changed the cat litter a million times to no avail.

T discovered what it was this morning. A dead possum under our deck outside our laundry room windows. Every time we ran the dryer, the air “steamed” it and well, you get the picture! I am glad it is winter because at least the cold kept it from decaying even more.

Now, T has the delightful task of removing the snow from the deck, removing the deck boards and retrieving said dead possum to dispose of it.

Glad it’s him and not me

Ok Jenna, I’ve joined your Foto group. I’m cheating and using this fab picture from an earlier post but I’ll root out some others

I’m up and running on my new site

http://seekinggodknowswhat.com

Please update your feeds and links!

Thanks

I was going to go to church last night but somehow from the morning when I got up and remembered it was Ash Wednesday to last night at about 8 when I remembered again, it had slipped my mind.

I suppose having a doctor’s appointment for Widget, who has some unidentifiable rash (at least it wasn’t chicken pox like I was beginning to think) and a therapy appointment along with 3 phone calls from our realtor- can we have a showing?  How about 3:30?  Oh, wait the buyers would want to close in two weeks and that’ll never happen with a short sale, so nevermind, probably account for that slip-up.

As for my Lenten intentions, I’m going to try to spend at least a few minutes every day in order to do some reflecting on my spiritual life.  I also wrote my testimony because I would like to join our church this spring (and I’m hoping T will commit to writing his- he says he’s ready but he’s an excellent procrastinator- heh heh, that’s pot calling the kettle black).  I may need to some editing to my testimony as it is rather long.  I tend to be kind of rambly at times

I also need to contact the woman who sets up the life groups at our church.  The one we were going to join fizzled because we lost two families to other things and then I never heard anything from the group that was looking to add.  We need to get involved in something.  Alpha was great last year but it was such a huge commitment and the child care thing got too complicated, that we decided not to participate again.  And I’m struggling with my Tuesday morning women’s group.  I’ve missed almost all of the meetings since Christmas- I think I made it twice and I won’t make it next week as T has an appointment with an “Ears, Nose, Throat” specialist and I am going with him.  I don’t quite know what to do because I’m not feeling very connected to the women in my group, even though they are very nice, and that makes it hard for me to get going when I’m not motivated or when Widget is making it difficult to get out the door.

Oh, and soon I will be moving this blog again. I got in on a deal for site hosting, paying only $1 plus domain registration.  So once I sort out getting my site set up and my blog transferred, I’ll post the new link here.  This way I’ll be able to use some different templates, add-ins that the free blog here at wordpress doesn’t allow.  I’m getting in the thick of it with web site administration, set-up, etc.  Much techno-geek stuff to figure out.

At the moment, Widget’s face looks like she was in a brawl or a bar fight. She has a slight black eye and nasty scrape by her left eye (finally fading) from hurtling herself into the back of the couch, right where the frame is, last Wednesday. Yesterday, she scratched that same side on a decorative pillow my MIL had on their couch. When I picked her up from daycare- side note I found a wonderful in-home woman to watch her one day a week- she had fallen while playing outside and now has a scrape on the right side of her face to match the first one.

To top that off, today she woke up with a blotchy rash around her mouth, plus her top lip looks a little swollen, though I’m not sure how that happened. Since I couldn’t fit either of the two appointments that were open for tomorrow, I made an appointment on Wednesday with PH to make sure it isn’t something contagious like hand-foot-mouth or impetigo. Of course, if it is, it’s too late for her cousin- they shared a cup yesterday after AE swiped Widget’s to drink out of - and the other kids at daycare, although that could be where she got it.
Oh, the joys of having a toddler!

A new forum!

As if I need another site to visit on the internet. Heh heh.

Blame Jenna cause she posted the link on her blog. This time, though, it doesn’t have anything to do with adoption or infertility (my current forum memberships).

It is called Moms of Grace and is geared towards Christian moms. I am looking forward to getting a chance to roam around there and it will be a very nice change to not have adoption/infertility be the primary focus.

My sister M and her family are going to be moving back out west because her husband K is being assigned recruiter duty somewhere in the Denver battalion.   That means anywhere in Colorado, western Nebraska, eastern Montana, most of Wyoming.  This is not what they were hoping for either (nor what they were told would happen- they were told they’d get one of their top three choices all of which were either the southeast/southcentral or midwest- typically military).I liked having them closer in TN.  I liked visiting them in TN.  I hate the idea of having a two day drive to get there or having to fly.  The only time it was worse was when they were in Germany from 2000-2003.  Then there was a whole ocean between us.

M and I have our ups and downs but she’s my big sister.  We’ve been through a lot together.  This makes me sad and, what’s worse, is that she really does not want to move out west again (they were stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs twice before in the last 10 years) but she has to somehow be supportive of K, which they are having some issues right now with his “reintegration” to family life making that harder, and be positive for the kids to make the transition easier.

The only good thing about recruiter is that K won’t be deployed again during the next three years.  Maybe by then the US will be out of this damned war.