So if you haven't heard Miss Alison is on crutches. She was at school and was playing dodge ball and felt a pop in her knee and went down. She has also hurt her other knee in the past 4 months playing dodge ball at the Boys and Girls Club. I think for her personal safety she needs to stop playing dodge ball for heaven's sakes! Anyway, we find out tomorrow if she is going to need surgery since she did more damage this time than last. Yesterday I was picking her up and I watched her walking on crutches on the sidewalk and then look the other way, almost falling off the curb. And then I realize that we are lucky she has only been on crutches once. She is the most accident prone child we have...yes she was the same one that gave herself a concussion at school because she she sneezed so hard that she hit her head on the table at lunch time.
Miss Melody hit her head at school and it was looking scary for a few days but she is now back to her weird self again...now that I think of it she is a LOT like Alison was. Lord help me, we only need one Alison around here.
So the rest of this week we are going to 4 Dr. appointments, 2 therapies, 2 IEPS.....nice. And this is why I Melissa Holstein can simply not work at a factory job.
I put in a good effort with that factory job, I even enjoyed parts of it. But getting up at 5am for this mama of 7 is not in the cards. And doing manual labor and then picking up kids from activities, helping them with homework, feeding them and then putting them to bed without wanting to cry from pure exhaustion is more than I can handle. After the holidays I will try a different job route, like an aid in the classroom or something. But NO MORE factory jobs. I still have varnish on my arms making me look like an abused wife...
We have had a good week with Tobey, I would like to think it is because he is with me. But, probably not. He is loving Christmas and every time he sees a tree or lights he sings a song and then claps for himself. How darling is that?
Edwin has been fun lately, I took him to get his haircut on Saturday. He hated going but now thinks he looks like Kevin off of Home Alone. Not really dude. But he is happy to brush his own hair every morning, so I will call him Kevin if he wants to take care of his own hair. Whatever it takes.
We got a real tree again this year, probably a huge mistake. Last year we are lucky the tree didn't go up in flames. It 9 feet tall and extremely wide and it still has ornaments from about 3 feet up, or about as high as the kitten can climb before getting yelled at. I know Christmas is in 20 days but I am just not feeling it much this year. Maybe it's because my husband wore shorts and flip flops outside? We will just blame it on the weather, like everything else is. The weather and Obama...no one else to blame for anything in the world. Haha. Just want to take a second to point out that I, Melissa Holstein blame Obama for nothing, I have not become a Republican overnight. Sorry Sarah.
Going over the last paragraph I just realized that I sounded like Linus from the Peanut's Christmas special, maybe I should watch it to put me in the holiday spirit.
I love Peanut's! So I think that is all for me....now I need to get things done like water the tree and become Martha Stewart. Talk to ya later!
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