Byrningbunny

Photo Friday: Three

byrningbunny — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:17:39 +0000

The three most important people in my life or my bossy three year old teaching his little brother how to walk and telling all of us where to go!

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Three Beautiful Things

byrningbunny — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:46:17 +0000

1. Pre-school! Ahhhh. . . The glorious silence on these days is such a soothing relief to my poor ears.
2. Sleeping babies, specifically mine. My youngest is sick from the two flu shots he received, so he is currently sound asleep.
3. Warm pets to snuggle me while I take advantage of this moment and post.

Home again, home again, . . .

byrningbunny — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:11:13 +0000

It’s been a long while since I’ve managed to even remember I had a blog, let alone sit down and type something. We’ve had a very busy summer and fall and are still working on settling into winter. The boys have been relatively healthy this summer and that has been an incredible blessing as we’ve gone through so many changes. Our eldest has gone through the testing process to be diagnosed. As usual, being seen by many different specialists, the results were somewhat contradictory. This is to be expected, I believe, when the poor kid gets bounced from one place to the next without a consistent caregiver/diagnostician.

We’ve suspected hearing problems for the eldest for a long time, but we’re a little surprised by the latest diagnosis of profound deafness and the need for a cochlear implant. His speech therapist and teachers are insistent that he can hear and point out his progress with his speech as proof. (He has been accepted into a special school program to help him adjust to the time when “real” school begins. His class has 3-5 yr olds in it. He is the youngest, and the biggest, child in his class.) At home, he still has good days and bad days and many mixed days. It’s all a little muddled.

Neither one of the kids are sleeping tonight. They’ve been to respite care for the weekend, and the night they come home is always hell. You spend a great deal of time asking yourself if it’s really worth all the torment to everyone’s life. The one golden moment after respite is when they come through the door and you see their beautiful little faces and have that instant parental gratification of seeing the little monsters you’ve been missing so much.

Wubby is upstairs trying to reason with them. Hmm. . . Silence! Apparently her skills are phenomenal, or else they’ve passed out from hyperventilation due to all the screaming and crying.

Working on the problem

byrningbunny — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:33:06 +0000

The computer is a complete mess and won’t let us access the internet. I’ve been working on it a little at a time, but with two toddlers wanting my attention, I’m really not able to spend the time with the computer necessary to figure it out.

Thanks to Wubby for letting me use her computer at work to look for helps online. She has our littlest one “helping” her work, as I peruse. Isn’t she lucky?

Photo Hunt: Plastic

byrningbunny — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:05:05 +0000

I seem to have a theme going here today. These are metal and plastic containers of chemicals — fertilizers, insecticides and miscellaneous farming chemicals. When we first moved in, they were spread over a much larger area. Now they are stacked neatly (?), next to an old refrigerator and roller contraption. Just beyond you can see an old Model T. They are on the neighbors property, although they appear to be in our yard.

In my world view, this is just plain irresponsible. The refrigerator needs to have the door removed, and then be taken to the dump. The roller contraption and old car are too valuable to let rot in the severe weather. They should be taken to a museum somewhere so nerds like me can ooh and aah! And those chemicals should have been responsibly stored and removed when they were done using them. There is a shed with a lock on the door, currently being used, right on the other side of this photo. Just on the other side of that is a field. Even though the farmer has tried to level it out, there remains a large depression that fills with water every Spring. Guess where the migrating birds hang out?

All of those things mentioned above will probably happen mysterioiusly someday. Still working out the logistics and researching disposal of the chemicals in a responsible and annonymous manner. And luckily for anyone who stops by, my computer crashed right in the middle of typing this, so you were saved from one of my rants!

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