Our (Neurodiverse) Family

I feel like this blog has become just a bunch of catch-up lists. Maybe I'll get with the program. Maybe. The big update is that we went to Disney Land last week with my husband's family. It was in the works for a long time and it finally happened. I hadn't been since I was sixteen with my high school orchestra...and it was a very limited experience even then because we got rained out. Disney Land this time around was fun and very exhausting, though I would rather not do it with a mostly nursing baby again. However, the baby care centers at both Disney Land and California adventures were wonderful. Kate turned four a week before we left for Disney Land. We took doughnuts to play group the morning of her birthday, because I am too tired and lazy to have a big friend birthday party. Then in the evening, we had spaghetti and birthday brownie. We also Skyped with my parents. I still can't believe I have a four-year-old--it feels like yesterday that she was just a baby. ...

After spending the better part of a month bleeding in some form (spotting for two-ish weeks and miscarriage bleeding for one week), I am now free. My feelings on the end of this month's reign of blood? This video sums it up best: I asked my doctor if I could have a "get out of periods free" card for the next few months, and he laughed. Not mockingly, he genuinely thought it was one of the funniest things he's heard in the eight years he's been an OB. I am so sad that he's leaving the practice and going somewhere that doesn't take my insurance. Otherwise I'd have him deliver my next child. Sighs...oh well. If you are male and reading this first part, I am so sorry. Hopefully the mood swings will go away too. Seriously, one day I'm doing fine, and the next.... For all of my fellow Whovians. That's probably an exaggeration. Really what happens on my bad days is that I just become more withdrawn and don't really want to be ...