things i've learned

While I'm still praying God makes a way w/my finances, I'm LOVING being home w/the boys, especially w/this new diagnosis for Asher. Being home w/him all day, I've learned so much about my child. I always knew I wanted to be a stay at home mom because I felt working FT, I was just having someone else raise my child. And now that I'm home w/them all the time, I feel even stronger w/that theory. I've learned so much about his personality and being able to match it w/this diagnosis, I've been able to learn even more! He really has been having pretty good days since I got laid off. I think part of it is that daycare had too much stimuli. Now that I'm home all the time, there isn't so much going on, and things are pretty consistent for him. He's been doing really good w/his speech lessons. His teachers have even commented that it's getting easier and easier to understand him. He does pretty good w/his OT as well. I can't say as I've noticed that huge of a difference yet, but he does what his therapist Kyle tells him too. Sometimes Kyle has to give him his options more than once, but Asher hasn't once had an outburst w/Kyle. I've been really impressed!

As for Jaden, I've learned that he's a clepto at school. He is CONSTANTLY trying to take home toys from preschool. I have to pat him down before letting him go out. He's also started a lying phase which doesn't please me at all! He lies about the stupidest things and all the time. It's really frustrating for me! I don't know if he thinks Asher is getting too much attention or what. They do say even bad attention is attention. He did have an appointment w/his eye surgeon on Wednesday, and he is scheduled to have his eye surgery on Dec 8th. They said his eye measurements have been pretty consistent these last couple appointments, so they feel confident that they'll get good results the first time around. And they said once it is fixed, that it will stay fixed for the rest of his life. I'm not sure if he'll need glasses as his vision isn't a perfect 20/20. We'll go back to his eye doc in GR probably a month or so after his surgery to see where we stand on that.

I feel like all we do is go from appointment to appointment. I definitely haven't been able to sleep in on my time off. Not that they boys would let me sleep in even if we didn't have somewhere to be. They're usually up between 7-8am depending on when the sun comes up. I told one of the girls last weekend when we were at the casino for our work trip that I wanted to steal the curtains from the casino in our room bc unless they were open you had no idea if it was day or night outside. They were just starting to sleep in till 9am when the time change happened, and now I can't get them back to sleeping in. All in all, I think being laid off this season is probably for the best for all of us. I'm going to try to enjoy and make the most of all the time I get w/them!