Bad Blogger

As usual, my apologies for being absent.

You know, when I lost my job I thought, "What in the world am I going to do with all my time?" Now I am asking myself, "Where in the world did all my free time go?" I have a long list of projects i want to accomplish. I have barely scratched the surface. You know what I am doing? I am having FUN. Way too much fun. 

I am also job hunting, taking on-line courses and trying to get health insurance for us. We were supposed to get the paperwork for Cobra and payment in our severance package to pay for one month of insurance. But....I haven't gotten any of it yet and neither has most of my fellow ex-lex'ers. One gal I worked with is pregnant and just found out she has gestational diabetes, but since our insurance was cut off her doctor is requiring cash payment up-front to treat her. Lovely. 

I was trying to hurry Levi up getting into his carseat the other day, and he looks up at me and says, "You don't want to rush me, old woman." 

Levi has lost another half a pound in the past week. He plays for a while and then lays in bed quietly. We are waiting on the tests for the viral panels and celiac disease. Everything else was normal. For some odd reason he seems to be craving carbs. He ate 5 pieces of toast for dinner the other night. If he has celiac disease this is exactly the wrong thing for him to eat. Until we know, I am just letting him eat whatever appeals to him. Last night by 5:30 he was begging to go to bed, and did. He never even got out of bed. This is not normal. Very not normal. I sure hope we figure something out soon. Then again, there is that 'no insurance' thing right now. That won't stop us from seeing a specialist, but it does make everything more difficult. You see, specialists do NOT like to take on patients who are self-pay. 

Levi was coughing one day and when he finished, Ahren looked at him and said, "Awesome'. 

Today I made padded rails for the side of the boys new waterbed. I took foam pipe insulation ($2) and some heavy denim fabric ($6) and my staple gun and Ta-da, padded bed rails. Chris finished the headboard and it is painted and drying. I also picked up several wooden shelves that he painted and I will hang them tomorrow. I got the curtains up, suede micro-fiber tab-top curtains that block the morning sunlight. I bought the sheets, curtains and comforter from Overstock.com. Cheap and free shipping was the deal I got. I also picked up a couple of coat racks from a dollar store to hang jackets, etc on. The only thing I wanted to do and haven't been able to is to sheet-metal the walls up about 5 feet. (Boy-proof!) Just kidding. Maybe. Is that even possible? I would like to know. Seriously.