#parenting

I occasionally handwrite in various notebooks, but thought about an electronic journaling. Lo and behold... Google suggested opendiary. How could I have forgotten something I used for YEARS? Now, nearly two decades later, I reclaimed my old opendiary. I doubt I'll go back and read old entries... ...

I have to wait to go to bed until like Midnight so I can take my meds at Midnight and go to get my blood drawn at noon (there has to be 12 hours from my prior dose of lithium before my test.  I think the part that will suck the most is that tomorrow…

I have been cramming for my much feared A+ Certification Part II exam. I really hope I pass this time because this stupid certification has consumed the past seven or eight months of my life. I have had to stop working on the classes I do like, push all of my friends away, ignore the…

Having a kid with SPD can be terrible , can be exasperating and  truly exhausting. I'm one of the lucky people whose kid is extremely high functioning, so much that we wouldn't have actually reached to a diagnosis if it wasn't because I know a girl in high school whose kid has it and I…

I was looking at my old journal.  I see the last entry I had written was back in 2010 announcing to the community that I was going to become a father.  My daughter will be 7 in a few months.  Everybody always writes about what they love about being a parent.  So what I am…

My parents are taking the kids to Disneyland tomorrow as Grandpa’s birthday present. When I asked my husband if he was okay with this, as it would mean missing one day of school, he replied, “He considers that a present?!” My sentiments exactly. But I guess that’s what happens when you don’t have...

I got let back into this diary over a month ago when TheDiaryMaster graciously let me be one of the later phase beta testers, but this is actually my first entry since then. The problem is: two small children who suck all my energy and time swiftly away from me. There is no more sinking…