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There is nothing like the internalized stress of an upcoming surgery of Nicky’s to make me susceptible to strep.  (Assuming he does not catch my strep, and we did share a croissant this morning, his next VEPTR expansion is on Thursday.)
I never got it as a teenager, when it runs like wildfire through high schools.  […]

Oi.  I’m just not cut out for it.  I’ve got 13 meetings this week.  Over 5 days. And another 6 already slotted for next week, with one of them being a check-in with the social worker and another an all day affair in NYC (which should count for 8 meetings, as its 8 hours! […]

What do you think the chances are that our officially scheduled time of *Sunday* August, 5th between 8 am and 5 pm is actually going to happen??
Sunday!?!?!
They already completely flumoxed up one attempt on 7/23.  They rescheduled that on their own for 8/3 (because, of course, all days of the week are equal) at the […]

April has been and will be a month of many celebrations in our household. It was on this last day of April in 2004 that I received the referral for my beautiful Noelle. It is a day that competes for top place in my life with her, Nicky, and Carlo’s gotcha days.
My excitement […]

I actually have all these big thoughts running through my head (must be procrastinating, as I have this paper to write) disruptions, cystic fibrosis, scoliosis, gymnastics, children, international adoption …
But, I’ll just stay mundane …
Its been nice this week, so far, as Nicky’s school is on vacation and both kids are at Noelle’s school.  We […]