Woodstone Prairie

7 Quick Takes

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I’ve spend the whole week “putting out fires” at Children’s Hospital. From the way this is going you’d think nobody with schizophrenia had never needed surgery before. I like the way the kid’s pediatrician put it… “If M was injured while skiing or something and needed his hip repaired, there would be no discussion… they’d just get in there and do it. This shouldn’t be any different…”

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She’s right, it shouldn’t be… but it is.

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Earlier this week, I thought I was going to have to postpone the surgery until after M turns 18 in August (to work around one of Children’s Hospital’s policies), but it’s looking like we’re set to go as scheduled on the 16th. I’ll find out either today or Tuesday what the plan is…

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Children’s Hospital made me so angry yesterday, that I had all kinds of extra energy…

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… energy that got the taxes done!

~6~

We also picked up the wood for the new floor in the living room this week. It ended up being about 30 boxes, with a total weight of  just over 1,400 lbs. (I had to find out the weight, so I would know if we could take it in one load without flattening our little light duty truck.) I learned that it only takes about 30 minutes for the kids and I to unload, move into the house,  and stack 1,400 lbs of wood. My legs were TIRED afterwards!

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This is what that much wood looks like… It takes up a lot of floor space in the living room.            

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We’re off today for lunch with friends and then the homeschool group ice cream social. Tomorrow is the big once-a-year Special Olympics party and dance… The kids can’t wait!