Housekeeping (aka miscellaneous bored posting)

1. I was reminded of my listing of favorite songs yesterday while we were out to lunch. The Church's Under The Milky Way came on. I wish I had a cool story about this song, but I don't. It's just one of those songs that remind me of the dance club I used to go to in college and seems to pop up in my life periodically. Every few years I'll hear it everywhere again and I'll be reminded of how much I love it. Definitely one that is never far from my iPod.

2. I've posted a link to 100 things about me in the sidebar. It took me most of the day and I'm already itching to change some of it, but it was an interesting exercise. I don't know that I've ever listed 20 things about me all at once, much less 100. So if you are as bored as I am today, here's some random trivia about Tawnya!

3. Thanks for all of your comments about Sammy's therapy. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do. I don't feel strongly one way or the other, so I think I'll call once we get settled and go from there. It takes awhile to get everything rolling, so we can do the waiting & seeing during the setup time.

4. This. Just because. I so want him to do well on American Idol, just so I can look at him every week...I'm apparently shallow like that.

5. Barack Obama was on the View today. I never watch the View, but I tivo'd it so I could see him. Made me want him in the White House even more!

Therapy: A Crossroads

Sammy turned 20 months yesterday. 20! He's nearly 2! Yikes!

He had his last therapy appointment this week. All in all, I've been very happy with the experience. It's set a few fears at ease (if only temporarily!) and it gave me some great tools / resources to help him going forward. His therapist was great; Sammy LOVED her. We have seen such an explosion in mimicking from him in the past couple of weeks. Something we didn't have a whole lot before. As of Wednesday, we have new signs for bear (my favorite - it's so stinking cute!), milk (finally! we've been working on that one since 7 months old...) and, for the big announcement, he can wave. FINALLY. Ok, so it's the same motion as 'all done', but still. He waves. Whew! He is getting closer with words, but still isn't there. He does say bow wow wow (ei ei ei) and is close on quack, and will 'count' to three, though, so we're getting there. He can, however, point out O, W, A and E. I fear he'll know all letters and numbers before the boy utters "mommy". Sigh.

Now comes the hard part. I have to decide whether to continue Sammy's therapy once we move. I am so torn on this right now. On one hand, he's doing well, I'm not as concerned with his development as I was, he loves therapy and it seems to have really helped him. On the other...should I just relax it a little and see how he does with the move, the increased socialization? He'll be around a lot of family, we're starting nursery at church sometime in the next month - most likely. Who knows what that will pull out of him? But then, if I don't continue and something wrong comes to light... Argh! So. I'm torn. I really don't know what to do. Isaac is fine stopping, but says that if it will be better for my piece of mind to continue, then continue. Maybe I should give it a month and revisit how he's doing then.

Friends

Lisa Hurwitz, margaurite and jane

You would think that once you left high school behind your friendships would become easier. After all, you get older and more sure of yourself. You define who you are and what you want in life and gravitate toward people who are similar. Or, if not similar, who you mesh with and can grow from. It's really too bad that isn't the case all of the time.

Part of the moving process is dealing with your local relationships. Those you take with you and keep in contact with, albeit altered, but who will stay in your lifelong friend category. Those you need to sever ties with to preserve feelings or emotions or sanity. Those you move to the Christmas card only list. Those you know you will just lose contact with completely. And those that you suddenly realize have disintegrated without a thought or word. I've done this shuffling of relationships several times, but I am still not used to it. Especially the last category. It's always sad to realize that someone you thought was a friend has disappeared from your life and you aren't sure why. Or, most sadly, when; since the craziness of life has gotten in the way of noticing before it was too late.

The older I get, the more my lifelong category friends become lumped together. It's like I no longer remember that X doesn't know Y because they are friends from two different places and I have to be reminded. Moving changes all of that. You have to sit down, amid the promises of keeping in touch and hugs goodbye, and face the fact that things are changing. However, if you are lucky, you get to keep one or three or six friends from this phase and slowly shuffle them into the 'lifelong' category.

Easter

Happy Easter Everyone!