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| Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband! You were my rock these past few months and I appreciate you so much! |
I did pretty well this year. Normally, I stress about getting everything done in time for the holidays, but this year after the insane amounts of stress we had, I didn't. Nothing really seemed that important. My goal was not to put too much on anyone. In trying to keep stress to a minimum, we didn't even do Cookie, our elf on the shelf, this year. The kids and I have fun with her, but also know it's a lot of work to keep up with her and they were ok with missing one of our traditions for this year. Dealing with all of L's issues has been a little overwhelming for everyone and we really just need some downtime. L has pretty much ostracized herself from her siblings. They use to be so close and now they not only don't trust her, but don't know what to do around her. They kinda have parallel lives nows. However, it has strengthened A and T's bond and that has been sweet to see. A is naturally more inclined with her personality to reach out and try to include L in some things, but will also be quick to shut L down if she starts having an episode or acting erratically. T for the most part just ignores her or interacts very minimally. He isn't rude or anything. I just think he was really hurt by her actions and very mad about some of the things she has done. I think L honestly thought when she came back that their relationship would be exactly how it was. She did not count on the fact that his bond with his parents is stronger than his bond to her. In fact, there have been a couple of times that I have had to tell him to stand down when L gets into one of her episodes and he feels he needs to back me up. As time goes by and her good days out number the bad days I am hopeful that they can repair their relationship. I don't think it will ever be like it was, but I do hope that they can enjoy each other's company again.
I am not sure what happened to her or why now, but we all pity her, which of course upsets her, but it's hard to not feel sorry for someone who just transformed into someone else basically overnight in our eyes. It is what it is though and while it would suck and I hope it doesn't come to this, if she stays toxic we will have to show her tough love and kick her out, if she doesn't go anyways as soon as she turns 18. I think it is entirely plausible that she could be one of the mental homeless people living under a bridge. She is so out of character right now anything could happen. At least we will always have the happy memories of her childhood, she can't take those away. Her past three months of health care has cost us and insurance about $100,000. The health care system is broken and drastically needs fixing. There is no scenario where 4 weeks of outpatient therapy for 4 hours a day AND you pack your own lunch should cost $52,000! IN NETWORK!!! And that is about what they charged for 2 weeks inpatient!
T has been sick AGAIN this week. To be fair so was A. She got a stomach bug and threw up about every 2 hours for a day. She said she couldn't remember the last time she was that sick. I thought T caught her bug, but his is mostly in his chest again and has definitely lasted more than 1 day. I am not sure why every time he gets sick it settles in his lungs, but it does. The doctor thinks it is usually allergy related so she gives us Albuterol vials to put in the nebulizer 3 times a day. It usually takes about 10-14 days to completely clear up. Fortunately, the rest of us seem to be fine. We're just tired from getting up to bottle feed the kitten. She should be eating wet food by now, but no matter how hard we try she seems to only want her bottle. It's like trying to switch your toddler to a sippy cup from their beloved bottle. She fights it, refuses to eat, gets dehydrated, we relent, she gets her bottle and it just goes like that on repeat. At least she is finally using a litterbox. My poor hand are battered from trying to wipe her. Fun fact, kittens lack the ability to retract their claws until they are about a month old and their non retractable claws are insanely sharp!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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| She's cute, but she's never going to give her bottle up😭 |
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| L likes taking care of her. |
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| The funny part of this shot was the card was making fun of him getting older and not being able to see well. I laughed hysterically as he was trying to read the card! |
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| Our park that is in downtown of our little town was lit up beautifully. L made us some fancy popcorn mixture to snack on, we drank hot cocoa, and drove around looking at the beautiful lights. |
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| Noelle does NOT appreciate her new baby sister. In fact, she keeps getting into my Christmas tree in retaliation and now my tree looks so sad and unkempt. I plan to take it down on Christmas afternoon since the cat is driving us completely bonkers trying to keep her out of it. |
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