So, where have I been? after all the whoop-la going on with Brad's Dr's appt's and possible diagnosis I went to bed.. like not kidding litterly decided I didn't feel good just about every day, needed a nap and ate allot of peanut butter snickers... 20 pounds later (no joke!) when I was being weighed for my cardiology appt I nearly lost my lunch at the number on the scale.. decided then and there I could not go on like this.. the good news Ben and I don't have Long QT syndrome (there are some technical issues here.. we MAY still be carriers for the gene etc. BUT neither of us have the prolonged QT in our EKG's)... that meant Brad could be cleared for Football while we WAIT (yes we still don't have any thing definite yet on his genetic testing).. I don't know why that for some reason was reassuring enough to get me to get out of my funk thankfully.. I haven't weighed myself since that visit (denial isn't just a river in Egypt) BUT have been making some efforts to be more active AND best of all I GOT A JOB!!! getting a job in this BIG school district was a bit more involved then meeting with the local very small administrators at my local elementary school... this is a VERY large school district with several high schools, middle schools and I couldn't even guess how many elementary schools (50+) with online applications and looking up new openings it became a part time job just managing all the job postings etc. BUT I got my break when I got an interview with the director of Autism programs for the district.. I actually didn't get the job I interviewed for with her BUT she really liked me, she kind of HAD (her word) to go with an applicant who was already part of the district but said she really wanted me in the district and gave me some great advice about where to apply and who to send e-mails to etc.. the end result was 2 job offers it was HUGE ego boost to be in a position to choose, I got an offer for an Elementary School Para Professional (aid) to kids who were high functioning integrated in General Ed. classes and the 2nd was a Middle School para professional position to a small self contained class with very low functioning (mostly non-verbal) kids with behavioral issues.. my choice was to go with a Middle School, the kids were going to be more of a challenge but that appealed to me for some reason, I have really grown to LOVE this community of kiddo's (I may be eating those words but I really don't think so)... plus middle school made it so I didn't have to put KayLea in before school day care.. i'm not opposed to that BUT i'm getting paid a bit less than what I was making before plus I don't have a contract (don't get me started.. school funding out here is a MESS [and we live in one of the top 5 school districts in the state!].. we thought it was bad with tiny local voted on school funding.. we had it GOOD) so every bit in my pocket will be good, and Ben will be home before KayLea gets home from school so I think it will all work out...
So we are still waiting on the Genetic Testing for Brad and we take KayLea in Friday to get her work up done, can't say i'm completely calm about that one, she and Brad (and Lane for that matter) are built pretty much identical so we'll see if that holds any water to any diagnosis...
so we are plugging along.. school starts next week, the boys are thick into Football and then life will REALLY get crazy...
We got to go to Yellowstone Nat. Park it was fun and we got to see all of my side of the family (my mom's side anyway) and all of my siblings (photo's to come soon) we also got to get a family picture done which I can't wait to see...its been an interesting summer for sure... but we are surviving and even thriving...
that's all for now...
ta ta
