DYK- September Days Are Here

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DYK- September Days Are Here
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Thu, 09-01-2011 - 8:56am

Helen Hunt Jackson- September Poem

The goldenrod is yellow,
The corn is turning brown,
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down;

The gentian’s bluest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun;

The sedges flaunt their harvest
In every meadow nook,
And asters by the brookside
Make asters in the brook;

From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies–

By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:15am
dyk it takes a bit to get a good network set up

dyk and ours has shifted -- we had a previous group but it was just "my" friends -- the husbands were not on board they already had their own friends/interests etc and none of them had a special needs child and as Abi got a little older.. that became important

dyk b/c as much as people can love and "support" you, unless you know, you don't know and we desperately needed the extra "know"

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:16am
DYK I'm so happy for your friend and it sounds like she is absolutely deserving of the good things coming her way
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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:18am
dyk so that original group -- still friends with them, still know them, keep up with them, but they are not our full family immersion group of friends

dyk so now, like when we went to San Francisco -- Abi was of course with my mom, still very few people can handle her overnight, (They WOULD have, but my mom is more highly trained, haha)

dyk but Ellie and Dek were farmed out to other friends and then last minute when scheduling conflict came up I just texted a different friend and said -- nab Dek in the kindergarten line - and drop him HERE on Monday and then HERE on Tuesday

dyk lol

dyk so it takes time, 5 years for us, but if you keep at it, offering playdates, inviting people over, joining groups, etc, you WILL get a network set up and it's GREAT

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:22am
dyk I have no idea what I was going to write here.

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:25am
dyk funny thing about the green tee --

dyk that is not usually a color scheme that I would choose --

dyk I am much more into blues and reds, rusty pinks

dyk but the shirt that I found on clearance was celery green, so there ya go!

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:47am
dyk Abigail went 3 days without her dapson (her skin condition meds) b/c they were backordered at the pharmacy

dyk that's not a long time, we thought she'd be fine

dyk she's got 2 abruption on her left leg (the most common place for them on her actually) and a scratch that then got angry in the crook of her elbow

dyk her legs are fine, I treated topically after she went to bed (b/c she won't let you touch them otherwise)

dyk but her arm -- she said when the air went across it, the sting goes inside.

dyk so she's wearing her arm wrapped in an ace bandage -- 24/7 (not compression wrapped -- very lightly wound around) for the past two days

dyk but we've not heard ONE complaint about the area at all

dyk I am sure the school loves that -- b/c this mornign she wrapped it from her mid-upper arm down over her elbow down her arm and it's wrapped around her thimb too like her wrist is broken, lol

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:51am
dyk Ellie is awake! I can hear her in her room playing

dyk 9am is much more normal a wake up time for her -- over the 11:15am last night

dyk we may go to the grocery store

dyk maybe not -- I'm feeling very -- lay-on-the-couch-like

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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:57am
DYK I love listening to Lo play in the morning
DYK she always gets this high-pitched voice when she is playing with her favorite toy- it cracks me up!
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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 9:58am
DYK wow- the dapson really keeps things in check!
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Fri, 09-16-2011 - 10:30am
DYK I need to build up a stash of freezer meals again
DYK it was so awesome to just be able to pull something and heat it up and be done!
DYK last night we ended up at McDonalds-yuck- and I know it wouldn't have happened if I had a chicken dish or a casserole I could have pulled out!
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