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I had that meeting. It was interesting. I am thrilled about the prospect of this group, but also, a little I dunno, apprehensive?.

ZB has an asthma attack in the middle of the night Friday, so we spent Friday night and Saturday morning in the ER. The thing that pisses me off is that it could’ve totally been prevented I think. His doctor’s nurse never got back to me on Friday after several calls asking her to have the doc write him a prescription for a new mask for his nebulizer. He’s almost 100% now. The respiratory therapist that saw him recommended allergy testing which was recommended to us last year, but I’m still on the fence about that. I mean, the kid hates needles and if he turns out to be allergic to oh, I dunno, trees and grass, what am I going to do, ya know? My brother and I both have allergies, his more severe. I went with bro to get his testing done and I know exactly what they do and I really don’t think ZB could handle it without 5 or 6 people holding him down. I’m not sure that’s worth it.

Since he seemed better on Saturday night, we decided to go ahead with that day’s advent calendar activity which was attending our local Christmas parade. DH and I wore our Santa hats and the kids wore their reindeer ears ‘cuz we’re cool like that. You know you’re jealous. The kids’ favorite part is when Santa throws candy off the firetruck and it hits me on the head. Yay. LOL. Bebe loves firetrucks. What toddler doesn’t? And so I think this was the highlight of his year besides getting to go inside one a few months back.

I took DH out to VA for a follow up visit for his carpal tunnel and so Bebe and I dropped him off and headed over to the new Super Target and Michael’s. I checked out all Martha’s cute stuff at Michael’s and got jealous that we have no Starbucks at our Target. *Sigh* It’s ok, in about 6 months, there’ll be a Super Target about 5 minutes away. Yay!

Oh, and how could I forget? I got a package full of books from Anna in the mail! Two knitting books for me, and a few books and stickers for the kids. Plus, a cute card. I love goodies.

Random:

A trip to Hobby Lobby with Bebe can take up to half an hour longer than I usually take b/c he has to squeeze and sometimes bite, every plastic grape he sees. I don’t mind him biting them. Germs are good, make boy strong. Kidding.

Reindeer on a scooter

As if you never dressed up your dog in a onesie and pretended she was a baby! No? Um, pretend you never saw this.

I just thought this shot was cute. The vest and shirt were ZB’s, and before that, my cousin’s! And she ditched the puffs for little buns. A rare occurence.

Our stockings.

And yours truly! My skin looks awful in this photo. I think I need to go inspect it right now…

A few weeks back, I saw a short piece on the news about the state of children’s healthcare, specifically Medicaid, in Texas. It was quite timely as I had just decided not to go ahead with applying for my own children, specifically ZB. We have private health insurance, but between what we pay for coverage each month and the copays for ZB’s medicines and doctor’s visits, I just can’t afford it. In the end, I finally decided to apply b/c my child’s health is more important than my pride. I had an appointment over the phone and the caseworker ended up asking for lots of pieces of paper, some quite irrelevant IMO. For instance, if I have a letter of termination of DH’s previous employer…why would I need his last four pay stubs from said employer… . And the thing is, the day I went to turn in the application at the office (the most depressing place I think I’ve ever been), I brought along most of what they would need (birth certificates, social security cards, etc) and the person in charge of collecting the applications told me to hold on to it all. Guess what the caseworker asked for? Pretty much everything I had that day at the office. Anyway, she asked for some things that would be impossible for me to get, so I just decided, eh, screw it, I’ll find another way. Lo and behold, I got a letter in the mail last week telling me that DS is eligible for CHIP and exempt from the 90 day waiting period meaning he will have coverage starting July 1st! What a blessing. If you read the article linked above, you’ll see that some families have not been as lucky, one mother even losing her child while trying to sort out his coverage.