you think you're getting dehydrated, then call the doctor

Oh yes! I began getting wicked dehydrated but got some generic pedialyte stuff from cvs that, sipped like a mouse would (teeny sips) stayed down and made the arid feeling go away failry quickly.

Guess I ought to get dressed and get over to student health.

Yeah, you should. Feel better.

good enough parenting

Excellent way to look at it. I think I do that without ever having thought about it that way, precisely. Actually, I think I do a lot of things that way, and probably should do more.

I am terrified that anyone who meets us thinks that Em is dumb and I'm a horrible mother.

Honestly, Aimee, I love seeing you and Joe with Em. Obviously very loving parents. Obviously still very much yourselves. And Em is very obviously blossoming into Em. She's very bright and playful.

Thanks for the offer. My doctor is the student health center, which is just a few blocks away, so I'll be OK.

okay, but it's raining, so I can give you a ride. Also, let me know if you need Gatorade or pedialyte or whatever.

Honestly, Aimee, I love seeing you and Joe with Em. Obviously very loving parents. Obviously still very much yourselves. And Em is very obviously blossoming into Em. She's very bright and playful.

Thank you. And thank you Vortex.

I sometimes wish I could venture outside of my body, into someone else's to watch.

I am finding that most of my tapes are old and worn out - and I have ways of circumventing them. For the long time I thought I was lazy. Umm, not true . When I work , I work hard. I don't slack. I am just not ambitious. I just want to have a job I don't hate with people I like to work with. The fat tape was erased pretty much when the diabetes appeared. I have much more important reason to think about exercise and eating. And somehow, I've come to understand that I will never be perfect - so a really bad day , or even a bad week is easily followed by a better day . The big tape is the money tape. and recently I realized that letting the money tape get too loud, ment that I was avoiding something to do with money. Oddly, takeing care of the money issue shuts up the tape.

This doesn't mean the tapes don't run, but I hear them as tapes, old recordings, not truths.

And thank you Vortex.

totally true. Come on, you know that I don't lie to make people feel better. I love Em.

Aimee, I was going to say, seeing you with Em in SF (and hearing you with her on the phone) -- you're one of the most confident, comfortable parents I've ever seen. Your love for her is so evident. And she's just as bright and happy as Hec said.

{{Erin}}

{{Hil}} and {{Beej}} Take care of yourselves, ladies!

good enough parenting

I subscribe to good enough schooling. I work full time and go to school part time. Sometimes, just passing is good enough. Sometimes, I have to miss class because of work (see yesterday). Oftentimes, it's good enough.

totally true. Come on, you know that I don't lie to make people feel better. I love Em.

I do know that. THank you , love.

and hearing you with her on the phone

Now see, I thought you would have heard her screaming for "FOOD FOOOD!" and me saying, "No, you can't have food." would have had you caling the authorities.

She's so funny. We went to a big consignment sale last night and she got a Thomas toy thingie. I had no idea she even knew who Thomas was until she found this toy. Now, it has replaced the balls as her Very Favorite Thing. First thing morning, "THOMAS! THOMAS! THOMAS! MY THOMAS!"

I forsee sharing being an issue.