beth, I get why it would be hard to deal with multiple trips to the vet for Jonathan after all you went through last year.

sj, I hope you can de-stress. Parenting is hard enough.

askye, florida summer with no AC is no joke, definitely the opposite of peace and tranquility. To have such a weird thing going on with a toenail that you wanted medical attention for it but couldn't get it just adds another level of suckitude.

I hope you can get ac and medical care soon, askye. And your baby will eventually get to the point where she can say, "Yo, caretaker, make with the fan already," sj.

Hil, those are great summer plans! I hope you enjoy them. I did some voter registration at Pride around here one year. It was a blast. What sort of training does refugee resettlement require? It sounds tremendously useful. The whole thing is probably pretty complex.

Beth if course your stressed out it's a traumatic thing.

sj I'm sorry ltc just needed the fan on and no one realized and that you are feeling so isolated.

Yay Hil fir volunteering.

So I'm feeling better today. The only thing that would make this great would be if Penny were here. I miss my kitty.

I also realized that I was stressed out and feeling so out of control and trying to grab some control I fixated on my toe and lost it when I couldn't even handle that. But it doesn't really hurt and I can always drive to Tallahassee if I need to. The ac guy came, Dad bribed him.Seriously he paid the guy extra in cash.

Finally at nearly 9 pm dad left.

It's beautiful outside but hot. But dad has new deck chairs and there are outside outlets so at some point I'm dragging a fan outside and sitting in the shade and reading.

Thanks guys. It's not just that no one realized. It's that no one called me. So I could have said does she have her sleep sack on? Do you have the fan on? Okay then check her diaper and try to put her down again.

I don't feel comfortable leaving her if people aren't going to call me if she's having a problem.

I didn't sleep well last night. So ltc is down for hopefully a long nap, and I'm going to take one too. Though I feel like I should be doing the laundry or exercising or even reading a book.

sj, I'm sorry. I'd choose nap (I almost always choose nap, though). And I wish I had advice, but Peanut has only been left with someone else once (my mom), and that was only for 3 hours in January so we could go see Star Wars. My mom also failed to get her down for a nap at that time. So, my sympathies.

I haven't seen a movie in the theater since I was 7 months pregnant. I pretty much just do errands here in town when I go out. Yesterday was the longest I have been away from ltc, 2 hours because I ran into someone interesting at the library and lost track of time. Then I get home and feel guilty because she's miserable and her schedule is fucked for the rest of the day. I almost always choose nap too, but I feel bad about it.

Would it help to have a chart...ltc is crying and won't go down for her nap..is her sleep scsk on...no...put her in it. Didn't work turn on the fan and call me.

Or maybe that wouldn't work I don't know.

With my nephew it was check to see if he was hungry or a dirty diaper and if that failed strip him down to his diaper (which usually worked)

What sort of training does refugee resettlement require? It sounds tremendously useful. The whole thing is probably pretty complex.

I'm going to be assisting with the English classes, and I'll be going next week to learn more specifically about what I'll be doing. So far, I've just done the child abuse prevention training -- the refugee resettlement program is run by Catholic Charities, and the Catholic Church has a whole program on child abuse prevention that everyone has to do before volunteering or working with kids.

Basically, once refugees are accepted for moving to the US, the government decides which city they'll go to, and then, within each of those cities, there are non-profits that work with the refugees to help them get settled, find housing and jobs, get the kids registered in schools, and basically learn how to live in America. There are nine non-profits that do that work, and different ones have branches in different cities, and here in Cincinnati, it's Catholic Charities that does it.

That's cool!