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!

I don't think I'm going to do the voter registration thing. My sinuses are hurting, plus no one's gotten back to me with the details like where to go, specifically, and I really don't feel like wandering the entire Pride festival looking for them.

Also crazy people with guns and it's going to be hotter than the surface of the sun. (I have mad respect for the drag queens when it's this hot and humid for Pride.)

Hil, sorry for the sinus misery and disorganization of the Pride voter registration thing. The volunteering this summer sounds wonderful.

askye, I'm sorry you had to deal with lack of A/C when it has been so hot and humid. Not relaxing at all.

Be Ready to Be Jealous: We are having dinner tonight with Aims and Em!