SunshineDaydream's blog

Here's the situation:

My cat Charlotte is approaching 16 and is dying slowly. Her body is shutting down. She has been living on borrowed time for quite a while but the time is rapidly approaching for me to put her to sleep.

We have two cats and a dog.

My daughter will be two at the end of March. She is very aware of her animal family members. Her first word was "dog". She started saying "mommy" and "daddy" and the next three words she started saying were "Larlo", "Svennie" and "Lucy."

So, I know what I need to do but I am clueless as to how I can prepare my daughter? It makes me cry just thinking about it.

Anyone up for getting together next weekend? I sent out a couple of pm's but if anyone else is interested let me know. Yay. It would be fun to do something where the kids could run around and use up some of that crazy-kid energy!

I'm gonna keep this short. My nose is so stuffed up that I feel like my head could pop off. Anyway...

The trip to the pediatric opthamalogist went well and the good news is that her eyes look healthy! Hooray. We had the referral to go for 8 months and we didn't use it and every day I was feeling guilty about it. So. We did it and I am glad and only routine screening for us down the road. Hurray.

Incidentally, these people rocked and knew what they were doing. S was pretty much at ease and thought she was "playing" with them.

Has anyone brought their toddler to the eye doctor?

My husband and his family have very poor vision and my husband is a potential carrier for a disease that left his father legally-blind in his 30's.

I haven't noticed any vision problems with S, per se, but it appears that her one eye is becomming lazy. Our ped. recommended that we get her in for treatment sooner, rather than later.

The paperwork they sent said to expect to spend 2-3 hours in their offices!

Can anyone tell me what to expect?

Some of you may want to ignore this because I have a feeling it is going to get quite whiny. I just took a look at my finances and I feel like a big heavy monster is breathing down my neck. I should say that we are middle class and we have a lot more than a lot of people. I know that. I am grateful for that. But I feel like we are on a slippery slope and are sliding somewhere deep and fast.

I make a decent living. I've favored independence over a bigger paycheck with benefits.

My husband hasn't had a stable job in 2.5 years. He got fired the spring before I got pregnant. After that, he pursued some catch-as-catch-can jobs and basically I didn't care as long as he was bringing home his half of the expenses and taking care of his own personal bills. At one point, he was making double the amount of money that I was and he was able to get caught up on stuff, help his mom and get some much-needed work done on our house. Unfortunately, that was short lived and he has basically made no money since last spring.