Hard to believe it is already March and that the time change is this weekend! This week went by really quickly. Nanny Rebecca wasn't allowed to come back to work, so we did the child care shuffle this week. We're praying she will be back with us next week. So I was home with Rebecca on Tuesday, Ramy took off on Wednesday. Actually, it was probably good, because she came down with a little cold and was pretty miserable on Tuesday, but by yesterday, she felt fine but just had a lot of snot. Thank goodness we have the electronic snot sucker, instead of just the bulb syringe. Although she still screams bloody murder and I'm sure the neighbors have contemplated calling CPS on me, at least it gets it all out and pretty quickly. It's still disgusting though, I have to admit. I look forward to the time when she can blow her own nose!
Rebecca got a care package from Grammy this week, with some new Easter outfits in it. My mom is also busy sewing Rebecca's Easter dress.
I got asked to take a complicated neuropsychological testing case this week to do a full battery on a 9 year old girl who was born with transposed heart valves and was oxygen deprived at birth. My job will be to determine the true nature of her deficits, the extent of those deficits, whether or not any recovery will be possible, and make recommendations for her care and education. This is going to be a heartbreaker of a case, and I can already tell that I'm probably going to have to deliver some very bad news to her family, who thinks she is just slow and has trouble concentrating.
On the up side though, I dismissed a client last night that I've seen weekly since September. WHen she came in, she was severely depressed, and now she has the world by the tail again. It is definitely cases like that that make me love what I do. I also got asked to develop a Parenting group at Chaffey, so that is going to be pretty interesting.
This morning, Rebecca and I went to her music class. She looooooovvvvvves the class. She was singing aloud, following the instructions about when to bang on the floor/clap her hands/hit the sticks together, and generally smiling and laughing and yelling, "Yay!". She enjoyed playing with a little boy named Nathan also.
This is going to be a busy weekend - we have to get ready to go to Tennessee, and I have to take two finals next week and have a paper due on Tuesday afternoon that I've done almost nothing on. Plus, I think it is going to be a nice weekend, weather-wise, so I'm sure we'll be at the park swinging and pushing Rebecca in her car a lot too. Oh yeah, I forgot that I volunteered to help my niece Jessica make tea cakes - she is doing a project for school about a state, and she chose Tennessee (it's the only state other than California she knows someone from, much less visited) and she has to bring a treat that represents the state. So we're making Tennessee tea cakes (because they freeze well, and her presentation is when I'll be gone to Tennessee).
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