It's been really hard to blog lately. Work is a hotbed of stress right now. The sad thing is that it isn't the severely and persistently mentally ill clients who are dangerous felons - they're the bright spot, in fact! It's just the environment in which we're working right now, which is just one hot mess. I've actually given up on expecting that it is going to get better, and instead am just trying to survive until I'm out of it. I feel much sorrier for my colleagues there who are going to be there indefinitely...unless of course they close the whole place down, which continues to be hung over our heads.
I've been working on my dissertation in the evenings, because I have to get it to my dissertation chair and can then schedule my defense. I have to have defended by May 29 in order to walk on June 13. I am planning on getting it finished up this next week and sent to my chair and one other person by a week from Monday. It's amazing how much statistics I had forgotten! I had to teach myself how to run the program again.
Things appear to be moving along appropriately with respect to my prospective job in Huntsville. I email with the neuropsychologist there about once a week. They had a visit from their HQ in San Antonio a couple of weeks ago and they must have give them some kind of verbal green light to proceed, because since then, she's been getting paperwork in to get funding for the position. I'd really love to know something definite soon. It would make it a whole lot easier to plan for the future!
Grammy has been here the past couple of weeks, visiting us while Nanny Rebecca has been on vacation in Hawaii. We have been having lots of fun together. Rebecca and Grammy have been lunching and cooking and playing and reading and having a grand old time together during the week while Ramy and I are at work. Rebecca regularly asks her if she can stay for five (always five!) more days. Since Grammy has been here, we've gone to California Adventure to have lunch with the Disney princesses (pics coming soon), to the American Girl Place, and of course plenty of shopping and eating out. We're also planning a trip to France late this summer in celebration of my graduation.
Daddy and Grammy took Rebecca to her three year well-child checkup. She is perfect, just as we suspected. She remains in the 5th percentile for weight and 3rd percentile for height. She was 26 lbs with all her clothing on and was 34 1/2 inches tall. She even did the Snellen vision chart and came out fine on it. We're very blessed to have a healthy little girl. The fact that she is beautiful, sugary sweet, funny, and of incredibly high intellect is icing on the cake!
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