OK, most days I love my job, but the county in their infinate wisdom decided last fall that all employees will be required to take a monthly online safety course. I guess this is our "wellness program." Lovely. So most of them have been relevant to my work, but last month was Work Zone Safety (basically it only applied to the Highway Dept. employees) and the one I just took was Excavation Awarenss, about different types of soils and trenches. WTF? And there's a quiz after each one that you must get at least an 80% on to pass. Thank god I've passed all of mine so far. If I would have had to sit through this excavation one again....yikes.
OK so my mom's group is starting to chap my ass again. When I first joined we had about 50 members. When it hit 80 members a few months ago there was talk of closing the group off to new members, but the organizers said no. Now we are up to 94 members and we get at least 1 or 2 new members every week. The meetups are filling up so fast that unless you are sitting on the computer waiting for a new one to show up and RSVP for it, you'll never get in. Most of them fill up before I can even check my yahoo email at night. Ridiculous. I emailed 2 girls I've gotten to be friends with bitching about it last week, and one of them invited me and the other to her house last week for supper. It was really fun, except Paige was rather clingy. We were there for about 2 hours and Paige didn't warm up to the other 2 girls her age until about 10 minutes before we left. The other 2 moms feel the same way, so we'll probably just keep getting together on our own. I'd rather do that anyway than a big meetup with like 25 moms and kids there. Paige doesn't do so well at those either.
Now there's a thread on the board about not immunizing your kids, and if you know anything about me, you know that will get my blood boiling. Immunizations work people! Have you heard of anyone getting polio in the last 20 years? No? Well there's a reason!!!!! And I personally think it's great that new vaccines are coming out. I wish the rotavirus vaccine would have been out when Paige was a baby so we wouldn't have had to go through that week of hell of her having the rotavirus. That is a nasty disease, not to mention dangerous with the risk of dehydration. I must share with you this post which drives me nuts:
"I have chosen not to immunize my children. At this point I am fairly comfortable with that. There some immunizations we probably should consider, particularly tetanus. The chicken pox vaccine is not one I want my kids to have. I think it is far better for them to be exposed naturally. But these days, that will be hard to come by.
Ironically, it seems that there is currently a strain of pertussis (whooping cough) going around in the area. Yes, I mean Green Bay. My child has been unwell with a cough that has grown progressively worse for three weeks. Only today did the pediatrician say that perhaps she may have whooping cough. Of course there is no treatment for it. While it is dangerous for an infant to have this condition, it is not deadly to older person. I do have to say that if my daughter does have whooping cough, it is a scary illness to witness, because the coughs are lengthy and often provoke vomiting and the appearance of not being able to breathe.
Despite the possibility that she may have an illness that we could have immunized against, I am not sorry we did not. It is important to remember that immunizations 'wear out' so we as adults are not necessarily immunized.
There are concerns that each parent has to consider when deciding to immunize, or not. For us, a family history of a particular condition helped me decide against it."
So even after your kid has a vaccine-preventable illness, that still doesn't change your mind?!?!?! UGH!!!!!
OK off my soapbox.
Our weekend was fun. Had a mom's group playdate on Saturday morning which was fun. There were 5 moms and 9 kids so it was just the right size. Came home for lunch and nap, then back to Green Bay to visit Paige's best friend Grace. They had a blast together and we got home way too late! After Paige's bath, she didn't get to bed until 10pm.
Sunday morning went to church and grocery shopping. Paige was so excited ("I'm so exciting!" her favorite phrase) to do Kid's Gospel at our church. They take kids 4-4th grade back into a classroom in the school during a part of church and they have their own reading, songs, and craft. They are usually gone for about 20 minutes which is kind of nice. I've always gone back with Paige since she's only 3, but she wanted to go by herself yesterday. At the end of church, the priest calls the kids up to the front so he can look at their pictures and oh and ah over them....he's a sucker for the little ones. Then the kids walk out with the priest. Well Paige missed the bottom step down and fell right in the front of church in front of everyone. She was so upset and we were way in the back so it took me a couple of seconds to get to her. It was so heartbreaking to see my baby's face all scrunched up and crying...she was still walking up the aisle, but she was so sad. Poor girl. She was rather whiny during grocery shopping so I think she was pretty sad about it. But after a good lunch and nice long nap she was much better in the afternoon. We played outside and then had brats on the grill for supper. MMM...love summertime food like that.
And now I've been at work for an hour and all I've done is that stupid online course. I should probably go be productive. Later ya yas!
