It's Good

Beth, the social worker emailed me and said she had paperwork for me for the guardianship. I assumed she meant for me to sign.  Nope. She had the paperwork for the court date.  So in two weeks I should have guardianship of Connor. Long time coming, but kind of sad also. I lose CPS having my back. Daycare is arranged and paid for so that is a relief.

Daycare

The daycare notified me yesterday that I had been approved for assistance from the state.  She told me my co-pay would be $15 and I owed for Feb. and Mar.  I wrote out the check this morning and then wondered about it.  I didn't have my notification telling me any information.
Well that notification came today.  I am approved for 23 days a month and for full days.  Now obviously I have to be working on the days I use, but I am so relieved that I am covered for any and all days that I work. There are times where I do work five days in a week and it could throw me off if they had only allowed me 12 or 15 days or something like that.  I'm a happy Nana today.

Dial Tone

Yay! We have dial tone.  And not only that, but the phone company did not need to get into the apartment.  They left a flier hanging on the door informing me they had been here and if any work needed doing on the inside I was responsible for it. Well it all works.
First thing I did was call my mom.  And then I put money on the phone so I can talk to Mike.  And he called last night.  Didn't ask for a thing but dinner.  The plan was and still is for beef and homemade noodles.  His favorite and mine.  I haven't made it since the last time I made it for him at least a year ago.

Whew

And the schedule has been attacked and changed.  I got off early today and had a nap.  Then I picked up the little kids and we went to the park.  After an hour there we went home and played for another hour on the playground.  Hopefully that means both kids sleep really good tonight.
So I am back to having Fridays off and some shorter days.  Yay.  Makes me happy.  I like the hours, but I also like my routine.  I like spending time with the kids and it felt like I wasn't spending much time with them working almost full time.
Finally got my showerhead changed and hopefully my slow drain unclogged. Cleaned the bathroom and was extremely appreciative of Audrie going poopy in the potty without a bath looming.  I was really glad that one didn't end up in a pull up.  She must have been saving it up.  She was pretty proud of herself also.

Family

I started off the day going through the last bag of clothes I had stuffed away.  This one was from Treva.  Great stuff in there.  The best thing was the backpack.  It had just been suggested to me at daycare that we use a backpack to transport all the paper and stuff to and fro.  Well I don't have a backpack and I really didn't want to buy one.  So I hadn't decided yet and then there is a backpack in the bag. Cool.  And Audrie loves it.
Mom and Pat came over for dinner.  We had lasagna.  Wonderful.  Company and food.  Then we had a red velvet torte for dessert.  The little man chowed on both.  Audrie ate bread and cake.  Totally turned her nose up at the lasagna as she normally does.
Then the little kids had baths which makes them smell so nice.  Sweet feet and great smelling hair.  I love bath night.

Revisiting Boundaries

Dave showed up at 7:20 this morning.  To clip Connor's fingernails.  Yeah right.  Anyway after he left I texted him and said he needs to wait for a response to his texts before just coming over.  He had texted at 6:20 this morning to say he was coming.  I think he is trying to keep control over us or he wanted to see who was here.  It is so time for me to work on keeping my boundaries.  And it is time to push them further out.  And while I am trying to be gracious and rational, I am working with an alcoholic man.  Argh.

Watching Connor

After naps we intended to take a walk, but it started raining.  So we ventured over to the mall and played in the play area.  It was so cool watching Connor.  He is used to playing with other kids now so he just ran off and did what he wanted to do.  And he went up to every adult and stared at them until they acknowledged him.  Not all at once, but he hit every one of them during the time we were there.  It was just funny.  It kind of unnerved one man, but most of the women took it in stride and just flirted with him.  I noticed he preferred to play with older kids.  He is becoming such a little person.