Taking the Scenic Route

I have had a bad cold for a while now, and the last few days I even lost my voice and now my ears are hurting. I am achy and cranky and feel like crap. My ds is coughing, my dd has a runny nose and is off balance. Yesterday she fell into the coffee table and got a big ‘ole goose egg in the middle of her forehead. lovely.

Plus, dh sort of has a job offer, but it doesn’t start until fall, and it isn’t great pay. He has all sorts of resumes out there, but nobody is calling. Now he is also starting to get sinus drainage. We don’t know where our next paycheck is coming from and I am starting to get a bit scared. I hope he isn’t getting sick because if we did get a callback, he would not be at his best for the interview.

Ds starts social skills group this week. I hope they don’t ask for payment up front because we don’t have it. He needs this group because the school district screwed us out of getting the IEP done in time and he won’t even have services set up for the beginning of the school year, much less summer time. I know we owe money for some of his other therapies, but they haven’t asked since we always pay early/on time, but I hope the bill doesn’t get unmanagable.

We are down to one vehicle, which is do-able, but the one that is left keeps stalling out at every stop light among other POS-car traits.

I just want him to get the employment we have been working for all these years, so we can start living a ‘normal’ life. I hate this. Deeply and truly. My patience has worn out and I am so down right now. Of course, being sick is certainly not helping my attitude any at all.