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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Tuesdays With Tyler: Feeling Like a “Normal” Mom
On Saturday Tyler had a birthday party to go to which started at 11:00. Ugh, mornings are very hard for me. The three of us were supposed to go but Grant wasn’t feeling well. I think my depression and anxiety … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Tyler: Results of Potty Training Boot Camp
It was a rough three days but we all managed to get through it with Tyler having less accidents and Tyler coming up with gems such as, “Pee pee coming out!” and “I’m listening to my body.” I sent him … Continue reading
Potty Training Boot Camp, Day 1
As this is a three day weekend, my husband and I decided to just put Tyler in underwear and see what happens. The score being 10 ACCIDENTS to 5 successful trips to the potty. This is harder than when he … Continue reading
Potty Training or Bust
My nearly three-and-a-half-year-old son is still not potty trained. He’s been in Pull-ups since last June, sometimes he gets it and sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he would make great strides only to regress. We’ve tried the stars leading to prizes, … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Tyler: “Shut Up”
The other day for no particular reason Tyler looked at me and said, “Shut up, Mommy.” I was shocked at my three-year-old’s language. Where had he learned that from? We didn’t say “shut up” at home. Was a teacher at … Continue reading
Utter Frustration
On January 22nd my husband and I emailed our family doctor two letters that would help us with getting food stamps and appealing my disabilty turn-down and starting my husband’s disability case. We literally wrote the letters for him, all … Continue reading
Denied!
One of the things that has kept me from writing and has added to my depression and anxiety that I had posted about prior is that I have been denied my Social Security disability benefits. So many hours or hard … Continue reading
You Can Find Mama At…
New Jersey Moms Blog today. It gives a good explanation of where I’ve been for the past few weeks. Despite my struggle with severe depression and anxiety I am going to try to get back to posting here more regularly.



