Your Hands Are Like Mimi's

We went to the state fair today.  We love to go for the food, and the children love to go for the rides.  My daughter the most.  My son can do a ride or two and then he's done.   I think it's all too cool for him.  Being cool is really important to him right now.  

As we were walking in, I was holding hands with my daughter and she said, "mom, you have Mimi's hands."   Such an interesting observation, and something most people wouldn't be able to notice, especially from touch alone.   

Acne Control (Among Other Things)

Well I didn't expect this to be happening so early, but based on recommendations from my friends who are both physicians and obstetricians, my daughter started taking birth control today.   I realize it is a controversial stance, but the reasons for it have nothing to do with preventing pregnancy but all the other benefits that will go along with it such as less cramping, lighter and shorter monthly cycles or eliminating some months altogether and having a cycle four times a year instead.  Plus acne reduction, to name a few. 

My daughter very much wanted to reduce her acne—and she was having quite a lot of it.  After I told her about the possibility, she pestered me to please get her an appointment.   She is now on a three-month trial, after which we will access how it's going, both from her perspective and her doctor's (who happens to be my best friend's husband).     

As for pregnancy, my daughter still doesn't fully understand the mechanics necessary to get pregnant, and I'm dodging that question until she's a little older, especially since physical contact with boys is still firmly in the "eww" stage. 

What's Been On My Mind

Every day I think about something I want to write here.   But every day ends without anything written.   I'm caught in the middle of two things: wanting to write something that's happened or is going to happen in our lives, and wanting to just go to sleep.   Going to sleep has been winning. 

If I could just get to the computer and write something before the end of the night I think it would be easier.  For instance, it's 3:34PM here now.  I just returned from picking my son up at school.  I'm going to spend a few minutes writing something and then, ta da, I can go to sleep *and* have a blog post written.   

The trouble is getting here and doing the writing.  Let me do a quick update on things in general:

The Middle School Son Update: son still loves video games and screens above anything else.  He is doing well in public school we think.  He has good grades except for one class in which he has a 50, which is well into failing.   He had COVID at the beginning of the year.  It may possibly be assignments he never did from that time, but he's not overly worried in finding out and correcting it.   Otherwise he has A's and one B.   He's happy, he comes home from school and sits down to do his homework immediately.  We don't have to prompt him.  In fact, it's Friday and he is sitting at the table reading so that he completes his page reading for today before launching into what will likely be a video game heavy three-day weekend here. 

The Middle School Daughter Update:  My daughter has been at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama all week.  She didn't want to go right before but once she was there she apparently had an amazing time.  We had her bring her phone this time so she could call us, which she did.  She sounded like she was a leader of the girls around her, that she was taking a role of the experienced camper.  Whatever it was that changed there, she had a very good time.  She called me at midnight last night after their graduation celebration and was in high spirits.  I'm really happy she enjoyed the week.  I hear she's already excited about going next year.

That House We're Building:  Things have finally started.  It took a long, long time for permits to be issued after the house was designed which also took a long time.  The amount of time we've spent picking things out for the house has been far more time than I ever thought we would spend on it.  Now that things are started, it feels like it's moving fast.  Faster than I thought it would. 

Four Legged Family:  Cheerio has an infection in his ear.  We think.  After some X-Rays to look into it because he's tilting his head to the side, he has antibiotics and an NSAID.   Two weeks of feeding him medication he hates is going to be fun, but he needs it.  It may not fix the issue.   I really hope it does.   If it doesn't it could be more complicated to address.