Tag: Stephanie
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Today was Hard
My youngest son started screaming this morning. I don’t know why. I gave him his morning pills and that helped for a while. But his dysregulation returned pretty quickly. He was screaming again an hour later and got an emergency pill. He went out to sit in the car, honked the horn for a few…
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Black Cat on a Friday Night
It’s 10 pm and Ether is still outside. That always concerns Stephanie and me a bit. But tonight in particular Ben is anxious that the cat is out. He doesn’t like the cats outside but has come to accept it during the day. But at night they all need to be inside for him to…
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Just Four More Minutes
I didn’t want to get out of bed today. I bargained for a few more minutes of sleep. Now mind you it hasn’t been a bad day. Stephanie had a horrible day but I’ll let her tell you about that. Ben came home screaming and got an emergency pill, but at least he didn’t attack…
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Corn and Tomatoes
Stephanie has a garden. We are both keeping an eye on it. The corn is growing very well as are the tomatoes. We’ve got a few beans and one long squash vine. It’s a pretty good attempt.
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Case of Mistaken Identity
My wife has been telling me about a person in her childhood for years. He was kind of a jerk to her. A guy with the same name from around the same period in her life married her best friend. But she didn’t realize that they were two different guys. Now she is having an…
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Big Couch
Last week Stephanie took Ben to pick out a new couch. He found one he liked and we’ve been promising he would get it today. The delivery people brought it in the house and up the stairs, but sadly it was too wide for the doorframe. So they brought it back downstairs and it’s our…
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Swimming at the Y
We had a little extra money so Stephanie got a family membership to the YMCA. Ben loves swimming. We went as a family today. We all stayed in the water walking channel for half an hour. Then Stephanie and Ben went to the hot tub. Alex and I did more water walking. When he was…
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Middle Class
As I’ve written before a very long time ago a well meaning professor told the class I was in that a bachelors degree was a guaranteed position in the middle class for the rest of our lives. That to my ears was a tremendously crappy promise. Middle income earners in the US do most of…
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Tired
It was a long weekend. Our youngest has been loud, angry, and aggressive since Friday when we told him he couldn’t have DoorDash. He screamed for hours because he doesn’t understand our finances at all and doesn’t care why he can’t get what he wants. Stephanie ended up taking him to Urgent Care, and he…
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After Midnight
It is almost one in the morning. My youngest son asked for DoorDash when he woke up this morning. That is not something we can do right now. He has gotten more angry and aggressive the more often we tell him no. He is mostly sedated now but not actually asleep. I have not taken…
Latter Day Sinner 