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A continuation of my original blog, "Surviving Motherhood". |
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Welcome to my world of middle school, high school, and motherhood. The life of a mom is never easy, especially as children grow, and especially when you have a special needs child. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| Speaking on trend of myself... My license is set to expire on my birthday this year. Like a good little Jamie, I did my diligence, saved up the money to pay for it, and walked into the MVA (AKA Maryland DMV) to get it. Funny thing though, they didn't tell me that EVERY time I have to make an in person appearance to renew my license, I need to have paperwork with me from my optometrist showing that yes, I am blind in my left eye, but I am quite capable of maneuvering a vehicle. I went on Friday, and was told this by the nice lady that tried to set up my license renewal. She then told me to come back as soon as possible with the paperwork in order for my license not to expire and thus I would have to take the driving test once more, which, of course, costs extra. Pressed for time and money, I called in a favor for some up front birthday cash, and scheduled the next available appointment the optometrist had. Luckily, he had an opening yesterday. Good news abound as well; my eyes are fit as a fiddle, and my prescription only changed slightly from what it already was. I am quite happy with this information, and the good doctor set about to filling out the paperwork, so that I could take it with me in a rush to get to the MVA before it closed at 4:30 pm. When I got there, the place was dead; I was worried that they had closed it for the inclement weather we've just been hit with. Luckily, it was open. I turned everything in, and good to say that #1-I will have my license once again, #2-I was given a temporary paper to act as my license until my license comes in, and #3-my eyes are doing quite well! The kids had a snow day off yesterday. We got hit with a storm that dropped about 7 inches. The snow itself doesn't bother me much, but the ice does. There's ice ALL OVER the sidewalks and the roads, and it's horrible. Journey and I attempted to make rounds in the neighborhood to sell cookies (yes, on the coldest day of the year so far! I wasn't sure when the next time we could do this would be, so I thought it would be best to hit then. She was a trooper; we hit 35 apartments until she needed to come in from the cold to thaw her hands and feet, and then we hit another 20 before we took a break at a good friend's house and thawed out a bit more. We hit the last 15 after that, and we came home to more warmth. I am super proud of this girl, she works her tail off every year for this!), and pleasantly to say, we did quite well! Sold 40 boxes just in the neighborhood alone, and Journey is now only 4 boxes away from her 150 goal. Granted, we haven't purchased yet, and I know that when we do, it will take her over the top of that, but I wanted to see if we could hit the total first from other people purchasing, and then us. I still have 2 friends offering to buy, Ryan is going to hit his school, Journey is going to ask two more teachers at school, and Don has two more people to ask at work. Hopefully we'll get quite a bit from there! I am attempting to schedule some booths for the troop. It's kind of hard, because I'm not sure what parents are going to have their girls work where. I know that I may schedule some that just Journey and her friend Morgan can work, as they're used to multiple booths throughout the season. I will talk to her mom about it and see. |
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