Boys found starving; adoptive parents charged
My own six year old is pushing 55-60 pounds and he's as skinny as they come. And worse, my eight month old weighs almost 20 pounds. Can you image a five year old weighing what my eight month old does? What the hell? Why didn't anyone seem to notice before now? No one deserves to be tortured like this. What is wrong with these people and those people who turned a blind eye to the situation?
I have nothing of any real interest to say.
The PM in India has been visiting our office this week so today we went out for Indian food. S.P.I.C.Y. Ben is still nursing. I almost afraid of what if any affect he gets. I totally forgot about him while eating the hottest food of my life. Three hours later and my nose still burns. Yowie.
On to the next boring thing. We've decided to buy a piano. Like I know anything about them, but we want Sam to start lessons soon so I started calling around. We've decided to go with a used one at first but I almost feel like I'm buying a car from another planet. I don't know names, what to ask, or anything. If we get it home and get it serviced, we could spend more in repairs than the thing is worth. It seems that if even to the naked eye all looks to be in order this may not be the case. It takes a trained eye much like only a mechanic knows if a car is truly worth the asking price. Thing with pianos is you can't exactly drive it over to a music store for an inspection. There are people that will go with you to inspect a piano for a price that seems over the top to me, but what do I know. So I've currently got a line on a good used one. Hopefully, its still available and it will work out.
Boring times here, but boring is good because I'm still tired from last week.
We got home four days ago and I hit the ground running. Products to release, laundry to do, children to nuture, and no sleep to be had. I lived through the week on 4 hours of sleep a night. And today, I'm just out of gas. I have no idea how people work fulltime with little kids. I couldn't do it. I struggled for the three days this week that I put in an eight hour day and Ed was at home taking care of all that business. Hats off to the fulltime working Moms and especially to the single Moms. This is some tough stuff and the guilt is worse than the lack of sleep. I had three hard days, but next week I'm back to my regular schedule. Sleep, work, play, sleep. Sometimes a boring routine ain't so bad.
Can I say Idiot on the air?
Last minute, we decided to go to Universal Studios. We like to stay at one of the Universal hotels but we didn't book a room because we've done this before and usually we get a great rate on the phone on the way down. This time we weren't so lucky. We're in a Holiday Inn for the night about 2 miles from Universal and I'm not thrilled with the accommodations. It was approaching 11 and we had to stay somewhere as it seemed unfair to keep the kids in the car too much longer. Not that I have anything against Holiday Inn. I don't normally, but this one doesn't seem to be of the highest quality. Don't know where we are going to stay tomorrow but it won't be here. This is the last time I travel without room reservations. Lesson learned.
One bright spot. It has a wireless connection so I could search the net for someplace to stay for the rest of our trip! Cross your fingers that this trip gets better quickly. Disney World anyone? Til tomorrow...
