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Avril Lavigne has a great new song out, “Fly”. It’s her first single in two years and is being released in support of the 2015 Special Olympics World Games. Take a look:
I’m probably going to have more to say about it later, but take a few minutes to go read this article about “good samaritans”. I don’t believe I’ve ever left either of my kids in a parked car in public, even for a minute, but I have done it a couple of times this year in our garage when he fell asleep on the way home from school.
We’re in a subtropical climate, so it was never cold when I did it, I left the door open between the house and the garage so I could keep an eye out, and the garage door was down in the unlikely event he was able to get out of the car without me realizing it. If a neighbor had seen that (our garage does have windows) and called the police, what would have happened next?
I love these cards designed for cancer patients. Some of them, like the one below, would work with only minor modification for parents whose child has received a diagnosis like, say, CP or Down syndrome.
Have you tried Stitch Fix? I’ve been seeing information about this personal styling service for at least a year, but I’m SO cheap that I wasn’t sure it would be worth it. However, I have so few non-running-wear clothes that I like that actually fit, and I HATE shopping so I decided to take the leap and see what happens. The fam is giving me a Fix for Mother’s Day. If anyone is interested (let me know by leaving a comment), I’ll dedicate a post to it in a few weeks. And if you’d like to try it along with me, I’d love for you to use my referral link and tell me what you think about your Fix.
Finale, the end of season show choir concert, is tonight, and I’ve been looking forward to it ever since Sarah Kate’s performing debut. She was given another small solo recently that we haven’t seen yet, and my mom and stepdad came into town for the event.
Unfortunately, as I type these Snippets on Thursday night, Sarah Kate has just gone to bed after icing her back, putting on Biofreeze, and taking two ibuprofen. She fell backwards and hurt her back on stage at the dress rehearsal. We don’t know how bad it’s going to be when she wakes up, but her balance is thrown off so easily that I’m worried. I’d appreciate prayers for her!
It’s IEP season! WOOT WOOT! Just kidding. I hate the IEP meetings like the plague, but by now, I’m pretty good at them. I wrote a guest post about IEPs for the Kid’s Creek Therapy blog this week, Four Tips for Surviving Your Child’s IEP Meeting.
Things are getting a wee bit tense (in a good sport way) around here this week. The SEC softball tournament semifinals are today and guess who’s still in it and facing off at 2pm today? That’s right – Auburn and Alabama. We’ll see where Sarah Kate’s true loyalties lie this afternoon. 🙂
War Eagle!
This post was inspired by and is linked to This Ain’t the Lyceum’s 7 Quick Takes.
I love Stitch Fix!! My first fix was amazing. Everything fit great and was my style. I was told it could take several tries before you buy anything so I was not expecting a perfect first fix. I hate shopping and this is so worth it to me. And free shipping both ways. It’s a win win for me. Hope you love it!!
Oh, yay!!! I’m so happy to hear from a “real” person that it worked for them. I know a lot of bloggers who have written about it and it seems like I would be a good match for it. I went ahead and signed up for the monthly option because I have heard the same thing about it taking a few tries.
I also did the monthly but you can change it anytime you want. I’m jeans, shorts and t shirt type and it was right on. My sister in law is more dresses for work and they are really nice quality. I hope the great first fix was not a fluke. Also if you feel your stylist is just not getting your style you can ask for a new stylist. Let me know how it goes!
I found “Fly” and I’ll give it a listen.
I would love to read about your experience with Stitch Fix. I’ve never heard of it. And, IEP meetings can be fun once you get over the fact that a group of professionals seem to want to have a meeting to tell you how much your kid sucks. Deep breath and quietly let them make a fool of themselves. Long story short-I once had a speech therapist give me her findings and note that Elane had a tongue thrust with certain sounds, I told her that we work on that at home but she’s understandable to those familiar with her. And, that it’s common with people with Down syndrome. And, I kid you not, she said, “Oh, Elane has Down syndrome?” That was the day we told the school system that we would opt out of speech therapy from there on out. Elaine was in the 7th grade.
Oh, and the above incident happened at an IEP meeting with the principal, 3 teachers, and a representative from “down town” present.
You are so funny! But not necessarily wrong… So far, we’ve had very good experiences. I am friendly with Nathan’s current preschool teacher and speech therapist outside of school, and we’ve known the guidance counselor since well before he was born (her daughter and Sarah Kate are the same age, were in the same kindergarten class, on the same softball team, etc.), so I’m more inclined to cut them some slack because I don’t feel like he’s “one of many” to them. But like I said in my education posts earlier this week, we’ll do what’s working until it’s not. Then we’ll do something else.
This year our IEP meetings were a relief–staffing changes meant I didn’t have to fight for anything. Both teams listened and both my boys have plans I could agree with as-is. That never happens :p
My old roommate Kathi uses StitchFix and loves it. I haven’t yet jumped on board since I already have more clothes than will fit in my closet. If I can ever manage to get rid of the old stuff, I’ll reward myself with a StitchFix trial…