Mama Blah Blah

Viva has been asking for a dog since she was 3 years old. For a couple of years there, she would ask for a dog pretty much Every. Single. Da...

Happy Love Day! I am filled with love for you and the universe. And yet I did not get you anything for Valentine’s Day. No roses, no chocola...

Earlier this week, I was working from home one day and my Internet service (which is very, shall we say, quirky, at best) suddenly decided i...

First off, apologies for the misleading post title. It’s not about digging out from the snow, and as a native of New England, my sympathies ...

Last week, I went to see my primary care physician because I’ve had a low-grade earache for a couple of months and it recently started becom...

After a week of back and forth over whether we needed a referral for Ceeya and in what format, I finally cleared it all up and dropped by th...

Happy New Year! So far, this year 2011 has been very busy. We are almost a week into it, and it doesn’t suck exactly, but I was hoping for ...

Feeling a bit grinchy today. Discovered that a package containing Christmas gifts that I ordered online was stolen from the FedEx station. D...

So the infant/toddler day care facility where Miss Ceeya frolics during the week has an age cap of roughly 2.5 to 3 years old. At that point...

Recently Viva was riding her bike around the neighborhood with her dad and she was coming down a hill and got nervous as she was going too f...

Two years ago today, I was in the hospital having a wee little person removed from my uterus: And these days, the paparazzi can catch her ...

Taking a break for the moment from the “all Ceeya, all the time” tone that this blog has recently adopted to get us all caught up on that ot...

So here is the thing with Ceeya, as we call her. There are all these neat little boxes that “specialists” want to put her in. She has dyspra...

I have been doing a lot of work with Ceeya’s occupational therapist on her oral motor skills to try and find ways to help her learn to eat b...

I had a pretty good week there where I posted something every couple of days, and then: I fell off the face of the earth. Hello, and welcome...

I met with a nutritionist yesterday to talk strategy for Ceeya 's feeding issues. It was very helpful, and I walked out of there feeling...

Yesterday when I picked Ceeya up at daycare, they told me she not only refused to eat her yogurt, but she had a complete meltdown about it. ...

This week I have been going back and forth via email with the very nice occupational therapist who is writing up Ceeya’s assessment. She cau...

So we had Ceeya’s assessment on Saturday morning, and it was quite an experience. The Blah Blah Family arrived at the center on time, and sa...

Recently, I received confirmation that, much as I’ve suspected, Ceeya has a sensory processing disorder. We have a variety of problematic i...