Daddy’s Home!!
Manolis got home a couple nights ago. Of course the plane was several hours late, but we were “only” at the airport for about 2 hours. Maria was happy to see him, but tired and overwhelmed. The next day, however, she was very smiley! She smiles now when we kiss her, so you can imagine how much she smiles, inviting more kisses–it’s a vicious cycle…
Maria hasn’t been sleeping well the past week or so, certainly not since her daddy’s been home. She was doing very well with her “episodes” for several days, but now for the last 4 or 5 days, they’ve been relentless. It’s a bit overwhelming to Manolis, so I keep reminding him that I’ve been dealing with this for 5 months now. I’ve been having him give her her medicine. We both agree that he doesn’t have enough patience to be a mom.
I went to a concert of a Tibetan bowl sound healer last night. Diane Mandle (www.soundenergyhealing.com). She lives in Encinitas, not far from Rosie. She does private healing sessions. I really enjoyed the concert–amazing, beautiful sounds come out of those ancient metal bowls and gongs. Not sure about a healing session, tho’; for one thing, they’re $100, and I didn’t much like her when we talked to her afterwards. She plays the bowls to tune your heart or breath or some body function to ohm, which is the perfect frequency for the body to heal itself. Real or bs? Who knows. Who cares. Interesting either way. I’m going to order one of her CDs; it’s supposed to help you sleep (wish we’d had it last night), and helps to open your creativity when you’re working on something that needs creativity.
Manolis has been out trimming the bushes and trees, now he’s painting the spots in the kitchen that the remodelers messed up; we bought paint for our room–now it’s going to be tan-ish instead of robin’s egg blue. The kitchen used to be sage green and now it’s also tan-ish. Keeps him busy, doesn’t matter to me either way, so it’s a win-win. He was trying to fix the outside faucet that’s been leaking, the shut-off valve to the house broke, he couldn’t find a new one at Loews, and the pipes he needs to fix/replace are soldered not threaded. Consequently, we have no water in the house and the plumber’s coming at 8am. We went out for lunch so I could use their bathroom, guess we’ll be peeing out in the backyard this evening. At least it happened Sunday morning, not Friday night.
Today hasn’t been bad, seizure-wise, yesterday was pretty brutal, tomorrow we see the new neurologist. I hope we like him. I hope he has some ideas. I hope he’s not negative.
I told Maria she has a month to stop her episodes. Her dad’s back now. It’s time to move on to other things…