Blabbity Blab

No, I haven't abandoned this blog. I've just been so busy that I'm more or less in survival mode. I had 6 parents call and cancel appointments this past week, and I STILL did 20 visits. My caseload currently stands at 28 kids (although I have 2 who are turning 3 by the end of May). I aged out another one of my kiddos this week. I've been seeing him weekly for just shy of 2 years. When we started he wasn't walking, and Mom was pregnant with her second (she actually had him the week we started services). Now he's using sentences and into everything, and Mom just had her third. There are still some ongoing issues, but he has a great foundation for doing well in school. And it makes me want to SCREAM at the politicians who don't realize that NOT having him get early intervention (and speech) would have left him much further behind when it was time to start school.
Once hockey playoffs are over (go Wings!), Chris and I will almost certainly be cancelling our cable TV, and probably be cancelling our landline phone service. Really, we don't watch much tv anyways, and between Hulu and a Netflix subscription I don't think we'd miss it. As for the phone, we both have cell phones and most of the calls we get on our home phone are soliciting. We very rarely MAKE calls on our home phone. When Chris and I sat down and figured it out yesterday, cancelling just our cable would save us about $60/month, and cancelling the cable AND phone would save us around $90/month. That's even after adding in a few dollars a month for a netflix subscription. That's a LOT of money, and I could certainly think of ways to put it to better use than watching TV. Like paying off the air conditioner that we replaced last year. Fortunately, the loan on it is 0% interest, but who knows how long that will last.