Extra, extra, read all about it...

So I open my email yesterday and almost deleted a message from this stranger - luckily I didn't because it was Memory Maker's magazine requesting a scrapbook layout that I had submitted!! Ahhh! It's going to be in their May issue and I was just excited about being published, but they are actually going to pay me $50! Get out!! They're actually paying me to be in their magazine - well, I guess you can figure it as they're paying you back for shipping because you know I'm going to send it priority with insurance and delivery conformation!

I just hate that I'm not going to get to have my picture taken in front of Just4Keeps WAll Of Fame when they hang my publication, but Jess promised that she's going to take a picture of the wall once my layout is up there! Hopefully by then, Jess will be up there and I'll be on my way to having more stuff published (***wishful thinking***).

On a bad note, my little guy is sick...he fell asleep early (on the couch because it was way before bed time), so I get him up after I watch the news, head to the bathroom to make him go potty and he starts vomiting. UGH, I know! So he gets it all out, potties, brushes teeth, goes to bed, and is snoring away - I don't think he was actually fully awake for any of it. He got his flu shot this morning, so is it that? He's always gotten a flu shot and he's never had a reaction to it. I just hope he's good as new when he wakes up in the morning.

Speaking of waking in the morning, I'd better get to bed, so I will be able to crawl out of bed when he rises - nite!

Whew...

I've been on the phone all morning with the Dakota County Public Health System and then the Eagan School district trying to get Alex set up for school in Minnesota. I finally got to speak to a lady in the Early Childhood Special Education office. She gave me the name and number of the 4 year-old program director so that Alex's current school can send them all of the necessary paperwork.

I really feel anxious about moving him to a new school, so please keep us in your thoughts and prayers that he will receive services and they'll have a spot for him in one of their schools. Luckily since I am a SAHM, I can get him to and from any school in the district, so he should have his first day of school in MN before Christmas break! I'm just so thankful that we had him tested and he's in a special education program here in OK because without it, he wouldn't be assured a spot in a school.

The Edmond school system has truly been a blessing to our family. Whew, I think I finally feel a good cry coming on about this moving stuff. (but that's okay, it's a good thing to get it off my chest!)