Apparently the household Ipad is broke. So there will be no skyping with BM for awhile. And I'm not going to make a 5 year old try and talk on the phone for 15 minutes. Talk about trying to nail jello to a tree.

Why this woman doesn't just download the skype app on her smartphone? I don't know. I know she has one, because she responds to e-mails via smartphone.

I told her last week that we enrolled SS in daycamp for a week or two. I like my daycare lady, but there aren't any kids his age at her home.

When SS spent his first major amount of time in my home, I was pregnant with his sister. For that reason, I felt uncomfortable with the idea of him calling me by my first name. I'm from a part of the U.S. where you don't call adults by their first name, and I didn't want him to be really formal with me either. I wanted to try and foster more sameness than differences between he and his siblings. So we just introduced me to him as "mimi" and he's been calling me that ever since.

I'm in a financial support office today, rehashing my bills because even with DH getting a better job, things will still be tight paying for SS's daycare and the airfare to get him here and back.

It occurs to me that one of the reasons I occasionally get into a preoccupation spiral with BM is that is that so much more of my life revolves around her than the other way around.

My husband and I eat a primarily plant-based diet. We are by no means completely vegan or vegetarian, but I avoid processed foods when at all possible, and we eat A LOT of vegetables.

This was the list of food we are asked to feed SS during his stay.