u/HungryPersonality559

Oops! Missed a day but I'm back! The fishtank was cleaned (not by me but...let's still count it!)

Goals:
- maintenance
- tidy office
- snip some weeds in the garden

Vibes / Support:
- ✅ posting here🤘
- iced coffee (today with hazelnut flava flav)
- 🎶 Fever Ray & The Knife
- hand writing a to-do list
- body doubling with fellow homebodies

I'm really excited for my office / craft space to be tidy!!! have so many projects in the works but I need to get more organized.

Back with iced coffee in hand! Yesterday was an off day but I managed to save my baby blanket from the very long soak it had in the hand washed rinse bucket. Going to do tiny goals again so I don't get overwhelmed.

Goals: (✅ = achieved!)
- ✅make kids' beds
- ✅pick up older kiddos books and put on shelf
- lay some compost and plant strawberries, lemon verbena and lettuces (tidying my garden counts right?!)
-✅harvested berries, watered some plants
Bonus: any fishtank moves are good moves

Vibe Support:
- iced coffee w/ extra ice & extra cream
- 🎶Chemical Sunset by Orville Peck and Allison Russel 🥵

Yikes yesterday was hard

Goals:
- finish hand cleaning baby blanket I accidentally abandoned in a rinse-out bucket
- clean the fish tank (gotta uf the fishy's habitat too!)
- maintainence day! Try to just keep existing tidied spaces clean
- journal / reflect on past 3 days and what worked and what did not work
- listen to meditation, regulate

Feeling:
- burntout (oops I went too hard?)
- bummed: while hanging laundry outside (bonus points to me for being frugal!) my neighbor's dog ran at me super fast and barked really aggressively. Just doing their job as a guard doggo but it was so dysregulating, I never actually fully re-regulated my nervous system. I've been really anxious and agitated since this happened tbh.

Helping:
- may need some body doubling help today
- smaller goals
- iced coffeeeee
- 🎶 Hayley Williams EDAABP, may need to call upon Beyoncé's Renaissance today (Haley Williams' Petals for Armour album reminded me a bit of Renaissance with the disco-house influence 🪩) Seems like I may need some funky music today :)

Back for Day 2! Bedroom Tidying

Goals:
- Sort laundry in bedroom
- make bed
- bring dishes to kitchen sink
- stack books neatly
- spritz room with rosewater
- Bonus: Vaccum (lofty goal)

Vibes ✨:
- blarg feeling blahhh so...
- iced coffee
- Daft Punk 🎶 and or watch Avatar while tidying

Result:
Wow! I did it! Maybe smaller goals helped because once I did this I kept rolling with it and got some of that laundry folding off my list from Day 1

Mom of 2 here. My body has definitely changed since having kids but I haven't minded a great deal. I recently started going to physical therapy because I was having a ton of hip pain and the solution (PT wise) has been to "turn my glutes back on". I guess I had "mom butt" (when the glutes stop working because they were overworked and shut down from the change in distribution in weight while pregnant).

Long story short, I've been feeling so much better! Much less pain! I was wondering if all the glutes workouts made my back side look any different so I asked my husband and he said my butt looks less "saggy" and also said something about my butt being flabby.

I was kind if shocked because I never thought of myself as flabby. Again I knew my body had changed from pregnancy but flabby is kind of an intense word. It's not a term I ever use or even think of to describe anyone. I was shocked he said this to me.

Now I kind of don't know what to do and sort of just feel like crap.

Hi folks, first time poster on here.

My kiddo has autism. We just set up his IEP for kindergarten and his school district SpED insisted at the first meeting that the report his developmental pediatrician gave was more explicit with the autism dignosis. They refused to give him an IEP (even though he had one in Pre-K) unless I brought in a more explicit Autism diagnosis.

Fine. So I did that. The doctor was more explicit.

They approved the IEP but wouldn't classify him with autism in the IEP. SpED insisted that he be classified as "other".

They won't even send me the IEP either. Or at least they are delaying it.

What...is...going....on??? I really don't understand.

(Small vent: This always seems to happen. It ALWAYS seems like the most unnecessisary battle to get the people holding the keys to the IEP to change anything. Is this normal?)

Any reccs on what to do? I'm not entirely sure the best process to appeal this and help my kiddo.

EDITED to Include:
They are also currently denying my kiddo a service strongly recommended by both an outside eval from the developmental ped, and also from other therapists who have worked with my kiddo. They are insisting upon more testing for the service.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Loved this idea of a 30 day challenge another redditer shared. No pics today just goals and vibes.

Goals today:
- Picking up Kiddo #1's room
- Folding kids' laundry
- putting away kids' laundry
- getting extra toys out of room (into storage or out of our home)

Feeling:
- somewhat motivated
- music is helping 🎶

Achieved:
-picked up room
- put away laundry that was strewn about room
- put away toys