I love Small Successes! Sometimes they are enough to keep me blogging when I feel like I have nothing to report. Sometimes (when I have a ton to report) they hold me back. Sometimes I skipped them for months because I just don’t blog the way I dreamed I would when this blog started.
That having been said – I’m back to the original point – I love Small Successes! It reminds me of what I’ve accomplished each week. There’s simply nothing like celebrating the little things because those are the things most often overlooked. So behold…here are my successes this week:
1. I dug the “to-do” notebook out of the pile of “to-deal-with-later.” So I now have a list (albeit long) of things that need to get done. Blogging was on this list. I’ve written 4 (this is 5) posts today. Check all five of those off the list. Look! It’s getting shorter by the minute! Now to tackle some of the more pressing issues like faxing papers to doctors’ offices, completing some sewing projects that have been looming forever, and knocking some gift-buying out.
2. We took John for allergy testing. I was originally pretty apprehensive of doing it, but it has been recommended by John’s pediatrician, his speech therapist, his teacher and most recently an ER doctor following a 4AM ambulance ride to the hospital. The results show he’s basically allergic to the great outdoors during the spring, summer and fall. (Oh, and cats) So we’re trying some meds first. In 8 weeks we’ll re-evaluate to see how he is responding. Right now we’re trying to avoid allergy shots – although they may very well be in his future.
3. (This is really Nathan’s success!) Nathan peed in the potty! Just once and after leaking on the floor….but it looks like we may be on the way to potty training. I’m cautiously optimistic. While I love the idea of not buying diapers, I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to potty train him while driving John all over town for different appointments, preschool, and practices. I know other families do it so I’m sure I’ll figure it out. But with John I just committed a week at home and we did it. I’m thinking it may be a different story this time around.
4. (And it should be noted that this is really John’s success!) We had John’s parent/teacher conference early this morning. He got an absolutely glowing review from his teacher. Apparently he’s a great listener, rule follower, super smart, has excellent fine motor skills and is generally a hard worker (at least for 2 1/2 hours, 5 days a week). On his writing skills tests he needs a little work on drawing a person and he called a ‘crescent’ a ‘moon’ on his shapes test. Not bad if you ask me! Top that off with a conference with his school speech therapist who claims he has met or surpassed all but one of his speech goals for the school year (and it’s only October!).
Yay for Small Successes! 
