#17

So, one of my clients made my day on Friday. He's great, I've been working with him for almost four years now and he is one of those kids I'd love to keep in touch with all throughout his life. He is wacky and I love it. He is also 17. In the years that I've worked with him there have been several milestones in his treatment, I'm not sure yet if Friday was a milestone, but it was sure interesting and may lead into some other great work with him. This kid likes to avoid difficult subjects and he will say nonsensical things just to change the mood or get a reaction. I usually have some type of whitty comment back to him, he laughs and then I direct the converstation back to where we came from, this is just something interesting about him, not what I wanted to write about....So Friday we are sitting there talking about his excitement for the weekend, he is going to see some cousins that he hasn't seen in a few years because they moved out of state. As we're talking about his last interactions with his cousins, he jumps up and starts to unbutton his uniform shirt. I look at him perplexed and he says "I couldn't sleep last night, I was so excited about seeing my cousins, so I made this..." he unbuttons his shirt to reveal a black body suit, with a cowl neck....on the back it has the emblem from a cartoon....he made himself a frickin' NINJA outfit and he wore it under his school uniform. I dunno, I laughed on the inside and it took us into a fascinating conversation about Ninja's, which I was able to relate back to a lot of his behaviors. We also reviewed his motivation to dress like a Ninja and his plans for the costume. At this point, nothing to be worried about. Anyway, I'm glad that this kid feels comfortable to share his "secret identity" with me. Hopefully he won't go all "ninja" on someone someday. I really don't foresee that, but I do foresee him being on Project Runway someday. I love my eccentric wonderful clients!

#16

Happy New Year!

Yay for what is to come! We found out on Friday that we are having a little girl. I'm so happy, and although I think I would have been equally happy if we found out we were having a boy, there's just something amazing about being able to bring a girl in to this world. Of course, I find myself thinking about how the media and the world are going to influence her and try to turn her in to a self obsessed barbie whore, and I think about all the ways I'm going to combat that. I know that I am so lucky to have incredibly strong, educated, fun, awesome women in my life and our little girl will be surrounded by them and will learn from them. Anyway, I just think it's going to be cool...and I also think Justin is going to be a great daddy to a little girl. He is so loving and accepting of difference and power in women, he believes our little girl can be whoever she wants and he wants to support her in her creative knowledge and endeavors. I can't wait for him to teach her about music, sports and cars!

In other news, I think I'm going to have to have the sewing machine out for the rest of this pregnancy. LOL I've been looking for bedding and room decor because I'd like to get the room taken care of before I'm in the thick of the 3rd trimester, and I just can't find anything I like. I have a vision of green background with an elephant who has a butterfly on his/her nose. :) I think I'm going to have to make the blanket and accessories, and I know I can do it. I did find this Lamp, but it's like $70 so I'll just use it as inspiration. :)