Sloooooooow.

We’re moving at a snail’s pace on the following things:

Speech acquisition for Little Boy and Little Girl. They’re still having speech therapy every week, but progress is very slow. They are using more words, yes, but not many and no “explosion” of language like I keep hoping for. Is speech therapy helping? I dunno. It’s certainly not hurting, but I’m not convinced that we’re reaping much in the way of benefit.

I cannot seem to fully shake a nasty upper respiratory infection. I’m on week three now and still have a ridiculously violent cough with phlegm (sputum? why are all the words for that sort of thing so gross? coincidence? I think not). After tasting blood every time I coughed two weeks ago, I went to the doctor, got a round of antibiotics, took them as prescribed, and now...nothing. Less blood taste, maybe, but still a wanna-see-a-piece-of-my-lung? cough and a sore, aching chest to boot. I probably should go back to the doctor, but I know the instant I jump through the necessary hoops to do so, my cough will clear up. So I’m holding off for now.

Holiday preparations. Can’t I just fast forward through these next few weeks? We’re broke, and I have no earthly idea how we’re going to manage to come up with presents for everyone on our list. Unfortunately for us, none of our relatives would be interested in receiving venison for Christmas, ‘cause that’s about all I have to offer right now.

My workflow has trickled down to virtually nothing. I’ve certainly enjoyed having a few more minutes of time to myself each day not consumed by deadlines, but see above, re: broke. It’ll pick up soon, but for now, no work = no money.

Hope things are moving more efficiently for you.