sweetcoalminer (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sweetcoalminer) wrote,@ 2008-09-21 21:52:00 |
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All Across the Limbo Land
My deadline in my head for buying tickets is tomorrow. We are proceeding as though the kids and I will be leaving the country in November, but it's still not 100%.
One of the problems, of course, is my paperwork. I can't believe that after all this time I'm still hemming and hawing about whether it's possible to be legal. There appears to be no shortage of lawyers who want to take my money to maybe do this or maybe not. I am a little hesitant to pay a lawyer because I know how quickly lawyers fees can run out of hand when your lawyer isn't vigilant about this. I did find a lawyer with offices in the US and Greece, but he is slow to call me back, which I think is a very bad sign when you are looking for a lawyer. If they don't give a shit about you when they are trying to get your business, it doesn't bode well for when they have it.
Another problem is the kids being so far away from Cory for so long. Mimi just wants her dad. When she was so sick on Thursday, she kept demanding, "I NEED him." She's going to be devastated. And Frank is really attached to me. He's just starting to notice that he has a dad. He looks around sometimes and asks, "Da-da?" It's going to be excruciatingly difficult on the one hand.
On the other hand, it seems to solve all of our problems. Oh, hell, what do I know?
I keep thinking about things that seemed like good ideas that were busts, like that week I signed up to do transects for endangered species in Ward Valley where I was essentially the only girl, and they forbade us to pee in the wilderness because of its impact on the tortoise, and there was just a smelly port-a-john, and I got a really awful visit from my monthly visitor. Oh how I cried that week, camping out in the desert in the scorching sun, wilting from cramps and trying to stay as clean and unsmelly as possible. That really sucked.
Mimi is better. She is getting a cold. I guess it was just a virus, but I suspect the flu shot made it much worse than it would have been. Not meningitis. She really scared me Friday morning when she kept trying to sit up and couldn't. I felt like I couldn't really breathe in, I was so scared. And she was a rag doll all the way to the doctor's office. But then the pediatrician asked her if she wanted a lollipop, and Mimi followed her, running, for a sucker. I'm just glad she's better. That was pretty scary.
Frank had an ear infection and is taking omnicef. I don't think it's working. He started out with an ear infection in one ear, and is now pulling on both ears and screaming. He swishes his jaw from side to side to try to give himself some relief.
The omnicef, while not clearing up his ear infection, has apparently annihilated his intestinal flora as he is having horrific watery diarrhea. Which I'm relatively sure will get him ejected from daycare tomorrow. See - the endless cycle.
Anyway, he is really irritable and whiny. We have a follow-up appointment on Wednesday for his ears, but I don't think I'll wait til then. Probably tomorrow morning when I should be wrapping up the immigration stuff. I know we would spend the entire fall this way, just like we spent the last fall, with appointments and follow-up appointments.
My deadline in my head for buying tickets is tomorrow. We are proceeding as though the kids and I will be leaving the country in November, but it's still not 100%.
One of the problems, of course, is my paperwork. I can't believe that after all this time I'm still hemming and hawing about whether it's possible to be legal. There appears to be no shortage of lawyers who want to take my money to maybe do this or maybe not. I am a little hesitant to pay a lawyer because I know how quickly lawyers fees can run out of hand when your lawyer isn't vigilant about this. I did find a lawyer with offices in the US and Greece, but he is slow to call me back, which I think is a very bad sign when you are looking for a lawyer. If they don't give a shit about you when they are trying to get your business, it doesn't bode well for when they have it.
Another problem is the kids being so far away from Cory for so long. Mimi just wants her dad. When she was so sick on Thursday, she kept demanding, "I NEED him." She's going to be devastated. And Frank is really attached to me. He's just starting to notice that he has a dad. He looks around sometimes and asks, "Da-da?" It's going to be excruciatingly difficult on the one hand.
On the other hand, it seems to solve all of our problems. Oh, hell, what do I know?
I keep thinking about things that seemed like good ideas that were busts, like that week I signed up to do transects for endangered species in Ward Valley where I was essentially the only girl, and they forbade us to pee in the wilderness because of its impact on the tortoise, and there was just a smelly port-a-john, and I got a really awful visit from my monthly visitor. Oh how I cried that week, camping out in the desert in the scorching sun, wilting from cramps and trying to stay as clean and unsmelly as possible. That really sucked.
Mimi is better. She is getting a cold. I guess it was just a virus, but I suspect the flu shot made it much worse than it would have been. Not meningitis. She really scared me Friday morning when she kept trying to sit up and couldn't. I felt like I couldn't really breathe in, I was so scared. And she was a rag doll all the way to the doctor's office. But then the pediatrician asked her if she wanted a lollipop, and Mimi followed her, running, for a sucker. I'm just glad she's better. That was pretty scary.
Frank had an ear infection and is taking omnicef. I don't think it's working. He started out with an ear infection in one ear, and is now pulling on both ears and screaming. He swishes his jaw from side to side to try to give himself some relief.
The omnicef, while not clearing up his ear infection, has apparently annihilated his intestinal flora as he is having horrific watery diarrhea. Which I'm relatively sure will get him ejected from daycare tomorrow. See - the endless cycle.
Anyway, he is really irritable and whiny. We have a follow-up appointment on Wednesday for his ears, but I don't think I'll wait til then. Probably tomorrow morning when I should be wrapping up the immigration stuff. I know we would spend the entire fall this way, just like we spent the last fall, with appointments and follow-up appointments.
