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mellybrellyPaxton and I went for a walk. I put him in the stroller, and it was way easier on my back so I walked for longer, walked for about 45 minutes. My lower back feels tight, but I can still move, an improvement after some walks.
He fell asleep about 10 minutes into the walk and is still asleep in his stroller an hour and a half later. woohoo
I paid a bunch of our medical bills and called the Birthing Inn people to find out why my account went to collections when I made a payment on it last month. Turns out I have TWO accounts, despite me asking if everything from Paxton and I was combined and them saying YES. The smaller one that I called to pay originally didn't get paid and got sent to collections. Effing Effers. Just add that to my list of bad experiences with the Loudoun Birthing Inn. Now I get to pay them each month PLUS a collection agency!
I called to pay the OBs who I hate (one swore at me, one told me that I'd never vbac, as he wheeled me in for my emergency c-section when he knew I wanted natural birth), and their payment people were the nicest! They told me that they would take any payment I could make, as small as I needed, as long as I kept paying them when I could. They are the ones who have a free clinic, and every time I went there no one in the waiting room spoke English but me, I think they have nice policies set up for their patients.
I'm going to try to get out for walks more often. Today is perfect, sunny and fairly warm but crisp. Good for Paxton and I. It's good for my mental health to have fresh air and sunshine. Good for my body. I probably will always be a fatter mom than I want to be, but I can be the fit mom that I want to be, if I work hard. Today as I walked I thought about Paxton and his first tricycle or push bike or whatever. Life is going to be so fun.
This one neighbour makes me laugh, they live on the road behind us and they have all these "protect our borders" signs up in their yard, but their three cars are covered with Redskins stickers and license plates. I want to laugh and ask them if they know who the Redskins were.. the people who first lived in this country who probably wished they did a better job of protecting their borders ;) It just seems so weird to me. Maybe my thinking is skewed because I'm an immigrant and I know how hard it is to immigrate.
ps. My family that used to live in Pennsylvania, years and years ago, were killed by Indians in the French Indian wars and my great great great something grandmother was taken and raised by first nations people along the St Lawrence River and that's how that part of the family became Canadian! There's a book written about it called The Medicine Maid. (And another called The Hooples of Hoople Creek and I'm the last person listed in the genealogy!)
He fell asleep about 10 minutes into the walk and is still asleep in his stroller an hour and a half later. woohoo
I paid a bunch of our medical bills and called the Birthing Inn people to find out why my account went to collections when I made a payment on it last month. Turns out I have TWO accounts, despite me asking if everything from Paxton and I was combined and them saying YES. The smaller one that I called to pay originally didn't get paid and got sent to collections. Effing Effers. Just add that to my list of bad experiences with the Loudoun Birthing Inn. Now I get to pay them each month PLUS a collection agency!
I called to pay the OBs who I hate (one swore at me, one told me that I'd never vbac, as he wheeled me in for my emergency c-section when he knew I wanted natural birth), and their payment people were the nicest! They told me that they would take any payment I could make, as small as I needed, as long as I kept paying them when I could. They are the ones who have a free clinic, and every time I went there no one in the waiting room spoke English but me, I think they have nice policies set up for their patients.
I'm going to try to get out for walks more often. Today is perfect, sunny and fairly warm but crisp. Good for Paxton and I. It's good for my mental health to have fresh air and sunshine. Good for my body. I probably will always be a fatter mom than I want to be, but I can be the fit mom that I want to be, if I work hard. Today as I walked I thought about Paxton and his first tricycle or push bike or whatever. Life is going to be so fun.
This one neighbour makes me laugh, they live on the road behind us and they have all these "protect our borders" signs up in their yard, but their three cars are covered with Redskins stickers and license plates. I want to laugh and ask them if they know who the Redskins were.. the people who first lived in this country who probably wished they did a better job of protecting their borders ;) It just seems so weird to me. Maybe my thinking is skewed because I'm an immigrant and I know how hard it is to immigrate.
ps. My family that used to live in Pennsylvania, years and years ago, were killed by Indians in the French Indian wars and my great great great something grandmother was taken and raised by first nations people along the St Lawrence River and that's how that part of the family became Canadian! There's a book written about it called The Medicine Maid. (And another called The Hooples of Hoople Creek and I'm the last person listed in the genealogy!)
