*Look what The Blog Fairy left me!

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What an honor, and what a great award-thank you Blog Fairy! I’m a Blue Ribbon Blogger, even! Which reminds me, I need to re-design the “Elizabeth thinks I rock” award, and start handing those out more, because there are so many rockin’ bloggers out there, you know?

*We had kind of a rough weekend here at the Edwards house. Chris and I had a pretty big fight about how much time I spend on the computer. He made valid points about how when he comes home from work, he is done working, and I can have his undivided attention. Whereas I have the computer on all the time, and I mean all the time. But the problem is, people are online 24 hours a day, and networking is a constant thing. I have promised him to take more time off. I was off-line most of Saturday and Sunday, and the world didn’t end. Plus, we, um, kissed and made up Sunday, and that really helped his mood considerably.

*I uploaded more photos to Flickr, and I came across this one.

I had totally forgotten what happened right before I took it, so I had to post it and tell you.

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The photo is of Kaitlyn in her stroller at the end of the Ingham County Fair, and she was too tired to hold Dora anymore, so I took Dora and Nathan’s Batman and put them behind the hood part of the stroller. I put Batman’s arm around Dora, as a joke, and said to Ryan “look. Batman loves Dora”. Without even missing a beat Ryan said:“You know Mom, those celebrity marriages never work out.”

I laughed so loud that the people standing around us turned and looked, but I didn’t care! That was hilarious!

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But, it can’t always be happiness for me, oh no, because that would just be too good for me. I took Nathan’s prescription to Walgreen’s to get it filled, the one for the ADHD capsules filled with powder, that we can break open and sprinkle into food. He can not swallow tablets, no matter how small they are.

Our insurance company uses a prescription company called Express Scripts. They process prescriptions online or over the phone, and then mail them to you, and for maintenance prescriptions you get three month’s worth at a time, for TWENTY DOLLARS for the whole three months’ supply. It is such a good deal. But, Nathan’s doctor won’t give us three months’ worth of this ADHD medicine, because he wants him to take it for just a month and then come in for an evaluation, see how it’s working, before he prescribes a maintenance dose. How much do thirty capsules of this methylphenidate HCL cost? After our insurance company applies their standard, non-generic medication coverage of twenty percent of the retail price?

NINETY FOUR DOLLARS. For THIRTY capsules. Retail price? ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS. Edited to add: okay, I called my insurance company, and it turns out that fifty dollars of the cost is the annual prescription co-pay we have to pay, per person. So the capsules cost $44.00.  It’s still more money than I actually have, but it’s not as bad as I thought. 

How is that even possible? Retail price is five dollars for ONE capsule full of powder? Oh, and also? I don’t have ninety four dollars. Yes, I am making money with my blogs now, and yes, I have spent every penny of it that I have earned so far. I’ve got ten dollars coming in tomorrow from PPP, and I’m waiting for a freelance client to pay me the remaining balance on a blog job I did for her, but even that doesn’t equal ninety four dollars. What the hell are we supposed to do? It’s not like we just feel like getting this medication for fun, this is necessary. Nathan starts school September 4th, and I want him to have this medication in his system so that maybe he can focus on learning and get caught up to the rest of his class, finally. Grrrrr!!!!!

So, you know, when life gives you lemons, sometimes you get lemonade, and sometimes you just shut up and eat the damn lemons.