confessions of a targetholic

My name is Patrice, and I am a Targetholic. Today, as I walked through Target, my son woke up screaming, very unhappy to find himself in his car seat in a Target shopping cart. Finally, I gave in and took him out of his car seat, and proceeded to bounce him around Target. He kept crying. My son, it seems, does not like Target. Could it be that he prefers Walmart? My own flesh and blood? The one who has my same hair and eyes and ears? Walmart? I'm sorry to report that if this is indeed the case, I may have to disown him. My name is Patrice, and I AM a Targetholic.

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Exciting news - the magnets are here! If you ordered one, it should go in the mail by tomorrow at the latest. They are totally cute, if I do say so myself. And they did not turn out Carolina blue. They are a very nice dark teal color. I like them very much. And if you haven't gotten yours yet, please consider buying Jonah's magnet (on my sidebar). Ten percent of the proceeds will go to DebRA for EB research and to take care of other EB families, and the rest will be put toward Jonah's care. Plus it's a cute magnet, and don't you want to be cooler than all your neighbors?

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Jonah has a new blog! Our family has set up a new blog: jonahssupportgroup.blogspot.com specifically for fundraisers and prayer requests. It's basically the same idea as the Facebook support group, but the blog will be more easily accessible. Check it out!

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Q & A

What does Matt do for a living? What did I do before Jonah was born?

Matt is an accountant for a business here in Winston-Salem. I was an Administrative Assistant for the Tar Heel Region's Young Life office. I hope to (someday) be able to return to the position, because I should be able to work from home some. Before that, I taught high school Spanish for four years - 3 years in Pitt County and last year at Grimsley High in Greensboro.

What will we do as far as daycare is concerned? Schooling?

At this point, Jonah is way too high-maintenance to consider a traditional daycare situation. So for now, I am a stay at home mom indefinitely. I don't know how things will be in the future, but if Jonah's doing okay, I'd love for him to be able to go to public daycare at some point - just for the social advantage. I think he would enjoy it. I had considered home schooling even before this whole EB thing, but I don't think Matt's a big fan of the idea. So... I still have no idea what we'll decide about schooling (public? private? home?), but that has less to do with EB and more to do with the fact that I worked in the public school system for four years, and I'm not a huge fan of a lot of what goes on there.

What do you need? What can we send you?

Okay, but only because this was a recurring question. Here is a running list of over-the-counter things that we always need.

- Aquaphor

- Polysporin

- Masks

- Alcohol swabs

- Hand sanitizer

- Dawn dish detergent (to get the Aquaphor out of his diapers)

- Similac Advance Soy Powder formula

Our other supplies that we order through National Rehab are:

- Conco conforming gauze (4X4, 4X3, 2X2)

- sterile gauze

- 25 gauge needles

- Vaseline gauze (3X9)

- Mepilex Transfer

- Mepilex Lite

- Tubifast

Here's a link to a post I did earlier on ways people can help (but ONLY because you guys asked).

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And finally, on this night five years ago I was:

- just finishing up with our wedding rehearsal

- eating barbecue, listening to a blue grass band, and getting ice cream from an ice cream truck

- NOT sleeping at all

- and I was looking forward to tomorrow, the day I would get to marry the love of my life and my best friend

- I was dreaming (in my awake state, of course) about this: