WIC Tip

Here’s a tip if you ever have to apply for WIC: you have to qualify nutritionally as well as by income. I was asked what I ate yesterday. Well, toast for breakfast. Eggs and chorizo for lunch. Green salad, potato salad, and fried chicken for first dinner. Mexican lasagna for second dinner. Then cookies and a glass of whole milk for bedtime snack. Don’t eat so well the day before your appointment with WIC!!! As circumstance would have it, PJ and I made it in under a health exemption. That dang breast infection qualifies us.

So now I have these little checks from the government that I will take to the grocery store with me. I’ll separate out my WIC items – juice, cheese, milk, cereal, carrots, tuna, beans – and pay for those with my WIC checks. Then the other stuff I pay for. It should help us out. We shall see.

I have been dreading the WIC experience. I went with my friend Trina back in Waco when we were in Bible school when she was pregnant. It was uncomfortable, humiliating, frustrating… Josh went with me today and it was long, but the people were nice and the system wasn’t too bad. Our appointment was at 8:20am. We waited in the waiting room and went in and out of offices 4 times: PJ and I were weighed and measured, got our fingers stuck to check iron, talked to the nutritionist, and lastly to the lady that wanted to see our documentation and give us our checks. I have to go back when PJ turns a year old. They didn’t give me any trouble about immunizations like I thought they would. They just wrote on our records – “waiting until 2 to begin immunizations.”

Oh! PJ weighs 22 lbs., 6 oz. and he is 28 and 1/8 inches tall. I’m 135 lbs. and 5′ 7″. It’s the first time I’ve matched my driver’s license in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng time.