Double Dose!

Yesterday was a crazy day for no reason at all!  From the time I woke up until the time I lay down last night it seemed to be a whirlwind of things that had to get done.  I take medication every morning for my thyroid disease.  Normally I will take it first thing in the morning and go on with my day. Yesterday being what it was I could not for the life of me remember if I had taken my medicine!  So at around 11 a.m. I took another one.  Oops!!! Around 12:30 I knew that I had taken a double dose. Now with most medications this would not be too bad, even with mine it wasn't awful, or so I thought. I took some benadryl and started to feel better so didn't think anything more about it.  Fast forward to Saturday morning.  I got out of bed and I felt like I had been hit by a truck!  Every muscle from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes hurt.  I felt drained of all energy.  I remember feeling this way before my thyroid disease was diagnosed and when they thought I had fibromyalgia.  I have not missed this feeling not one bit!  So today I am relaxing. The kids are taking care of the cleaning and will be cooking dinner tonight as well, although they don't know it yet!  I will be going to the store tomorrow and getting a 30 day pill reminder so that this does not happen again.  On the bright side of things.....at least I get a day off!!

My little sleeping angel

This morning Connor decided he was going to sleep in!  I got up and came out to get my coffee like I normally do.  When I went back to my room he had rolled over onto Papa's pillow.  I ran to get the camera because he looked so very cute laying there!  I took the first picture, he looked like a sleeping little angel.  Right before I hit the button to take the second picture this smile happened.  He really is asleep, he slept for another hour after I snapped it!  There is something about a sleeping baby that is so very precious.  It just makes your heart melt to sit and stare at them, to hear them breathing, to smell the sweet baby smell they still have.  I know it won't be long before he doesn't have that baby smell any more but I can still stand and watch him sleep and maybe, just maybe I will catch another smile as he slumbers! He must be having sweet little baby dreams.  : )

Stress!

I stumble out of bed this morning and find my 8 year old again staring into her clothes basket for something to wear!  Despite my protests, pleading and sometimes almost begging I still cannot get her to pick her clothes out the night before!  She wanders around the house most mornings like she is a lost puppy dog until like ten minutes before it is time to go to school.  Then she is running around like her pants are on fire trying to get everything done.  We somehow manage to make it to school most mornings on time.  Of course on the way she is eating breakfast, brushing her hair and sometimes even doing homework!!  Talk about stressful mornings!!  In order to have some stress relief I have started using my treadmill several times a week!  A couple weeks ago I decided to start a more detailed running program.  I found an article that teaches you how to run.  It is called from couch potato to 5K.  It is essentially a walk/run program slowly building up to running three times a week.  I am on week three right now and I am already feeling stronger.  I am so glad that my body is cooperating!  You see about a year before I got pregnant with Connor I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.  If you have never heard of it, it can be quite debilitating. The way the doctors try and describe it is "It is a widespread pain over your entire body."  For me it was mostly in my neck and shoulders and sometimes my legs.  I am ultra sensitive to any painful stimuli, like innocent poking in the ribs is excruciating to me.  The good news is since I got pregnant I have not had many problems except sometimes even now I will lay in bed after a long day and feel my muscles twitching.  It is a very odd feeling.  I am pushing through the uncomfortable part of getting used to exercising again because I know the benefits of being fit are so much more important!  And I am getting the stress relief I need if nothing else!

The Grocery Store

I was at the grocery store the other day and I was waiting in the checkout line.  Connor was tired and getting fussy and the lady in front of us was taking a really long time.  I began to get irritated because there was somewhere I needed to be, so I started paying more attention to what was going on.  The lady was paying with one dollar bills, but that was not what was taking so long.  She had counted up all her money and she didn't have enough to pay for everything.  So here she was looking through her bags to put back some things.  She took out a gallon jug of Sunny D, probably for her kids, a gallon of water, a small jar of applesauce and a two pack of sponges.  I turn and look at what I am getting...I have four bags of candy because they were on sale, a magazine, some gauze and tape for my daughter's broken toe, two packages of Binky's, some Binky cleaning wipes, and six bath towels because we wanted ones that weren't so ragged looking, oh and a bottle of soda. Were any of those things necessities? Seriously, here this lady couldn't even afford some juice and simple little things and I am spending money on candy that is on sale and towels because ours aren't as soft as they used to be?  I think I was humbled a little.  We should be great full that we are able to spend on such frivolous things.  I am sure the hard working lady in front of me would have loved to have been able to buy even one of the things I had gotten for my children! 

Wednesday

Today started out as usual, Connor, my 19 month old, waking up in our bed at 6 a.m.  This morning he decided he was going to show me where my eyes were and then proceed to open my eye lids with his little fingers.  Time to roll out of bed and start the day.  Kyrsten, my 8 year old, was up and staring in her clothes basket like the perfect outfit was just going to jump out at her!  Coffee, yes need coffee!  Thank goodness I remembered to set it up last night.  Connor is still waking up several times a night so I am very groggy most mornings and live for the coffee pot to stop brewing.   Oh for a pot that has the brew stop feature so I can get a cup before it is totally done....oh well next time I get a coffee pot that will be number one on my feature list. Now to the shower.  I don't know why I shower and then come home to do my running but that is the way I do it. I come out to make my travel mug of coffee and find that Kyrsten is yet again not getting ready for school and we are going to be late again!  I don't know what it is about 8 year old girls but focus is not one of the words in their vocabulary, at least for my 8 year old! Fast forward to time to leave.....I look for my keys on the magnetic hook that is on the fridge, Hmmm no keys.  Oh, yeah, my 15 year old drove home from school yesterday.  I call him and these words came from his mouth, "I gave the keys to Connor and told him to take them to Mommy, I assumed you heard him jingling the keys and got them."  Okay so we are already 5 minutes late getting out the door and now I have to start a methodical, yet harried search for the keys.  I have found things in the pantry and even the refrigerator, so where do I start looking!! Alright, I am standing in the kitchen so lets start there! Aha, behind the pantry door next to the race car!  Now run out the door and hope there is no traffic!  Running program, week 3, done for today, yay me!  The rest of the day ahead of me.  Okay, wait for the phone call from the doctor about my step daughter's toe that is possibly broken, clean up this morning's mess from the kids getting ready, call the school for some records I need for next year, sign up for my new picture website so I can start making money, oh and I had this crazy notion I would start potty training Connor today.  I will let you know how that worked out for me.....