Chuck E Cheese

Mitch's boss was out of town for a week and he gave the guys Thursday and Friday off paid last week. Mitch wanted to take the kids to Chuck E Cheese. The last time we were there was August of 2006. We all had a great time!! An amazingly enough, nobody is sick from it...yet . :)

But let's back up to the craziness of last week.

Wednesday was major cleaning, I usually clean every week but this was detailed cleaning in case we had a showing of our house. I was so TIRED after that! I believe this was also the day I stupidly decided to get our house craigs list, I say stupid because I was up till midnight.

Thursday was chucky cheese for 3 hours then groceries. Need I say more. Friday was Mitch working on his car I can't remember exactly what he was doing but whatever it is, saved us lots of money. I did paperwork and budgetting. Lots of running numbers with the possible move etc; Saturday was getting up and getting the house ready for a showing at noon. After that, lunch, Mitch went to o riley's to get a sensor that the van needed and replaced it. I was beat. I think my thyroid is too high, and I had a headache because I've been clenching my jaw shut a lot lately and Mitch says he hears me hitting my teeth together at night. So I'm trying to be more mindful of that during the day. I just clench it when I'm focused on something. So I lay down on the couch to take a much needed nap as the kids watch the little mermaid. We get a call from someone new wanting to see the house and we ask for 15 minutes before they come to straighten up. Mitch also surprised me with the Twilight DVD!! We watched it that evening after the kids were in bed. Next day Sunday, it's Randy's birthday celebration and we are to be in Winfield at 12:30, it ends up being 12:50. :) We leave around 5:30 and decide to drive through washington for the heck of it and by this house we are considering. We get home at 8:00. I get carsick with a headache in washington and end up having to drive home. Ugh so beat!! We had a productive, enjoyable time, but it was crazy.

Our realtor is trying to set up a basement guy to look at this house this week. That's what we are waiting on. We've heard no more on our house, so we're just , especially me, trying to not over think things and really Proverbs 3:5-6 it. :)

March 31st I go to see this new endocrinologist. Which I should post some pictures of my hair that I'm bringing with me to the dr!!!! Another reason I know things can't be right is my monthly present only lasts about a day in a half. I feel like my eyes look worse in pictures as of late. But I'm hopeful since I'm getting to see this dr.

April 8th Christian is 3, April 12th is EAster, April 14th is Christian's 3 yr dr apt and Isabelle will get 2 shots. April 23rd is kindergarten round up. May 4 is Isabelle's birthday and I'll need to schedule her dr's apt. And house stuff possibly mixed in all this, I'm clenching my jaw just thinking about it... STOP!!! I don't do well with busy but I know the Lord will carry me through each day as pretty much I can't help or cut anything out that is going on at this point.

House Update

We put our house on Craigs List this week. We thought since we're looking at homes we may as well get the ball rolling and explore the do-it-yourself option first. As it saves you thousands of dollars. The craigslist option made this much more appealing. We had our first showing today so we'll see what becomes of that. These people have till the end of may to be out of their apartment. As for us, there is one house we are interested in but the basement is horrible. A bowed wall that has been anchored at least. And water seeps through the floor so we are going to have someone look at it and give us an estimate to see what it would cost to drain tile it and put a sump in. This home has been on the market since August and has had to offers. I think it's and we love the location but the basement is an issue and we'd make an offer in light of that and the fact they've had no offers. It's so hard not to try to MAKE this all work out. But life is way easier for me if I rely on the Lord to work out the details and trust Him to work out whatever His will is. I'm trying to remain open to His leading. I told Mom the other day as she said I need to quit obsessing, because go through all the scenarios and details over and over and back and through. I told her, I'm giving to the Lord!! She said, but you keep taking it back!! You need to keep giving back to Him. So a lot of grabbing it back and giving it back. So you all feel free to pray for God's will in this housing situation.!! That's all from me today, I need to go eat lunch.... late... again.

Educational Info/Grave's Saga

Pregnancy and Thyroid Disease.
I thought this was very interesting. I was always told, should we decide to have another child someday, to let the endocrinologist know right away. But now I have more questions in light of this statement. Ideally, hypothyroid women should have their levothyroxine dose optimized prior to becoming pregnant and should have their thyroid function tested as soon as pregnancy is detected. What does "optimized" mean? slightly higher than I would normally like it? Or just make sure it's good and normal...? Just a random thought...

Strep

Last week, I took Christian to the dr as you know for his double ear infection. The following Wednesday, I woke up with a sore throat, that kept getting worse.. I felt like I was swallowing a knife but had no other symptoms. I researched it online and I was afraid I had strep, I've never had it before neither have the kids or Mitch. By 4 pm I was in so much pain I called and begged the dr's office to just call me some meds. Of course they would have to see me. I had a horrible night of barely any sleep as I woke up every time I swallowed my knife down my swollen throat. By 4 pm I was had diarrhea issues and was running fever by 6 am. Called the dr at 7 couldn't get in till 10:20. Went in. STREP. At least I wasn't making it up. It hurt so bad. I went to bed with a towel on my pillow so I wouldn't have to swallow. Gross, yes. But I was desperate, every swallow was torture. Anyway so I'm feeling much better now and Mitch came down with the cold Sunday but no more strep so praise the Lord for that!! I was worried someone else might get it.

My Grave's Saga Part 2

About 6 weeks have passed since Christian's birth. They weren't easy, he was a fussy eater ( still is) and I would get so exhausted when he wouldn't latch on in the middle of the night, he'd pull my hair. I remember not caring, just letting him struggle, crying, (me too) I was overwhelmed. ( he could latch on but wouldn't if he was gassy and it was so frustrating to me) I remember bringing him to our bed all swaddled and plopping him down at my wit's end. I adored this little muffin but at times I could get so angry, if he wouldn't sleep, I would think and sometimes even say I hate you. ( I was exhausted from the disease, let alone having a child who just turned 2 and a newborn) And I hated myself for it. Such a cycle of anger and regret. I would think what kind of a mother says this? All the while, loving him, snuggling him and I was so proud of him. I don't want to freak anybody out thinking I was pshyco because most of the time there was nothing but motherly love but I did have some moments.

I started seeing an internist who would get me officially treated. No more PTU to supress the thyroid, we were going to kill it through Radioactive Iodine. ( the thyroid is the only organ that aborbs iodine, and everyone needs just he right amount of it, or they will be either hyper or hypo) Here's where that dr's office started screwing up. I scheduled my uptake scan and the nurse called me and told me to be off my PTU for a week. Ok I do that, as you can imagine, now I didn't even have my small dose to help me in even the slightest bit. I have to go early in the morning, you have to go in and take a small about of radioactive iodine ( I think) then go back a few hrs later and see how much your thyroid is absorbing it , they take scans of your thyroid. So I have Mitch stay home from work in the morning till my sister in law Katie can make it up there to watch the kids. I go in to the hospital, you know, check in here, check in there, wait here, wait there. So finally the dr comes out. He's double-checking ok so you've been off the PTU for a week. Yes. And you've been off your multi vitamins? no. *@$@##@! The nurse NEVER told me she NEVER told me about being off them. Many multivitamins contain, iodine so that's a problem. I am so angry and I'm fighting off tears. I reschedule for next week. More time for my thyroid to have at me no holds barred. I go back the next week, I can't remember the numbers but I recall something like this, you're supposed to only absorb 25% of the iodine and I did 85%. I have to pump and dump for 3 days. (nursing)

We schedule the RAI ablation. I will have to quit nursing. I can't be close to the kids for 7-10 days. I can do a quick hug but no prolonged time close. I plan on going to my parents and staying over the 4th of July so mom can take care of the kids. I get this card to put in my purse in case I need to board a plane and they think I'm a bomb. I cry at the thought of not being able to hold and snuggle Christian. Isabelle was such a little go getter so I knew she would be ok with quick hugs. :)

to be continued.... :)

I put that picture up because I think it's just adorable and it was smack dab in the middle of this time in June. Isabelle had just turned 2 in May and Christian was 2 months.

Spurgeon Quotes That Must Be Shared

Hope itself is like a star-not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of the adversity. .real growth in grace is the result of sanctified trials. God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. God has given you many an unsolicitied favours but still great prayer has always been the prelude of great mercy with you. Prayer is thus connected with the blessing to show us the value of it. If we had the blessings without asking for them, we should think them common things; but prayer makes our mercies more precious than diamonds.

I doubt whether there are not some Christians giving away tracts at other people's houses who would do well to give away a tract at their own- whether there are not some engaged in works of usefulness abroad who are neglecting their special sphere of usefulness at home. Let your religion begin at home. Many tradesmen export their best commodities- the Christian should not... let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of sprititual life and testimony in his own family. You may but speak a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian church in years to come. -Spurgeon

One Sick Boy

This is our new couch... and Isabelle wanted to show me her blocks... what a Monday...

Pretty sick for someone who doesn't take naps and falling asleep on the couch, looks deja vu from that post of Lindsay's with Jack sleeping...

As you know Christian has been sick, he seemed to be doing a little better Sunday but Monday I started the day laying in bed, sticking my hand out to catch gross amounts of mucus in my hand that he was throwing up. Delicious. He was super whiny, " I love you " he says which also translates as " I need you" at times like these. He then would cough once then throw up all his juice he had been drinking, this happened 3 times in addition to the mucus puke. He was lethargic. Laying on the couch, my new beautiful couch.. initiating it with water/juice vomit. I called the dr. We went in at 1:40 and he hadn't thrown up for a few hrs. He did however once in the dr's room, cough once, and projectile juice and water all over the floor, my coat, his leg, blankie etc; Amazingly he had no fever, I had to carry him the whole time and he fell asleep waiting. Turns out he has a double ear infection. ( he got a lot of sympathy in his pathetic state, especially when he kept saying, Mommy I love you... )Last year we all got this nasty phlegm/ cough virus and Christian's went into an ear infection then too. After giving him antibiotics at 4 pm he was still miserable ( he slept on the couch for a while) and became inconsolable at 7:30. I was worried, I gave him to Mitch to check out the internet to make sure he didn't have Fifth's disease or something since he was flushed on his torso, the symptoms didn't add up I came upstairs and Mitch said he was crying, fell asleep or a couple minutes, then woke up and wanted to play with his cars... SO WEIRD the meds finally kicked in I guess, so the once couch ridden boy was pushing his vehicles all over the floor, so that's great!! I felt like Mitch Benny-Hinned him or something while I was downstairs and he was miraculously HEALED. ( lol total joke)