Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

September Progress Report

September 27, 2012

Well, well, well, looky who’s here :-). Yep, I decided I’d better say something before ya’ll think I fell off the face of the earth. Let’s get started with the report shall we?

Health – As you know, I’ve been battling high blood pressure since being diagnosed in June. I made progress and then didn’t make any progress for awhile. After changing doctors and changing meds a couple of times, I seem to be where I need to be – finally. My bp is now almost normal (in the 120’s/80’s instead of 150’s/90’s) so I feel really good about that! I go to the doctor this Friday for a check on it and he should be happy. I know I am.

Also, I was diagnosed with low thyroid and after two almost two months of being on a lowered dose of meds (the initial dose was way, way too high), my level is almost normal – well, hooray for that! I go in another week to have another blood test to see where I am at.

As far as my mental health is concerned, well, I had kind of a backslide, and had to call my counselor to see if I c9uld get back in with her (after a 2 year hiatus). She welcomed it and I’m SO glad to be going back – my first session is next Monday and I can’t wait!

Weight – Well, there’s actually good news to report for a change. I’ve lost 12 pounds since all this started and trying to keep the downward trend going. Unfortunately, I keep hitting plateaus and I also had a backslide here as well. Can you say throwing all that work in the trash for a couple of weeks? Next week I am going to do Deal-A-Meal with fervor and try to only eat whole foods – as little processed as possible. Some things like pasta I can’t avoid buying processed, but there’s a lot I can do better on.

I have also decided instead of walking 20 or 30 minutes at once, to spread out my walking into 15 minute increments 3 times a day. I think that may work better. I have to say, I’m kind of worried it may push my bp up again, but we’ll see. At this point, I just don’t want to break whatever good is going on with that right now.

School – We started back in school the last week of August and so far so good. I had to rearrange a couple of courses for Steve, but otherwise all is well. The kids are going to do a lot more writing this year than they did last year and trying to find writing projects they’ll enjoy doing is the challenge. Last week I gave Maggie and Joe an assignment to rewrite a fairy tale from a character’s point of view. They loved that challenge and Maggie wrote 3 stories! I love it when I hit on good ideas. So, with a month under our belt now, I feel like we are on the right track.

Sundays – We have decided to institute Sunday Family Time. Now, whether Mike will come along much now that it’s football season I don’t know, but the rest of us will be doing something. We’ve been to the library and also to a local bookstore as well as parks. It is fun to get out and about and do something different than just sitting at home which often means a long afternoon. What I’d really like to have is an Unplugged Sunday and will continue to work toward that.

Restoration – We have had to make some big purchases this month but they were very much needed. We finally replaced an old very decrepit sofa when a local store had a pretty good sale on. We now have one really beautiful piece of furniture in the living room and I look forward to buying the matching pieces.

Our stove died a fiery death (yes, literally) and we had to replace it too. It took almost two weeks to get our new stove, but it arrived today and works wonderfully! It has a few extra features on it our old stove didn’t and I think it will suit our needs better. I know the kids are looking forward to cooking on it too :-).

Steve is going to be getting orthodontic work done soon and I think it will start in earnest next month. He should have a really nice smile in a couple of years. Maggie will be following soon and possibly Becky as well. Le sigh.

The best part of all these purchases is we payed cash for them all – no credit cards – and that makes me feel really happy.

So, I think that’s it for the last two months. Hopefully we can continue to make headway and not have any more stuff thrown at us. Things breaking down or surprise exterior home inspections from insurance companies (yes, that’s hit us too) are not what we need right now. All I can do is pray that God will let us catch our breath from this stuff until the next round. Because you know there’ll be another round :-/.

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On September 27, 2012 at 2:22 PM, dxprog said:

Technically, you could always make your noodles. Just flour, egg, and water, I believe. Maybe not even egg.
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz2PYIaC8fU

On September 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, java_queen said:

Yeah, I'd really like to get one of those cheap pasta makers. However, you still have to boil water in the microwave when you don't have a stove to boil it on. It just doesn't come out the same otherwise.

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