So Far….So Good

So, in my attempt to loose the huge baby pouch I have that makes me look 5mo pregnant (and that’s not normal people pregnant thats gigantour kid pregnant) I have gone to work out at the YMCA for an hour every day this week. I love it. A whole hour kid free, plus, at the end of the hour I get to take a shower, also kid free. Yesterday i biked 7mi at level 8, did 260 crunches, and worked on my arms and thighs. I decided to track my weight here, so I will update on Sunday morning when I weigh myself.

I also have stopped drinking soda. Now, that’s not to say I have given up the caffine, because I haven’t, but I no longer drink carbonated beverages. And I drink about 15 tons of water. Also intigrating organic fruits and meats.

So, other than that its pretty much the same old same old. I don’t know what is up Landen lately but he throws about 3 huge fits a day over nothing. It drives me nuts. Aiden is….Aiden. Whatever you call a teething baby…cranky  guess.

Anyway that’s really all there is. Hope everyone has a good weekend

I Wanna go to the…

YMCA!!!! So we bought a family pass to the YMCA Friday and we went for the first time today and took the kids to the pool. The kids loved the pool and I am looking forward to workouts that are kid free. The daycare is $1 an hour and landen loved it when we were taking the tour. We are going back tomorrow morning to swim, and then I am going to look into taking some pilates classes (they are free) and some arobic classes . (also free). I want to do yoga too, but you have to pay for that. This fall, though, I plan on putting the kids in parent/child swim classes.

Anyway, that’s my news. Tomorrow night we go to Sgt Kyles place for dinner and I am hoping to get some time alone without kids. I really need a break. I am loosing my temper far to easily and I feel like I am going insane. It’s just all whining and crying all the time. It could be that in 2 years I have gotten enough breaks, that didn’t involved drug induced surgeries, to count on one hand. And none of them more than a couple of hours, unless you count taking my step-dad to the hospital when he broke his arm. Seriously.

So that’s about it. I need to go fold clothes so I can go to bed.

Today’s Events

Well, so far the day is going moderatly well, aside from the first hour this morning. Andrew has passed his PT test which means he can convert and will be in the Ohio area for the next two years, and should be staying in Columbus. Also, I am going to take a step towards getting a life today and go to the local YMCA and get a membership and sign up for a Yoga class (prescribed by my rhumotologist) and an areobics class. I guess daycare there is like $1 per kid. Awesomeness. Andrew should also be home early and maybe I will leave and get my hair cut or something.

Anyway, I need to make my kids lunch. Lord knows Aiden might starve….seriously though, Landen is super thin. The kid needs food!! What’s funny is Landen is only 3lbs heavier than Aiden….

A Lesson Learned

Today’s lesson is: Never go to the doctor’s with your kids. Especially when they are sick and on is experiencing the emotional terrible two’s. I have learned this lesson the hard way. Andrew was supposed to stay home with them but needed to go in finish some testing so he could convert tomorrow, so I got the privilage of taking on sick two year old and one 9 mo old with diarrea to my dr’s office 45 minutes away. After pinning landen down to get him to take his meds, we headed out 10 minutes late. Which meant I had to speed the whole way. We get there and who should have pooped but Aiden…all up his back, and, consequently, all over my arm and shirt. So I had to change his diaper and he had to go on naked. Then Landen keeps running for the door crying wanting to leave. Finally we get into the room and Landen starts hitting Aiden and Aiden keeps crawling for the door….

Needless to say this ended with me yelling and crying. And thinking about how much it would cost to file for divorce. And the day didn’t get better from there. I would rather not relive it.

Anyway, the doctor confirmed his diagnosis of fibromyalgia and got me on some new meds that will hopefully work better since I am in constant pain. Also, I am going to try and get TriCare to let me see a dr who is closer. Andrew is going to talk to the TriCare rep as soon as he can.

So really that’s it. I am going to go and try not to have a mental breakdown now….

Short n’ Sweet

Here’s the synopsis – Aiden has a yeast infection on his bottom and cold sores on his chin, Landen has some sort of sinus infection/cold and I am sore and achy and tired.

You can guess how the last few days have gone over…..

Tomorrow I go back to the specialist and get my lab results….

Someday I will get the pics of Andrew’s phone from our vacation and post them….

A Mommyhood Adventure

So, you always here those wonderful stories of motherhood that involve cooing, smiling babies and loving hugging toddlers. What you don’t hear about is cranky, barfing, fever ridden toddlers and teething cranky babies. Granted, for being as sick as he is Landen is very cuddly – just the puking and the fever suck. Aiden has, thankfully, been fairly good at entertaining himself.

In fact I have to go hold Landen’s hand now. Just thought I would let you in on my fun.

Sick…again

I don’t know what it is with my kids, but they seem to be sick a lot lately. Today Landen had a fever and was in and out of it all day and Aiden still has diarrea and a raw butt. So, I had some cranky kids, and needless to say didn’t get the cleaning I wanted to done. However, Landen did sleep all night in his own bed. I was so proud!

Really there isn’t anything to interesting. I go back in to the specialist on Thursday to get my test results. I have had more symptoms that my mom says are consistant with this. My muscles get tired easily so that I can’t carry the kids longer than a few minutes (you can guess how well that is going over with both of them being sick) and I can barely climb the stairs because my legs get tired half way up. It’s crazy. I just feel like no one really gets how much I ache and how bad this is. I feel like the dr was to quick to diagnose me, talking to me for like 5 minutes, and I worry that either I am crazy and it’s all in my head or that something really is wrong, and that I may have to deal with this the rest of my life. Either option isn’t to appealing.

Anyway, I need to clean up a little while the kids are out. I have a feeling it will be a long night.

Organicness

So, we are slowly trying out organic foods in the thought of moving to a 90% organic diet (meaning we get to eat out once in a while and enjoy the soda that we love so much). We made a trip to The Whole Foods Market and bought meat, cheese, and some greens as well as pizza fixings. We weren’t quite ready to pay $6 for a gallon of milk, especially when I still recieve WIC and get it for free. What freaks me out though is how much smaller a natural chicken breast and pork chop are. Like, way smaller. Makes me wonder what the hell they are feeding those animals. Creepy. Also, organic foods taste a lot different. Like the pizza was…decent. Edible anyway. I guess its just not as greasy as I am used to, so in a way thats good. I think though, we will keep trying for the organic as much as possible now that I am freaked out about the abnormally large chickens and pigs.

So there you go, me on a health kick, who would have thought? I hope this helps me loose weight. I really don’t want my kids to grow up overweight like I did. It took a lot of work and will power to loose the weight the first time, the second is even worse. I don’t want that for my kids.

So, here’s to eating healthy……

Where in the World…

is Ashlee, you ask yourself. Well, I am here. Alive. Kinda. See I haven’t been able to get on and post the pics and everything for the following reasons:

1) The boys have diarrea, Aiden for 4 days has been pooping and screaming. Landen started yesterday, screaming and telling me his bottom hurt, then he too began pooping every 2 seconds. Went to the dr and they said the antibiotics for the ear infections killed the good bacteria in their GI tract and so I had to buy these natural bacteria capsules that I have to mix with their food.

2) I haven’t gotten ahold of Andrew’s phone where most of the pics are (we forgot to bring the camera down there)

3) I have a whole freaking house to clean. It was clean when I got home, not anymore though. Something about not being able to pick up because my kids are on me 24/7.

However, there is some good news. We got the boys bunk beds, and both are sleeping until 4am alone in their own room!!!! It seems as though miracles do happen!!! I admit I have a harder time sleeping without them next to me because I constantly worry about them getting hurt somehow, or me not hearing them cry, but so far everyone is still injury free.

Anyway, the kids are up and whining so I should go.

Some Minor Delays…

Well, I now have my computer back. My hardrive died, so I lost everything and had to pay $200 for a new one…granted it is better, but still, dang, the computer was only 15mo old. Crazy. But I have my dear computer back and am working on restoring everything. I will post again soon about our trip to Florida (a trip that I won’t be repeating in the next 10 years I hope) and whatever else is going on as soon as I can – we are setting up bunk beds today and we are working on getting the house back in order…..

Later. Hope all is well with everyone.