Catching up on life . . .
Since before Christmas, I feel like I’ve been on an emotional roller coaster. Horrible tummy aches from 2 children, job changes for Tom (all good, just different), moving bedrooms, elbow injury . . . AHHHH! Sometimes it’s almost too much to handle. I’m grateful that God’s mercies are new EVERY morning and that I have been able to wake up with a fresh perspective each morning, even if I’m derailed by 7:20. 🙁
Before Christmas we took Sage to the Dr. because she was having severe stomach aches and they were to the point of interfering with school and normal day to day activities. We cut dairy out of her diet, and the stomach aches went away. 🙂 🙁 So glad they are gone (for the most part), but this brings a new way of eating for her and it hasn’t been easy for her to say no, or for us to say no to certain foods. Headaches followed for a few weeks as she wasn’t eating and drinking as much. I think we are slowly getting those under control now.
A few weeks later, it was Molly’s turn at the Dr. Her stomach aches were from constipation and Miralax seems to have helped that. She still wakes up some mornings complaining that she doesn’t feel well, but after she’s up for about 20 minutes, she is usually fine.
Tom’s no-so-new position at work has brought him home earlier and on the weekends. It’s been so nice to have him around more and to spend more time with him. It’s nice to be parenting together more of the time too. He is so wise and has such great perspective on things as he watches me interact with the girls. Parenting is a trillion times harder than I ever thought it would be and seems to be getting harder. Ugh!
The Orthopedist tried to put a cast on Tom’s arm to see if that would help with the horrible pain he was having. After about a week and a half of no improvement, they took it off, gave him another cortisone shot and referred him to physical therapy. It seems to be doing better so hopefully, with physical therapy, the pain will not come back after the shot wears off.
The girls are becoming more and more concerned about what others know and think about them. I rarely post anything on Facebook anymore as they seem to get so embarrassed or funny acting if someone says something to them, even if it’s about a field trip, birthday, or project at school. I guess I just need to blog more and the 6 people who actually read it can just hear about it. 🙂
This weekend, we decided to move all the bedrooms around. We’ve talked about it before, but this seemed like a good time to do it. The 3 girls are all in the master bedroom, Tom and I are in where Molly and Ashley used to be and Sage’s room is now an office with a large table, computer and the piano. It’s a great set-up. The girls’ room is AMAZING! They have so much space and I love how we were able to lay it out! Our room is a bit crowded, but since we really just sleep in there or read stories on the bed with the girls, it will be fine. The office is great! Tom has a place to work on his computer in the morning and I like that the piano is in there so when the girls want to sing, I can tell them to go in there and close the door. This also freed up more space in the play room. We moved 2 night stands and about 6 larges bags of “junk” out to the garage (some of which might come back in at a later day.) I don’t feel like we got rid of that much, but yet our house feels so much bigger and less cluttered!! Woohoo!! It was a lot of work to take all the beds apart and more them, so it will be staying this way for a while! I think I have recovered, but Tom was till sore last night from all the moving.
Somehow in the midst of all this (and by staying up way too late at night), I managed to write an e-book for my blog. It’s been well received and I’m happy to see the traffic on the blog slowly going up. I am really enjoying interacting with so many other chef wives and girlfriends. 🙂 I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I started writing. I really like it!
Well that’s enough for today. Sorry if that sounded like complaining. Just trying to document life (with and without pictures).