Crazy girl! Stay out of the closet!
Parker, Heather, Caleb, Angie, Garrett, Jonah
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A little STUCK
Yesterday Angie started fussing while I was making dinner. I thought Caleb was bugging her or something. She wasn't all-out crying, but I thought I kept hearing a "Hewwp meee!" in there as well. Finally I went to find the kids and separate them. Only Caleb was in his room, and Angie wasn't. I heard her fuss again. I went into the computer room to find this:
We have some totes stacked on the left side of the closet. She'd used them as a ladder and I DON'T KNOW HOW but she'd managed to climb onto the top shelf of the closet! "Tiggers only bounce up", well apparently it's the same for Angies. ;)
Monday, May 21, 2012
Fathers and Sons
This last weekend was the Father's and Son's campout for our ward. They went to Balanced Rock (which is only about 15 miles from my house). Caleb had asked if Grandpa Harris could come, and so he made a special trip from Boise to be there. Grandpa also brought Caleb's cousins, Chase and Tyler, because their dad has been having some health problems and was not able to take them to THEIR father's and son's campout this year. This was GREAT news for Caleb. He loves nothing more than playing with his cousins.
Now obviously, I wasn't there, so I can't give you exact details....but apparently they had a blast! The boys spent a lot of time in the dirt, and came home covered in grime and smelling like campfire smoke. They roasted marshmallows, and hiked up to balanced rock (which is no easy task for little boys, but they did quite well). I'm told that the hike DOWN from balanced rock was a little bit scary for the little boys, especially Tyler, but Parker and Grandpa were helping them and they did pretty well.
They had some kind of "milk can stew" for dinner and Parker tells me that Caleb ate it VERY well. Grandpa fed the other 2 boys before arriving to camp so that he wouldn't have to worry about convincing them to eat. They did a big pancake and sausage breakfast the follwing morning, and I heard that Parker had a bunch of that. They were back home before noon the following day, but the boys were just happy to get to play together.
They spent the rest of the day running around the house while Parker and my parents worked on getting our garden ready in the back yard. I'll make a post about that later.
I'm so glad Caleb got to go camping with his daddy. They actually slept in the Explorer, and didn't even set up the tent (which turned out to be a good idea because it was pretty windy Friday evening). And we're really glad that Grandpa and Chase and Tyler came too.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Pain
I'm 29 weeks pregnant. That means I'm only 10 weeks away from delivery. Last weekend I really wanted to get our garden planted. I helped Parker screw together all the boxes (since we're having a raised garden) and then he decided it was too nice of a day to not be golfing. So he left, and I was still wanting to get things done. But I'm only one person, and since that one person is ME and not a man, there's only so much that I can do. As soon as he left I mowed the lawn. No problems there, I do that all the time. It's not that he won't. I just always have more time....and lets face it, much more motivation. Anyway. I had some flowers and a couple rose bushes that I'd bought to put along the new flower beds on the side of the house in our new back yard. I decided I needed to get them in the ground before they all die. Except those flower beds were a HUGE tangled mess of weeds. I got out my gloves, the shovel, and a trash bag and started to weed the flower beds. Moving very slowly on my hands and knees, I occupied myself with (although it did not feel like it at the time) some rather strenuous hands-on labor for the next 5 hours. The kids played in the new backyard behind me, and I got so much done. I trimmed back my lilac bush, and then pulled the weeds around it. I drank lots of water, and applied generous amounts of sunscreen to any exposed areas.....but even so, when I finally stopped working at 7:00 (children STARVING and SCREAMING for my attention).....my arms and legs were SO SORE that I could barely move. I spent the rest of the evening in agony.
The following day wasn't any better. (as far as pain goes). But it was mother's day. And thank goodness the kids slept in, and Parker fed the kids breakfast. But this week my body has felt worse and worse each day. Monday was actually pretty good. Then yesterday afternoon I started getting this pain in my right leg. Actually it's more like my inner thigh where it meets my pelvis. Nothing too bad. I am pregnant after all. And aches and pains just come with the territory. I didn't even mention it to Parker. This morning the pain in my leg was still there, but not unbearable. Then I got to work and sat in that awful operator chair. It's true that I sit a lot at work. I'm a hygienist. But while I sit, I am constantly rolling my chair to this position or that position. And pushing petals, and shifting my weight. During my first patient, the pain became so bad that when I finally sat him up and left the room, I was on the verge of tears. It's a kind of sharp pain just inside my upper thigh, and EVERYTHING makes it hurt. Shifting my weight while standing, shifting my weight while sitting, using the foot-petals, walking up stairs, walking down stairs, standing up, lifting my leg, walking. It all hurts. I seriously considered going home, I must have looked rediculous. I was grabbing onto walls, and chairs, and countertops for support as I walked so I wouldn't have to put any weight on that leg. But I decided to call my doctor's office instead. Of course they're no help. "Just take some tylenol and try to relax." ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? I'm at work for pete's sake!There is no 'try to relax' at work. And Tylenol (sorry for any believers out there) is the biggest joke of a drug EVER. It's useless. At least for me. I NEVER experience relief when I take that stuff. (I'm sure this is why it's ok to take while you're pregnant). The worst part about it is that the pain got worse with each patient. Like sitting in that position for 45 minutes at a time was the worst thing I could do....and it was the one thing that I HAD to do. Yes walking hurt, but sitting and working was EXCRUCIATING. When I finally left work at 5:30, I got into my car (lifting my leg to get into the seat also painful), I just sat and cried. What a long day. I called Parker. I wanted to tell him that I really needed his help tonight because I'd been in so much pain all day. He then told me that he had a late interview tonight for work at 11:00 PM. Yes people, ELEVEN. With the 1 hour commute, he wouldn't even be home till after midnight. Just as well. Everything else has gone wrong today anyway. I got off the phone with him and cried some more, only by now I'd arrived to pick up my kids. So now I get to walk in with a red face and puffy eyes and everyone can ask me, "What's wrong?" Are we making a checklist of meltdowns yet?
At home things weren't too bad. The kids felt sorry for me, and (for the most part) behaved quite well. As I was putting the kids in bed, I picked up Angie (who was crying hysterically at the time....obviously upset that I'd locked her in her room while I spent 30 minutes helping Caleb with his homework). Only as I took a step with her sitting on my hip, the pain shot through my leg again and I almost dropped her. I laid next to her on her bed (the act of kneeling and then lying down being so painful I could barely move) and cried some more while she dozed off.
How am I supposed to carry on another 10 weeks like this? If this pain doesn't go away, am I going to have to go to work EVERY DAY and just grit my teeth? That was the REAL reason I didn't just call it quits and go home today. There's no way of knowing if it WILL go away. And if it doesn't, I might as well start getting used to it.
I just don't understand where it's coming from. A few pepole have suggested it may be a pinched nerve. Ok. Whatever it is, there doesn't seem to be anything to do for it except "take some tylenol and try to relax." I really don't want this to be a pity page. I just need to document how I feel today. And lets face it.....it hasn't been good. I sure hope tomorrow is better.
The following day wasn't any better. (as far as pain goes). But it was mother's day. And thank goodness the kids slept in, and Parker fed the kids breakfast. But this week my body has felt worse and worse each day. Monday was actually pretty good. Then yesterday afternoon I started getting this pain in my right leg. Actually it's more like my inner thigh where it meets my pelvis. Nothing too bad. I am pregnant after all. And aches and pains just come with the territory. I didn't even mention it to Parker. This morning the pain in my leg was still there, but not unbearable. Then I got to work and sat in that awful operator chair. It's true that I sit a lot at work. I'm a hygienist. But while I sit, I am constantly rolling my chair to this position or that position. And pushing petals, and shifting my weight. During my first patient, the pain became so bad that when I finally sat him up and left the room, I was on the verge of tears. It's a kind of sharp pain just inside my upper thigh, and EVERYTHING makes it hurt. Shifting my weight while standing, shifting my weight while sitting, using the foot-petals, walking up stairs, walking down stairs, standing up, lifting my leg, walking. It all hurts. I seriously considered going home, I must have looked rediculous. I was grabbing onto walls, and chairs, and countertops for support as I walked so I wouldn't have to put any weight on that leg. But I decided to call my doctor's office instead. Of course they're no help. "Just take some tylenol and try to relax." ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? I'm at work for pete's sake!There is no 'try to relax' at work. And Tylenol (sorry for any believers out there) is the biggest joke of a drug EVER. It's useless. At least for me. I NEVER experience relief when I take that stuff. (I'm sure this is why it's ok to take while you're pregnant). The worst part about it is that the pain got worse with each patient. Like sitting in that position for 45 minutes at a time was the worst thing I could do....and it was the one thing that I HAD to do. Yes walking hurt, but sitting and working was EXCRUCIATING. When I finally left work at 5:30, I got into my car (lifting my leg to get into the seat also painful), I just sat and cried. What a long day. I called Parker. I wanted to tell him that I really needed his help tonight because I'd been in so much pain all day. He then told me that he had a late interview tonight for work at 11:00 PM. Yes people, ELEVEN. With the 1 hour commute, he wouldn't even be home till after midnight. Just as well. Everything else has gone wrong today anyway. I got off the phone with him and cried some more, only by now I'd arrived to pick up my kids. So now I get to walk in with a red face and puffy eyes and everyone can ask me, "What's wrong?" Are we making a checklist of meltdowns yet?
At home things weren't too bad. The kids felt sorry for me, and (for the most part) behaved quite well. As I was putting the kids in bed, I picked up Angie (who was crying hysterically at the time....obviously upset that I'd locked her in her room while I spent 30 minutes helping Caleb with his homework). Only as I took a step with her sitting on my hip, the pain shot through my leg again and I almost dropped her. I laid next to her on her bed (the act of kneeling and then lying down being so painful I could barely move) and cried some more while she dozed off.
How am I supposed to carry on another 10 weeks like this? If this pain doesn't go away, am I going to have to go to work EVERY DAY and just grit my teeth? That was the REAL reason I didn't just call it quits and go home today. There's no way of knowing if it WILL go away. And if it doesn't, I might as well start getting used to it.
I just don't understand where it's coming from. A few pepole have suggested it may be a pinched nerve. Ok. Whatever it is, there doesn't seem to be anything to do for it except "take some tylenol and try to relax." I really don't want this to be a pity page. I just need to document how I feel today. And lets face it.....it hasn't been good. I sure hope tomorrow is better.
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