Awww My Husband Thinks I'm Bright :)

When I told David about being dropped on my head he said:

"What? Wow, you probably could have been a genius, I mean look how bright you already are"

Me: "What? You think I'm bright? Well I doubt it messed up my brain, I probably wouldn't have been any smarter"

David: "Are you kidding me? You were dropped on your head, how could it not?"...

It doesn't bother me that I'm not smarter than I am. I was just happy to hear my husband thinks I'm bright as I am... it's one of the best compliments I've ever gotten, especially coming from such a smart guy.

Mother's Day 2011

It was a wonderful mother's day. David made me breakfast in bed with the kids. I got egg burritos with bacon and cheese, hot chocolate and orange juice. Liam had made me a card at school of flowers made with his finger prints. Violet made me a card in her nursery class with her hand print. I love them. Liam's teachers also put together the cutest recipe book, made of recipes the kids in his class came up with. The cover has a picture of Liam dressed in a chef's hat and a checkered apron "cooking" at the play kitchen in his classroom. Liam's recipe was pretty straight forward:

Pancakes by Liam:

Ingredients: water, pancake mix, syrup, butter.

You got to have a pan. You pour in the water, then you shake it. With the lid on!!! Then you got to bake it in the pan. When it is all done you get a plate, fork, syrup, and butter. Then you eat it up!

Some of the 'recipes' were really funny. Like these:

Cucumbers by Drew:

Ingredients: egg, chocolate milk, pringles, cucumbers

You get an egg and chocolate milk, pringles, and water. You get the cucumbers out of the garden. Then you put them in the freezer. You take them out of the freezer and cut them. Then you eat them!

Chicken by Kaleb:

Ingredients: Chicken, bbq sauce.

We get the chicken at a restaurant. Then we put some barbeque on the chicken.

(Kaleb also had a french fry recipe... basically you buy them at Burger King lol).

Another one was a cupcake recipe that requires a bakery oven like his sister has... you know an Easy Bake Oven lol. Too cute.

I love my kids so much. Even when I am not the most patient mother, I always feel very blessed by Heavenly Father to be their mother.

Pain in the Neck

I realized recently that I've had neck pain since I was a little girl. I told my dad about always having neck pain (when I was younger I just didn't think it was unusual to have neck pain so I never really told anyone). My dad told me that a neighbor was swinging me around when I was a little girl and dropped me on my head from about three feet in the air! My dad thought the fall had killed me. But I guess when I moved around and didn't have symptoms of a concussion they assumed I was fine... but this event may be the cause of my neck pain.

Lately the pain has been so much worse plus I get a stiff neck. I have a large lump (I can see this turning into a hump back) it's right under my neck between my shoulder blades.

Another problem is when I was around 14 or 15 I had developed fairly large breasts (D's), I was thin and I had good posture... well a few people told me I stick out my chest so that my breast appear larger. Which trust me, never even crossed my mind. When you have large breasts you don't even think about trying to make them look bigger, they just are. I guess these same girls didn't have much of anything and I guess were just jealous, but that didn't occur to me back then because it seems like a stupid thing to be jealous of. As a young woman I became VERY self conscious about this and started hunching my shoulders in a little so I couldn't be accused of this anymore. It seems to have added to the neck problems.

Anyhow I think it's finally time to see a doctor about this neck pain.

How Do Healthy People Do It????

I absolutely LOATHE having to eat several small meals a day. I KNOW it's the healthier lifestyle to eat several small meals rather than three regular meals a day, but it's soooo annoying. And I love to eat, you'd think I would love to eat all day, but I hate it and I am not sure I will ever be able to do it. I have to do it at this stage in my pregnancy, I have to in order to avoid throwing up. If I wait even a minute too long to eat, I vomit... and if I eat too much I run the risk of getting sick. So small meals all day is the only trick, except I always forget and I still can't really handle cooking or being around food, so it's hard to make myself go into the kitchen to find a small meal to satisfy.

ANY who. On a different note, here are foods I am craving:

Cantaloupe
Oranges
Eggs (which I find funny because I could NOT eat eggs during or right after I was prego with both Liam and Violet, I couldn't even think about the word egg without getting sick, but with this baby I can't seem to get enough eggs)
Spaghetti and Penne Pasta dishes
Potato soup
Baked potatoes

Foods I CAN NOT EAT, smell, or even think about too long:

Asian style noodle dishes (which I normally love)
chicken
pizza
Cereal (especially Raisin Bran, which I don't just eat for the fiber, I actually like Raisin Bran, but I throw it up every time)

There are several more foods that don't really appeal to me anymore, but I won't list them.

I'm excited because tonight I am going out with my brother Connor to get some crawfish before the season is over! Crawfish are one of the safest of the seafoods to eat for pregnant women fyi... plus they are chalk full of: vitamins, minerals, omega-3's, and lean protein.

Some Sort of Universal Law

I've probably written about this before, and I've heard nearly every mom of young children say this... but how is it when you are cleaning one room, the children are messing up another?

Today I cleaned my bathroom and started on my bedroom. Kids sounded like they were having a good time so I let them be. Big mistake.

I had changed Violet's shirt before I started cleaning... she runs into my room without a shirt saying she needs a new one... I say "why..."

In the kitchen they had some sort of cereal, milk, chocolate milk and orange juice food fight. That's what all the laughing was about... of course Liam was spotless... hmmm. So I have a sticky sticky kitchen floor. It wasn't left out stuff, Liam had gotten them a snack, which I had approved of. He has a history of doing an excellent job getting them snacks. I don't know what went wrong this time.

I just started crying and crying. Then vomiting... I can't get upset without losing my stomach these days. Sent the kids to their rooms. It just feels so useless when you have a messy house (thanks to being sick forever) and you try to clean it and nothing really gets clean. When you have a mess this big I mean. A mess that will take days to clean... longer really... unending... I organize the stuff in a room (for example), get distracted; I have to feed the kids, play with them, stop a fight, get sick, take a nap from being exhausted etc. I leave the room for another day. But can't get to it right away... usually have plans of buying containers for things. Piles get messed up, mixed with other stuff etc.

Now it's not like a hoarders home. But, for example, in my bedroom I have a pile of dirty clothes and a pile of dirty towels, a pile of the kids toys that need to go in their rooms, pile of clothes to donate, pile of baby clothes to sort through, box from David's new computer, box from the kids pool, and one other box I can't remember what came in it. Need to store them in the attic. I have a container of baby toys I took from the kids stash for the baby. I have a trash bag, a small pile of cups that need to be put in the kitchen. If I don't take care of these piles soon, in a few days everything will be scattered and add in crumbs from crackers the kids eat (yes they are supposed to eat in the kitchen but they always manage to get some past me), more toys will be added to my room, more trash, more dirty clothes.

Some days I just feel like throwing everything out.

Some days I throw a ton of stuff out. It feels so good.

Whew

That blood test cost me $100! And that's the minimum, they might have to bill me for more depending on how much my insurance covers.