Camo and Pearls-My Boy and Two Girls: April 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

A typical Monday....

I saw a fun post on another blog I read that showed what she does on a typical day. Mondays are my "home" day. I don't have any meetings and try not to schedule any appointments. I need at least one day a week where I can be a stay at home mom. I do not have a paying job, but I'm sure not home much :).

I usually wake up at about 6:30 and turn on my Keurig. I take thyroid meds the second I wake up and have to wait and hour before I can eat or drink (every.single.day.). Turning it on and getting it ready keeps me going (plus the Hubs can have the first of his three or so cups).

From 6:30 to 7:30 I make lunches, feed breakfast to people, dress people, and gather peoples things for school.

7:35 (on a good day) we head to school.

Between 7:30 and about 9:30. I eat breakfast, load the dishwasher, do laundry, make beds and pick up stuff.

Around 9:30 I work out. I have a bunch of videos. I alternate doing those and doing the elliptical machine. I used to be a gym rat, but I've found it so much easier to exercise on my own since I had Gumdrop. Thankfully, I'm self-motivated so its been ok--but I miss the gym. My hope is to get back to SOON (probably Sept when school starts). Gumdrop catches up on Mickey Mouse, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, or Dora usually.

10:30. Grocery shopping. As we pulled in Gumdrop said, "NO HEB! NO HEB!" So, I bribed her with a donut.

We have a little Monday tradition of getting McAllisters after we run errands at about 11:30. I order a choose two for her and get a sandwich and a salad for Gumdrop. I eat the sandwich the next day and she eats the smaller portion of salad. She was always stealing mine, I've discovered this works perfectly!

At 12:30 I made desert to take to Leadership Retreat for League that we had last Tuesday and Thursday. Gumdrop is a fantastic baker. We try to bake on Mondays because she loves it.

1:30 is rest time. She doesn't nap much anymore, but she will lay in bed and rest for a bit.

From 1:30-2:30 I do my third or fourth load of laundry for the day.

And I catch up on emails and do anything I need to do that is League related while Gumdrop rests.

We head to carpool about 2:30 and wait in line for a good 30 minutes.

We don't have anything after school on Mondays so we have a snack and start homework. Then they play outside if its nice while I fold laundry. I love having big windows so I can see them.

At 5:30 I start dinner. We had tacos and Mexican quinoa salad.

I didn't get a pic but between 6:00-7:45 ish we eat, clean up, shower (including me), and get ready for bed.

At about 8:00 we read bedtime stories and the kids hit the sack.

I hardly watch T.V. so I'll sit on the couch (or go to my bed) and read for about an hour.

I'm a firm believer in early to bed, early to rise. Or maybe its just that I'm old and I can't stay up much past 9:30 or 10:00. Its not very exciting, but its a typical Monday!

Monday, April 22, 2013

April update (2 new posts)!

The last three weeks of my life have been pretty chaotic. I've tried to stay strong but I'm kind of at the "I want to crawl in a hole and sleep" point! Here is a phone pic update:

This one helps herself to juice now whenever she feels like it!

I have been having bouts of nausea for the past four or five months. After numerous blood tests and trials with a few different types of medicines, my Gastro Doc decided we needed to do an abdomen sonogram and an EGD (esophagus, gastric system, and duodenum) test. I've never been sedated before and I was REALLY nervous. I had to fast and what was supposed to be an 11:00 sono and a 1:00 EGD ended up being an 11:30 sono and a 3:00 EGD. I was at the hospital all day and it wasn't too fun. I did fine with the sedation and was up the next morning helping with move in for our Junior League market. Thankfully, I have nothing majorly wrong with any of my organs. We are attributing it to STRESS and IBS (too much info, I know) and I did test positive for an infection in my stomach called H pylori. I'm on antibiotics and I'll start a new medicine in a few weeks when I kill off the yucky infection. My doc was afraid it was my gallbladder, so I'm thanking my lucky stars! I know that stress plays a huge role in all this, so I have to figure out how to de-stress!

Spring Fling Market! I spent four entire days at our fundraiser (we have multiple events).

The Children's event portion of the fundraiser:

Next year I'm not buying this one a ticket :):

And finally, my pal Ashley and I have been working, working, working on my new home. We went to Haverty's last week and loaded up on accessories. Isn't this lamp fabulous???

And on a very exciting note, this little Princess is potty trained. I'm not saying we are completely accident free, but she is doing awesome. She is so sassy and has such a spunky little personality. I'm so in love with her!

Read the post below to hear about our action-packed weekend!

Go West...to the Track meet!

My kids had their Spring musical on Friday. This years theme was Go West! This year 1st - 3rd grade performed together. This was My Boys last lower school musical and I was overjoyed that he and his little sis got to do it together. He will choose between choir and band next year, the days of these cute plays are over for my oldest :(.

Lollipop chose to be an Indian (no speaking roles for 1st graders). She's on the bottom row on the end. Isn't she cute?!

My Boy was the wagon master and got to wear "a big taco hat" as coined by his sister.

So proud of my kiddos!

As if that wasn't enough excitement, we had our track meet Friday afternoon and Saturday. Lollipop was able to participate for the first time this year. It was so fun to be able to see them enjoy themselves. We love our school and its great sense of community. It's so awesome to watch 1st graders standing at the finish line cheering on 6th graders. I love our school!

Long jump (we didn't win any medals this year, but we are ok with that!)

Cheering on her bubba while he runs the long 1500 m race

There were more kids at the track meet than I've ever seen before, so it was harder to get medals this year. My Boy has a bone bruise in his left foot. I'm so proud of him, he ran through the pain and did great. He ran against 3rd and 4th graders in the 1500 and got 7th place (just out of the medals).