Honor peed in the potty yesterday!!!

For the past week and a half Jim has been experiencing partial numbness of the whole left side of his body, at times, including the left side of his tongue. Probably for the past month, his left leg as been numb at times, but as of last Monday, it’s been all over the left side of his body and all the time. He has seen the chiropractor a few times and yesterday, the chiropractor determined, with great concern, that he could not help Jim and suggested he see the doctor right away.

Jim was able to see our family doctor yesterday and $140* later, the doctor doesn’t know what’s wrong with him. He’d like Jim to have some blood tests and after that possibly see a neurologist. We’re talking some very large medical bills with no insurance. It’s hard to know what to do because it’s all scary, but the likelihood is that he’s having these problems because he sits at a desk all day and gets very little exercise. And the doctor didn’t seem too worried, which is some sort of a relief, even though he doesn’t know what’s wrong.

At this point we’re going to try to exercise every day. Jim will start taking an anti inflammatory the doctor gave him and we may hold off on the blood tests for awhile. I will try my hardest to refrain from freaking out on an hourly basis. And the hardest thing that we will do, and definitely the most important, is trust God that he will keep Jim safe and well.

*Can you believe that it was $140 to see the doctor for just a chat? They didn’t even do any tests or anything. It’s outrageous.

This morning, we woke up at 6am to go on a bike ride. Getting the kids up early is never fun, because I just keep thinking of all the quite time I just forfeited. Getting myself up early is never fun either. I just keep thinking, my birthday is a month from now and I want to be able to buy clothes with my birthday money in a smaller size and have them fit. I don’t know why it was so hard this morning. We frequently go on bike rides and this time it killed. It makes me really frustrated with myself, because as much as I really want to feel good about my body, I just really, really don’t like pain.

About losing weight: I started to read this website the other day, Losing the Cow . It is really really profound. I’ve only read the first blog post, but really, there are so many good things. I think what I took away from it is this: As bad as you may want it, you have to find what’s keeping you from it.

Sometimes life should be easy.

But there are good things about riding early.
*It’s not hot.
*There’s no one on the trail to notice how sloooow you’re going.
*When you puke, there’s nothing in your stomach to come out.
*We’re up so early that we’re back in time to watch the first round of Dora on Nickelodeon.
*Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully the kids will take a good nap.
*I’m awake to iron Jim’s shirt while he takes a shower. Yeah… that’s not as much good for me as it is for him. In fact it’s not good for me at all.
*There’s lots and lots and lots of time to gaze at your bed longingly and wish you were there.

yup. A morning of good things. Martha would be proud.

I never watch the news, so I didn’t know until I talked to my mom yesterday that the town my uncle, aunt and cousins live in was hit by a tornado on Friday. Thank God they are ok, although their home and vehicle were damaged. Luckily they were not home when the tornado hit, which damaged their roof and ripped off the deck that my uncle had just finished painting.

These are the things that are a reality check slap in the face. There are people who do not have a place to sleep tonight. Kind of puts life into perspective. I am grateful for life today, for health, for food in the fridge, for a vehicle that works (even though punk kids stole the Honda emblems off it the other night!), for (a little bit of) money in my bank account, for a nice house with a nice yard, for great friends and for the family we have that cares.

It’s a good day.

Monday
Spaghetti

Tuesday
Stir Fry

Wednesday
Turkey Sandwiches

Thursday
Pizza

Friday
Chicken Curry
Spiced Carrot Muffins

Sat/Sun options
Hamburgers
Toast smothered with Tuna and White Sauce
Red beans and Rice

I really need to go buy some peaches!

I went to Old Navy last night. Oh, how I love Old Navy. As I’m walking up to the store, I always do a mental check of what I’m wearing and EVERY TIME, I’m covered in head to toe Old Navy clothing. Seriously yesterday I was wearing Old Navy flip flops, jeans, white cami, olive shirt, even my underwear were Old Navy, if they made bras my bra would have been Old Navy. Oh, yeah and my purse was Old Navy. Yeah, it’s quite possible that I may have a disease, but come on, who could blame me? Old Navy is the bestest. In Heaven, we’ll all be wearing Old Navy. I’m sure of it.

I’ve been knitting hats like crazy lately. I’m teaching a class at the yarn store next month and I’ve been trying to find the perfect and most affordable yarn. This is my favorite hat so far, but the yarn, which is Colinette, is really expensive.

I also made one out of Di.ve Fiamma, but next to the Colinette, it was less than impressive. Right now, I’m just two rows from finishing my third, this time out of Rowan Biggie Print.

I’m excited to be teaching a class, I think it will be really fun. We’re also talking about me teaching the One Skein Wonder too, which will be really fun.

Things are so busy today that I only have time to brag that I won two things from Blingo in the last three days. A $25 Visa gift card and another movie ticket. yay blingo!

Yesterday morning Honor slept until noon. NOON! I kept checking on him, but, good Lord, you don’t wake a kid up! He didn’t take an afternoon nap, but it was an acceptable swap. While we waited for him to wake up (a.k.a. enjoyed our slime free peace and quite), Eden and I consumed large amounts of our new favorite snack, Nutella and graham crackers. This is her, “Can I have more?” face.

After he woke up and we had, you know, lunch, I went down to the basement and pulled the training potty out. It was a little dusty, so we took it out side and hosed it down. Honor was so very excited and had to sit on it that minute, so I pulled off all his clothes and the sitting began.

Potty training boys is a whole different thing. They’ve got whole different directional parts, so I had to teach him that he needs to point his pee pee down. He got it down pretty quick, he’d hop onto the toilet, point it down and then hop back up. Over and over and over again. He’s just missing one little detail: the peeing part.

We brought the potty inside and placed it in it’s rightful place in the bathroom. Eden and Honor spent quite a bit of time on their potties respectively; Honor on the training potty and Eden on the “flush” potty. As they sat there together, I reminded Honor that he needs to point his pee pee down and Eden said, “I’m pointing my pee pee down.” “Good job, Eden.”

It wasn’t until I found this:

that I realized what I’ve done. What was I thinking? I renewed his love for the toilet without even realizing it. Sometimes I astound myself with my lack of rational thought. How in the world would I think that he could spend any amount of time in the bathroom and NOT make a mess?

But here’s my big question: If it’s supposed to GO in the toilet, does it still make the toilet list?