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If You Wanted To Call Me Crazy, You’re Too Late

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

As I started writing everything down for my doctors appointment, I realized that I (we) have been through the ringer in the last four years. As things have come up along the way, I justified them in my head by telling myself things like ‘well, I am older now…’ and ‘I weigh more now then I ever have, so it’s normal to have days that the foot pain is so bad I can’t walk…’ or how about ‘what mom of two kids couldn’t sleep for 18 hours in a day?’

To actually put it on paper, and say it out loud is mind boggling. How on Earth did I think these things were normal!?

Thank God I saw the endocrinologist when I did. She did two wonderful things: (more…)

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Hiving

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I know I’ve been so bad about blogging, but this time I have an actual reason. This post is going to be a little over-run with details, and a tad boring, but I am still ‘blogging it all out’ in my head.

Here goes…

I was relaxing with Daddy last Thursday (yes – we were playing World of Warcraft) and all of the sudden my arms started itching. I looked down and in record time my chest, arms, back and stomach were covered in hives! I ran and took a shower in an effort to calm my skin down and just blew it off as some sort of reaction to something. I didn’t really know what hives were caused by, so I looked them up online and here’s the definition:

Raised, often red, welts on the surface of the skin.
A container for housing honeybees.
A place swarming with activity.
Move together. ie. “The bee swarms are hiving” (more…)

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That’s Amore!

Friday, October 9th, 2009

I have really been trying to keep focused on what’s important, and most of that is contained with these four walls. One my of favorite things to do is watch my kids eat. Especially Italian food (shocking … I know!). This has been a favorite pastime of mine since Monkey was little.

It is just as much fun with Caterpillar as it was just a few years ago with Monkey.

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