Taking the Scenic Route

Last night was the first night in over a week I got some sleep.  For the last week, my coughing fits would wake me up every 20 minutes or so all frickin’ night.  (and that was with sitting up, I could hardly breathe from my coughing when I tried to lay down.)  I hope the trend continues because I really need sleep to be able to heal.  Zane appears to have a sore throat now from the sinus drainage.  He has been wanting salty crackers with hot sauce on them all day….leave it to him to not want the chicken noodle soup but go for that.  At least the hot sauce will kill whatever bug is in his throat.  I hope we all feel healthy soon, although I think we are on the road toward that now. 

A part of me worries that I won’t get back into the routine of working out and eating healthy and such since I broke the routine before it was a habit.  I feel like I am going to have to start all over again since I have been out of the gym for a week now and know that I wouldn’t last 20 minutes on the treadmill if I went right now.  I know my body needs to heal, but every day I am out of the routine, I feel more and more lost.  My house is a mess again, my food is whatever Zach feels like making or I can scrounge up, Zane is almost constantly watching videos because even sitting and doing playdoh is more than I can do for long,  and I am on the couch all day.  I spent 10 minutes trying to do dishes today and almost passed out.  frustrating!!!  I am so thankful that this is temporary.  I can not fathom what terminally ill mamas go through.

MDC Posts responding to question about seasoning cast iron pans-

Funny story from when I was just starting a household. I got an unseasoned cast iron pan from a thrift store with no instructions and called my mom to ask how to season it. She gave me the typical instructions but I misinterpreted them. I thought you were supposed to fill it up with oil instead of just coating it with a thin layer. I started baking it. In an hour, I had gummy jello looking thing that was odd. After some discussion between dh and I we decided to keep cooking it because maybe it was supposed to boil off or something. Oh, what a mess. I can’t remember how long we did this, but I am thinking it was over several days. I can’t even describe what the result was, but it was NAS-TAY! (and the smell! uuggh!) We ended up tossing it because we couldn’t get it clean either..oh it was a disaster! It took over a decade to try cast iron again. Every time I see something about seasoning pans I think of the bewildered look on our faces trying to figure out what to do next and how foolish I felt when I found out how you are supposed to season cast iron.

Zane is doing better, but not 100%.  I am feeling horrible and finally started taking some cold medicine, but it isn’t helping much.  I did splurge today and get some puffs with lotion (we almost never get kleenex of any kind) because my nose is getting really raw.  I really dislike this.  My house is a disaster again and I have not been able to eat well, and exercise consists of me dragging my butt to the bathroom.  lol.

I wish I could fast forward to next week and all of us feel better.  I hope dh stays healthy!!!

We paid rent today.  Thank goodness!  We don’t have as much available as we were expecting because they took a lot out in fees, but it should be enough to stay afloat.  I am so looking forward to a time when I can have spending money though.

Zane and I are both sick.  Right now, I think I am worse than ds (which I am glad about…at least he appears to be on the mend).  I am so tired of my nose dribbling and my sinus being clogged.  It is so hard to have patience when you feel miserable and especially hard to snuggle when everything that touches you hurts.

Zane is still sick, although he isn’t too bad during the day. The nights suck though.  His cough racks his whole little body and wakes him up.  After the first bought of coughing tonight I rubbed some vicks vapor rub on his chest and then held my hand in front of his nose and could hear him get audibly calmer.  Honestly, it surprised me and was sort of weird.  While I did that, Zach got the vaporizer set up.  He woke up again shortly after that, but I am hoping that the cough will lessen a bit and he will stay asleep.

I now have a sore throat and my head is all stuffed up, so I am guessing that I am going to be sick too.  Yuck!

One sort of cute thing.  He hasn’t been sick much and isn’t used to sneezing or having a stuffy nose.  One time I heard him sneeze a big ‘ole sneeze from the other room, and then he came running to where I was with a big snot string hanging down a few feet and him holding it with the most bewildered look in his eye and handing it up to me, sort of upset, wondering what it was. 

He is not happy about having his face cleaned up or his nose messed with, that is for sure.  lol. 

My poor sweety

Our 4th of July plans are now cancelled.  Zane is sick. Last evening he started getting a runny nose and we were hoping it would pass. During the night he sounded all rattly and we got out the vaporizer and some vapor rub to help him sleep.  By this morning he started coughing too.  Poor little guy.  Other than nursing, he isn’t interested in eating either and just wants to lay around.  I hope it doesn’t get any worse.  It is so hard to watch your baby not feel well.

I went to help SIL and brother with their shop’s Grand Re-Opening.  They moved the shop to a main street location into an old theatre.  The shop looks so nice!  I was on the radio again today with a remote feed for a local radio station.  I really miss being on the radio, it is a lot of fun.

The shop was really busy.  I felt a little lost most of the day since I don’t really know anything about beading.  I was armed with a price gun and able to occupy myself pricing stuff for a while, which helped.  I can’t beleive how tiring it was though.  I am not used to being around that many people any more and I had to do it on 1 1/2 hours of sleep because Zane kept waking up last night.  By the time I got home I was so stiff I could hardly move.  I hate being away from Zane for that long.  Zach said most of the time went ok, so that was a relief. 

It did help with finances though.  I got paid for my time there and mom gave me gas money (walmart card) to get there and to come back on 4th of July for fireworks.  She also gave us a little more money on a Wal-mart/Sam’s card for both gas and small misc. items.

Overall, a good day.  Much, much better than the Christmas Open House.  That about killed me.

Mystery Diaper. 

I love this diaper.  It is one of only a small list that ds likes well enough not to rip off immediatly.  If anybody can help me figure out what it is I would be really grateful!  The outer is woven, the inner is velour.

It also has an unique gusset design.  (works really well by the way…holds everything in and is really easy to get clean)

didn’t work out for the second day in a row.  didn’t really have cramps, but felt really icky all day.  ate 2 packages of swiss cake rolls and am craving pizza like crazy, but no money to buy cheese.  I am not happy with myself right now.

zane didn’t nap and fell asleep at 11:30pm.  let’s hope he stays asleep and this isn’t a nap.

Some photos from Jenni Holland of Olive & Day

Zane had fun today!  I bet our “don’t touch the sidewalk because it’s dirty” neighbors are thrilled.  lol.

 *If you’re muddy and you know it clap your hands.*