Back to the begining

I have not been following SBD like I should... in my mind I kept telling myself that I was eating OK, but I was not. I have packed on some pounds (about 20 of them to be honest). Tomorrow I start phase 1 again. I am actually looking forward to it. I plan on blogging my diet again like I did before to help keep me on track. I'M BAAAAAAAAACK! :)

It's been a long time....

...but have I got a story for you! My poor little buddy Logan got sick last weekend. He had to miss Playhouse Disney Live that I had gotten him tickets for because he was suffering with typical "flu like symptoms" that he woke up with on Saturday morning. Well, Sunday he laid on the couch all day long - burning up with fever like a little ball of fire - and literally sleeping the entire day on the couch. I kept him home from school on Monday and by Monday night he was showing some signs of improvement. Tuesday was my scheduled day to volunteer in his classroom. He begged me Tuesday morning to come to school with him, so I caved in and we went. He was comatose the whole 2.5 hours we were there, just staring into space. Tuesday night he started vomiting again... that is when the real fun started! The kid had not eaten since Friday night and would barely drink anything. There was nothing left in his little system to come up anymore so he was at the point of just dry heaving. I got the bright idea to take him to the Cardinal Glennon ER on Tuesday night. We got there at about 7:30 PM - standing room only in the waiting room. 2.5 hours later we finally were called back to get registered and then promptly sent back to the waiting room for another 2.5 hours. At about 12:30 AM they finally called us back to our "room". The nurse came in and told me to let her know if we needed anything at all, so I asked her for a box of Kleenex because Logan's lips were bleeding due to being chapped and cracked so bad and a glass of ice water for him. Yeah, never got either one!!! The doctor rushed us through like we were thorns in his ass. Sent a different nurse in to stick a straw up Logan's nose and suck snot out for an influenza test - which he tested positive for. Then 2 hours later they sent us down the hall for a chest X-ray thinking that Logan possibly had pneumonia. The X-ray came back fine. They sent us home at 3:30 AM with nothing other than over 8 hours of wasted time. (This story could go on for hours... I left out the whole part about 2 grown men getting in a fight in the waiting room that an off duty police officer there with his sick son had to break up, the nurse that yelled at Logan to wake up and made me carry his 60 pounds of dead weight through the hospital, and the lady who screamed at the top of her lungs to the desk clerk in the waiting room that her baby was going to have brain damage because it had a 101.1 fever and she had been waiting an hour and that she was going to sue the hospital if she was not seen immediately by a doctor - she was seen immediately while the rest of us all waited). Fast forward to Thursday when my son is STILL sick and not eating or drinking and STILL running a high fever. I called our regular doctor who told me to take him the Anderson ER in Maryville. Only waited about 2 hours there to be seen and was told that Logan not only was still suffering from "Type A Influenza" but he also had a "RAGING" ear infection in BOTH ears!!! That doctor happily gave us a glass of water for Logan to drink and sent us home with an antibiotic for his ears. Today is Friday and after just 2 days of antibiotics, Logan is feeling MUCH better! Moral of the story... just because your child is sick, I guess the children's hospital is not always the best place to go. Even though we had a wonderful experience at Cardinal Glennon with Kyleigh right after she was born, I will NEVER EVER EVER go back to their ER again!

PS - I dont have a lot of ER experience, and the "real" ER is nothing like the TV show ER. I did not see one hot doctor the whole time I was there!

PSS - Renee, my blog is suffering due to Facebook - it seems to be sucking all my time away from me! :) & Tammie, can you read it better now??? :)

My scale is REALLY mad at me! LOL!

I had Jim take the scale out of hiding because I wanted to weigh the kids (Logan is 58 pounds and Kyleigh is 23 pounds). So the scale was still sitting in the kitchen when I went to bed. Fast forward to yesterday morning. I am fully dressed with the exception of my shoes and I was speed walking through the house getting everything together for school and work when... WHAM! I stubbed the pinkie toe on my left foot on the glass part of the scale still sitting on the kitchen floor right where it should NOT be! Not only did I stub my toe, the scale managed to lift and separate my toe nail from my toe. Fun times. Now, 2 days later, my toe is still throbbing and I hate my scale more than ever.

Hard

Wow, this resolution is harder than I thought it would be! I really miss my scale.

Happy 2009!

Resolutions? Mine is for Jim to hide the bathroom scale. I told him last night, when I am not home, he is to put it away somewhere where I can't find it. My goal for 2009 is to be comfortable in my own skin. Not to obsess over a number/my weight. I am not going to let a number rule my life this year. If my clothes fit, I feel healthy and happy that is good enough for me. I took a SBD 2 week break between Christmas and New Years. I am back on phase 1 for two weeks and then I will move into phase 2 again. Unfortunately, I wont be updating my progress on here anymore because I won't know what my progress is unless I drop a size in clothes which I will be happy to report!

What are your resolutions?

SBD week 8, phase 2

Well, I was totally prepared to write 2 words this week... "bad week". However, I was blessed with the intestinal flu and I manged to loose a few pounds! LOL! My total weight loss as of today is 22.3 pounds. Thank you SBD and the flu!

Tag... I am IT!

My friend Renee has "tagged" me to do a post about my kids, answering the following questions about each one.

Name: Logan James

Meaning: Logan means "From the Hollow" it is Irish in origin, we picked it just because we liked the name. James means "Supplanter" it is Hebrew in origin, we picked it because it is Jim's first name.

Age: 5 years

Nicknames: Bubba, and Great Grandma Mary calls him her "little feller"

Favorite Activities: playing Wii, drawing, playing cars & trains

Favorite Music: Christmas music... especially The Little Drummer Boy

Favorite Toys: His trains & Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars

What Makes Him Happy? Spending time with mommy & daddy, playing with his sister, going to school

What Makes Him Sad? When he doesn't get his way

Name: Kyleigh Nicole

Meaning: Kyleigh means "boomerang" again, we picked it because we just liked the name. Nicole means "Victory of the People" and we thought it sounded good with her first name.

Age: almost 2 years old

Nicknames: Ky, Sissy, Super Ky, P.K. (princess Kyleigh)

Favorite Activities: Whatever Bubba is doing, she is right beside him!

Favorite Music: Ky loves all music, she does the penguin dance (rocks side to side) as soon as she hears music playing

Favorite Toys: Bunnykitty - what is bunnykitty you ask? It is her stuffed bunny and her pacifier with a kitty sewed to it. She calls them bunnykitty because they always stay together in a pair. She never has one without the other! LOL!

What Makes Her Happy? It is ALL about Daddy and Bubba!

What Makes Her Sad? When Bubba is at school - she misses him!