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Whew! This has been a crazy week already! I totally missed Muffin Tin Monday this week. I've been running around here with one little crisis after another. Nothing big just enough to keep me hopping.
Here's an update on our week:
-The window company is finally coming to put in our windows on Thursday. Gulp! That's tomorrow! Okay, major panic attack! I have to move everything away from the windows. I don't even think our bed will fit in the room 2 ft away from the windows. How is that going to work? Plus, all the junk and boxes and stuff I've never got around to are guess where? You got it! Piled up by the windows.
-I've spent 2 days trying to find those furniture slider things. You know, the discs you put under the furniture to make it slide like butter across the floor. I thought these were quite popular and would be rather easy to find without going into the "big town." Wrong! I guess once again I'm behind the times. So, ended up at "big town" at Wal-Mart of course. And, what's the magic number to spend at Wal-Mart? $80. I can never get out of there without spending $80 dollars! My total was $78.11. What the heck? It amazes me how they do that. Rhett was like "Well, they did their job. You went in for one thing and spent $80." He doesn't see how this is possible. My response is he shouldn't have made the furniture sliders my responsibility. Otherwise, I would never have been in Wal-Mart yesterday. And, of course, I really needed all the stuff I bought. He'll see.
-My other major panic attack has been that a few months ago I came up with this big plan for my grandmother's birthday. I wanted me, my sis, my mom, and my aunt to all go to my grandmother's and go shopping, out to eat, and stay up late and spend the night all with no husbands or kids. You know, so it would be like it was when I was little. Plain ol' girl fun. I know my grandmother will love it. But, whoops! My mom and aunt wrote it down and have been making big plans and I totally forgot about it. I mean I totally forgot about it. To the point where I had come up with a whole new set of plans for her birthday. I tried to play it off to my mom like I hadn't forgotten. But I felt too guilty and had to confess that I hadn't thought about it in a really long time. I can't believe I forgot it! I think I'm going to blame it on the Clomid. I think I'm going to divide my life into before Clomid, during Clomid, and after Clomid. I can't be accountable for anything I said or did before or during. We'll see about after. :) Oh, uh, did I mention her birthday is this Saturday? Eeeek!
-The laugh of the week so far has been Rhett's new driver's license picture. He looks like a pumpkin head! His words, not mine. But it's true. I don't know what happened to the boy. How do you walk in there normal and come out normal but with a picture in between that looks like you have a pumpkin for a head? Was it the orange shirt? Was it cause they get so close? Was it the lack of a hair cut? I don't get it. But at least we'll get to laugh for the next 5 years.
Well, gotta get crack-a-lackin' on moving all that stuff!
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I had this big ol' post I was going to do about my SHE cards, but geez! What a day! I really think that one day I could put together all my experiences running errands and have a bestselling book. I'm sure it would sell because every mother can relate! The stuff we go through while running errands is just plain ol' insane.
I will admit that I did make a few mistakes on this trip. Well, let me start off with our goals.
Goal #1: Buy Rhett some new tennis shoes just like the ones he already has but have become too stinky to be kept inside the house.
Goal #2: Buy powdered milk, eggs, & cream cheese.
Goal #3: Buy Rhett some personal clothing. Apparently all his stuff is wearing out at the same time.
Mistake #1: I started off my day with a slight migraine (Thanks, Clomid!) and forgot to take anything before we left and had nothing with me to take. Dumb-da-dumb-dumb!
Mistake #2: Tried the local shoe outlet to see if by chance if they might have Rhett's shoes. Not sure what I was thinking. Big waste of time esp. the 20 minutes I spent looking for shoes for me that I did not buy.
Mistake #3: Getting sidetracked by two of the stores in the strip mall where Shoe Carnival is and getting suckered into buying BFG a water bottle jug thing that says Jesus Loves Jasmine (For those of you who don't know, Jasmine is NOT BFG's name). In my defense though, they were 75% off, she's wanted one for a long time, and she can pretend she's Princess Jasmine from Aladdin when drinking from it.
Mistake #4: Thinking that Shoe Carnival would have the shoes.
Mistake #5: Banking on the free samples from Sam's being mine and BFG's lunch. Ooops! All we got was 1 corndog nugget (just one, I didn't get to eat one, the lady only put out one at a time and wouldn't give me a second one for me), a little bite of a chicken strip each, and a bite of beef jerky each. I just wonder do they put the sourest old people in charge of the samples or what? If you are going to give FREE food, be a cheerful giver, darn it! Don't begrudge every bite you pass out.
Mistake #6: Going to Sam's to buy the powdered milk. OMG! I could not find it anywhere! I am just sure they sell it. They have to. They're Sam's for Pete's sake. But none, nada, nothing after scouring every aisle. Of course, there was no one to ask. I guess all the workers were in the back chowing down on all the free samples they didn't pass out to the customers.
Mistake #7: Not buying the shoes at the 3rd shoe store that are just like Rhett's except for blue Adidas stripes for $40. They didn't carry them in all white. So, of course, I held out and drug BFG to the mall and finally found the shoes! Yeah, I found them. For 70 bucks. Forget that. For $30, ol' Rhett can live with some blue stripes.
All in all, it was just miserable. Out of 4 shoe stores, Sam's, Old Navy, and Lifeway, I ended up with the Jesus Loves Jasmine bottle, 2 $5 movies from Lifeway, Rhett's personal garments, and 10 lbs. of sugar. Oh, and a bottle of Gatorade from the mall vending machine for BFG. My head hurt so bad by the time we were done, my eyes were tearing up.
Poor BFG! We walked past the play area at the mall which has a half-wall around it. I kind of stopped and looked for a minute thinking "BFG has been sooooo good. I really should let her play for a few minutes." But I was just too tired and I kept going.
BFG: Mama, what are they doing?
Me: Oh, I don't know. (Liar!)
BFG: Playing or something? (Busted!)
Me: Yeah, they might be. Sounds like they are having fun.
BFG: But we're not, Mama? We're not having fun?
Me: No, sweetie. We're not anymore.
Later when Rhett got home, he told me I could buy him absolutely any shoe I wanted to. He didn't care. It didn't have to be the same. Now, this is NOT what he said when he asked me to go buy him some. After the torturous shoe search in 90 degree weather with a 3 yr. old and a migraine, I cried when he told me that. Cried. Can you believe it? I guess I can. It's day 4 of the Clomid and by day 4, I am a crazy person. Last month on day 4, I argued with anyone and everyone I came across. I pray I get pregnant and all, but I have to say that I am so glad this is the last cycle. I hate being on this stuff.
Nothing big going on right now except we have painters here scraping the ceilings in the living room and foyer so we are probably all dying from lead poisoning as we speak.
I thought I had my first hot flash at my in-laws Sat. night. But I think I was just sunburned. So far, the Chlomid hasn't been that bad. I'm really glad. Thank you for all your prayers that this works for us.
Anyway, so my fake hot-flash episode was uncomfortable for me emotionally because my in-laws know nothing about our infertility. My mom knows because I've had to have my parents watch BFG while I went to the doctor for numerous tests. Every once and a while, I'll think about telling Rhett's parents. In some ways, I think that it is our business and I don't feel emotionally stable enough about it to answer questions. In other ways, I feel like they have a right to know in case BFG is their only grandchild. I really wish my mom did not know because she's always telling me that we just need to relax or some tidbit she'll hear on TV like "you need to eat a bowl of ice cream a day" or "you should be taking folic acid." I know she means well, but I could just scream. Relaxing DOES NOT make you get pregnant!!!!! If that were true, all infertile women would just take Prozac or something and everyone would get pregnant.
Anyway, I can't decide how my MIL will react. I really think she will start crying when we tell her and that would be my worst-case scenario. I cannot handle that. On the other hand, if she starts in with the tidbits and platitudes, I don't think I can handle that either. I'm sure I won't tell her until after we see if the Chlomid works and after laproscopy.
So, what would you do? Would you tell your parents and in-laws? Or would you prefer them not to know? If your family does know, how have they reacted?
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I wanted to be sure to post this deal I got since it might be the last day. I went to Kroger yesterday intending to purchase the Schick Quattro for Women with a $4 off coupon making purchase price $2.99. Well, when I got there, I saw Schick Quattro for Women Disposables (a 3 + 1 pkg) on sale for $5.00. There was not a picture of the disposables on my coupon, BUT my coupon said ANY Schick Quattro for Women. So, I took it up there and asked. It worked! I got my razors for $1.00!!!!! Yea!!!!
I went to my ob/gyn yesterday. I felt so bad for him. He had an emergency in which the family was losing the baby. Isn't that so sad? Sometimes when I hear stuff like that, I just want to kick myself in the hiney for wanting another baby so bad. Why can't I just be content with what I have? Maybe God is sparing my family from something like that happening.
Anyway, he gave me a prescription for Chlomid. I took my first one last night. Do ya'll know what it does? I thought it was just like extra estrogen or something to boost egg production. Um, no, that's wrong. It tricks your pituitary gland into believing that you are going into menopause which cause your body to react by releasing more eggs. So, he said I may have hot flashes over the next five days. Good thing we got the A/C in! That is just wild to me. It's amazing what God has allowed us to accomplish with medicine. It also says that it changes your mood. So, to anyone who knows me personally, I am apologizing ahead of time for anything I may say or do over the next five days. Of course, I'm really grumpy alot. Maybe this will change my mood to happy! LOL!
Better get off here. Rhett's buying an old truck today and I've got to drop him off.
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