Finally sitting down to type more highlights of our life events since February! Bringing Abbie home was great and we wanted to be home ASAP so we told the nurses we were OK with going home late at night and that’s just what we did. My MIL and 2 of Brad’s younger sisters (17 and 21) were staying with us for 2 weeks or so. I was happy they were here to meet Abbie and help with the kids but more than a few days visit and it becomes overwhelming sometimes, esp with more than 1 visitor but it was okay. It was nice to get into a routine once company was gone but Abbie is a tiny over 2 months old and has recently started sleeping 6-7 hour stretches at night, which is awesome! I’m still mostly sleeping on the couch with her in the swing but I need to start taking her upstairs at night to sleep in her crib but I dunno, I’ve just found it easier to sleep downstairs. She’s a really good baby and SO SMILEY when she’s not gassy lol. She HATES getting her diaper and clothes changed… she gets SUPER mad, which makes me laugh haha. We’ve had all kinds of doc check ups and stuff lately for them and me. I had my thyroid levels checked again recently and they are good for now, which is great.

Katie is not doing the best in 2 classes grade wise at school- her last report card she had a D in math so I’ve just been trying to encourage her to try her best and work hard because the end of the school year is fast approaching. My mom is still hanging in there.. about the same but my aunt is slowly losing her sanity from dealing with and taking care of mom. My birth mom was in town a couple weeks back and so my aunt got a little bit of a break. I got to see my bio mom twice while she was visiting for 2 weeks, which is still somewhat different in it’s own way.. seeing her. March was both mine and Brad’s birthday and we got tax money, which went way too fast (OF COURSE). Brad ended up getting a new computer because his brand new video card didn’t work in his other one. Next to happen was that our washer wasn’t working right so we ended up buying a new one on another credit card.. ugh. I tried to convince Brad to look for a used one but he said we should get a new one instead. Our Benjamin is the typical 2 year old annoyance, haha. Pushing my buttons daily and he’s saying more and more words. We should start working on potty training him pretty soon. Someone posted online a video about grounding – you can google earthing and grounding to see more but Brad made me a homemade mat and I’ve been using that and I swear my sleep is a tiny bit better. I don’t seem to sleep that deep but have been waking up feeling not AS tired. It’s basically connecting humans to the energy of the earth to help us stay healthy, which I am all for!

We went out this Saturday to pick up one of my vitamins from Whole Foods then head to Wal-Mart for a few groceries. Brad was driving my car, which is the Toyota Corolla. He got into the left hand turning lanes (there were 2) and he was on the outside lane. Well, he got impatient because the red light didn’t change for a few minutes and wanted to leave the left turning lane and go right to the main flow of traffic. He asked me if anything was coming. I said, yeah. He moved to the right anyway and I don’t think my brain had time to really comprehend the fact that he went ahead anyway because I didn’t have time to say WAIT or anything and the woman came flying by and clipped the right side of our car. GREAT… the woman pulled up and stopped in the middle of the road out of traffics way and we eventually went and pulled off in a shopping place. Long story short- the woman was chill about it and it wasn’t too bad, no one was hurt and the damage to both cars was minimal but still sucks. Brad claims he thought it was clear, but I had just said YES to his question in asking if anything was coming??? I dunno. It’ll be a copay of $500 to get the damage fixed. Siiiigh. Sucks it happened to my car. And Brad got a ticket, of course, so there’s that to pay too.

I’m so HAPPY it’s been in the 70’s weather wise… so awesome. We went to the park weekend before last and had a BLAST. The park nearby is amazing.. has lots to do. There’s a skate park, dog park, walking track all the way around, and even a little water splash place for kids during the summer, with playgrounds for smaller and bigger kids too. We played frisbee and threw the football, Katie got to play on the playground, Brad took Ben to swing then came out where I was on the grass and let him run run run run energy off. We were out there for about 2 hours I think. We were gonna get a snowcone nearby but the place was packed and the parking lot was TINY with no parking.. boo. We ended up stopping for gas and getting raspberry ICEE’s instead, along with a small thing of dip-n-dots ice cream. We need to do that more often this summer and go to the nearby lake for swimming.

I’ve had some different fatigue today and it sucks. I went to change my dose of iron.. mistake. After all that I’ve been through I guess I need to really focus on getting my iron storage (ferritin) levels up to make a big difference in my energy and everything because I have literally tried EVERYTHING else and my thyroid levels are stable. So am gonna try to up my dosage of iron for a bit and see how that goes. My last lab check on ferritin I think it was like 14? It went from 10 to 14 in a couple months back when and this was before my pregnancy and birth with Abbie. I bled more than they expected when I had her so that might have made the ferritin drop back down. I’m still determined to get this figured out so I can exercise and gain energy again! I’m so thankful I’m way better than I USED to be but still a work in progress.

Enjoy your Tuesday! I’ll post some more recent highlights next time.