March Wrap Up

Holy Cow (said in my best Harry Caray voice)!  Happy Opening Day!  Today is Opening Day for Major League Baseball.  It's kinda a big deal in this house.  Normally Opening Day falls on a Monday.  Adam's dad always grills hamburgers and hotdogs for Opening Day and since Mondays are Adam's late days at work, we don't get to celebrate with the rest of the family.  We actually aren't celebrating today either, but we will be tomorrow!  We are having the in-laws up for, wait for it...salmon!  When we originally made the plans to celebrate Opening Day on Friday, we all forgot that Fridays mean no meat for Catholics, and I just wouldn't feel right eating a nice juicy burger in front of the rest of the family!  So we decided to go with salmon instead.  Not quite Opening Day food, but we will make it work!

Ryne started saying "baseball" and "play ball" a few weeks ago!  Just in time for the season!  We bought him an outfit and everything!  Also, if you've never heard this, listen to Dan St. Paul's impersonation of Harry Caray for the First Baseball Game!  Google it.  It's hilarious!

On to the child, which we call, Ryne.  He is plowing through jigsaw puzzles, without my help and on ones he has never seen before!  He's learning to recognize words - which leads to reading.  He is obsessed with cleaning, and mowing!  Hopefully he'll be a good little helper one day!

On to us.  We've had a few house showings recently!  Fingers crossed that it sells soon.  Bad news on the building front.  The builder we were originally going to use and the one that built our current house is closing its doors in a month or so.  They are honoring the current contracts they have, but we don't have a contract with them. Soo...that means they wont be building our house.  There are pros and cons to that.  They had a bigger floorplan for less money, but it's a cookie cutter home like the one we have now.  We are going to look into custom building a home with my best friend's husband's company.  We shall see....

I'm really loving a new book, I picked this week.  It's called, The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.  I LOVE it!  I thought it looked interesting and so far it is!  I consider myself much like the author in the area of happiness.  I'm happy.  Not depressed or anything like that, but I could be happier.  She writes about a year-long happiness project and covers different areas of happiness in each month/chapter.  She went to law school, so I love the way she writes - profound, yet down to earth!  I'm currently in the month of March, which has the topic of Work.

Speaking of work, I've been doing a few photo shoots recently and honing my skills!  I am going to get the biz up and running very soon!  I am currently working on a business plan and pricing.  This isn't going to be easy to start, but it's what I enjoy doing.  I am going to have a photography blog up and running soon also, to use as a virtual portfolio.  I'm also starting another photography class next week to learn even more skills!  Lots to do!

There is a lot to learn in photography.  It's not so simple as putting your camera in the basic settings and letting the camera do the work, not if you're wanting it to be professional.  It's telling the camera what to do!  I kinda like being the boss!  Editing is time-consuming for now, but I will get faster with practice.  Equipment is expensive, to say the least!  I wish they gave out student loans with these classes!  I'm nervous but excited and I know that in time, I'll be able to do weddings and fun things such as that!

Realtor, RSV, Sinus and Super Bowl

In that order!

The past ten days have been a whirlwind!  Last Friday, we finally decided to bite the bullet and get a realtor!  It's a decision that is sort of hard to swallow, but most likely necessary.  We need more space and have our eye set on another neighborhood and house to build, so we need to move this house.  We are hoping that even though we have competition in the neighborhood, that it will sell quickly!  Fingers crossed.  Prayers appreciated!

Adam went out of town that evening, for the weekend, and I was left getting the house ready to show and for the realtor to take pictures for the virtual tour.  I have been working on the house for months now.  It takes months to do things like that when you have a toddler....and a husband that doesn't know how to spackle, sand, paint, organize, decorate or clean!  I obviously married Adam for love and not his man-skills!  He married me for my man-skills!   Anywho, I still had work to do.  The realtor wanted us to depersonalize the house some, which means taking down the pictures on the frig, controlling/removing the toy mayhem, etc.  She also told us to start packing everything we wouldn't need for six months because it would save us time and stress later on down the road.  The realtor thinks the house will sell in 2-3 months!  Lord I hope so!  So I had A LOT of stuff to do while Adam was gone.

Meanwhile, Ryne had a cough that progressed into something quite nasty - RSV- the most dreaded three letters to mothers of infants and toddlers!  We missed the birthday of a friend's kid on Saturday because I was worried this runny nose and cough was contagious, seeing as Ryne got it from River  only days before.  Sunday, it was worse and Ryne was really starting to act sick.  So Monday morning I took him to the doctors office.  They tested him for the flu and RSV and the RSV test came back positive!  Then the scary talk of breathing treatments, etc came up and my heart started breaking.  Luckily for Ryne, he didn't have to do breathing treatments, but there's not much you can do for viruses.  So Tylenol and Pedialyte have been my friend!

Ryne has hardly eaten in a week.  He just felt awful and acted sick, which is rare for him.  It was so heartbreaking!  I took him back for a recheck on Thursday and he was literally running through the waiting room with no shoes on and yelling "AHHHHHH" from one end to the other.  He got a good report.  As of tomorrow (Monday) he shouldn't be contagious anymore, so I am hoping to get him out of the house some!

Also, meanwhile, I got a lovely little sinus infection.  It's my fourth or fifth since September!  This one has been a beast!  I have felt terrible since Monday or Tuesday.  I finally had to make an appointment on Thursday for myself, which means I had to take Ryne with me.  I have been able to avoid taking him to doctors visits because Adam is off on Fridays, but I couldn't wait until Friday.  I also got some not so wonderful news at the doctor.  First the doctor wanted to know for certain that it was a sinus infection - um I'm the Sinus Queen, I know what I'm talking about!  The bad news is that I can't/shouldn't have antibiotics anymore for sinus infections because I have them so often, the doctor thinks I will build up a resistance to them.  That's bad if I need them later on down the road for something more serious.  There were other medication options but some I can't do/take because I have some allergies and such to those meds, so basically the doctor said that I was out of luck.

The doctor asked if there was a day that I EVER felt normal.  He was surprised when I said Yes.  He asked if I was from the area.  Again, he was surprised when I said Yes.  He was also surprised that I am not taking a daily allergy medication.  Basically, the doctor believes that I have a pretty serious daily allergy problem that is not being treated that is causing all of the sinus infections.  That news is in a way surprising to me.  I had allergy shots in college and have taken as many as two allergy medications daily since then as well.  I stopped the allergy shots after two years, even though I was supposed to have them for four years, and I had to stop taking all my allergy meds when I got pregnant with Ryne.  After Ryne was born, I didn't feel like I had a serious enough problem to need daily allergy medication again, so I never started back.

So where I stand at this point is, no antibiotic, so I'm totally roughing it on this one, and I will have to use a saline sinus rinse daily for the rest of my life!  Yippee!  I am going to call my old allergist this week to see if I can get an appointment to discuss allergy meds and shots...again.  And in the mean time, I have been through two entire boxes of Puffs plus lotion (only kind I will use),  2/3 of a roll of toilet paper (the day I ran out of Puff plus lotion and felt too terrible to go get more), and enough sinus rinse to brine 5 Thanksgiving turkeys!  And now, after have some allergic asthmatic attack in Kroger, I will be sporting my fancy inhaler again!  You know you're jealous.

So now to the sports highlight of the season...Fergie totally bombed!  I noticed that her mike wasn't up enough when she first started singing and I think they should have kept it that way!  Sorry Fergie Ferg, but that was anything but G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S!