Friday, October 5th, 2007

It's been a lazy day around here for me today. (Wonderful!!) I let Taylor and Emma stay home from school today since their Meme is leaving in the morning. We all slept in this morning. It was great. This was the first morning since Taylor started school that I've been able to sleep till 7:30. That counts Saturdays and Sundays too as we have to be dressed and leaving home by 7:40 on Sat. for soccer and I have to leave here by 8:00 for church on Sundays. Anyway, felt great this morning. The girls got dressed and went with their Meme and Papaw to Cracker Barrell to see Bill's cousin and uncle that live here. They had a good time. Of course they came back with lots of candy from the Cracker Barrell store. I enjoyed being here by myself for a while. I'm still in my pajamas and not planning to get dressed till later on this afternoon. ha! :)
I haven't posted any messages the last few days. It's been pretty busy around here. Wednesday I had to grocery shop for MOPS and then start cooking and getting things prepared for the meeting on Thursday. The other girl who usually helps me cook was sick so I was cooking and preparing food for 60 people by myself on Wed. I was cooking nonstop until 5:30. It all turned out okay though.

Wednesday night Nathan and I went out for his birthday. We ate at an Asian restaurant. It was good but they didn't bring out any forks, only chop sticks. I looked at Nathan and said "Where's my fork?" He said "you can eat with chop sticks, it's not that hard." I looked at him like he must be crazy and gave it my best shot. How are you supposed to eat fried rice with a stick?! I did my best, eating one or two grains at a time...the little peas were out of the question. I didn't complain though, just awkwardly grabbed my food with the sticks and rushed it to my mouth before it fell or was shot across the table. Finally Nathan asked our waitress if we could have forks. I guess he saw that it was going to take me another four hours to eat. ha! :) After that we went to a movie. There was nothing playing that looked any good. I'm ashamed to say that we saw Superbad. About two high school boys. That's about all I can say about it. It was pretty funny but very vulgar and gross. Since we didn't leave home till after 6:00 we had to see the 10:20 movie. The movie was two hours long so we didn't get home until 1:00. It's been a while since I've stayed out that late. I was whipped after Mops the next day. I fell asleep in the recliner and slept for several hours yesterday afternoon.

In addition to getting to bed late Wednesday night, I woke up sick as a dog about 3:45 Thursday morning. My dermatologist put me on an oral antibiotic and the first day I took it I noticed I had heart burn most of the day. By that time on Thursday morning, I had acid reflux really bad. It was so painful!! I thought I was going to die! Of course we didn't have any tums or pepto in the house. I had to sleep the rest of the night sitting up in the bed. I couldn't lay down or that acid would come up into my throat and I'd puke...okay that was probably too much info ((sorry)) :-/
All day yesterday and today I've not been able to eat or drink anything without pain. Yesterday I would have esophageal spasms any time I'd eat anything and they'd continue an hour or so afterward. I had to lay on two pillows again last night to keep my chest and head elevated. I've still had a few spasms today but not like yesterday. Hopefully the med. is getting out of my system and they'll stop all together. I spoke to the doctor this morning and she said that the medicine has been known to cause ulcers in the esophagus and that it sounded to her like that is what I have. I'm supposed to let them heal for a week or so and then start the medicine again but take it with a meal and see if that works. Not looking forward to trying it again but hopefully by taking it with food it will help it to not do that again.

Our MOPS meeting Thursday was on breast cancer awareness and everyone was supposed to wear pink. We had a nurse practitioner come and speak to us about breast health. I made these little pink ribbon danishes. They were cute. I took puff pastry rolled it out and cut it into strips. I piped a pink mixture of cream cheese, sugar and strawberry jam on the strip and then rolled it up and shaped it like a ribbon. I baked them and then piped strawberry icing on the top. It took me a while to get them all made but they looked and tasted good. I'd been developing the recipe all week and Debbie has been my taste tester. She'd come over and look at them and say..."that one didn't turn out quite right, I'll eat it and see how it tastes." ha!

Last night Nathan and I went to hit range balls at the driving range but it was closed when we got there due to all the rain we've had lately. We tried to get across town to the other driving range before it closed but traffic was so bad we didn't make it. I was so mad. I really wanted to go practice some more. The ride back home wasn't very pleasant for Nathan. I really tried to think of everything I could to blame him for us not getting to play but I never could put up a good argument without getting it shot down real quick. ha! :) Poor Nathan! ha!:)
Well, I guess I'd better go think about getting a shower. Tonight is a Mom's Night Out with my MOPS group. I was in charge of this one tonight. We're doing a scavenger hunt around town with our digital cameras and then meeting up at a Mexican restaurant for dinner. (Wish I'd known that my insides were going to be burning up ~ I'd have planned to have something other than Mexican!! ha! )