Daily Diary

So I spent the morning cleaning up bedrooms. I never plan to do those sorts of bigger projects, they just tend to happen. I went upstairs to gather laundry and ended up spending at least 2 hours picking up and organizing toys, putting laundry away and making beds. Guess which one took the most amount of time? I also finally got around to hanging pictures and calendars, which I'd been promising the girls I'd do since Christmas. For most of the time while I was working the two little ones were jumping on my bed. So, while it's still made up, it's not very neat. Oh well, a lot of gain for a little pain.
Speaking of which, I'm taking about 3 vicodin daily, so it's a nice little stupor I'm in most of the time. I have to admit, though, I wouldn't be able to do anything without it. The dull ache that's in my right side never really goes away, but without it I get sharp pains throughout my abdomen, especially if I'm carrying a kid or something like that. I really, really hope this surgery cures most of my ills. I know I have other issues that cause pain in that general region, but maybe, just maybe, this is most of it.
Liam broke my glasses this morning. While I don't like the idea of having to spend more money, I don't mind getting new ones. I didn't really like those ones and I have a new prescription to use anyway.
I guess it's supposed to snow starting tomorrow afternoon. As long as I get the PTA stuff done at the school and my conference with Molly's teacher, I'll be happy. I should be home by 2 at the latest so Mom won't have to panic driving home. I still need to pick up groceries to make the bread sometime today. Maybe Bob will do it while he's out tonight.
I really need to get on the ball with meal planning. We've been picking at stuff the past two weeks and we're pretty much out. I haven't had much of an appetite lately - I'm not sure why. But it's hard for me to meal plan when I can't think of anything I want to eat! Maybe I'll just get another turkey and put it in the crockpot with some orange marmalade. That was really good last time.
I put the kids down early for naps. They were all cranky at 11:30 so I just plopped them in bed so I could finish cleaning Maggie's room. Liam conked out right away. Lorelei needed a diaper change (and I had to clean her chair - gross!) but then I think she fell asleep. So now it's just Maggie and me at the computers. I should be doing laundry and dishes and picking up more toys and doing finances. Ug. It never ends. But, tonight it a free night, so maybe I'll have energy later. HAHAHAHAHA!
I talk a lot on vicodin.
Today is Molly's birthday. She's 7. I'm not sure what I thought I'd be like when I had a 7 year old, but this is not it. I wonder how my parents feel. Do feelings stay the same? Do you ever really feel old? I mean, there are moments when I realize how far removed I am in age from the way I feel inside. I guess then I 'feel old' - except that it's just a shock, not really a change in perspective because I forget about it and am just as shocked the next time. At the same time, though, I find myself thinking early 20 somethings are immature, so something must have changed.
I think the month of April with be No Screen Month. No TV, computers, cell phones (texting), ect. For the month. See how much yard work we can get done. See how much fighting there is by the end of the month. :) You will have to be paper and pen.
Yay! The dishes are done! WOOT!
Toys are picked up! First floor is vacuumed! WOOT WOOT!!
Time for more vicodin! HURRAY! :) Vacuuming hurts me. Don't know why. It just makes me ache.
Our 24 cans of formula arrived today. At two cans a week we should be set for the next 3 months. I'm really hoping that they'll continue to wean themselves and we'll never have to buy anymore. Liam is ahead of Lorelei in that realm. He hardly ever asks for a bottle during the day - she still does at least twice a day. Anyway - it'd be really nice if we were done with bottles by summer. It'd be even nicer if we were done with diapers by fall.
Still to do: pick up toys in basement, finish up laundry, do finances, finish picture project.
I'm crashing hard, though. I haven't taken another vicodin because I'm afraid if I do I won't be able to stay awake.
Since my last paragraph Molly has come home and I've made the kids dinner. I'm still majorly dragging, but I can see bedtime looming large in the near future, especially since the kids took such early naps. I was thinking - after I scan the financial forms I need I can fill them out in bed on top of my warming blanket. I have a lot of scanning to do, though. And I can't do any of the other stuff in bed. :/
The dryer is beeping...
All the kids have been medicated. The only thing left to do is actually put them in bed. We still have Molly's birthday presents to do as well.
I'm signing off. Too tired to think anymore.

Another Vidodin Day

This is why I don't eat cereal: I poured my cereal, added milk and sat down to eat. Then I got up to get Lorelei cereal. Then I got up to get Maggie cereal. Then I gave Liam a bite and had to get up to clean up the mess he made when he decided he didn't like it. Then I got up to clean up Lorelei who had since finished her cereal. Since then, my cereal is soggy. Blech. (Also, cereal has a lot of carbs, but since this is Special K with Protein, I made an exception...)
I took a vicodin this morning and I think I'll have to take another one. I'm just aching today and it's not going away. I have to keep on top of the house for the next 9 days so when I go in for my surgery I'm not leaving a mess behind. I hate having a messy house.
Popped another one. My pain is just not under control this morning.
I'm having a flare up on top of everything else. I think it's just from being in constant pain otherwise and having my muscles tense most of the time.
I have laundry to do. As usual. Do laundry and dishes ever stop??
I have a feeling the second vicodin is going to hit me like a brick wall. Hopefully I won't say anything damning in here.
I can't wait until spring. I'm so tired of being cold all the time. It makes me ache. And I want to work outside - cleaning up the backyard and the bottom of the driveway. And I want to open my windows and smell the lovely spring smells. I love the smell of damp earth.
I must not sleep. If I pass out now I will be dead to the world. 5, 3 and 2 year olds cannot take care of themselves.
You'd think that time would go slowly on narcotics, but it actually goes quite quickly.
Impromptu rearranging of the upstairs. I went up to gather laundry, ended up cleaning the air filter and rearranging chairs so that eventually the nice rocking chair and ottoman will be in the living room.
It all started with wanting to get the ottoman to the rocking chair that was in Liam's room out of the TV room. I was thinking that Lorelei's room had room for it, so originally I was just going to switch Liam and Lorelei's chairs. But then I was thinking that the blue chair in the living room is big and Lorelei keeps pulling the stuffing out of it. The only other place to put it is Molly's room and I'd wanted the rocking chair in the living room anyway once we weren't rocking babies anymore. The chair in Lorelei's room is the only other one small enough to fit in Liam's room. So, Lorelei's chair goes in Liam's room, Molly's chair goes in Lorelei's room, the living room chair goes in Molly's room and Liam's chair goes in the living room! :)
Actually, I just remembered, I went upstairs to get a box of tissues for next to the door. Completely forgot about that...
Another load of laundry. I swear we could go away for a week and our closets wouldn't show it - and yet the little kiddos are constantly running out of clothes, particularly Lorelei.
I'm having a very hard time focusing today. Two vicodin, while they work for pain, aren't so helpful in the functioning in a productive manner realm.
I really need to do my photo project. I have all these frames that aren't being used and I want to organize them (plus all the ones currently in use) and put current pictures in them and hang them in a more decorative manner. I'm not a very good interior decorator. When it comes to functional organization, I rock, but it's hard for me to decorate well.
Napped. Feel slightly better, but I need another vicodin. Which will make me sleepy again. There's a PTA meeting tonight. I missed the last 3. I should probably go to this one...
And the chaos begins. The agent is home from school and now everyone feels the need to fight and scream. Oh the joy.
*Sigh* Hopefully Bob will be home within the hour.

Under the Knife

So, I'm having surgery on the 11th, sometime mid morning. I don't know the details yet because my kids were making so much noise this afternoon I missed the call from the nurse. I really, really hope this works because I'm so tired of being in pain!