Random Thoughts

So since my post way late last night or early this morning I decided to get myself up at the crack of dawn so at least one of use will get used to the time change in 5 days.
I am on Mountain Time which is 2 hours early then eastern (home time). This morning I got up at 6am and I have been used to getting up around 9. Holy cow that was hard. The problem is that I am staying up till midnight or later which is 2 am or later Eastern Time and when I get home that would not be good.

My hope is to have at least me back to my time zone and then not worry about the kids until I get home, thanks for the advice Jenny! Don’t want tired mad kids on vacation.

Hope this works!

Thanks for your phone call today Russ. You made me think a lot about my positive thinking dilemma and I hope you do not mind me writing about it because you made sense.
Positive thinking does help, you are right, as I am not thinking of the outcomes in the correct way all the time. Just because my son may have had a fever for 3 days does not mean that I did not “find the secret.” As you said, “we made it on our road trip safe and we had a great time with no issues.” Right!

My son’s fever did break for about 5-6 hours. This allowed us to feel OK with going out of town for the weekend. It did come back and my son was definitely in good hands, and our trip turned out fabulous.

With your many trips to the hospital when your kids were young, you told me that even though you could not change the situation with the kids, you could find positive things to be thankful for and this helped you get through all the many years of hospital visits and late driving.

All of what you said makes sense. So now my new goal is not to just expect everything to change immediately but keep finding that positive energy that is around me and keep it there so things do not seem so dramatic anymore (which is a big problem for me). I may not be able to change something right off the bat, but I can sure be a happier person.

Thanks again Russ! I love ya!

June 22nd is when we headed out west and have been here living Mountain Time (2 hours earlier). I think it is due time to get me and both kids back on Eastern Time. So…..do I go the “drug up” route or what?

I guess I could start waking them up earlier in the morning, if I can get my lazy butt up. We may be tired earlier that way but I will have real ornery kids for a few days.

Any suggestions on trying to do this before we head back next Tuesday August 3rd?

Well since my last post of positive thinking about my son’s fever…not too positive. He had a fever on and off for about 3 days. It broke the first night, same night as my first post on the 24th but cam back late afternoon on the 25th and did not go away until vey late the 26th.

I felt bad because we left for Vegas on the 24th early as we thought the fever had broke for good. Four hours later we were wrong but already in Vegas so my parents had him with the fever til the 26th.

Need to figure our this positive thinking, not working all the time as it is suppose to, argh!

Brent got to come out and hang with us in Canada, Vegas and Utah for 2 weeks but had to go back to Ohio today. He did not have anymore time off work to be with us.

The kids and I have been on vacation since June 22nd so we are on week 5 now of our 6 week trip. It is a long trip but the only way we could afford to see my family in Utah, Idaho and Canada. Vegas was just for fun without kids.

We go home in 7 more days. I have enjoyed visiting my family but am ready to be home. The bummer is that I have to go home to a house full of boxes as Brent had to move us into our new rental house while I am gone. I am not looking forward to the mountain of boxes but at least he got everything moved.

Anyone want to come help me unpack August 4-8? I have a goal of Sunday the 8th to b totally unpacked. Here goes nothing!

This past weekend we had a trip to Vegas with some friends. It was so fun but hot! Let’s just say the average weather was about 110 degrees, HOT!

We walked a ton as it is about 3 ½ miles from the Excalibur to the Stratosphere and we walked for pretty much 48 hours straight. I have blisters on my feet to prove it and I had very comfortable running shoes on with socks.

My pants are slightly looser around the waist even with all the fattening buffets there are in Vegas as we walked off pretty much everything we ate.

Back to my normal work out today but I tell ya, I like the Vegas work out. It was very entertaining!

So my son has had a bad fever all night. I blogged about it today 7-24-10 on my other blog http://btrbb@blogspot.com

I am trying to thin positive and give off good energy like I never have before. I am feeling the fever gone and telling him it will be gone by morning and telling myself. I am desperately trying to sleep but as you can see I am posting this about 4am Mountain time. I am taking this very serious, this fever is going to be gone in a couple hours!

We have been in vacation since June 18 and when we left my son only had 3 teeth. He has 6 now and the last 2 can in one after another over a 2 day period. He now has a 7th one pushing through. I feel so bad for him, he is so miserable and his little mouth is so sore.

We have also been battling a huge fever of 101-102 today and tonight. The thing is that he does not have any other sick symptoms. He is still eating bottles and letting me use a straw to dap water in his mouth. He is not squirming around like his body aches or anything. His fever is just so high. We have been alternating Motrin-Ibuprofen and Tylenol every 4 hours in hopes this cuts it. I also had my Dad give him a blessing (prayer) in hopes this fever breaks. He is so hot and so miserable.

I know that the emergency room won’t do anything for him so I have not taken him. I called, but they can no longer give advice over the phone. If he was not eating or drinking and had other sick symptoms I would have been out the door hours ago.

Could this all be from teething? Any incite please!

My Grandma in Calgary gave me a woman’s world magazine article to read about blueberry juice increasing weight loss.

I read the article and it was intriguing as they actually said they have a handful of women lose up to 3 inches in about a month drinking blueberry juice. I can’t remember it off hand but apparently when they put the blueberry juice in a test tube with fat cells it caused the fat cells to not absorb or something like that. I cannot remember it exactly so if anyone can clarify please comment.

I did drink the 2 glasses of grape juice for 2 ½ days but cold not find it back here in Provo Utah. I thought the juice was tasty and I found ocean spray to have a diet blend that is low I calories.

Anyone else try this?

I have been pretty skeptical about this whole secret thing as things have been falling apart as you can see from my previous blog. However, I did finally get to experience it the other day.

We were at the airport picking up my husband and we were headed to the rental car area. We needed a car to drive from Utah to Alberta Canada. We had reserved one on-line the week before.

We really needed an SUV but the price was way out of our range. We went ahead and reserved a full size car, for Taurus size. When my Dad dropped us off and we were walking to the enterprise line, I said, “I think they need to be out of mid size and upgrade us for free to an SUV.” Got up to the desk and made our reservation and as we were being escorted out to where the cars were the girl said “we are low on full size cars so if it is OK can we upgrade you at no cost? Me and my Dad and my husband all looked at each other and said, “Absolutely!”

The car is a Kia Sorento and it is AWESOME! We love the car and it is so nice to have right now.