Random Thoughts

I looked and looked and looked for 2-3 days for the 2 missing binkies around the house.  I pulled out the sofa and love seat and everything daily.  It was frustrating.  This boy of mine loses binkies at a drop of the hat.  I don’t want to take him off his binky until all his teeth come in and I don’t want to have to buy them every other day so I was looking everywhere and getting frustrated.

I finally found them and where do you ask, well somewhere I passed over about a dozen times a day.  I don’t know if you can see them in the picture but here it is.

I was so relieved to find them in here and since then I check this toy all the time and probably find the binkies in here every other day or so.

Other places I have found binkies have been pretty much everywhere.  It is amazing how the little one can find such awesome hiding places that us as adults just can’t figure out.  I can’t tell you how many times I look for a few days and then out of the blue I see my son 2 and 3 fisitng binkies and I take them all away but 1 and 10 minutes later he has another one.  I either have 1 binky for days or 6.  It is really quite a game around here.

My daughter was a thumb sucker so this binky thing is new to me.  At least with the binky I can get him off cold turkey a lot easier then my daughters thumb.  I did get her of her thumb in 9 days though.  Search my blog in my side bar and you will find my thumb sucking remedy.

Two more teeth and this binky is gone!

I would love to hear from other parents who have found binkies is strange places!

I burned a lot of calories today and I am pretty sure that half of them cam from trying to run and not fall down in my boots.

I went outside with my daughter today because we just can’t pass up playing in some good snow.  Right before Christmas my snow boots totally wore out and I have not bought new ones.  Boots are expensive!  The only shoes I have are dress shoes, running shoes, and my black dress boots.  What did I pick…my dress boots of course.

I have been guilty of assuming that the garage door sensor will work without me worrying about it or checking it.  I have even let my daughter run under the door when it is going down because I figured “the sensor will stop the door.”  This is probably not the smartest thing to do and I have learned my lesson and thank goodness I did not have to learn this lesson in a worse way.

How do you like this roll of box tape?

I know I have posted about the frustration of shopping for boys before and I have meant to post about snow boots for awhile but keep forgetting.

I and my husband spent 2 month, starting in October and giving up in December, trying to find my 16 month old snow boots.  Yes I said snow boots.  This was a ridiculous game we played that is not a game I want to do again.  We looked everywhere and I am not kidding.  We went to every Walmart and Kmart within 30 miles, which are a lot.  We went to Burlington coat factory, gymboree, children’s place, carters and other stores I don’t know the names.  I even called my friends with boys to see if they had boots that they did not use anymore that would fit my son.

Just a side note, we could have bought my daughter boots in every store we went too.  They had a ton of girls boots.

We then hit every thrift store within that same 30 mile radius and could not even find snow boots there!  WHAT!  I guess all parents who have boys are boot hording for the same reason! LOL

I then ventured to ebay and craigslist, craigslist continued to have NOTHING or if I did not see the posting within the first day of its posting they would be sold.  Ebay was just as expensive as the stores and to add shipping was ridiculous.  I did find 2-3 boots for him but they were $25 or more and if you think I am buying a 1 year old boots for that price you are crazy.  They would only fit him for 4-6 weeks and then I would need another pair.

We ended up back at walmart just before Christmas and bought some girls brown boots and cut the poofy balls off the back and that is what he has used for boots.  Does not look bad.

My 4 year old has started to fight a bit when it is time for bed. I have to admit that there are nights that she is up till 10:30pm. This is so frustrating and for those other parents who have young children you know how crabby they can be the next day when they go to bed late and it ruins the whole day for everyone.

My daughter has been asking me to build a fort in her room for a few days so obliged and here is the fort. This is a video of the kids playing in it earlier today. It is definitely an awesome place to play!

The last 2 nights I have had both kids in bed by 8:00pm. Tonight it was 7:45pm and I have loved it! I love my kids and I love spending time with them but ask any parent how much more the kids are appreciated when we get a few hours at night quiet and alone!

The reason for this awesome bed time is the fort. I am not kidding. My daughter is so excited to sleep in it with her brother that when my 15 month old is going to bed around 8:00 at night she is asking to go to and does! Usually either I or my husband has to lay with her until she falls asleep but with the fort she goes in, by herself, and that is it. I check on them within 10 minutes and they are both crashed. How cute is this?

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OK so after my last post I have been looking for new ways to help me be more positive so I do not have another week like last week.

I was in a meeting the other day and someone was giving a video talk about being positive.  Some of his points were to always be excited and lead by example.  Be happy will attract other happy people.  Don’t focus on where you are now but rather focus on where you are going.

There are more tips then this but I will focus on these today as is baby steps right?

So I have been trying to be more happy and everything these three points say but I have not been overly successful.  I tend to worry about the future and I have been dabbling back and forth with trying to change that as well. One area I have been doing well with that is that I am not fretting as much about money as you may have noticed in earlier posts.  Spending money to receive money has been working OK for me so far.  I tend to find myself still worrying a bit too much though and I know that is why I have not received more.

I worry about where we will be financially in the future, the size of the house, kids college etc.  It is not that we should not think about it but worrying is not going to get me anywhere positive.

I know I have said it before but I have yet to implement it, and this week is the week, I promise.  I am writing down goals and posting them all over my house this week.  I will have pictures up of my goals posted by Monday or Tuesday of next week.  I need to have these blasted in front of my face daily and get it ingrained in the head.

I have more tips to positive thinking too but need to work on the one by one to make them work so will ad more tips and I conquer them one at a time.

Have a GREAT and HAPPY day everyone!

If this is your first time here or you have not read my blog for awhile my InterStim journey blogs started back on 11-29-10 and posted through 12-16-10. I may be off a couple days in Dec but it is close. I have logged my journey with both stage 1 and stage 2 of the surgeries.

It is DAY 34 after stage 2 surgery.  has it worked awesome?  Not awesome but at least 50% better, so that is definitely a plus.  What is working is for the incontinence, perfect, it is gone! As far as the over active bladder part…not so much.  Don’t get me wrong, like I said it is better but still not where it should be. 

I have good days and bad days meaning that some days I really notice that I am not in the bathroom so much and other days it is like I was prior to surgeries.  For the most part we are about half and half meaning part of the day is good and the other part I pee a lot still.

I went to my Urologist yesterday for my post opp appointment and he put me back on enablex but instead of the 15mg that I was in prior to surgery, it is 7.5mg.  I was/am a little bummed about this as the whole point of surgery was to get of of meds and now I am frustrated that I am taking them again.  A smaller does is better but still, ugh!

I had turned up my InterStim to about 4.0 and he does not want me to take it up much more so that is why he suggested the meds.  We can still do some fine tuning on the programming but since I am not experiencing good enough results he feels I may still need the meds even with the fine tuning.

Pros of my surgery:
I can work out without peeing myself, so I can jump again.
Half the time it is better, that is still better then before surgery
I have gone on drives for 2.5 hours without stopping to go to the restroom.
When it is a good day, I notice it and it feels awesome!

Cons of my surgery
Only works half the time, of course I was hoping for more.
Still having to fool around with medications.
Feeling down and out on those off days and this is not fum.

So was the surgery worth it?  Oh yes I still believe it was a great thing for me.  The pros out weigh the cons and even my cons are better then they were before the surgery.  I have had bladder issues since I was born.  I was not one of those that only had problems after kids or later in life.  I have had bladder issues ALL my life.  I know that not many people can say that so I knew going into anything that it would be hard to treat me.

Would I still recommend this surgery?  Yes I would as long as someone does their research on both the surgery and on their own personal issue as just like anything else, it is not for everyone.

I will keep you posted on what happens with adding the meds!

One thing I am dreading with the meds is that when I am on them I am constipated a lot.  I did get this under control with extra fiber pills but since I have been of the meds i have not had to take any extra fiber.  Hopefully the lower does works so I won’t be as bad this time!
Never know when the good day will be.

Come back often as I will always be updating my progress.  You never know when I will post about it because I don’t know!! LOL