taming the chaos

So. Last Tuesday night, both kids came down with a virus and spent the following 24 hours puking and laying around with fevers. Fun times, but they got better pretty quickly.

Fast forward to Friday. Mommy gets sick and is nowhere NEAR better in 24 hours. It’s Monday, and I’m just now starting to feel somewhat normal again. I actually ran up to urgent care yesterday because I had a lot of pressure and discomfort in my chest. I came home with some antibiotics and a diagnosis of Upper Resp. Infection (which I figured). I missed work all week, but I’m going back today.

I’m also trying to tame the chaos around my house today. Back on the FlyLady bandwagon and starting the babysteps all over again. It really is a good system, when I can manage to stick with it. And I have the feeling that I’m really going to need it badly with another little baby coming. I’m just doing little bits everyday so I don’t get overwhelmed, and hopefully that will help me stick with it. Today, for example, I’m shining my sink (which is a bigger task than I thought it would be), and doing 15 minutes of crisis cleaning in each of the main rooms. Oh, and the Zone Cleaning mission of the day, which I think is cleaning the light fixture in the bathroom and doing a 5 minute room rescue on one of the kids’ rooms.

I’m hoping to have the house in a semi-presentable condition over the course of the week, because next week is Thanksgiving and Black Friday so I won’t have any time for any heavy duty cleaning.

On the baby front, the little one is starting to make his or herself known a bit. Not through movement, but I can surely feel my uterus when I’m trying to lie on my stomach to read Chloe a bedtime story. Definitely uncomfortable! My pants aren’t getting tight at yet, though the buttons have started to bother me. I’m actually still down about six pounds from where I started when I first discovered I was pregnant. But, weight loss in the first trimester is pretty typical for me. Plus, I’ve been really sick and not eating much the past four days.

Aaron and I have starting kicking some names back and forth, and of course, can’t agree on much. I swear, it doesn’t matter how many kids you have, it never gets any easier to pick out a name. I like Oliver for a boy, Aaron hates it. He wants Ireland for a girl, I hate that. (Plus, I debate the wisdom of giving my child the same name as Mel Gibson’s kid…) It’s a good thing we’ve got a good six months to hash it out!

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starbaby (purple~bunny)

November 15, 2010

I’d agree with you… like Oliver (though it is super-popular over here right now… what about with you?) and not a fan of Ireland as a name… (other than a country’s name…!) hope you’re fully recovered soon. xxx

luckiest

John and I can’t have a discussion about names that doesn’t immediately turn into jokes. This kid is going to be nameless for a while 🙂

ryn: I reckon Oliver’d be great then! It’s right at the top of the baby names list over here, so although I like it I wouldn’t go for it as I prefer names that’re a bit more unusual (Lydia is 91st in the list of girls names) though not crazy-unusual. If it’s less common in the US then… perfect! It’d go well with Chloe and Ben as well. What girls names do you like? xxx

Panicsong

Random noter: My son’s name is Oliver so obiously I think it’s a great name haha

Second Impression

I was about to say you’re crazy, Ireland is a really sweet name…then you threw in the bit about Mel Gibson =P

November 16, 2010

RYN – there are a few stories of pregnancy “curing” RA, but symptoms usually do come back, it’s just a matter of when. For some it’s a month, for others it’s a year or more. A friend of my SIL has RA and hasn’t felt a thing since getting pregnant with her now 11 month old. If I could get long remissions that last me until I’m pregnant again – that would be AMAZING.

scrpbookr

November 17, 2010

Reagan had that flu bug here, too. Not fun. I think Oliver is nice. I’d pass on Ireland also.

I like your “Handmade is Better” profile picture. I’m also a fan of FlyLady…. fling boogie!!

Oliver’s one of my leading names for this little one I’m baking at the moment (also less popular over here in Australia).