Landry will be 2 in only 4 more days! Yikes! I seriously can't believe it - 2? The time seriously flies by. JR and I were talking last night and he made the comment that he thought she had turned a corner. He said, "It seems like she started the terrible two's early, but she is getting out of the stage pretty quickly." Hmmm...He may be right, I don't know. It seems to me that Logan went through this stage for a good 6 months...I think Landry is just a girl and she will just go in stages. There was a good month and a half of tantums and meltdowns, but JR is right - she has been pretty good lately. Or, maybe we are just getting used to it? I am going to go with her being better! Let's face it, Logan still has meltdowns when he doesn't get what he wants and the truth is I spoil my kids. I like to tell people that I choose my battles - and I will continue to say it, but if we are being honest - they get away with WAY too much. I am pretty much okay with it! We aren't over the top, they definitely get disciplined, and it's hard for me to think that I am doing it wrong when I keep getting told how well behaved they are. Sure they have their moments, but all in all, I have really incredible kids. I must be doing something right.
One thing we are having trouble with lately is sleeping. Landry is now tall enough to reach the light switch (which are pretty low on our walls). At night time I follow the same routine as I always have, but now after I leave the room she gets out of bed and turns the light on. She doesn't cry or yell, and she has stopped sitting at the door calling for me, but she just sits in her room and plays with her puppies. I don't know if she was just so excited about this new trick or what was going on, but JR and I stuggled with it for hours...and I mean HOURS! At 10:30, I had enough so I just put her in bed with me. IT WAS 10:30!!!! She usually goes to sleep at 8:30. She didn't fall asleep until around 11. What was she doing foor 30 minutes? TALKING. I pretty much ignored her, but she would not shut up! She just laid there talking and talking and talking. Granted - she has not slept with me since she was 3 months old - but geez! There is a small part of me that loved it...I got to cuddle with her and I love having her next to me...but the bigger part of me knows not to make it a habit. We will see what happens tonight, but neither of us got much sleep...the wakes up ALOT through out the night!
I don't know when it started, but my family always gives me a hard time about being a hypochondriac. I just go along with it - I don't know why...probably because I know that I am not a hypochondriac so I just take it as a joke. I have not gone to the doctor since May of last year - and that was because I was at the ER. Before that was in Dec. of 2009 when I went in for my 6 week check up after having Landry. I am not one to go to the doctor - unless I am in so much pain that I am praying for God to take me. When I start praying for death - I know it's pretty bad. I think my family thinks of me as a hypochondriac because I LOVE medical shows and information - articles, magazines, real life stories, or fictional ones - and I share this info. They think just because I share the info that I must think I have these 1 in a million illnesses. I dont think this....Although, I swear there isn't a day that goes by that I am not in some form of pain. But it isn't debilitating and I just live on tylenol and Ibuprofin when the pain gets bad I am not in a doctor's office every day. Anyway, last night on my way home from the grocery store I was listening to this program about exhaustion and how it has been upgraded to an epidemic. Apparently there are many many many exhausted Americans. I am one of them. I seriously spend much of my day so very very tired. At night however, I have to take tylenol pm in order to go to sleep. There are two reasons for this - and this is where it gets tricky, and also where my family has reason to believe that I am a hypochondriac. #1 I take the tylenol pm because I am an insomniac. Seriously, I was actually diagnosed by a doctor in 2006. Now, I don't go around telling people I am an insomniac...I just call myself a night owl. With out the medication, however, I will literally be still awake when the sun is coming up - I CAN NOT fall asleep. Once I go to sleep I usually dont wake up during the night, its just falling asleep that I have problems with. #2 The weather has been changing quite a bit over the past couple of weeks which causes my arthritis (which is not diagnosed by a medical profession - it is a self diagnosis) to flare up. Now - I may not be a doctor - but I dont need a test to tell me I have arthritis. I mean, the weather changes and all of a sudden my joints ache. I sit still too long, my joints ache. I over exert myself, my joints ache. It used to just be my knees and ankles - but it's now also my hips, shoulders, and hands. So - maybe, it isn't arthritis - but from the many people I know with arthritis and the information I have read on it - I am pretty sure that is what I have, so taking the tylenol PM helps with that. When it the pain gets REALLY bad, and I mean, I am in tears bad - I take Aleve because that seems to work the best. So back to what was said about exhaustion, studies have shown that one of the causes is anemia - which guess what? Yep, I am anemic...which was actually diagnosed my a doctor - EVERY TIME I have blood work. I dont really understand either because I eat green leafy veggies, and red meat. Unfortunately, I also need the aid of iron pills which I rarely ever take, because they make you constipated and who the hell needs that? Another cause for exhaustion in women is a thyroid issue...this I don't have, but apparently something like 17% of women have some sort of thyroid issue. Anyway, here is an article you can read about it for yourself. And again, while I dont believe it is truly life-threatening, I can see how it can be over time. Don't worry I dont think I am in danger of dying from exhaustion but lets just say I am in fact exhausted - whether a doctor says I am or not. If you get a chance to read the article, count how many symptoms you have..I have 13 out of 20.
http://healthybodydaily.com/dr-oz/dr-oz-exhaustion-the-difference-between-being-tired-and-exhaustion
Okay, for some reason, this is working as a link so you will have to copy and paste! Sorry!
Now after all of this, I am going to say that I have promised to go see a doctor. I told my grandmother that I would go over a month ago, and I just haven't done it. Why? a few reasons. #1 I have to find a babysitter #2 I feel like I already know what is wrong with me, so why pay a doctor to tell me what I already know #3 what if something really is wrong with me...do I really want to know? #4 I am too damn tired to make the effort to go!!!!
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