So you know, I have been sleeping horribly. Friday night was really bad. I was a lazy, emotional wreck on Saturday. Saturday night we went to church and I really felt like I needed to get prayer. Dave got the kids ready to go home and put them in the car while I recieved prayer for God to heal my insomnia. I was crying.
I went to the car and everyone was waiting for me. I got in and we started home and I was telling Dave about getting prayer and crying. Of course, I didn't realize that Tyler was listening intently.
A few minutes later Tyler said...."are you ok mommy?"
"I'm ok Tyler".
"You crying mommy?"
"I'm not crying any more, but I was crying" I said
"Why you crying mommy?"
So I told him how I'm not sleeping very well at night, it makes me tired during the day and sad so I got prayer to help me sleep. Daddy told Tyler that he should pray for mommy and asked if he wanted to.
"Yes" said Tyler then he prayed......"Jesus, please help mommy sleep well.....Jesus name, Amen"
Priceless. I've gotten a couple more prayers like that from him. Priceless
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
A day in the life!
A day in the life of the Hills'. Today was a good day, a great day, I must say!
Last night I slept better! Lunesta as my sleep aid - each time I woke I went back to sleep almost immediately. I still will be praying for the night that I don't wake up at all. I will say - I made it throughout the day without feeling exhausted or like I couldn't move. I made it past my normal "tired time" in the afternoon without even thinking about feeling tired. A good day!
The weather - BEAUTIFUL! Beautiful and we took full advantage. Granted, we didn't know how beautiful until about 10:30 am (after Micah woke from her nap). At that point we decided to walk to Sharon Woods to play at the park. We packed a lunch for the kids and fruit as snacks for ourselves and headed out. (funny we RUSHED to get out the door and it still takes us 30 min). 35 min later we are at Sharon Woods - Tyler, of course, must eat before he does anything, and Micah was swinging (one of her favorite outside activities). So the whole family played on the swings, the climbing toys (even Micah) and the slide. We chatted with other parents and the kids ate lunch. A great day!!!
On the way home Micah fell asleep in the stroller and Tyler attempted to. Micah is sick and drugged with benadryl at this point - so this nap was unexpected and very helpful, actually - because of her sickyness!!! A good day!
Once we were home, Dave and I had lunch while the kids played and after our lunch we all played together. Then nap time - a late nap for both kids. But naps did happen at the same time (mostly). A good day!!
During nap time (usually my very tired time - because of sleep deprivation) Dave went to Kohl's and spent his $30.00 cash card (thanks mom) on a new pair of jeans and I raked leaves - I had so much energy. A great day!!!
3:30 wake for Tyler (I have to wake him or he won't sleep at night) - then Tyler and daddy went to Home Depot and mommy got about 10 min of down time. A good day.
Micah woke up about 4:20 and from then until dinner the whole family enjoyed the outdoors. Dad raking leaves, Tyler jumping around and playing with sticks, Micah in the exersaucer and mom chatting with and monitoring everyone (and running in and out of the house to prepare dinner). A good day.
After dinner we had our regular routine of playing, wrestling and of course taking turns cleaning up. Tyler and Micah decided to have a little jam session. Tyler on the bells, Micah on the tambourine and Mom had to do some singing. It was fun. A great day.
Now Micah is in bed (dad did it all by himself - mom didn't have to go it an pat her butt at all to get her to sleep) and Tyler is getting a bath. Bedtime soon for Tyler.
A good day! A Great Day!!!
Last night I slept better! Lunesta as my sleep aid - each time I woke I went back to sleep almost immediately. I still will be praying for the night that I don't wake up at all. I will say - I made it throughout the day without feeling exhausted or like I couldn't move. I made it past my normal "tired time" in the afternoon without even thinking about feeling tired. A good day!
The weather - BEAUTIFUL! Beautiful and we took full advantage. Granted, we didn't know how beautiful until about 10:30 am (after Micah woke from her nap). At that point we decided to walk to Sharon Woods to play at the park. We packed a lunch for the kids and fruit as snacks for ourselves and headed out. (funny we RUSHED to get out the door and it still takes us 30 min). 35 min later we are at Sharon Woods - Tyler, of course, must eat before he does anything, and Micah was swinging (one of her favorite outside activities). So the whole family played on the swings, the climbing toys (even Micah) and the slide. We chatted with other parents and the kids ate lunch. A great day!!!
On the way home Micah fell asleep in the stroller and Tyler attempted to. Micah is sick and drugged with benadryl at this point - so this nap was unexpected and very helpful, actually - because of her sickyness!!! A good day!
Once we were home, Dave and I had lunch while the kids played and after our lunch we all played together. Then nap time - a late nap for both kids. But naps did happen at the same time (mostly). A good day!!
During nap time (usually my very tired time - because of sleep deprivation) Dave went to Kohl's and spent his $30.00 cash card (thanks mom) on a new pair of jeans and I raked leaves - I had so much energy. A great day!!!
3:30 wake for Tyler (I have to wake him or he won't sleep at night) - then Tyler and daddy went to Home Depot and mommy got about 10 min of down time. A good day.
Micah woke up about 4:20 and from then until dinner the whole family enjoyed the outdoors. Dad raking leaves, Tyler jumping around and playing with sticks, Micah in the exersaucer and mom chatting with and monitoring everyone (and running in and out of the house to prepare dinner). A good day.
After dinner we had our regular routine of playing, wrestling and of course taking turns cleaning up. Tyler and Micah decided to have a little jam session. Tyler on the bells, Micah on the tambourine and Mom had to do some singing. It was fun. A great day.
Now Micah is in bed (dad did it all by himself - mom didn't have to go it an pat her butt at all to get her to sleep) and Tyler is getting a bath. Bedtime soon for Tyler.
A good day! A Great Day!!!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Disaster
I will start off by saying. The kids were considerably good, for the circumstances.
This morning my day started at 5:45 am. Micah work up, yikes, way to early for a girl and her mom to be up for the day. So I finally got her to bed at 6:20.
6:55 - Tyler awake
7:15 - Tyler up and out of bed
7:30 - Micah awake and feeding her and Tyler eating is breakfast (bye bye daddy)
9:40 - Micah acting tired and attempted to put her to bed - cried and cried until about 10:20, I could do nothing to get her to bed. Gave her a bottle then she fell asleep.
10:30 - 10:45 - is Micah sick, does she have a ear infection (that is the way she acted last time she had one - woke up early, would not take naps) do I call the dr? Do I wait? She has had a runny nose. Tyler's been sick too.
10:45 - called the dr - get her here by 11:15 - dr is only in, in the morning. Do I wake her and take her? Do I not? What if she has ear infections? Tonight will be horrible? What is she doesn't? It will be such a waste of time and energy? Did I mention it take 35 min to get to the dr? What do I do?
10:50 Get Tyler ready to go to the dr, pack a bag, bottle, banana, etc.
11:00 wake Micah and take her to the dr.
11:25 arrive at the dr's (speeding the whole way, obviously) - wait to see the dr. NO EAR INFECTIONS - Arg what a waste. We so badly needed to do something besides see a dr today - go to the mom and tots group. Go to a park, something. By this time it's 12:15.
12:15 - leave the dr. I think, I'll take a different route, see if it's quicker - ROAD CLOSED. I had to turn around and take an even longer route. Also did I mention, I was starving by this point.
12:35/12:40 - Micah falls asleep in the car - which isn't bad, but when will she nap again next - nap schedule totally screwed up for the day. Tyler - is doing GREAT - eating his banana in the back of the car talking about all the trucks we are passing.
12:50 - home. Tyler screaming because he wants his Grandma at this house. Not today Tyler, In two days, not today.
12:55 - I scarf down food. We must get out of the house and do something fun.
1:00 - Tyler is in the stroller ready to go to the park. I have to pack a snack for him, lunch for Micah, and water - where is a water bottle? I couldn't find one I just put some water in a cup. (not a good idea, every bump makes water bounce out of the cup and spill all over Tyler)
1:05 - I realize that Micah has pooped - I have to change her.
At this point - I have lost track of time.
1:20 - we are finally at the park. Tyler is playing on the slide happily by himself - yeah. I'm feeding Micah - yeah. Things are looking up. yeah.
1:30 - Tyler and Micah on the swings. I am trying to be funny and goofy. When Tyler swings towards me I am smiling really big and say booga booga boo (funny huh?). What was I thinking, I was NOT thinking. Bang - the metal part of the swing whacks me in the tooth - man that hurt. I piece of tooth falls out in my mouth. YES - I chipped my tooth - WHAT? I chipped my tooth? OH - MAN. I looked at my reflection in my phone - yep you can definitely tell I chipped my FRONT tooth - OH NO!!!
1:40 - call dentist get appointment for tomorrow at 8:00 am
1:45 call dave and tell him the sad news.
1:50 - pack up the kids to leave. I cannot take another moment!!!
2:05 - home. Unpack the kids. Everyone MUST get to bed. Oh yeah - Tyler asking about his Grandma again.
2:15 - Micah in bed crying and standing and crying. Not sleeping.
2:15 - Tyler refusing to go potty before nap time
2:20 - reading Tyler only 5 pages from his book - leave the room very quickly
2:20 - Micah crying and standing
2:25- Talking to Dave - he reassured me that we would do whatever we could to make sure my tooth gets fixed. Yeah - because he doesn't want to be married to a chipped tooth hillbilly the rest of his life :)
2:30 - Micah asleep and Tyler upstairs chatting to himself in his room. Resting nicely.
CURRENTLY. My tooth feels weird. My right side of by neck is killing me (from my left tooth being whacked). So after two weeks of chiropractic appointments and $120, they are going to have to do more work on me - ALL because I was just trying to make Tyler laugh.
Here's hoping and praying for the rest of the day to be less eventful and disastrous.
This morning my day started at 5:45 am. Micah work up, yikes, way to early for a girl and her mom to be up for the day. So I finally got her to bed at 6:20.
6:55 - Tyler awake
7:15 - Tyler up and out of bed
7:30 - Micah awake and feeding her and Tyler eating is breakfast (bye bye daddy)
9:40 - Micah acting tired and attempted to put her to bed - cried and cried until about 10:20, I could do nothing to get her to bed. Gave her a bottle then she fell asleep.
10:30 - 10:45 - is Micah sick, does she have a ear infection (that is the way she acted last time she had one - woke up early, would not take naps) do I call the dr? Do I wait? She has had a runny nose. Tyler's been sick too.
10:45 - called the dr - get her here by 11:15 - dr is only in, in the morning. Do I wake her and take her? Do I not? What if she has ear infections? Tonight will be horrible? What is she doesn't? It will be such a waste of time and energy? Did I mention it take 35 min to get to the dr? What do I do?
10:50 Get Tyler ready to go to the dr, pack a bag, bottle, banana, etc.
11:00 wake Micah and take her to the dr.
11:25 arrive at the dr's (speeding the whole way, obviously) - wait to see the dr. NO EAR INFECTIONS - Arg what a waste. We so badly needed to do something besides see a dr today - go to the mom and tots group. Go to a park, something. By this time it's 12:15.
12:15 - leave the dr. I think, I'll take a different route, see if it's quicker - ROAD CLOSED. I had to turn around and take an even longer route. Also did I mention, I was starving by this point.
12:35/12:40 - Micah falls asleep in the car - which isn't bad, but when will she nap again next - nap schedule totally screwed up for the day. Tyler - is doing GREAT - eating his banana in the back of the car talking about all the trucks we are passing.
12:50 - home. Tyler screaming because he wants his Grandma at this house. Not today Tyler, In two days, not today.
12:55 - I scarf down food. We must get out of the house and do something fun.
1:00 - Tyler is in the stroller ready to go to the park. I have to pack a snack for him, lunch for Micah, and water - where is a water bottle? I couldn't find one I just put some water in a cup. (not a good idea, every bump makes water bounce out of the cup and spill all over Tyler)
1:05 - I realize that Micah has pooped - I have to change her.
At this point - I have lost track of time.
1:20 - we are finally at the park. Tyler is playing on the slide happily by himself - yeah. I'm feeding Micah - yeah. Things are looking up. yeah.
1:30 - Tyler and Micah on the swings. I am trying to be funny and goofy. When Tyler swings towards me I am smiling really big and say booga booga boo (funny huh?). What was I thinking, I was NOT thinking. Bang - the metal part of the swing whacks me in the tooth - man that hurt. I piece of tooth falls out in my mouth. YES - I chipped my tooth - WHAT? I chipped my tooth? OH - MAN. I looked at my reflection in my phone - yep you can definitely tell I chipped my FRONT tooth - OH NO!!!
1:40 - call dentist get appointment for tomorrow at 8:00 am
1:45 call dave and tell him the sad news.
1:50 - pack up the kids to leave. I cannot take another moment!!!
2:05 - home. Unpack the kids. Everyone MUST get to bed. Oh yeah - Tyler asking about his Grandma again.
2:15 - Micah in bed crying and standing and crying. Not sleeping.
2:15 - Tyler refusing to go potty before nap time
2:20 - reading Tyler only 5 pages from his book - leave the room very quickly
2:20 - Micah crying and standing
2:25- Talking to Dave - he reassured me that we would do whatever we could to make sure my tooth gets fixed. Yeah - because he doesn't want to be married to a chipped tooth hillbilly the rest of his life :)
2:30 - Micah asleep and Tyler upstairs chatting to himself in his room. Resting nicely.
CURRENTLY. My tooth feels weird. My right side of by neck is killing me (from my left tooth being whacked). So after two weeks of chiropractic appointments and $120, they are going to have to do more work on me - ALL because I was just trying to make Tyler laugh.
Here's hoping and praying for the rest of the day to be less eventful and disastrous.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Children
My children are such amazing wonderful beings. They brighten my day like nothing else. I have so many vivid memories, just from this last week, of times of joy with them. Last Friday, we were all just playing on the floor laughing. Monday, I watch Micah grin and grin at her big brother, she is in love. I think she'd marry him, if she could. Yesterday, Tyler and Micah played in Micah's crib - watching the mobile over and over again. Today was so difficulty for me (very little sleep last night) and my kids were angels!! ANGELS!!! Did they know? I explained it to Tyler. "Mommy doesn't feel good so I really need your help today." Tyler played with Micah tons, he would share his cars with her or (if he didn't feel like sharing) he would get her a different toy to play with. Tons of hugging, patting and loving today. Tyler was very obedient, fun, funny AND took a nap today. (all of us did). Micah was her normal "easy baby" self, just hanging out smiling all day long!!
In spite of the fact that I am totally enjoying my children, AND the fact that I can clearly see that they are going to be great playmates and friends; I am totally done having kids. Don't get me wrong - I would love to have three little munchkins around - but I can't do this a third time. I can't be pregnant again, I can't go through all this allergy stuff again, and I CERTAINLY cannot survive this insomnia again, that is cause by my children disrupting my sleep. I PRAY hard that Micah will soon learn to sleep through the night and then so will I, so that I can survive. Please PRAY PRAY PRAY for a baby that sleeps through the night soon.
In spite of the fact that I am totally enjoying my children, AND the fact that I can clearly see that they are going to be great playmates and friends; I am totally done having kids. Don't get me wrong - I would love to have three little munchkins around - but I can't do this a third time. I can't be pregnant again, I can't go through all this allergy stuff again, and I CERTAINLY cannot survive this insomnia again, that is cause by my children disrupting my sleep. I PRAY hard that Micah will soon learn to sleep through the night and then so will I, so that I can survive. Please PRAY PRAY PRAY for a baby that sleeps through the night soon.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Family
Here is an update on everyone - youngest to oldest
Micah: She is sitting up on her own now. Not for long periods of time, but she is doing it. I have found that she doesn't like sweet things. When I feed her pears or apples, she shutters and makes a sour face. When I feed her peas or green beans, she just opens her mouth for more. Hmmm - lovin' those veggies. Mommy is still hoping for her to sleep through the night - but once at night wake up is ok for now.
Tyler: He is so sweet. His Sunday school teacher says that he loves to give her kisses on the arm. Very typical of our boy. All day long he will give me kisses and hugs. What a cuttle bug. He is not napping these days. It seems as if those come and go. He will at least stay in his room for an hour and a half, while I get a break from him :). Preschool starts in about three weeks. That will be great for him. His preschool offers swimming lessons each week. Another random thought. We listen to the radio during the day, so Tyler randomly likes to sing "104.9 the river" throughout the day (when the radio isn't on).
Kara (mommy): So I slept last night - but it was a drug induced sleep. I took some unisom. Ummm - it took until about 5:00 pm to shake off the "day after" grogginess. Which is worse - not sleeping and feeling yucky the next day OR sleeping and feeling yucky the next day. I have also applied for a job working at our neighborhood YMCA. They have a place where you can drop your kids off while you work out. I am applying to work with those kids. I can take my kids with me while I work. FUN.
Dave (daddy): He's a great man. Right now giving the kids a bath to get them in bed. Bath duty is his every night. He continues to work on the house (cleaning the garage, mowing the lawn) on the weekends. I guess that is a dad's job. Dave is also the movie rental guy. Whenever we want to watch a movie - he will go to the famous "redbox" and rent it for us. Well recently he has not been successful at picking good movies. Benjamin Button (BORING) and a few others were not at all good for us.
Family update.
Micah: She is sitting up on her own now. Not for long periods of time, but she is doing it. I have found that she doesn't like sweet things. When I feed her pears or apples, she shutters and makes a sour face. When I feed her peas or green beans, she just opens her mouth for more. Hmmm - lovin' those veggies. Mommy is still hoping for her to sleep through the night - but once at night wake up is ok for now.
Tyler: He is so sweet. His Sunday school teacher says that he loves to give her kisses on the arm. Very typical of our boy. All day long he will give me kisses and hugs. What a cuttle bug. He is not napping these days. It seems as if those come and go. He will at least stay in his room for an hour and a half, while I get a break from him :). Preschool starts in about three weeks. That will be great for him. His preschool offers swimming lessons each week. Another random thought. We listen to the radio during the day, so Tyler randomly likes to sing "104.9 the river" throughout the day (when the radio isn't on).
Kara (mommy): So I slept last night - but it was a drug induced sleep. I took some unisom. Ummm - it took until about 5:00 pm to shake off the "day after" grogginess. Which is worse - not sleeping and feeling yucky the next day OR sleeping and feeling yucky the next day. I have also applied for a job working at our neighborhood YMCA. They have a place where you can drop your kids off while you work out. I am applying to work with those kids. I can take my kids with me while I work. FUN.
Dave (daddy): He's a great man. Right now giving the kids a bath to get them in bed. Bath duty is his every night. He continues to work on the house (cleaning the garage, mowing the lawn) on the weekends. I guess that is a dad's job. Dave is also the movie rental guy. Whenever we want to watch a movie - he will go to the famous "redbox" and rent it for us. Well recently he has not been successful at picking good movies. Benjamin Button (BORING) and a few others were not at all good for us.
Family update.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
This is not right!
Normal people don't live like this. Healthy people don't live like this. I am awak at 4:30 in the morning. I have been awake since 1:00 when Micah woke us up. We tried something new. Dave was going to deal with her and feed her, hoping that it would allow me to sleep. Funny. It actually made thing worse. We were both up, longer with her than if I would have just ran in there and fed her. So, Dave went back to bed around 2:00 - I am still awake. I really think there must be some sort of medial reason for this. I am so glad that I am going to see my midwife on Monday. She HAS to run some tests on me or give me something. Tomorrow I will take some unisome. People have suggested it to me, but I haven't tried it yet. It does have corn in it. So we'll see how Micah does with that. I also sit here and wonder if it has something to do with nursing or post pardome. Seems a little late in the stage of post pardome for that, but what the heck. It REALLY REALLY makes me want to stop nursing. Maybe hormones from nursing are messing with me. Maybe becuase I cannot eat much, that is messing with me. I think I did fall asleep for about 15 min at around 2:30 - but who knows. At about 3:30 any signs of tiredness left me and I am wide awake now. Again, this cannot be right or healthy. Time to get medical help!
Friday, August 21, 2009
This is new!
So I have realized that a lot of my friends really do post on blogs, and I read their posts. So I will try again to start posting. Maybe someone will read this.
Many of you know, I am on a very resricted diet. It stinks major. BUT I have just found a dessert I can eat. Fried bananas. I just sent Dave to the store to get me more bananas. I will fry them up and eat them. YUM!!!
Micah is less than 1 week away from 6 months old. I think we are getting close to dropping the 3rd nap - I am certainly ready. Two long naps and no third nap would equal a really early bed time OR two shorter naps (I would have to wake her from one or both) with the third catnap equals a bit later bedtime. I'm not sure which I prefer. Probably the bit later bed time at this point.
Tyler just turned 3 in June AND he is not napping much at all. He does stay in bed as long as I make him. I try to not make him stay up there for more than 1.5 hours. He does need the rest though, and I need to rest too!!! He starts pre-school soon. In less than three weeks. I am pretty excited. I hope to get more cleaning done, get some grocery shopping done and a few other things while he's at school. Maybe I'll make bread again - some bagels for my husband for breakfast.
Friday night - at home and not much to do!!
Good evening!
Many of you know, I am on a very resricted diet. It stinks major. BUT I have just found a dessert I can eat. Fried bananas. I just sent Dave to the store to get me more bananas. I will fry them up and eat them. YUM!!!
Micah is less than 1 week away from 6 months old. I think we are getting close to dropping the 3rd nap - I am certainly ready. Two long naps and no third nap would equal a really early bed time OR two shorter naps (I would have to wake her from one or both) with the third catnap equals a bit later bedtime. I'm not sure which I prefer. Probably the bit later bed time at this point.
Tyler just turned 3 in June AND he is not napping much at all. He does stay in bed as long as I make him. I try to not make him stay up there for more than 1.5 hours. He does need the rest though, and I need to rest too!!! He starts pre-school soon. In less than three weeks. I am pretty excited. I hope to get more cleaning done, get some grocery shopping done and a few other things while he's at school. Maybe I'll make bread again - some bagels for my husband for breakfast.
Friday night - at home and not much to do!!
Good evening!
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