So as we all know, my blogging has become non existent. I have terribly missed this, as it's been one of my favorite past times these years of doing it. But my life has been busy with school and kids, and so it hasn't been something I've been able to keep up on. I have a few posts in draft, and I plan on back posting as I go. I decided to just start posting anyways, because since I'm behind, it was keeping me from blogging about the here and now. I'm tired of it, so I will eventually fill in the gap as I get time. I can't just have 5 months of our lives missing from a blog. So I will fill in what I can, when I can.
So here's to hoping I can get some blogs up and keep up on our current adventures. We have some fun ones coming that I will post about soon.
For now, you can read about my fun girls weekend!
Showing posts with label Catch Up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catch Up. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Playing Catch Up Again!!
I'm doing this again! It seems to be a trend for me lately, and I really hate it. I think I will be better for the coming months though, since I really do have a good reason for my lack of blogging lately. I haven't ever blogged about what's been going on with me lately, since I haven't had the time to do so.
Before we moved back to ML, we decided it would be a great time for me to go back to school while we were here, since going to BBCC would be really cheap. We'd thought about staying in Pullman and me going to WSU, but it would be so much more expensive, and we'd have to take out loans, and there wasn't a point of that. So on September 21st I started back as a college student. It was so weird after not being in school for 9 years. I'm a lot older, a lot more mature, and a lot more responsible. I'm going full time and taking 3 classes. I have a public speaking class, which is easy, but a lot of busy work outside of class. I have a art history class, which again is really easy, just busy work outside of class. I also took a math class, which I love math, and it's easy for me, but sometimes the homework is time consuming.
I couldn't believe how much all this busy work took up of my time. I have felt like I've had to give up a lot of being a mom and wife to keep up with my homework. It's been hard on me that way. My house has been a disaster, keeping up on laundry has been nearly impossible and my family misses me, plus my blogging has taken a hit as well, ha! I only have a week left of classes for this semester, then finals week. But I don't have a final in Art, and I get to take my Math final early, because I'm going to be out of town the day of the final, and for speech class, if we finish our final speeches a day early, we get to take the final on the last day of class. So I'm really hoping I won't even have to go on campus finals week.
The great thing about these last few weeks, is either my load is lessening coming to an end, or I've finally figured out how to balance better. I don't feel like I haven't had any free time. So I'm hoping next semester will be better on time management!
I'm grateful for all the support I've gotten from my family. My mother-in-law Cynthia has been watching my kids most of the time while I'm at school, and my mom takes them on her days off as well. The great thing about BBCC, is it's only Monday - Thursday, so it's not too bad. Matt has also been a great support, and very encouraging. I appreciate him pushing me to take this step in my life. I have to work at this a lot harder then he does though, I have to do all my homework, when really I never saw him doing much homework ever!
Another thing that I've never blogged about this last May I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. I've had some symptoms for the last 10 years or so, and talked to my doctors every once in a while, but I was always pregnant or nursing when I did so, and I've ended up just learning to live with my pains, and write it off as being me. After a walk in visit one weekend, and the Dr questioning my family history and my symptoms, she strongly encouraged me to talk to my Dr about a possible autoimmune disease.
He ordered x-ray to check for rheumatoid arthritis, which came back normal, and sent me to see a dermatologist for my eczema and to a rheumatologist for my joint pains. In the end after taking tons of blood work, they found out I was vitamin D deficient, iron deficient and my SSA antibodies were over 300 hundred where the normal persons is at 60 or 80 (I can't remember which one now), and it also showed that I did have quite a bit of inflammation in my body. Basically, I have an over active immune system, and it's targeting my body, since it doesn't have anything else to attack. I hadn't even been sick with one little cold for 2 years. I think it's great, but apparently it not good for the body, ha!!
They diagnosed me with either sjogren's syndrome, or lupus. They aren't sure what I have at this point but said time will tell. Either way, my Dr. thinks I have a mild case, and doesn't think it will ever get extreme. They put me on iron, vitamin D and also plaquenil, a drug to lower my immune system. After not being sick for 2 years, now that I do get sick, I hate it! Never getting sick seems like a great thing, until you think of what it could end up doing to your body in the long run!
So that's what my life has consisted of these last months. Now I'm going to try to catch up on some blogging. Although I should be writing my final speech, I'm going to get a few blogs started.
Before we moved back to ML, we decided it would be a great time for me to go back to school while we were here, since going to BBCC would be really cheap. We'd thought about staying in Pullman and me going to WSU, but it would be so much more expensive, and we'd have to take out loans, and there wasn't a point of that. So on September 21st I started back as a college student. It was so weird after not being in school for 9 years. I'm a lot older, a lot more mature, and a lot more responsible. I'm going full time and taking 3 classes. I have a public speaking class, which is easy, but a lot of busy work outside of class. I have a art history class, which again is really easy, just busy work outside of class. I also took a math class, which I love math, and it's easy for me, but sometimes the homework is time consuming.
I couldn't believe how much all this busy work took up of my time. I have felt like I've had to give up a lot of being a mom and wife to keep up with my homework. It's been hard on me that way. My house has been a disaster, keeping up on laundry has been nearly impossible and my family misses me, plus my blogging has taken a hit as well, ha! I only have a week left of classes for this semester, then finals week. But I don't have a final in Art, and I get to take my Math final early, because I'm going to be out of town the day of the final, and for speech class, if we finish our final speeches a day early, we get to take the final on the last day of class. So I'm really hoping I won't even have to go on campus finals week.
The great thing about these last few weeks, is either my load is lessening coming to an end, or I've finally figured out how to balance better. I don't feel like I haven't had any free time. So I'm hoping next semester will be better on time management!
I'm grateful for all the support I've gotten from my family. My mother-in-law Cynthia has been watching my kids most of the time while I'm at school, and my mom takes them on her days off as well. The great thing about BBCC, is it's only Monday - Thursday, so it's not too bad. Matt has also been a great support, and very encouraging. I appreciate him pushing me to take this step in my life. I have to work at this a lot harder then he does though, I have to do all my homework, when really I never saw him doing much homework ever!
Another thing that I've never blogged about this last May I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. I've had some symptoms for the last 10 years or so, and talked to my doctors every once in a while, but I was always pregnant or nursing when I did so, and I've ended up just learning to live with my pains, and write it off as being me. After a walk in visit one weekend, and the Dr questioning my family history and my symptoms, she strongly encouraged me to talk to my Dr about a possible autoimmune disease.
He ordered x-ray to check for rheumatoid arthritis, which came back normal, and sent me to see a dermatologist for my eczema and to a rheumatologist for my joint pains. In the end after taking tons of blood work, they found out I was vitamin D deficient, iron deficient and my SSA antibodies were over 300 hundred where the normal persons is at 60 or 80 (I can't remember which one now), and it also showed that I did have quite a bit of inflammation in my body. Basically, I have an over active immune system, and it's targeting my body, since it doesn't have anything else to attack. I hadn't even been sick with one little cold for 2 years. I think it's great, but apparently it not good for the body, ha!!
They diagnosed me with either sjogren's syndrome, or lupus. They aren't sure what I have at this point but said time will tell. Either way, my Dr. thinks I have a mild case, and doesn't think it will ever get extreme. They put me on iron, vitamin D and also plaquenil, a drug to lower my immune system. After not being sick for 2 years, now that I do get sick, I hate it! Never getting sick seems like a great thing, until you think of what it could end up doing to your body in the long run!
So that's what my life has consisted of these last months. Now I'm going to try to catch up on some blogging. Although I should be writing my final speech, I'm going to get a few blogs started.
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