Queen of Rambles

I swear I’m going to the gym tomorrow. I don’t care if I just have to go sit in the locker room with a book. There is no way I can handle another full day with Erik. Isn’t that awful? How do moms do this without a little support from the gym daycare? It has [...]

First: The Ugly Don’t you hate when you go upstairs and smell something really gross? Then you look in the sink and see a giant turd just laying there? It’s never happened to me before and I certainly hope it never happens to me again. I thought I was going to barf. I don’t know [...]

Thank goodness I am feeling significantly better today. I think I needed sleep in a bad way and I was finally able to get some last night. My sleeping pills knocked me out and sleeping on my stomach kept me from coughing. I didn’t even have to rub Vicks all over my naked torso*. Previously [...]

I think we’re changing our last name. We will never be well again. We’re going to cough and cough and cough until the day we die. It’s all getting to be a bit much. Of course, there are much worse things that could happen to a family and I don’t want to tempt fate, but [...]

I’m feeling a bit better today so I have hope that one day I might be cured. Wouldn’t that be a miracle? I can’t believe how bad my back and neck muscles hurt from all the coughing. Muscles I didn’t even know I had are making their prescence known. I took my codiene based cough [...]

I took all your advice and went to the doctor this morning. I was up all night coughing. Some of the cough spells were so bad that I vomitted. Nice! My back muscles are just about spent today. Anyway, I have the beginnings of pneumonia brewing in my lungs. Whoo-hoo! I have a five day [...]

The fever is ramping up again. It’s been gone most of today thanks to lots of advil, but I guess it wore off. I had a total meltdown this morning about preschool and my friend being unwilling to take Erik because he might possibly be contagious. I’ve since calmed down. Of course they don’t want [...]

People, I have a confession to make. I stink. Like raunchy, don’t want to sit next to that lady on the bus, stink. Granted, everyone in DC pretty much stinks this time of year. There’s no help for it. I use deodorant, but it’s not quite doing the trick. After I had Erik my deodorant [...]

Despite flash flood warnings and a major downpour, Erik and I went out of the house! I might be well! Except for a nagging sore throat, but I’m just going to ignore that. I went to BodyPump and didn’t die. I did less weight than normal and my muscles were shaking a lot more than [...]

Carrie requested pictures of Erik, so that makes my job easy tonight! Pictures! But no pictures of his big adventure today. I was sitting around sewing the binding on his quilt when I hear “Hey mom! I found markers! Look at this!” By the time I found him he had an. . . Irish. . [...]