Allergy recovery

After 3 days and the swelling swallowing my whole upper arm and a little past my elbow, the swelling is down but it's still intensely itchy at times.

On Friday we drove out of town after GoodLooking got off work. We stopped by the outlets to get me new running shoes.

I now wear a 10.5. I do buy my running shoes a LITTLE big so my toes don't touch at all but when I got married I wore a size 8.5 or 9.  

We also stopped by Oshkosh for some kid clothes. I set a budget before we walked in and it's a good thing! $15 per kid. Little brother got overalls and Honey got 2 shirts and a pair of jeans. She's really been wanting some sparkly princess shoes but even with the sale they were having they were $17.  For the kids' clothes I've always bought a garbage sack for say $25 from someone off of FB classifieds or something to that extent but I really wanted something NOT previously worn for both of them. 

Then we went to Tyler to spend the night in a FREE hotel room. 

Saturday we went to Canton, Tx for the largest swap meet ever. It was huge but also really hot and humid and the previous night Little Brother fell off the bed so everyone was tired and cranky so we only walked around for 2 hours. We went to a grocery store for lunch which was actually really good and got frozen slices of pie for dessert (from the freezer section) then headed home to watch BYU win in s Hail Mary and finish the night with Harry Potter.

Allergy Update

Last Wednesday I experienced what is called RUSH immunology. I received 4 of 7 shots of a serum containing essence of what I'm allergic to (grasses, trees, cat, horse). After the fourth shot and a short waiting period the doctor said to stop because the injection site had swollen slightly and I was getting flushed in the face and congested. I thought "I feel fine let's keep going" but they insisted and good thing too because that night after scratching desperately at my head, hands, and stomach I had the call that doctors cell phone and he told me to take a Zyrtec and doxepin. The next morning, my ears and hands were swollen and red. Fast forward to right now and I feel fine.

Oh and my eyes were swollen.

Here's what they normally look like

And my swollen hand

And here's one for reference

Whoa! Good thing we stopped and got me a shot of epinephrine.

Like A New Day

" your job is... Important" how true.

Also " no other success can compensate for failure in the home" 

Some days are hard. Like.. Close the door hard. Sometimes WEEKS are hard. Sometimes it's really hard and then it gets harder but without hard we would not know how NOT hard it CAN be. 

I'm a mom. Two kids sometimes contemplating a 3rd but feeling like I need to get a grip on things first. 

Another one "what's it like having 3 kids?... Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby" 

It's how I feel sometimes.  A short time ago I was under water... Drowning. We were doing the back and forth to the new location and home and sometimes being apart and it was just too much after a while. My kids and I weren't getting along and I was resentful. Mad. Cranky. Whatever we call it, it was not good. 

Things gradually got better and I know why now. People were praying for me. Lots of people. Like, LOTS. Things are great but today was a MOMENT and all those ugly feelings rushed back to me. THANKS FOR THE REMINDER. 

Nap time is now almost over as I write this and I'm making the choice to move on. Like a new day. 

Cabellas

We went on a trip today to Cabellas!

Betty by her FAVORITE animal

Me by my favorite animal;)

It was fun. 

My First Full Triathlon

I did it! I finished the YMCA member incentive triathlon. A month long triathlon and I signed up for full distances (popularly known as an ironman distance). 

And to top that off, I made the top ten list!

As I walked in the gym today it was right there on the desk for EVERYONE to see. After my workout I snapped a picture and when I was posting it to my Instagram I noticed another familiar name! (He did Olympic distance).

We are awersome.. And just so yall know, I think it IS in a particular order.

BTW

GoodLooking and I have been working on going to bed by 10 pm and waking up at 6. Why? Because an apostle of the lord says we should. So far it's been almost 2 weeks and we are getting close. I got in bed on time and woke up at 6:02 this morning. We read scriptures prayed and I read my scriptures. I was planning to run after all that but all that took too long so I got the kids up and cuddled them for 15 minutes before taking jack to work and going to the gym for spin class. 

I am seeing small benefits from heeding the words but more on that later as we fine tune the heeding.