UPDATE: dancing, goals, February, health

We like to have dance parties at our house often. Whose invited? Usually the four of us but we sure have fun. I came home from a quick trip to the store to find this. I love these 3!!

January has flown by and I am optimistic about a quick February. I am not one to really wish for life to hurry on; I usually try to enjoy the everyday but I am already antsy for spring. Glen will be doing part of his surgery rotation in Lima Ohio during February and will come home on the weekends. For you phychos out there....don't even think about it, I have a security system now and a can of wasp spray (apparently it blinds you for awhile if sprayed in the eyes) Anyways, I actually think the month is going to be a good one. It's not like I saw Glen a lot the month of January. I do have a lot of things I want to work on this month while I will have lots of time in the evenings to myself. I have really dug into the scrapbooks and am going to be completely caught up before the weather is nice. Goal #1.....haha. I get a lot of satisfaction out of cleaning cupboards, closets, and getting rid of stuff we don't use anymore. Goal #2 Clean all closets and cupboards. I am already off to a good start. Goal #3 is a fun one; I want to take the kids swimming once a week. They love it and I love it too. We will continue to stay busy with walking group, preschool, playgroup, and visits to the zoo's indoor animals (aquarium and polar bears and others)Goal #4 is to get to the gym to workout.

This has been something very frustrating for me with the health issues I have been having, health issues I haven't talked about on the blog yet. So quickly for those of you who don't know. The end of October I started having tingling in my hands, feet, and legs. I also have a lot of pain in my feet when I walk. I get tired easily and just feel easily fatigued, especially in my arms. Holding Taylor for very long makes me tired and curling my hair makes my arm ache instantly. My hands feel a little awkward like they cramp us just holding a book. For a awhile my eye was a little blurry and my back and neck always feel sore. It all started within 30 minutes after getting the H1N1 vaccine which I am not sure if I think that is what caused this or not and doctors aren't sure either. I have seen the family doctor and seen the neurologist many times. I have had nerve tests, an MRI, and lots of blood tests. What have we found out........NOTHING. The doctors really do not know what is going on and have left things like that for now. I have really tried to be positive and hopeful and most of the time I am but some days are hard and I get down about it. I just want to be able to walk without hurting and do all the things I want to do. I am grateful though that things are not worse. For the first two weeks after I got this we were worried sick. The symptoms were so similar to what my Mom got a couple of years ago, Gillian Barre (made her not be able to walk within a week). That was the hardest couple weeks of my life thinking I might be in the hospital and not being able to take care and be with my kids. SO, I am grateful everyday that I can be with my kids and still do things with them. So we get by, day by day, things are not getting better but we are dealing and I try to just trust in my Heavenly Father and his timing.

So enough of that. Back to my last goal, I want to try to bike or do the elliptical; both will be less weight on my feet. I walked a few weeks ago at walking group and decided that I would just go for it and stay with the girls going fast. My feet hurt but it was okay and I thought I can do this. I was very excited until I got horrible crampy sharp pains in my feet that really made it hurt to walk. It lasted a couple of weeks and is just now feeling better. I attribute it to just overdoing it. I was frustrated but I want to exercise so i will try something else and just be happy about it. Hopefully I can do it; I know I can, I hope my feet can.

Enough words I know...... Kid updates to come later! Life is good.