9/13/11 - Ramblings

My day did not start off too fun. The next little paragraph will probably be TMI for some readers...so feel free to skip over it.

I started the day off heading to the doctor for my "yearly" check up. NOT exciting, not in the least bit. Honestly, as horrible as it may be, I would not go if they didn't hold my birth control hostage when I was overdue. So, in I went, and everything went fine. We talked about nutrition and my midwife was fairly confident that my breastfeeding, then stopping, has been a big part of my weight loss disappointment. I talked about (TMI alert) the fact that my period has not returned yet. She was a little surprised since it has been a little over a month since I stopped nursing. But, assured me that there is no "normal" time frame for it to return after having a baby. She said to wait another month, and if it still hasn't returned I may need to go in for a progesterone shot (which does not sound like fun). She actually had me take a pregnancy test, just to make sure (even though I was 99.9% sure that it was absolutely not possible). Of course, that came back negative. So, all in all, everything went well. I was on a special birth control pill for nursing, and am now switching back to a regular pill. However, I can't start that until my period returns. Nothing is ever easy...LOL

SO, other than that, it was just a pretty standard Tuesday. Work, chasing around the girls, the usual chaos.

I'm thinking that I'll finally get my head above water at work this week. I have a few meetings and projects due this week, but I should be able to make a lot of progress on my inbox, and I'm pretty excited about that. I hate, hate, HATE needing somebody to help me get my work done, it makes me feel like a failure, or like I'm doing something wrong. I'll be happy to get through this week and get myself caught up (well, as caught up as possible anyway).

The girls have been doing a lot better lately. While the incidents are still pretty severe, they are less and less often as time goes on. I still think we really need some help on how to deal with her. Our methods of discipline obviously do not work for her, and we're still at a loss. I'm worried that with winter approaching, things might get worse. The more they are cooped up in the house together, the more challenging it seems to get. Hopefully some kind of light switch flips in her soon, and she realizes that it's actually a good thing to have a built in playmate around, and not the end of the world.

Olivia has a new habit of cuddling up on the glider in her room...I've actually found her sleeping on it a handful of times during the night. LOL. She was laying around on it tonight, so I took a picture quick. Ha.