Sleepy.

I wasn't prepared for how sleepy giving up my one cup of coffee a day would make me.  I just want to nap.  Instead I'm working, albeit kind of slowly and in between typing jobs, trying to get the teenagers to wake up. That is not an easy task.  The waking the kids up part, I mean.  They really are not morning people.  My oldest, in Mississippi this morning, forgot to set his alarm and slept through his first class.  Oh well.  These things happen, I guess.  I want these younger 2 to wake up soon because we've got piano lessons today and I don't want school going on still at midnight tonight.  I really want to be in bed, asleep by then. 

My new diet.

I'm trying now to follow the anti-interstitial cystitis diet, which, let me tell you, is kind of crazy.  I started out trying to do an elimination diet, where you only eat about 10 different things for a week and then add in things and watch your symptoms and that way you can tell what's triggering the discomfort.  But I just couldn't see myself living for a week on turkey, lettuce, peeled potatoes with nothing on them, rice and yams.  I guess I could and it may come to that, but I decided to go about it from the other direction and look up the top worst offenders and try to eliminate those. 

I found this list that has a bunch of the worst.
Coffee.
Tea.
Fruit juices.
soda.
Tomatoes.
 

Also implicated are
Artifical food colorins
Sugar, vinegar and other foods that promote yeast overgrowth.
Gluten.

I strongly suspect that the reason I've felt so horrible is that I got glutened the other day when I went for mom's day out although the nurse practitioner I saw yesterday said that gluten had nothing to do with it.  

So anyway, this morning, I'm coffee free and tea free.  Those are my biggies but I'm willing to give them up if it will make me feel better.  Surprisingly, I haven't (yet) gotten a headache from going without my caffeine. 

In the rest of life, oldest son called last night and he's doing fine.  The younger 2  are busy with school and my husband and I are off work today. 

Not spam!!!!!

I just realized with a little help from my bloggy buddy Amy that I have had all kinds of good genuine comments from friends going to the blogger spam folder.  I had no idea!  Now today I've had so much fun going back and reading everyone's comments for the last month or so.  Thanks you all for reading and thank you all for commenting and for being my blog friends.  I appreciate having my own little outlet for my thoughts, opinions and ideas.

I am having a problem with blogger in that they say I have used up all my picture space on Picasa and will now have to pay for pictures to be placed on my blog, so I have been using old pictures from the blog, but I'd really like to publish some pictures of the latest crochet and art projects and  things like that, but I can't.  I may have to go to another blog hosting service.  Blah.

This is a recycled photo from last November.

Check out Technology Rocks, Seriously.

They  have put together a collection of on line Christmas educational games.  I even enjoy playing some of these and I'm old!  :-P   Technology Rocks, Seriously.

Tired, but kind of glad.

I'm tired from all the running for the past week and a half or so, glad I did all those things and now I am equally glad that I don't have to do much of anything for the next few days.  Whew.  Then next 4 or 5 days I don't have anything special written on my calendar (yes, I use an old fashioned paper calendar, not a device!).  I do have the usual stuff, choir practice, piano lessons. etc. but that's all.  I have nothing at all today except work and school and I may take a nap this afternoon.  I could use it.  

I'm also going to get started on my Christmas list and possibly even my Christmas shopping.  Okay, I have begun it.   I have already picked up a few things.  Okay, 3.  Three things.  Not too bad.  For me.  It's still November after all.  :-)

It was supposed to snow today, but it didn't. I'd kind of like to be able to use snow as an excuse to HAVE to stay home for a couple of days, you know?  It's harder with a 4 wheel drive truck at my disposal, but I might be able to pull it off. 

Okay, well.

I've kind of recovered a little from my busy week and my lack of sleep on Saturday.   I didn't do much of anything all day long and that helped.   Today, I've got Mom's Day Out with the homeschool group.  We go shopping and eat lunch and have dessert someplace and the dues that we pay to the group pay for it, so it feels like a free day out.  We go to Bath and Body Works and Hobby Lobby and the salvage store and a few other carefully chosen places, with coupons, and generally have a good old time.  I cleaned out my car last night so I could drive.  It gradually accumulates junk if I don't watch it.  Not as bad as when the kids were little, but still, we go and do so much that sometimes we just want to leave the stuff in the car and be done with it.  So that's the plan for today.  The older boy is safely back in Mississippi and starting classes today and the younger 2 are starting back to homeschool today.

My only drawback about today is that I won't get to go to the children's hospital and hold the babies.  :-(  

Summary of our week.

From last Friday at midnight when my son arrived home until this Saturday at 4:00 a.m.when he got on the plane to go back, so a little tiny bit over a week, we had church, choir practice, a harvest party, my regular 4 hour shift volunteering at the children's hospital, 3 visits with grandma, about 4 shopping trips (because son needed a new wardrobe and kept buying the wrong sizes because, as he says, he's used to everything being baggy), 4H* with dinner with the homeschool crowd and two Thanksgiving celebrations.  On top of that, my husband and I had to work our regular schedules, we had to get groceries, do all that cooking and I had to go to the doctor for a recheck one of those days.  It was not my imagination that it was a crazy, busy week, was it?

Whew.  It was a good one though.  :-)

Now, on to the Christmas season ....

*Also, I had to plan and do the 4H craft lesson because no one else had time.

He's going back.

My son is flying out to Mississippi this morning to resume his second trimester.  He is going to get to come back home at Christmas, thank goodness.  This week seemed really short and really busy.  Next time he's home, I hope we just get some free don't-have-to-go-anyplace time, but it will be Christmas and New Years, so that may just be a dream.