Stay-At-Home-Momming

So when I said I should have plenty of time to blog when I became a SAHM, I guess I really had no idea what I was talking about. For the first month I did a lot of unpacking and organizing of our new space. I was also exercising every day and my day was filled up. Things slowed down around the end of November and honestly the holidays were kind of a blur. We went to the McCurdy's house for Thanksgiving and I went Black Friday shopping with Amber Grayson that night and we had them sleep over and play games.

In December we had Jordyn's 5th birthday and Jared's 31st. I can't believe my sweet Jordyn is 5 and will be starting school in August. She got a doll house and lots of doll furniture. Grandma McCurdy made her some furniture out of yarn and mesh and Jordyn loves it. Bonnie thought she was getting a doll house for a present too. Thankfully  Jordyn and Bonnie love to play and share together. I planned a secret snow boarding trip for Jared's birthday. His friend Matt took him to Pomerelle and they had a day of skiing and boarding together. He loved it. The night of Jordyn's birthday party I think I got food poisoning or something because I spent all night and all day vomiting. It was horrible. I had gotten over that in two days, but when I went to Blackfoot for the Nichols Christmas Eve party I was so bloated and gassy I couldn't stand or sit or anything. I spent a lot of the time in a child's pose trying to get the gas out. I have never felt like that before. That carried over into Christmas morning and although it wasn't as bad, it was still very uncomfortable. We were supposed to go to the McCurdy's and open our presents on Christmas morning, but we got snowed it! It was crazy. We hardly had any snow in December and then Christmas night is snows and blows and blows. We ended up opening our presents at home and then going to the McCurdy's after the roads had been plowed. Jared worked on Christmas Eve and the days after Christmas, so it was just me and the kids enjoying the holiday break.

In January I was suddenly hit with terrible fatigue. It was around the time that Uriah started school back up and all I wanted to do was sleep. It was the strangest thing I've ever felt. I had no energy. I would wake up, get Uriah ready for school and take him, come home and go back to sleep for several hours, even though I had slept all night. That was the only symptom I had. I was stumped. I didn't know how to force myself to get up and do things and a lot of chores went undone for a week. It seems to have subsided a little but now includes a constant queezy feeling in my stomach every day. I'm not vomiting or anything, I just feel like I have an upset stomach all the time. It's not really that fun, and I'm not going to pretend like I don't know what's causing it, but now is not the time to talk more about it, especially since I don't know who reads this blog (if anyone). I'm sure it will come up in a later post.

Uriah has been loving his new school (Morningside) and I have been very pleased with their curriculum. They are very focused on reading and Uriah has read over 50 books in the 4 months he has been attending. He has had a few small issues, like hitting and licking and kissing other kids, but I'm just hoping that's an age/boy thing and that he will grow out of it soon. Jared still loves his job and I am very thankful for that. He knows some great people that work there and it is a very tight-knit group. He met a great doctor whom we have chosen to take our kids to for well-child checks and stuff like that. He is amazing and one of the best doctors I have ever met.

Well, I have been sitting too long and need to get up and do something. I am going to try to blog more often. No promises though.