My eldest boy woke up this morning at eight and then woke me up – on sunday – THE WEEKEND – when I get to sleep in!

He was in a bit of a panic. See, he is eight years old, he will be nine in a month and a few days, but he had a big icky zit  on his chin. It was one of those white puss filled kinds. He washes his face each night with a face wash (a few months ago, I noticed a bunch of black heads on his nose), so he figured he was in the clear and  would never have to worry about pimples.

I think eight going on nine is too young for him (or me) to be worrying about acne, but I’m not sure. I remember being in grade four and getting a hair cut, the hairdresser chopped all my hair off – really short – and put it in a perm – my mother insisted. It was horrifyingly embarrassing, because as soon as my bangs were off my face everyone could see the pimples on my forehead.

I know girls mature faster than boys, and maybe that is why I had acne in grade four, and also, my boys are a lot cleaner in terms of personal hygiene than I was at their ages, but I do worry that this lone pimple is a sign of what is to come. I would do pretty much anything to save my boy the embarrassment I went through during my teen years in regards to acne!

I told the boy to leave it be, and then pointed him to my face wash, which is a bit stronger than the one he was using, and for now, I guess, that’s all that I can do.

What face wash do you use? What do your children use?

I woke up at 6:30 with hubs this morning, waited till seven thirty to get the boys up, got them fed, dressed, their bags packed and sent them to school at eight thirty.

Then I turned cartoons on the TV in my room and went back to sleep while L watched TV. Just like normal, I woke up with a raging headache. Every single time I nap I get rewarded with a headache. Why is that?

I am going to go hop in the shower and see if that will help my poor pounding head.

EDIT: Nope. The shower did not work. Oh well, at least I am clean! I have decided to brew a pot of coffee, since I have had none yet today die to the whole sleep in issue, maybe my headache is caffeine related! if the coffee does not work, then I will have to resort to Advil. I use so much of that crap that its getting to the point that I will try anything to prevent taking more!

I have three kids and a very active dog. It’s time for me to make a doctors appointment.

Four years ago when I had my tubal ligation, the doctors found a mass in my right fallopian tube. the mass was tested and came back benign. A year or so later I went to my OBGYN with complaints about my period – specifically, the amount of pain I was having.

The doctor told me that the pain was likely caused by adhesions – scar tissue from my tubal was attaching itself to my internal parts. My doctor told me that the process to fix this is very non-invasive, a very small incision through which a laser thingy is inserted and burns off the adhesions. At the time I felt that the pain was still bearable enough to say no to the surgery. I have never had good luck with recovering from surgeries!

But after yesterday and the day before, I am sure the time has come for a little bit of intervention. I was absolutely unable to do anything. I could not walk, I could not talk, the pain was that bad. The children were worried because I was on the couch shaking, close to vomiting from the pain. It took six extra strength Tylenol and eight migraine strength Advil to finally get the pain under control – It still hurt like an SOB, but at least I was able to move -and that only lasted for three hours, then I had to take more pills.

As soon as I stop bleeding – I’m not sure I have ever had a period this heavy in my life – including the bleeding after the children were born – I will be calling my doctor for an appointment!

On the day before we left to go camping, I started feeling lightheaded and hungry all the time. I decided that the zylene was at fault and chose to not bring them with me to the campsite. I have since started taking them again, and have not had a re occurance of my light headedness.

So far I have not seen a noticeable weight loss, but I am more than willing to give this time to work.

Tonight I will begin drafting posts to try and explain how much fin we had camping. Although you may have read about our trip on BPR, I will be talking about the more intimate parts of our trip on Mommy Madness.

I feel more comfortable here, letting the mommy side of me be seen, and thats a good thing, as that is what I am, A mother!

So my relatives decided not to come down to the house on Friday – oh well. The horrible thing? Once I heard that they were not coming, I stopped cleaning immediately. I was feeling So ill from the cramps that I wanted to scream and celebrate when they said they would not be able to make it!

Today i was feeling slightly better – well, actually, a lot better – I am now to the point that Tylenol will take the pain away, and it stays away for a good six hours. In fact, last night my mother in law took the boys and Hubs and I went into the city for a date night – we saw Hancock – what an awesome movie!

Anyway. on to the “secret”. It isn’t really a secret, but since I am not sure on the particulars, I feel uncomfortable talking about it a lot. Here, on my special blog, I feel comfortable talking about the what ifs and might be’s.

We are getting a puppy

But we do not know when. See, my dad and his wife got the most adorable dog, Joey, as a pup from a woman on the reserve where they live. the woman has two dogs and the female and male breed constantly. I love Joey. LOVE.

When we started looking for a dog a year ago, I wanted desperately to get a tiny dog, but then Smokey basically fell into our laps and we adore her to pieces. But I still want a small dog. Smokey has spent quite a bit of time playing with Dad’s dog, Joey, and they get along amazingly. Smokey, being eighty times Joey’s size, you would think, would hurt Joey, but never has she hurt him. They love to play!

Smokey has also been introduced to a LOT of other dogs of all different sizes, and all of them she interacted beautifully with. I am extremly confidant that Smokey and the new puppy will get along well.

The new pup will be a female – I am not a fan of male dogs (their junk hanging out grosses me out) and becuase I do not want to be scrimping on moths that the pup will need her shots and her spaying, so I have insisted we save the money for the shots before we get the puppy. It wont be difficult, they need three shots and I have enough saved for the first shot already. int he four months we will have her before she gets spayed, I will easily be able to save the money for her operation.

So thats one thing that is holding us back. I figure about six more weeks before I have enough saved. (I would like to save a bit extra for dog toys and a dog bed as well, I do not expect Smokey to share her bed and toys, though it would be awfully cute to see them sleep together.)

But the biggest hurdle is getting my step mother to find the number of the woman who owns the dogs. I am perfectly fine waiting months or even a year for my puppy. But I would just like to know approximately how long. I mean, is the dog pregnant NOW? Did she just have puppies? Will it be another six months till she becomes pregnant? What??!!!

I can stand long waits, just as long as I know when the end of the wait IS! But Step Mother wants to wait to get the number until they get back from their vacation – TWO MORE WEEKS (plus!!) and this upsets me a lot!

I mean. All she has to do is go on Facebook, message her friend and ask for the number. It’s not that freaking hard!

I’m just so anxious!

I am so ill.

I am also SO very very thankful i slept last night.

The night before I was up till 3 with sever back pain and cramping, slept for an hour and was back up, for the day. Last night I got a good six hours before the pain awoke me, but I took some medicine and was back asleep within the hour for another two hours of rest.

I’m so very pleased that the only thing we have planned for tonight is staying home and relaxing! Its funny that ten years ago the idea of staying in on a Friday night would have been ghastly, and now, it is something to look forward to!

Although, you have to take into account that we were out of the house Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday AND Thursday evenings – each of those evenings were late nights too!

Saturday is our Shopping day and I am still working on the list – we only shop every second Saturday, if I have forgotten something on the list that is not essential – IE: milk or toilet paper, too bad, it has to wait until the next shopping Saturday, so i take my list seriously!

TTYL!

This headache has been kicking my ass now for a full two weeks and I am super tired of it. Its definitely time for it to give up the ghost and find someone else to bug!

But you know what? Im DONE letting my head rule my life..wait. that came out wrong.. Oh well!

LOLz

I heard an awesome quote the other day “Friendship is like peeing your pants, everyone notices, but only you feel the warmth!”

Isn’t that great?

I’m excited about a bunch of stuff, we are redoing the back yard patio – by necessity, we had a huge storm come through and the patio, which is WRONGLY slopped toward the house (NOT by us, by the previous owners) had four inches of water standing on it. Last thing we need is to flood the basement!

I’m also excited because I got my Wii Fit, finally! It’s been hard to force myself to use it, what with my head pounding, but I have been doing some of the less active exercises. Every bit counts, eh!

Ugh! I have been SO ill. I have had a headache, that has gotten worse, NOT better, for the past eight days. Since My birthday in fact!

I’m not sure if my headache is the result of allergies, becuase 90% of the time It feels like a sinus headache, but last night I took an allergy pill and it did NOTHING to relieve my symptoms. This morning I took three extra strength Tylenol and three Liquid Migraine Advil and while I can still feel the pounding, at least I can string two words together – AND have them make sense!

I hope I start feeling better soon! ALL the way better!