Gesundheit

The snow is melted, the weather is getting warmer and allergy season is on it's way. Good thing I've got lots of tissues.
While tissue boxes have nifty designs now it's a lot more fun to make your own tissue box covers.  I love that I can customize them for each room.  They make great gifts for the allergy sufferer in your life and are really easy to make.

No boring tissue boxes in our house

The small box pattern I found just from googling "Tissue box covers"
The felted cover I got from Sew It All Magazine.  Instead of doing a heart I did  a leaf shape to match the fabric.  I love the reverse applique and can't wait to try it on other projects.

THUD!

Ben got a job.  
Not the original job he applied for, but they offered him a different position.  So we're moving to Wilmington, NC. 
Forgive me if for the next month my posts are erratic or sort of loopy sounding.   I'm so excited right now.

The Mom Pledge

I'm taking the pledge.   What's the mom pledge?  It's pledging not to bully other moms. 
We moms are all in this together.  I've gotten the nasty comment for nursing, cloth diapering, what I chose to feed my child. 
He's healthy, he's happy.  We don't all parent the same way but we all have our child's best interests in mind.  There are so many online communities dedicated to insulting other mothers and even harassing them for having different ideas from us. 

I'm pledging to be supportive of my fellow moms and not tearing them down online.  I'm setting an example for my son.  I want him to see that bullying (online or offline) is never acceptable.

A very doggie update

This weekend Aloysius goes off his Prednisone and Robaxxin.  All he has left is Tramadol.   This is the real test to see how he is doing.
He's been feeling better and not screaming in pain.  In some of his out of crate time yesterday (he is still spending 90% of his time in the crate) he jumped on the couch.  No scream, no look of pain.
I know that many dogs live with IVDD and don't always need surgery, we're hoping that will be the case for Aloysius. 

Since he's still on crate rest we needed to clean everything in his crate.  I decided to make him a new pillow for his bed out of some comfy flannel with robots on them.

Aloysius approves of this bed.

He's looking much better and doesn't look like he's in pain.  I'm hoping he continues to recover and that we don't need to have the surgery done.


EDIT:  He's still in pain so we've called the vet for a refill on his pain meds.

Busy week

It's been a busy week.  Most weeks are busy but these few have been hellish.  With Ben's official lay off in 2 weeks we're in crisis mode and running around getting extra things sold and the condo downsized.
This past week I was so stressed I couldn't keep food down.  I'm still not very hungry but at least what I'm eating stays in my stomach.

Because of this my breast MRI was rescheduled to this Sunday.  Nothing I want to do more on a weekend than spend an hour in a little tube with my tits hanging through a hole in the table. 

Garrett has his pre-school class on Fridays from 9:30-11am.  He'll also have Early Intervention groups twice a week starting next Wednesday.  Plus his weekly home visit.  EI has been wonderful and upon seeing Ben's severance paperwork told us that we wouldn't have to pay at all for services.   
All these groups are walking distance so I'll get lots of walk in and workout time. 


We're still hoping to hear good news on the job front.

A new comment format

I made a move over to DISQUS with my comments. 
Sadly some people felt the need to continue to harass me here so I need some better tracking.

I was hoping to give a happy update about Aloysius.  He has been doing better but Garrett went to pet him tonight and he jerked his head and started shrieking.  Poor Ben was near tears.  Garrett has been pretty good about staying away from the crate and only wants to pet him puppy (or give him biscuits).

We're hoping that the medications will work for Aloysius, even if it just means being able to hold off on his surgery until Ben is working again.  Several people have donated and we are so grateful for that because the vet bills are piling up. 

Weekend Rewind

Things have been hellish lately (in case you haven't noticed) but we still wanted to get out this weekend.
We decided to take a trip up to Salem for some provisions.  
Aloysius is now sleeping on a white pouch with copper, jade, peridot and a bit of a healing oil (under his pillow of course). We also picked up some other things for health, prosperity and dispelling negative energy. 


On the way back we stopped by the beach by Swampscott and walked along the outer wall.

Garrett had fun walking on the ledge

We walked for a while watching the waves crash into the sea wall.

Waves are silly

The waves were really amazing that day.  Both Ben and I find the sea relaxing so we all walked for a while and watched them.


Sunday I did some crafting.  I made 2 mail bags and a tissue box cover.