It's been a pretty awesome morning. I was able to get my walk in and while exhausting, it felt amazing. I walked about four miles with my Mom and it was a great way to start the day. I'm feeling really motivated today and that's exciting for me. ☺ I can't wait to keep moving forward.
It seems like plans only exist in order for them to change at the very last minute. Ugh!! Elliott's been awake since about 2 AM this morning, with a fever and headache. There's no wiggle room with this because he's running an actual fever and not just exceeding the arbitrary number the school has chosen labeled a fever. This of course has created an issue for Emmett because he always eats breakfast with Elliott in the morning before going to their respective classrooms. Emmett will be going to school and he's going to like it.. 😁 If only it worked that way. We're working to get Emmett out the door because he's afraid to go to school without his big brother.
After I get home from walking today, I'm going to devote the rest of my day to finding out the results of Gavin's lab work from last Friday. We need to know where is numbers are because they've been dropping very low but also because he's been getting sick for the last week. If his numbers are low, that could be why he's been getting sick and it's something to worry about. If his numbers are okay, then we have far less to worry about.
This week I'm looking to bump my morning walks up by an additional mile or so. I want to be regularly doing close to four miles a morning either on the track or treadmill. My goal is to get back to five miles a day within a reasonable amount of time. That's totally a doable thing for me physically. The main obstacle at this point is a mental one but with some discipline, I should be able to overcome that. ☺ I'm going back to weighing myself on Wednesday's only, at least for a little while. All I need to do is loose one pound a week in order to reach my goal within the next year. I've mentioned before that I want to lose the weight in a slow,…
This will be the boys first full week of the school year and I'm very much looking forward to getting my routine back on track. That means morning walks and maybe even regular housework. ☺ Aside from school, the only thing on the schedule is Elliott's OT. I'm really hoping that this getting back into the routine of things proves to be a positive thing for all of us.
It doesn't matter if your kids are special needs or not, kids drive their parents crazy. As a member of both parenting and special needs parenting communities, I'm often trying to find ways to help people better understand what the special needs community is going through. One of the best ways to do this is by finding common ground. For a long time, I thought that common ground was the fact that we all love our kids. It's true, we all love our kids, regardless of anything and everything. It occurred to me this afternoon however, we have something else in common as well. Our kids can and will drive us crazy. There's no way around it and no way to avoid it. Kids drive their parents crazy at…
I meant to share this eariler but forgot. As you already know, Gavin went to bed last night not feel good at all. He was miserable and trying not to vomit. This has been happening on and off for a week or two. I've no idea what's going on. Thankfully, he's feeling much better today. In fact, it's like he was never feeling bad in the first place. Rather than drive myself crazy crazier by trying to figure this out, I'm going to embrace the fact that he's feeling better and roll with it.
The boys have left to spend the day with their Grandparents. I think they're going swimming and they'll enjoy that. Lizze and I are going to just relax this afternoon. Perhaps we'll go for a walk or something later on. We do have a few things we need to get done in order to be ready for the new school week. I'm looking forward to a quiet day.