Dear readers, I don't have anything especially significant to say today, but just wanted to check in with everyone before the gap between posts got too large and I would have to write yet another 'mea culpa' post. Nevertheless, your entertainment in reading this blog comes first and foremost, so I will attempt to give a quick overview of what has been happening in the last three weeks.
I have been working hard on my website and am in the process of filling basket orders for Christmas. Wow! Last year at this time, I had a barely functional website, only one product and was basically giving the stuff away. Now I have more that four products (yes, I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you're making the stuff by hand and testing different formulas, that's a lot!! Now I am considering going natural and totally eliminating the dyes from my product. Notice I said considering!!!I really like the look of some of the colored product, which is why I have an all natural and a nearly all natural section to my website. If you're interested, click the banner at the top of the page.
The little ones are doing quite well - no colds, no one is sick - and my oldest is taking well to his swimming lessons. One day he came home and said to me "I hate swimming." Now, swimming is an integral part of the preschool program, so I wasn't having any of that. So I used that good ol' reverse psychology on him - "Oh really. What's the best thing you like about swimming?" And he proceeded to rattle off a list of things he actually liked about swimming, so another diaster thwarted. I wouldn't want to have to pick him up from school early because he didn't like swimming.
You know, talk about a non sequitur, but what the heck is up with Tyra's hair? Is it me or does it look like she just put a mop on her head? That straw look does not look good on her - I hope she goes back the burgundy!!
Well, that's really it for now - pretty uninteresting, I know, but ya know, that's life....that's what all the people say.....you're riding high in April...Shot down in May.
We're going to be getting our Christmas tree soon - this is the first year that my 19 month old will really be aware of what is going on...let's see how long it take for him to rip all the ornaments off the bottom half of the tree.
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Sunday, December 9
Sunday, November 11
Once again....
Oh, dear, dear readers! Once again I have left you hanging for over a month without any updates to my exciting life as a stay at home mom!!
Let's see, what have I missed updating you with? Well, for starters, Mookie was sick again! That durn preschool has as many germs as that nasty Monica Lewinsky dress. I mean, really, he only is there three times a week for 3 hours at a time. I really must get on all of the little ones about the importance of handwashing. However, his sickness did not develop into the crisis it was in September(see here for the full story. Anyway, I only had to hit him a couple of times with the Xopenex, but I took him to the doctor just to be sure. Not that I'm a big worrywart, but the Goddess will NEVER let her little Mookie get to that crisis stage again, not if she can help it!
So, after Mookie got sick, so did the Diva and Squeaky. Nothing is as heavenly as wiping three runny noses at once and running back and forth in the middle of the night because the Diva woke up and her nose is stuffed up. What a drama QUEEN! "Oh, my dose, my dose my DOSE" I wanted to tell her, look honey, stop all that screaming, concentrate on breathing and you won't have a problem. But, how do you reason with a three year old? Answer: you don't!
Now, the business. I've been workign on the website, making products,taking pictures and on top of that all, trying to keep the house in some sort of working order. My husband is a saint, because he doesn't balk when I call after a particularly difficult day and say "can you stop and pick up...." He will be rewarded greatly when my business takes off!
Anyway, dear reader, that's my sorry excuse for not keeping you thoroughly entertained for the last month. I promise to be much more diligent in the future!
Let's see, what have I missed updating you with? Well, for starters, Mookie was sick again! That durn preschool has as many germs as that nasty Monica Lewinsky dress. I mean, really, he only is there three times a week for 3 hours at a time. I really must get on all of the little ones about the importance of handwashing. However, his sickness did not develop into the crisis it was in September(see here for the full story. Anyway, I only had to hit him a couple of times with the Xopenex, but I took him to the doctor just to be sure. Not that I'm a big worrywart, but the Goddess will NEVER let her little Mookie get to that crisis stage again, not if she can help it!
So, after Mookie got sick, so did the Diva and Squeaky. Nothing is as heavenly as wiping three runny noses at once and running back and forth in the middle of the night because the Diva woke up and her nose is stuffed up. What a drama QUEEN! "Oh, my dose, my dose my DOSE" I wanted to tell her, look honey, stop all that screaming, concentrate on breathing and you won't have a problem. But, how do you reason with a three year old? Answer: you don't!
Now, the business. I've been workign on the website, making products,taking pictures and on top of that all, trying to keep the house in some sort of working order. My husband is a saint, because he doesn't balk when I call after a particularly difficult day and say "can you stop and pick up...." He will be rewarded greatly when my business takes off!
Anyway, dear reader, that's my sorry excuse for not keeping you thoroughly entertained for the last month. I promise to be much more diligent in the future!
Friday, September 7
Doctor, Doctor, give me the news.....
I've got a bad case of doubting you!
Took my oldest to the doctor today because a dry cough he'd been having on and off for the past oh, six/eight weeks. Now when I say on and off I mean the following - sometimes (3 out of 10 days) he'll wake up in the night coughing. And if he runs around outside and gets all sweaty and worked up (4 out of 10 times) he'll have the dry cough for about 40 min - hour afterward. Or, as it was today, the cough occurs for no reason at all.
I've tried tracking his diet, cleaning his room of dust using only a weak vinegar solution, eliminating foods, upping foods, keeping a vaporizer going at night, etc. etc. As you can probably tell, I am not the type of mom who runs to the doctor as every sniffle and snuffle. But, it was getting to me because it kept happening no matter what I did. So I made a drs appointment.
Prior to going to the doctor, I actually came upon a few websites that talked about exercise-induced asthma. Wow, I said to myself, this is exactly what Mr. Mookie (our baby name for him) has! And it doesn't happen all the time, and athletes get it too. What's the treatment? Well, in my reading, I found a few sites that suggest a natural remedy is to increase the intake of vitamin C. That's basically what I kenw when I stepped into the doctor's office.
It must have been a bad week for me, and I was totally unprepared (like I usually am for drs. visits, or maybe it was Friday Afternoon) but I walked out of the office with a nebulizer and a script for Xopenex. YES! I was so duh in that office, thinking that the dr. had my child's best interest at heart. Maybe so, but this is what I found out about Xopenex:
It can be part of long term treatment for severe asthma
Xopenex Solution should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 6 years old; safety and effectiveness in these children have not been confirmed.
Side effects in children include: Diarrhea, fever, headache, hives, increased asthma symptoms, muscle pain, rash, runny nose, sore throat, swollen glands, viral infection, weakness
Additionally, a nebulizer should not be the first line of treatment for exercise induced asthma - an inhaled medication, taken 15 min before exercising/running around should be.
So, looks like Mr. Mookie will be on his vitamin C regemin (sp?) and I will be returning the nebulizer with a note. I suppose I'll be out of my 25 bucks, but that's the cost of NOT knowing what's going on before I go into the drs. office. What a shame that some drs. must use a sledgehammer to tap in a picture nail. These drugs are so powerful and the side effects seem worse than the minor cough that he's been having. Mind you now, he hasn't coughed at night for the past couple of days and only cough a lot where I noticed it at a party on Sunday, this was of course after he 1) refused to eat anything 2) ran around and hollered like a maniac 3)got all sweaty (as boys will do). He coughed for about 30 min and then it was over. Of course, I was all tense about it but what can you do?
I am certianly not going to put my child on such a severe course of treatment for an occasional cough. Certainly, if he were wheezing, couldn't really catch his breath or showed other, more severe symptoms, I'd be hooking that nebulizer up in a sec!!
We're going to try the Vit. c. therapy and see how it goes.
Took my oldest to the doctor today because a dry cough he'd been having on and off for the past oh, six/eight weeks. Now when I say on and off I mean the following - sometimes (3 out of 10 days) he'll wake up in the night coughing. And if he runs around outside and gets all sweaty and worked up (4 out of 10 times) he'll have the dry cough for about 40 min - hour afterward. Or, as it was today, the cough occurs for no reason at all.
I've tried tracking his diet, cleaning his room of dust using only a weak vinegar solution, eliminating foods, upping foods, keeping a vaporizer going at night, etc. etc. As you can probably tell, I am not the type of mom who runs to the doctor as every sniffle and snuffle. But, it was getting to me because it kept happening no matter what I did. So I made a drs appointment.
Prior to going to the doctor, I actually came upon a few websites that talked about exercise-induced asthma. Wow, I said to myself, this is exactly what Mr. Mookie (our baby name for him) has! And it doesn't happen all the time, and athletes get it too. What's the treatment? Well, in my reading, I found a few sites that suggest a natural remedy is to increase the intake of vitamin C. That's basically what I kenw when I stepped into the doctor's office.
It must have been a bad week for me, and I was totally unprepared (like I usually am for drs. visits, or maybe it was Friday Afternoon) but I walked out of the office with a nebulizer and a script for Xopenex. YES! I was so duh in that office, thinking that the dr. had my child's best interest at heart. Maybe so, but this is what I found out about Xopenex:
It can be part of long term treatment for severe asthma
Xopenex Solution should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 6 years old; safety and effectiveness in these children have not been confirmed.
Side effects in children include: Diarrhea, fever, headache, hives, increased asthma symptoms, muscle pain, rash, runny nose, sore throat, swollen glands, viral infection, weakness
Additionally, a nebulizer should not be the first line of treatment for exercise induced asthma - an inhaled medication, taken 15 min before exercising/running around should be.
So, looks like Mr. Mookie will be on his vitamin C regemin (sp?) and I will be returning the nebulizer with a note. I suppose I'll be out of my 25 bucks, but that's the cost of NOT knowing what's going on before I go into the drs. office. What a shame that some drs. must use a sledgehammer to tap in a picture nail. These drugs are so powerful and the side effects seem worse than the minor cough that he's been having. Mind you now, he hasn't coughed at night for the past couple of days and only cough a lot where I noticed it at a party on Sunday, this was of course after he 1) refused to eat anything 2) ran around and hollered like a maniac 3)got all sweaty (as boys will do). He coughed for about 30 min and then it was over. Of course, I was all tense about it but what can you do?
I am certianly not going to put my child on such a severe course of treatment for an occasional cough. Certainly, if he were wheezing, couldn't really catch his breath or showed other, more severe symptoms, I'd be hooking that nebulizer up in a sec!!
We're going to try the Vit. c. therapy and see how it goes.
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