Stuff

Things are quiet around here this weekend. Jer is back in training for a new jet, which is awesome. He is in class almost every day for the next few weeks, so today felt like a week day for me since Jer was not home with us. I got bad news this week...my cholesterol screening results came back from my ob visit last week and they are literally horrible. They were bad enough to get a call directly from my doctor, which you know is always a bad sign. I am not going to share my numbers with all of the Internet, but suffice it to say that I am a ticking time bomb. This is not exactly news; my father has always battled major problems with cholesterol and turned into a health freak about 25 years ago because of it. Even with his flawless lifestyle (and I mean flawless), he still has to take medicine. My numbers have never been great, but they are really bad this time. It looks like I am going to be forced into medication and I have an appointment with our family doctor next week to work out a plan. I am not pleased about this...I don't want to be on medication that you can't take when pregnant. Even though we are not planning to get pregnant for a while yet, it still makes me terribly nervous. I am sure that my doctor will have a plan that will work for me. I am obviously going to be forced to step it up on the elliptical and start cooking a heck of a lot more out of my "Cooking Light" recipes instead of the Paula Deen cookbook. HA! :-) In all honesty, I don't want to be careless with my health one single bit now that I am a mother. To have such horrible numbers this young means that I need to make changes now. I have a lot of years to take care of my little man.

Colin has been in a very different mood as of late. For the past week he has wanted to be rocked again at night. It came out of left field and I am not sure of the reason. I thought it was a fluke, but he has been like this all week, at naps and bedtime both. He has turned into a little cuddle bear, not only wanting to be held before bed, but also when he wakes up and randomly during the day. This morning he laid in my arms with his head on my shoulder for a good 10 minutes before he would allow me to put him down. This is very different for Colin...he usually hits the ground running. I (of course!) love to hold him and am enjoying the heck out of all this new lovey time with Mama. He is still as happy as ever, so maybe he is just going through a "Mommy" phase. It is so much fun watching him pass through all these different stages. Just when I think I have him figured out, he throws me for a loop! :-)

Colin, The Cute!

I don't have much to report today...I took Colin out this afternoon to pick up our Thank You cards at Ritz Camera. It was a complete fiasco, they are totally wrong, and I have to go back AGAIN tomorrow. Do you ever have one of those days that just refuses to go right!? That was today! They are wrong, as in the text of the damn card printed on the wrong side AND upside down. DON'T ASK. The best part, however, was when Colin demanded to be let out of his stroller. Since it was taking Jay and Silent Bob about three years to attempt to fix my cards, I let Colin loose on their store. OH THE HILARITY!! Colin was running around screaming and laughing and pulling assorted things at his level off the walls. I just stood there smiling. There are moments when a manic toddler can come in handy. ;-)

The first picture I had to post just because Colin looks cute enough to eat. My mom left her awesome camera with me, so I am having fun with picture taking until she takes it back. The second two shots that I took tonight are for Steph...my best friend from basically birth. She sent the A&M pj's for Colin's birthday and I know it pained her to do so, as she is a die hard Longhorn. ;-) See, Steph!?! He looks adorable in them! He loves them and I love you!

Mundane

Today was rather uneventful...it is freezing cold here, which kept Colin and I indoors for yet another day. I have quickly gathered that the key to keeping ones sanity as a stay-at-home mother is to stay active. Colin gets quickly bored these days and without the ability to hang out outside, options are limited! We made a trip to Wal-mart to get some odds and ends, but that was the extent of our "fun". It was 30 degrees when we walked into the store and Colin's little face was too funny! He was in total shock to feel such cold on his cheeks!

In the wake of my completely uninteresting day, I will share some details about me. I have always loved to read and write...both soothe my soul and make me truly happy. I also happen to be very good at sales, so that is where my career has taken me the past 10 years. As I get into week two of being a SAHM, I am thinking more about getting back into writing. The problem is that I have no clue where to start and this is reminding me exactly why I got into sales in the first place. I don't think that my writing falls into a category that would ever generate any income for me. I am very happy to write for my own happiness, but as far as a career...I doubt it. I don't have any desire to write for a newspaper or tv broadcast. I don't know where to begin when contemplating writing a fiction novel, although those are what I love to read the most. What I enjoy writing the most are short stories, and I have no clue where that would ever get me or if anyone would even want to read them. SO, long story short...I am going to start writing again, but I may be the only person who reads it! And I guess that is better than not writing at all!! :-)