Yesterday ended up not being too bad, sickness wise... When I got home I started a load of laundry, and straightened up the house, and then we had our family counseling session with Alicia. (My 12 year old step-son is in counseling, we've had custody of him for 2 1/2 years now. While living with his mom he was subjected to a lot of things, and he's now going through counseling ... we have a 'family session' once a week to see what we can do as a family to help him through everything) The session went well, and then the TV repairman came to fix our TV....we purchased a LCD TV about 5 months ago, and the lamp went out already. We paid $2400 for this TV and within 5 months the lamp goes out! When I first called them about it, they told me it would take 3 - 4 WEEKS to get the part in....Shawn went to the store we bought the TV from and had a few words, and then we were told the part would take a couple days.....hmmmm, anyways the part came in last night and they came out and replaced the lamp for us. When we asked him if it was normal for the lamp to go out that early he said...yeah.......HELLO! Luckily it's under warranty right now, b/c when I asked him how much a new lamp costs...he said $300.........what?! So if it's common for this part to need replaced every 6 months or so....then we will be spending $600 a year for maintenance on this TV?! That's just CRAZY...if we knew that, we wouldn't have bought the TV! ~ anyways....after the repairman left it was time for Little Shawn's football practice, and Shawn had to go too....he has this thing about having to watch him practice...(he said that his dad didn't care what he did as a child, he was never at any of his games, or practices, and he knew how much that hurt...so he wasn't going to be that kind of father!) ~ isn't he sweet? Well Noah really wanted to go with the boys, and even though they tried to sneak out without him, he cried for daddy, so Shawn took him to the practice as well. I had some energy....can you believe that one?! I made the boys their favorite dinner, chicken fettuccini alfredo, and I did some more laundry. I actually felt pretty good most of the night. My favorite show was on The O.C......Shawn & I both got addicted to this show in it's first season...lol, anyways it was last years season finale, and I had missed that episode so I was glad it was on again......yeah I SO cried and cried throughout the show.....their was a funeral, and then at the end someone got shot, and Kirsten was admitted into a rehab....I just was a bowl of tears, at some points Shawn was looking at me and said "that's not even a sad part" ~ but yeah I was crying. Then on the news they were talking about the funerals for the 15 soldiers that were killed in Iraq from the Cleveland area. Oh I just started crying....my head was in my hands, and I was bawling. After that I was soooo tired, I put Noah to bed, who thankfully fell asleep on the couch, so he went right to bed....and I was out within minutes myself!
This morning wasn't so bad when I first got out of bed...however shortly after getting up...I started feeling a bit nauseas, before leaving the house I had thrown up......and so far this morning at work I feel ...... UUGH!!
2005-08-11 (7 weeks)
Prenatal Vitamins
I was so tired at work yesterday, as soon as I got home I hit the couch and fell asleep. Noah had fallen asleep on the way home, so he was laying beside me. When Shawn got home, Noah woke up, and so he took him with him to Little Shawn's football practice. I ended up sleeping until after 7, I was soooo tired. I actually had to MAKE myself get up b/c I was hungry. I started my prenatal vitamins last night, and I figured if I took them before bed, it would help the nausea, (I always got sick with them when I was pg. with Noah) ~ Well I took my vitamins, and then put Noah to bed...(read him 2 stories again!! lol) I went to bed myself afterwards, and within 5 minutes I was running to the bathroom, throwing up my entire dinner, and then some! Rice is not so nice coming back up!! I think I would rather take the vitamins in the a.m., that way I don't have anything in my stomach to throw up yet!
2005-08-10 (6 weeks)
Strange Dream
Yesterday on my lunch break I took a 30 min. nap....I was sooo tired! I nibbled on the cheez-it's throughout the day, and that seemed to help the morning sickness. I got home and made spaghetti, I actually wanted to bring the leftovers in for lunch today, but I forgot to tell Little Shawn to save them, and he threw them away when he cleaned up the kitchen. I was pretty tired last night so I headed on up to bed around 9:45, I put Noah in his bed, and read him a story 2 times to get him to sleep. He woke up around 4:30 in the morning and came into our room wanting to get in bed with us....usually I let him, b/c I'm to tired to take him back to his bed....but I know that before too long, my belly's gonna be so big that there isn't going to be room for him in our bed....he moves, and kicks, and squirms so much! So I walked him back into his bedroom, and put him back in his bed....he cried for a minute, but when he realized I wasn't leaving he was ok. I laid on the floor beside his bed and waited on him to fall back to sleep. I quietly got up, went to the RR and climbed back into bed....feeling very nauseous Maybe 1/2 an hour later Noah was back at my bedside wanting to sleep with us again...and this time I didn't have the energy to take him back to his room, so he slept the remainder of the night with us. I ended up having this very strange dream. I was younger, and was staying at a friends house....and her step-father? I think that's who was supposed to be anyways, well he was really mean, and I was really scared of him, and gave you this feeling that if he caught you stepping out of line, or not even stepping out of line, but doing ANYTHING he didn't t like, and he would beat you very badly. My little sister Kellie, was with me too. I remember crying b/c he scared me so much. It was a very odd dream, I'm not sure why I had it. In the middle of my dream the alarm went off, and I could not get out of bed....I made myself get up....but instant nausea hit...and I HAD to lay back down. I ended up being late for work this morning, and that definitely isn't something that can be happing a lot....but being sick every morning, makes it awfully hard to get ready!!
2005-08-09 (6 weeks)
and it continues.....
Well yesterday didn't get all that much better...I was sick to my stomach all day...lunch wasn't much better....after getting home from work I had hoped Shawn would have had dinner started (since he was off work) however that wasn't the case...Noah was at my side as soon as I got home "Mommy I'm hungry", and I was craving meatloaf and mashed potatoes...so I made dinner and threw it in the oven, and then I was off to the couch. The sickness seems to be alleviated SOME if I'm laying down. Noah was cracking me up most of the evening...and my mom wanted to see him, so Alex (my younger brother) came to pick him up and take him to Grammies for awhile. Little Shawn and I watched some TV....and pretty much my night was BLAH. My dad stopped by after golf league to pick Noah up and have him spend the night with him, he watches him on Tuesdays. Soon afterwards I was off to bed.
This morning was terrible...I couldn't drag myself outta bed, and when I finally did....I was puking. Kinda hard to get ready for work with your head hanging over a toilet!! I felt better after throwing up though, and managed to get ready and get out the door. Once I hit the office though, I was feeling oh so crappy again....I brought some Cheddar Jack Cheez-It's though to munch on throughout the day and hopefully help the nauseated feeling I've come accustomed to these past few days....
Maybe 1/2 an hour later Noah was back at my bedside wanting to sleep with us again...and this time I didn't have the energy to take him back to his room, so he slept the remainder of the night with us. I ended up having this very strange dream. I was younger, and was staying at a friends house....and her step-father? I think that's who was supposed to be anyways, well he was really mean, and I was really scared of him, and gave you this feeling that if he caught you stepping out of line, or not even stepping out of line, but doing ANYTHING he didn't t like, and he would beat you very badly. My little sister Kellie, was with me too. I remember crying b/c he scared me so much. It was a very odd dream, I'm not sure why I had it. In the middle of my dream the alarm went off, and I could not get out of bed....I made myself get up....but instant nausea hit...and I HAD to lay back down. 
I ended up being late for work this morning, and that definitely isn't something that can be happing a lot....but being sick every morning, makes it awfully hard to get ready!!