Not Me! Monday — Playing at Midnight

by Dagmar on February 8, 2010

Hmm, time for Not Me! Monday. You want honesty? Here you go:

My next New York City Moms blog article was not overdue. I finally finished it this morning and it’s in the cue. I’ll let you know when it gets published. It’s called “Natural Birth, Duggar Style.”

I do not still owe someone a book review, have to watch a video about breastfeeding and write the review, and manage 1781 e-mails that are staring back at me in bold in my inbox. And I have one hour to do this all before I have to pick up Landon from preschool.

I do not love the fact that Don is at home. Not true. I love to have him around during the week, but right now he’s home because he’s in too much pain to work. He can’t even open a jar of peanut butter right now. So on the other hand I’ll be glad when I see him less if it’s because he is back to being healthy.

I did not just boss Don around and tell him to write down all the questions he has for the naturopath tomorrow. He isn’t the most organized type, and I can’t come to the appointment and drill the doctor myself. And guess what, he says he wrote questions down — that’s a first! I’m taking back my bossy suggestion.

We did not let Landon stay up until 11 p.m. last night. We came home late after watching the Super Bowl at Grandma’s with the Bleasdale Clan and then let him play some more with his trains. L has the amazing ability to play all by himself for a long time in the middle of the night. I get so much done when he plays like that, when he doesn’t call “Mommyyyyyy!” every two minutes. Why doesn’t he ever play like this during the day?

Always amazing how much I can think of for Not Me! Monday after initially thinking I have nothing to contribute . . . :)

Not Me! Monday is a blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

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Things have been kind of rough . . .

by Dagmar on February 7, 2010

Things have been kind of rough around here. Not so much for me — for Don. Four months ago he suddenly was in pain all over his body, and we haven’t found a cause or cure yet. Since the pain is most severe at night, he hasn’t had a decent night of sleep since this started.

Don has always been an athlete. He was a quarterback in high school and is a certified yoga teacher — my former yoga teacher — but now he sometimes needs help to put on his sweatshirt. His shoulders, his elbows, his hands, his wrists, his legs – every joint and muscle is hurting him. It’s not lyme, it’s not rheumatoid arthritis, and it’s not fibromyalgia. It’s some kind of inflammation, but it’s not reacting to steroids, antibiotics, narcotics, or painkillers.

Since Don is an introverted and private person, I want to honor his privacy, and on the other hand this is what I do — I write about my life, our life. I am in the middle of this. I want to write so much more but swallow it.

I keep encouraging him to write. He is a beautiful, eloquent, thoughtful writer and I think he should write about his experience — as a release and to document his journey to healing, which I hope will come soon. Normally a total sweet tooth, he is resisting so many sugary temptations now. He is completely changing his diet – no meat, no caffeine, no tomatoes, no potato — anything to avoid more inflammation.

Always a voracious reader, he now pours over every book about nutrition. Since convential doctors have failed to address the cause and severity of his pain, he refuses to keep working with them. He would rather take the pain than pump his body full of more medicines that only marginally help and can cause all kids of other problems.

He is seeing a naturopath next week. I am praying she has some answers. He needs answers – he needs a freaking break. Something is reeking havoc in Don’s body, and I just hope that there will be no long-term effects from this.

I have to believe that something positive will come from all this agony. Changing our diet to vegetarian is one of them — we’ll see what else is in store.

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Wordless Wednesday — This was my Day

by Dagmar on February 4, 2010

Early in the morning, Hilton Stamford, CT

I promoted my proofreading and editing business, imPROOF...

...attended six presentations...

...met up with David Mathison, again...

...but the best part of the day was coming home to this!

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Not Me! Monday — Stomach Flu and Library Fees

by Dagmar on February 1, 2010

I did not wear the same pants and T-shirt and Jeans for two days. No, not me. Okay, I had an excuse. I had the stomach flu and was so weak that I just couldn’t bear to do anything. Don took Landon out of the house in the morning so I could rest and was gone with him all day. So all I did was sleep and watch some TV, covered in blankets.

I did not have enough energy to tweet a few times while sick, but didn’t have the energy to change into clean clothes. You tell me, are my priorities screwed up? I figure as long as no one sees me…

When I finally was able to keep some food down and was confident that I wouldn’t faint in the shower, I did not feel so much better afterward in my clean, compfy clothes.

I did not miss this little man . . .

(this is L in our old apartment when he was 2 2/3 years old. He loves playing his “via-in”)

. . . so much after not having seen him all day that I couldn’t stop kissing him when he finally came home with Daddy. He was so cute, he asked “You feel better?” right away and then proceeded to show me the bubu on his knee from having just slipped on the ice. Oh, how I love this little boy.

Don sometimes reads these entries, so I will not tell you that I returned two kids DVDs late to the library again, at $2 each a day. Well, you see, the library is hurting, and I am helping them pay for their much-needed addition. Isn’t that nice of me?

Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

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Family Fun at the Gossett’s Market and Cottage Antiques

February 1, 2010

A few weeks ago I wrote about going to the Gossett’s Winter Indoor Farmer’s Market at the Gossett Brother’s Nursery in South Salem for the first time. My camera wasn’t working then, but I have been back there twice now and here are some pictures. Last week I went with just Landon, but this Saturday [...]

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Silicon Valley Moms Group — Enjoy the Best Posts of 2009

January 30, 2010

As you might know, I am a contributing writer to the New York City Moms Blog. I write for them about twice a month.
Here are the best posts of 2009 of all the blogs in the Silicon Valley Moms Group  (Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, New Jersey, Deep South, DC Metro, 50-something, etc.).
All of the contributors [...]

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Wordless Wednesday — Oops, Thursday

January 28, 2010

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Not Me! Monday – Desk of My Own

January 25, 2010

This

is not my desk. I am a very organized person, I would never let my desk get to such a state.
Okay, I admit, this was my desk — I have subsequently cleaned up my act.
This is where all the magic happens. This tiny desk is where I think of the [...]

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