Allergies and dealing with them

Well, I pushed my body beyond its limts yesterday. I took my daughter to her first diving lessons. She has decided to put gymnastics aside and give another sport that isn't so hard on her body a try!!!

I am allergic to chlorine. I itch, swell, get fatigued, and my mast cells generally go crazy. So I sat in the pool area for 2.5 hours slowly feeling life seep from my body. By the time we left, her elated, me in pain, we got home and I took some benadryl and went to bed.

This morning I got up fed the kids asked the hubby to take them to school and crawled back into bed till 1130am. WOW it was just exhausting sleeping!!! I was up for 4 hours then back under the covers to rest. Hubby made dinner (God bless him) and the kids did their thing.

The family has decided that maybe, just maybe, I need to quit being super mom and let dad take her to diving!!!

I feel like I have let everyone down. This disease just chips away slowly at everything in your life. I don't know a time when I wasn't sick. I have spent my whole life trying to prove to myself and others that I'm not ill. People look at me and don't see an ill person. They see a spotted mom who does a lot for her family.

2009 is supposed to be the year I get healthy. I have lost 6 pounds, and started working out, and now this set back!! I hope I can persevere and get through all this. I know I can, I just need to stay positive and remember people are counting on me!!

Not Me Monday

Its that time of the week when we moms post all our misgivings for the week. Be sure to check out McKMama's blog, she started this and deserves props!!



Okay so my son and daughter (both middle schoolers) are very active in sports. My daughter broke 2 bones in her foot doing competitive gymnastics in December. She was also hurt last competitive season. Gymnastics is really expensive and the hubby and I were lamenting paying an obscene amount of money all year for a sport she has been unable to compete in for 2 years due to injuries. SOOOOO I most certainly did not set up an appointment and interview with the local swim team, and I would never speak with the local dive team coach to see what her options were. As a supportive mom, I would never suggest maybe she try a different sport after 8 years and $50,000 later!!! No I would never do that based on money, and fear for her health. No NOT ME.

On top of that I would never allow my son to stay over a friends house on Friday night after the ski trip. Even though he had texted me and said he thought he broke his finger.... I would never brush off the text and allow him an overnight, thus putting the burden on another mom. No NOT ME!!! And I would never call his basketball coach at the last minute and inform him of the said broken finger that was now in a cast!! No I would never procrastinate so long, NOT ME.

And finally for all you out there who suffer from any disease of any type, I would never purposefully delay taking my meds so that the meds were at their peak performance while taking my daughter to her first swim team practice. Why you ask, I am deathly allergic to chlorine!! Nope not me, I would never put myself in jeopardy for my kids, surely I wouldn't do that.... NOT ME!!
Mishele

Mom "girls suck!"

Well my debonair son in 7th grade has been obsessed with girls since about 4th grade. He has girlfriends like the rest of us drink coffee!!!
Well he was bummed after school yesterday, and whenever he acts like this I can pretty much be assured its a girl. Soooo we sat in the car and he spilled that his current girlfriend has been going to another boys house and he knows this because her best friend and one of his best friends BOTH told him on the same day!! Ohhhhh the drama of middle school. My heart bleeds for him. He is a very social kid, and enjoys the intricacies of school, he does not enjoy being lied too or being mislead. Good traits in a man, but in school everyone is misleading and destroys what we at home try hard to build up in our children. UGGGGGG...... well, today I am sure he will have a new girlfriend, and hopefully things will be back to status quo.

A long week to be sure!!

Sorry about not posting on my Not Me Monday. I have been swamped with kid stuff and being a mom and volunteer. I am volunteering for my daughters gymnastics team, doing the marketing and gathering sponsors for our two annual meets.

She is truly talented and I want to do all I can to help her succeed and to offset the cost of gymnastics on the family.

Then there is the son who is a football star, and wants to play in a big 10 college but doesn't want to do his homework!!! He thinks that he will get a scholarship just on his athletic abilities. HAHAHAHA!!! When he was little I was super mom, and he worshipped me :) Now I am the pesky mom who wants good grades and has standards. My what happens when they turn 13!!!

I love them with all my heart, and I love volunteering, it helps me to forget my problems and illnesses and to live!!!

My masto has been a little out of control, but I am taking extra meds and trying to take it easy with all the volunteering!!!!
Well I am hoping to spend more time blogging, so beware!!!