Spring in Maine!! Spring has finally hit here in Maine. Some years it seems to take longer than others. Even though I know that it's coming, I sometimes lose hope that the snow will ever melt and warmer weather will arrive. As I type this, we are even having an unseasonably warm day in the 70s! What a lot of people outside of Maine don't realize is that Maine looks very different in every part of the state. Everyone thinks of us as the coast but that is a very, very small part of our … [Read more...]
Life Here
Life has been so crazy the past 6 weeks. Between Abby's issue then my own issue, Christmas, a broken car, and then all three of us getting colds, it felt like life was never going settle down. And it hasn't. My van is having issues. When I try to turn the wipers one, either nothing happens or the radio volume goes down. This is now fixed but it cost us $350. Thankfully, my scary medical issue has been diagnosed but it is going to involve surgery the first week of February to remove a (benign) … [Read more...]
Take the Time to Take Care of Yourself
There is one thing I learned during the chaos known to most as December 2014. I need to be better at taking the time to take care of myself. It took me the entire month to figure that one out. When I ended up in the doctor's office for a strange issue (that they still don't know what it is) and GI issues that were so severe, they felt like something more, my doctor told me that besides the few medications he was giving me, I was to find a way to de-stress. I needed to rest. I thought I was … [Read more...]
Thank You
I just want to thank all of you for your patience while I needed to take a blogging break to care for my daughter. We have seen a specialist and have been told that this is a much more common condition than you would think. Still not much information about it out there though. With a case as simple as hers, basically we keep her on the modified BRAT diet to constipate her and ride it out. It should resolve itself in a few months. Most cases are the opposite and caused by constipation not … [Read more...]
Dealing with a Sick Child
I shared on the Logger's Wife Facebook page but I would like to share here as well.We are dealing with a sick child right now. Not, "oh she has a cold" sick. She has been having issues with her stools for one week today and 4 days ago, she had a rectal prolapse.Technically, it is a mucusal prolapse or partial rectal prolapse. Basically, when she poops, a bit of her rectum comes out as well. It goes back in within 15-20 minutes but they don't know why this is happening. We are waiting on some lab … [Read more...]
Using Tape to Create Toy Volume Control
I don't know about you but I cannot stand noisy toys that don't come with toy volume control. Or they do but even the quiet setting is loud. And those obnoxious books that make noise! They are always so loud. Those are always the ones the kids want to use over and over and over too. When I worked daycare many years ago, we used a simple trick to make all those noisy things quieter. Packing tape! It is as simple as it sounds. Just take a piece of packing tape and cover the speaker of … [Read more...]
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