Seven things

1. I have three boxes of tea at work, and they are all decaffeinated. I was bringing a teabag from home, but this time I dug into them. I’m trying to place the taste – hominy? Yeah, I need new tea. I’m pretty sure these boxes are all from when I was pregnant so maybe I just missed their “best by” time. My mom gave me one of these teabags, and I love it so I need to figure out where I can get it this weekend. Probably the natural food store. 

2. I started this post three times but couldn’t figure out how to do so without being so whiny. It’s been a hard week, parenting wise. I felt like I was losing my mind, and it came to a head Wednesday evening/Thursday morning. But after the sobbing, I really did feel better. I also apologized to Spencer for yelling at him pretty thoroughly about something that was just a misunderstanding between us, because I was upset about something with Henry and he was very gracious about it. It’s nice when you realize your kids can recognize that you’re human. Last night though, was much better. Minimal whining, only a touch of crying before trying his one bite of food. Bedtime was drawn out but not with crying, just with not staying in bed.

3. This morning was also pretty good. We all (except for my husband) woke up spontaneously at 5:30am, but S got himself dressed for school and they played board games until it was time to get moving, and I even left not-rushed for work. Henry accepted that I had to go to work and just opened the garage door for me and went back in easily when I told him it was cold. So the last 16 hours were night and day from the past week or two. I’m going to try to go day to day and remind myself of those good days when we have bad.

4. I *think* I am losing my dependency on sweets. I yearned for a little something last night after dinner, but it didn’t consume my thoughts once I decided I shouldn’t go hunting for something. And my in-laws brought us home a rum cake from their cruise last weekend and I haven’t even cracked the tin. I haven’t had a single piece of candy from my assistant’s desk. I had an almond croissant with a department breakfast yesterday, but that neediness just hasn’t been there. I’m terrified of backsliding right now though, so I’m at that point where I feel like I might never be able to have a piece of chocolate ever again (which makes me want to sob) but I think that will pass too and I might get to a point where I can moderate. It’s been 19 days, so everyone that it said it would take 18-21 days, you were right on the money.  Also, I haven’t felt sick in 19 days, and that is really just amazing.

5. I haven’t cut out pasta or bread completely, although I have switched my family back over completely to whole wheat pasta and brown rice (they don’t really seem to mind). We were always a wheat bread family. I try to keep my portion of those things smaller, and I’ve found I don’t crave them either since I cut the rest out. It’s really the most amazing thing. Amazing.

6. Spencer went to a farm for his first field trip yesterday. I asked him what he learned and he started going on at length (complete with hand gestures) about how to milk a cow. He then told me about roosters and pigs, but when we stopped at the grocery store quick, he told the bagger about how you milk a cow. His homework was to write about the farm and he wrote about how you milk a cow.

Apparently, that was a big deal for him.

7. I’m not sure I have a seven. I have zero plans this weekend. Zero. I’m thinking about taking S roller skating for the PTA skating function. We might head out to Disney. But also, maybe not! I don’t know. I love it. (Oh! And zero sports this weekend, right? Maybe I’ll get to watch the LAST FOUR EPISODES OF WEST WING. I’ve enjoyed it but after 156 one-hour episodes, I’m looking forward to moving on.)