Things have not improved since last week. Just about the time I got over what sent me to the ER, we all came down with a cold. Indeed, we may have picked it up at the hospital. All 3 of us feel like total crap. Sniffling, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever - we sound like living, walking, Nyquil commercials. Add to this Adam's getting his top two teeth, and life pretty well just sucks right now. Needless to say, we skipped swimming class on Wednesday of this week. I made a commitment to go sit with my new guild's raffle quilt this morning, which in hindsight was a mistake. I can't get out of it, so later this morning I'll drive to Pullman with Adam and sit at the Beasley Coliseum for 2 1/2 hours. Maybe people will buy raffle tickets out of pity.
Interspersed with feeling so lousy, I've had intermittent bursts of energy. I've taken advantage of a few of them; I mowed the side yard yesterday (it was looking much too overgrown), did a little cleaning in the living room, and have tried to help with afternoon chores when I could and the weather allowed. We haven't felt like eating much, so cooking of actual food has been minimal. Which is too bad; I miss eating real food, but not so much that I feel like actually cooking. I may eat lunch while we're out today, at some fast-food place; leftover turkey sandwiches are wearing a bit thin.
Nothing much of note today til the evening. I had been feeling poorly all day, and thought I had serious gas. I suffered through it all day, but once it got to the point where I was having (1) lower right-hand abdominal pain, (2) mild fever, and (3) nausea, Mike said we should go to the ER. I called them, and they agreed. So we went in, and they did bloodwork and urine tests, and poked and prodded my sore belly, to see if it was appendicitis or an inflamed gallbladder or something. I had 2 X-ray's done, and it turns out I was just severely constipated and dehydrated. Now, before anyone decides I need advice or a lecture, the doctors and nurses have already done their level best to make sure I know all about fiber and water intake and how many grams of everything I need a day, so please, please, just let it be. I'm already fairly embarrassed by the whole situation, and I'd just leave it at that. I think I may need to go throw up again now.
Busy week here. Monday I went to a meeting of the new quilt guild I joined. Before the meeting, there was a free class. Donna Slusser and Patricia Magaret are going to be teaching a new class called "Let's Strip", and they were trying it out on the guild before they took it on the road. It was one where there wasn't any sewing, so I was able to take Adam along. He did well, for the most part. During the guild meeting, he had alot of fun being passed from "grandma to grandma". After the meeting, we drove over to Joann's to get some patterns to make clothes.
Tuesday, I went to Pullman to have lunch with a few girlfriends (it was one of their birthday). Between the 3 of us, we had 4 babies. Birthday girl's daughter was being too unruly so we got our food to go and went to her house and hung out for a few hours.
Yesterday, I tried to go to "little quilting" (a group here in Endicott has a weekly get together for quilting, and once a month they all work on the same project - that's big quilting; the other weeks are little quilting), but Adam was too intrigued with the lady's knick-knacks (not a very baby-friendly house) so we left that and came home. I started working on an Easter wall hanging "just because" until it was time to go to Adam's swim class last night. We did that, along with the same couple of ladies from Tuesday's lunch, then I went to my friend's house to see her new baby twin girls (teeny tiny babies!). Then we came home and I worked a little more on the wall-hanging.
Today, we all went into town to run errands. Nothing much out of the ordinary there, except that I saw Kathy (my therapist) in Colfax instead of Pullman. Then we all came home, and I finished that wall-hanging (woohoo!). Now I think I'm going to get back to work on a romper I started cutting out for Adam on Tuesday.
I had a very productive day today. I finished chapter 3 of the book I'm revising, and I finished Adam's quilt. Yippee!! Just yesterday I finished and mailed another quilt for a friend (will post pictures of both soon). Now I can get back to work on the quilt for our anniversary! :) Mike got some fruit trees planted today, too, and finished an article, and... something else. :) I'm tired now, so we're going to try to all go to bed.
Gosh, today was a busy day! Around 12:30 or so in the afternoon, I left the boys together and drove over to the home of Marilyn Bafus, who lives just on the other side of Endicott. She and a group of other ladies - "The Palouse Piecers" - have a monthly quilting bee, where they get together at someone's house (or a church, or some other building) and all work on the same quilt. They also have weekly get-togethers, where they get together but work on their own projects. The former is called "big quilting" and the latter is called "little quilting". I'm going to join this group, especially since they encouraged me to bring Adam along. It was nice to be babyless for awhile, though. While at Marilyn's house, she allowed me to see their 19-hour-old filly, Mary Jean's Dream Girl. It was amazing to see a new one so young. This is by far the youngest horse I've ever seen in person. Such tiny hooves!! She's a doll.
I came home to a fussy baby and a tired daddy, so Adam and I cuddled for awhile while Daddy took a break outside. I did a little embroidering, then realized it was time to go again. Adam and I drove into Colfax where we had our first Baby and Me class. We attended it with my friend from La Leche League, Denise, and her daughter Ellie. It was lots of fun, and Adam loved it. He was still clingy, but not so much that he wouldn't float (supported) on his tummy or his back for a little while. We're going to do this ever Wednesday for 12 weeks.
After swimming was our monthly La Leche meeting. We were a bit late, but it was still fun. There was a girl there who's having trouble with her baby's suck, and is having to supplement with formula until her insurance gets approval for a breastpump for her. I told her I'd loan her my pump if she'd stop using the formula. She agreed, so I'm taking my pump to her on Monday.
It's now 10:45PM, so I'm going to finish the embroidery I started before I left today, then go collapse into bed with my guys, who are already there, snoozing away.
I'm resurrecting this journal after a few weeks' absence. I just have too much to say NOT to. I may not keep it as up-to-date as I'd like, but I'll do what I can.
QuiltIndex.com is having a Mall Crawl! It's like a shop hop, but.. not! LOL This is what's been taking up most of my time, and why I haven't posted much here lately. The Crawl will be taking place July 2001, and will be lots of fun, but also lots of work.
Besides that, I've been doing some quilting. I have several ongoing projects, including a country sampler (for me), an applique BOM from Brandywine Design called Love is a Work of Heart (I have all of the block patterns and fabric kits, but am just now getting around to doing it), a fusible applique snowman BOM, a baby quilt for a friend (basted that one today, and have started quilting it), Adam's flannel Puzzling Stars (basted that one today, too), miniature foundation-pieced log cabins (don't know what I'm going to do with these yet), a fusible truck quilt for my nephew (started a year ago), and several others. I switch from one to another as the mood strikes, but I really need to get that baby quilt finished first, so I'm working on it most of the time.
I've been sick lately. Well, actually for awhile there, we all were. We had the "crud" - that yucky congestion-cold thingie that so many get when spring comes. For me, it seems to have settled in as a sinus infection. I had serious teeth pain as a result, and ended up going to the dentist in Colfax. He's the one who diagnosed the infection and prescribed some antibiotics that seem to be doing the trick.
I've also started revising the Access book I did a couple of years ago (just before the wedding). It's tough, but the challenge is a good thing - I need to be made to think every now and then. ;) I finished chapter 2 today, except for the tables that go on the CD. I haven't gotten those from Sybex yet, so I've done as much of chapter 2 as I can.
Adam continues to grow big and strong. At his six month checkup he was 29 inches long, which is an amazing amount of growth in so short a time. He also weighs right around 20 pounds. He eats just about everything, although he's not crazy about applesauce. We're holding off on giving him milk products, with the exception of yogurt, just in case he has a mild allergy. So far he doesn't seem to be allergic to anything. He can pull up and stand unassisted, as long as he has something to hold onto with one hand. He wants to walk, but hasn't figured out how yet.