Happy Valentines Day and other stuff....

Valentines Day is often fun for me. In addition to normal Valentine stuff it is also my aunt and dad's birthday (they're twins!) This year it was fun for me because this is the first year Kira really knows about Valentines Day. It's been on sprout and she was very excited about making a card for her daddy. We started out at the Dollar Tree - may favorite store for kids crafts and we bought two pieces of poster board, I cut one in half, gave Kira some paint I had laying around and let her go to town.

And above is what she made for her daddy. She spent 3 days over all on it.... part of that was because of drying time. Then she added some foam stickers and some doilie hearts and she was ready to go! She was so excited to give it to him and he loved it! She took the picture too!




This year I got some flowers from Jacob as well as a Kitkat (my new favorite candy - again) a cookies and cream hersey bar and 4 - YES 4 2 liter bottles of Mt. Dew... man does he love me or what?

No dinner, we had plan on Saturday but they fell through. We're hoping to go this week maybe. Jacob got a gift certificate to I {heart} burgers. They are located in the Palazzo on the strip. Check out their menu. I can't wait to try it!!!

We also received some pretty good news, I haven't let a lot of people know recently, and even when I write here not a ton of people will know because only like 5 people read my blog but we decided last year that it was time to grow our family. We were planning on June to start but when my birth control pills went up to 60 bucks a month in April we decided that 2 months wasn't going to make that much of a difference. Well things haven't gone how we planned and after some testing it was determined that I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). Which I know a lot about since a lot of my friends have it in varying degrees. Anyway, along with that the dr. was concerned about some of my hormone levels and ordered a Cat Scan to see if I had any unusual things going on. Turns out I do. They found something on the 4th and on the 14th I had my appointment with a specialist. He seems to think that it's just a fat deposit on my adrenal gland (which sits on my kidney) this is good news because as any of you who know me well, my brain went all over the place and was imagining that I was going to have to go the rest of my life without my kidney (cause I am an over-exhadurator). Anyway, he wants to do some follow-up things but I'm hoping that we can get on with the baby part of this plan instead of the "figure out what's wrong with Tennille" part of the plan.... because as it turns out I'm not super interested.

So with this PCOS diagnosis I have started to do a lot of research about how to manage this syndrome and how I can make myself be the best "ME". Turns out I may not EVER be a good weight, at least the weight I want to be. Part of PCOS is an insulin resistance. There are things I can eat that make it easier for my body to more efficiently use the "sugars" I put in my diet but being the size I was 8 or 10 years ago probably won't happen. As it is my blood pressure is excellent and with a lot of work on my part i should be able to at least feel better if not loose a little bit of weight. I'm lucky that I have a husband who likes a little "meat on my bones" and he has NEVER EVER made me feel bad about myself, which is good since i do enough of that to myself. SO, my goal is to just be healthier and if the weight goes down, then it's just an added bonus (which probably means I should give my "skinny" clothes to the DI/goodwill)

I'm doing a lot of reading to find out what those foods are and how to find a good balance. Turns out that it's not as restrictive as I thought it would be. It's really about making better choices with what I buy for my family so I have good choices in my home. It's not even a "low-carb" diet. I'll be focusing on the low GI foods... They look something like this. So places like I {heart} burgers would be a once in a while thing. I'm hoping that the new eating plan (since it won't be a diet) and the exercise I get with walking 3-4 times a week and the wii zumba will help my body start to feel better. I'm hoping for the wii fitness soon so I can start adding that to my routine too!

The reason for the sharing I guess, since it's not really what this post is supposed to be about is that if you all know (yeah, all 5 of you) then I hope I'll be more accountable for it. So anyway, that's what's going on here. I'm off to get ready for the puppet show at the library and saying Hi to the cow/bull/bovine in the lobby!

'til next time