Tomorrow's My Birthday!

I'll be 37. Anything special about 37? Well, I made it this far! That is a good thing. Dan is going to take me out to dinner. I didn't want to throw myself a birthday party. A nice quiet evening together sounds lovely. Steak, anyone?
I have been waiting to have good news to update on my health, but I thought it had been long enough. I am having yucky reactions to the medicines I have tried, so I am still searching. This is what is going on today--screaming headache and nausea (had that for 2 weeks) because the thyroid medicine is too much, Panic Attacks brought on by medicines that weren't right for me, I have a big scratch on my leg that got infected--a flook thing after scratching my leg above a bug bite, so it is itching, which is a good thing, becuase it is finally healing. I had to get antibiotics for that, so I am having some fatigue and mucle weakness due to that--but not as bad as the last two times I had antibiotics. I get cranky after having a headache all day. I have tried lots of things to get rid of it. The lucky thing is that I can go to sleep and it goes away while I am asleep. Then I have a few minutes before the headache comes back when I wake up. The nausea increases and decreases through the day and makes it extremely hard to ride or drive in the car.
Back to the crankies. Tyler doesn't like it. So, today, we all had a moment together to cry a bit about mom not feeling well and I vowed again to not make this agony on my kids. Luckily, Brent is working at Scout Camp, and so he is blissfully unaware of mom's stuff. Lucky him.
I have been reading alot of books and yesterday I watched the TV shows I had on the DVR. I think after the kids catching up on chores today, we will start a "Harry Potter" marathon since we will see the new movie while we are on vacation in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!
Note to self: Don't read off of the computer too fast--it causes a wave of nausea.
Dan and I are trying to find a place to take out Travel Trailor for 2 nights for our 17th anniversary in August. I am excitedly trying to find a place in budget and not too far away (just in case the nausea has not left--we must plan for these things.) I am thinking down by Pocatello, so we can go to Costco. : ) So romantic!! I wanted to go to West Yellowstone, but Pocatello is half the price. They don't have Old Faithful. But they do have Costco!
Kristin and I picked up some little craft projects for the kids to do and that has been a great thing. (Thank you to my Visiting Teacher for doing to driving that day) Right now, Rebekah and Tyler are in their swim suits in my tub pretending it is a pool. With Bubbles.
The Basement you ask? And the yard? Well, PROGRESS! We did some yard details, like remove rocks that were not supposed to be there and put rocks where they were supposed to be and then on Saturday, July 4th, it was the birth of our lawn! Ta Da! We have grass seed in our yard. We were so excited. Dan, who has been nothing but stressed about all of this, smiled! Alot! Then, he found out a friend builds houses and so he hired him to finish the trim and caulk it and hang a couple of doors. He is working right now. Oh my. We picked out carpet, too. The shower is almost tiled and the floor is started. Oh my. We love it. I can't wait until it is done, only so I can show you pictures: )
So, in conclusion, there is alot of yucky stuff happening, and there is alot of good stuff! Wait, isn't that always the case?? Life. I am enjoying the fact that it is summer. Love it. We went camping with friends. It was fun, except that is when the Panic Attacks started, so I had that going on while the kids fished and played in the water and ran around. Kristin had a blast at Girl's Camp--no migraines : ) I went up with Dan, he stayed all night, I stayed an hour. I got 25 bug bites and itched so bad I didn't get a full night's sleep for 4 nights. (Then comes the infected leg where I scratched).
Oh, wait! That was supposed to be my conclusion paragraph. I guess this one will be. Onward and upward!