Ariel turns 8 and more!
I can't believe my teeny tiny turned EIGHT on Monday. Crazy. She has her bday party tomorrow. Even though it's calling for 30 degrees and snow, the party will still be on.. just probably not the outdoor scavenger hunt we had planned. She wants an animal party this year. And trifle. Trifle? omg. lol. So I just found an easy Oreo Cookie trifle and, even though it is totally not me.. I am using store bought cookies, brownie mix, pudding mix and *gasp* cool whip.. it;s what I'm making. Ironic since we have a heart cake in the house still from yesterday. On a whim, I was feeling really depressed yesterday, I made a two layer heart cake (from scratch) with buttercream frosting I colored pink with food color and raspberry jam. It's pretty good! But I am subbing this afternoon and tomorrow I have limited time to clean and prep, so store bought stuff to assemble a trifle it is. Ariel will still love it.
For her bday we got her a Kindle Fire and now all three kids have a Kindle. She was over the moon and has been wanting one for a while. Rachael also painted her a portrait on canvas and gave it to her. Ariel loved that too. Then Trevor took his last ten dollars (he recently saved enough money to buy himself a Kindle and that was what he had leftover afterwards) and went to the 7-11 by himself and, no joke, bought Ariel ten bucks worth of candy for her bday. lol! Very cute! Ariel had a great bday day and we met her for lunch with cupcakes for her class and she woke up to flowers and homemade muffins and fruit salad and we went to Red Robin for dinner. She had a great day.
On another note, I finally went to see someone about my Achilles pain this morning and he had GOOD NEWS! For once. Told me with some physical therapy, good shoes, and taking it easy on the cardio stuff for a while, my heel should get 100% pain free! I'm optimistic! It was such good news that I decided to make a chiropractic appt for the chronic neck pain I've been having. I'm seriously sick of being in pain all the time. This year has pretty much sucked so far... between personal things going on and pain I seem to ALWAYS be in and money issues we have right now, I pretty much am struggling to not be depressed all the time. But the doctor didn't tell me I am going to have to live with this pain, he told me I will be able to run again in my obstacle course races so I'm feeling happier about that! So my neck has been in excruiating pain... when I work out and look down, I hear this grinding and the pain is SO FUCKING BAD. I am not sleeping at night because the pain wakes me up everytime I turn over or shift position at night. I feel pain turning my neck and looking over my shoulder, looking down and then back up (like to get a dish from the dishwasher and look up to put it away on an upper shelf). Since everytime I've had pain before and seen doctors, they normally tell me my inflammation levels are elevated but mild and I should take ibu but really they don't see a problem (despite the fact I have pointed out arthritic nodules on my hands, etc) I just chalked this up to more pain that doctors were going to shrug at and lived with it. But it's been getting worse, my attitude towards pain in general is getting worse and ibu does not even touch this pain. Since the orthopedic doctor gave me good news... maybe a chiro can, too. So I made an appt and hopefully.. maybe... I'm slightly optimistic this pain and be managed as well.
You know how nice it would be to be able to manage my pain? I can't imagine people who live with fibromayalgia or RA or worse arthritis than mine. Being in pain every single day, even relatively mild annoying pain, sucks. It affects how I live, how much exercise I can do, how much just plain on writing with a pen I can do, everything. To manage some of it would be SO NICE.
For her bday we got her a Kindle Fire and now all three kids have a Kindle. She was over the moon and has been wanting one for a while. Rachael also painted her a portrait on canvas and gave it to her. Ariel loved that too. Then Trevor took his last ten dollars (he recently saved enough money to buy himself a Kindle and that was what he had leftover afterwards) and went to the 7-11 by himself and, no joke, bought Ariel ten bucks worth of candy for her bday. lol! Very cute! Ariel had a great bday day and we met her for lunch with cupcakes for her class and she woke up to flowers and homemade muffins and fruit salad and we went to Red Robin for dinner. She had a great day.
On another note, I finally went to see someone about my Achilles pain this morning and he had GOOD NEWS! For once. Told me with some physical therapy, good shoes, and taking it easy on the cardio stuff for a while, my heel should get 100% pain free! I'm optimistic! It was such good news that I decided to make a chiropractic appt for the chronic neck pain I've been having. I'm seriously sick of being in pain all the time. This year has pretty much sucked so far... between personal things going on and pain I seem to ALWAYS be in and money issues we have right now, I pretty much am struggling to not be depressed all the time. But the doctor didn't tell me I am going to have to live with this pain, he told me I will be able to run again in my obstacle course races so I'm feeling happier about that! So my neck has been in excruiating pain... when I work out and look down, I hear this grinding and the pain is SO FUCKING BAD. I am not sleeping at night because the pain wakes me up everytime I turn over or shift position at night. I feel pain turning my neck and looking over my shoulder, looking down and then back up (like to get a dish from the dishwasher and look up to put it away on an upper shelf). Since everytime I've had pain before and seen doctors, they normally tell me my inflammation levels are elevated but mild and I should take ibu but really they don't see a problem (despite the fact I have pointed out arthritic nodules on my hands, etc) I just chalked this up to more pain that doctors were going to shrug at and lived with it. But it's been getting worse, my attitude towards pain in general is getting worse and ibu does not even touch this pain. Since the orthopedic doctor gave me good news... maybe a chiro can, too. So I made an appt and hopefully.. maybe... I'm slightly optimistic this pain and be managed as well.
You know how nice it would be to be able to manage my pain? I can't imagine people who live with fibromayalgia or RA or worse arthritis than mine. Being in pain every single day, even relatively mild annoying pain, sucks. It affects how I live, how much exercise I can do, how much just plain on writing with a pen I can do, everything. To manage some of it would be SO NICE.