So this is a new spot for me, it can mean trouble. My name is Jennie and I am the mother of four crazy but beautiful boys. I am married and will be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary this month! Yeah, I know...11 years.
I have done this on myspace a lot but it is always fun to try new things. I love to talk to people and meet new people. I am just a talker but do so better in writing if you get what I mean.
So lets see, there will be no kid pictures on here for a while at least. We are careful not to post them because there are so many bad people out there who prey on that. I will put fun pictures up and some very old pictures of the kids. We just want them to be able to grow up with as little crisis as possible.
Chris, my sweet husband, and I met when we were 16 years old and got married a few years after that. We started our family young and were told that we would never make it. After 11 years I am proud to say Nah, Nah, Nah to nay sayers. LOL. I am sorry but it hurt us when no one believed that we were capable of loving each other that much at our age. We had Michiel 10 years ago. He is in the 5th grade now and doing as well as he can. He has ADHD and ODD so his life is hard sometimes. He has almost no impulse control and sometimes gets in to trouble not because he is a bad kid but because he didn't think before he acted. We have 6 year old twin boys, Logan and Cameron. Cameron is similar to Michiel in nature and behaviors. LOL, he does everything his brother does. Logan is the polar opposite of his brothers, quiet and shy sometimes. He loves to read and watch TV on his head. Yup, he watches TV upside down. Why, I have no clue but it is pretty funny. Aaron is our youngest and will be 3! Man the time goes by too fast. So that is our family at a glance. There is more to us and as time goes on you will learn about the chaos I call home and family.
Now, about me so you know who the heck you are reading about. LOL. I am complicated. I love life, I love my family and I really love my husband. I can honestly say that he is my best friend and we talk about everything. I feel so good about that. He can tell me the same things he would tell his guy friends about girls, about work and about anything. I listen no matter if I think it is something silly or not and then when he asks how I feel about it I let him know. I don't get jealous when he says that someone else is pretty because I know how he feels about me. He is the same way with me. I have a few guy friends that I am really close to. Chris knows that my heart is with him always. I may talk to these friends and I may care a lot about them but I do not say or do anything that would hurt Chris. I just can't do that to him with all that he does for me, it isn't who I am. In turn he has a few girl friends (that sounds funny when I say it) that he is really close to and talks to. As long as he still can talk to me and is faithful I can deal with that. We like to tease each other when we are talking to our friends. I will ask which girlfriend he is talking to or he will ask me what my boyfriends are up to. LOL, it is pretty funny especially when someone else hears us. We get some funny looks...
So lets see...I love to write and am actually working on a book. We will just have to see if anything comes of that one but I am putting forth my best efforts. I am a stay at home mom but it can be hard on me. I have worked odd jobs off and on but working is difficult for me. I have a few medical problems that make simple tasks pretty difficult for me and life crazy for my family. I have Fibromyalgia which in itself is a difficult thing. I also have migraines, polycystic ovaries (I grow cysts that hurt all the time), interstitial cystitis (feels like chronic bladder infections), TMJ (jaw nerve condition), insomnia and that is just the beginning. I have been diagnosed with so many things I can't even keep track. That is frustrating. I live everyday with some sort of pain or issue but I try to make the best of it. The key for me is to get enough sleep (LOL, yea right) and to do as much as I can everyday. I can't push things too much or I will end up making things worse so I have to keep things just right. I used to be a cleaning machine. Now, things like that are harder for me so I take a lot longer to get things done. I am working on a routine so that I don't hurt myself or let things go. It is going pretty good now that the boys are back in school and it is just Aaron and I around here.
I used to watch kids for a living but complications with my health have caused me to stop for a bit at least. We will see how things go in the next month. Right now things seem to be getting better and looking good but then there was yesterday and I was in bed all day again. The only thing that makes me cry about this whole thing is that Chris has to do so much to help me out. He has a awesome job that is extremely flexible. He can take off if he really has to during the day and come help me. I try not to ask him often though because we need to eat. LOL. He has had other jobs but this one has been the one that has made him the most happy and so I can't complain. I would like to see him make more money or have better hours at times but for the most part this job is perfect for him right now. There are nights when he won't get home until close to bed time but with other jobs he couldn't take off for Dr appts or when I am having a bad day. There are also times of the year like around Christmas where there is very little work and he is home early. It evens out...
For now that is enough introduction. I will continue to come on and write. Probably once a week for now until I get the house and kids on a good routine. So, Hi there and hello to all!
About Me
- boogmonster
- I am a mother and a wife. I have four crazy fun boys and a wonderful husband.
1 comment:
Hello again..
Given your long list of medical conditions.. Have you had anyone mention that you could possibly have Adult ADD? I have ADD, and it is very different for women as opposed to men and children.
I am also a medical transcriptionist, and I work from home. There are medical stats out there, many studies, that have linked ADD with fibromyalgia and with polycystic ovaries. It appears that both conditions are linked with lack of dopamine in the frontal lobes of the brain. That typically also means ADD.
Of course, there is also the statitistics that claim if a child in your family has ADHD, then one or both of the parents probably have it as well.
Lastly, I will leave you with this thought. I have a friend of mine that also has fibromyalgia and PCOD. I remember seeing her at a party about 6 years ago now, and she was walking with a walker at the tender age of 35 because her fibromyalgia (that was not diagnosed then) had her in so much pain that she could hardly walk across a room. We lost touch after that for about 1 year or so, and when I saw her next, she was walking around with no pain and without the walker. I was astounded at the way she had turned her life and her health around. When I asked her what had changed, she said it was free weights! I looked at her like she had bumped her head.. and she told me that a friend of hers that had fibromyalgia told her that if she would lift free weights every day that her fibromyalgia pain would almost go completely away. She did not believe that she could do it, given the amount of pain she was in. She said that it was literally *ell the first couple of weeks.. but then she said after she went through the free weights every day for about 2 weeks and had the pain associated with it, she woke up feeling better each day.. both during the initial 2 weeks and after.. and she did not look back. She tells me now that if she misses more than 1 day, she can feel a difference in her pain levels. Her doctor also mentioned the link between ADD, PCOD, and fibromyalgia.
Not that you would want any more medical diagnoses.. but if you do have ADD, so many of the medical conditions that you mention in your blog could be alleviated with the addition of ADD medication. You would not believe it.. If you want to know more, please feel free to write me at: cialynne@nc.rr.com
I will share with you the research that links all of these.. including the insomnia.. I am curious though.. when you try to go to sleep at night.. do you find that you just cannot turn your brain off, and that you replay every single thing that happened that day.. Do you find yourself wishing that you could just shut your brain off??
enough for now.. I just wanted to share with you the above information. If you find something in there that can help you alleviate some of your medical issues, I am happy that something that I said could help you move towards more freedom from the pain.
Take care
Linda
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