The last couple months

Quick catch up!

2012 is going to be great!

Oh my dear neglected blog,
I don't even know where to start, I hope you all are comfy this is going to be a long one.
So 2011 was a crazy year for us filled with lots of trips to urgent care or the ER, Justin's first trip out of the country, for 6 weeks! Our first snake bite out here in the country, our first broken bone with our children. And we cant forget my nasty 2nd degree burns on my hand while Justin was gone.
And the whole year I was in what I call a funk, it would be off and on, if it wasn't for my kids forcing me to get up and function I probably would have been in bed all day. About August/September time it was really bad, if I didn't take a nap by 3pm I couldn't make it through the day! After talking with my mom I decided I need to go to the dr. To find out why I was feeling so off, I thought it might have just been my Endo. and just needed some stronger hormones. But I didn't want to go to my reg. Dr cause I didn't want to be on synthetic hormones I wanted to find a dr that would do the bio identical hormones. So after weeks of trying to find one that was covered under my insurance I found one, and she was in my town! I was willing to drive an hr if needed. After blood work and a call to come in to talk about the results, which makes you think there is more wrong with you then you thought! She told me that my thyroid was off as well as two hormones, well no wonder I was so tired!! After being on some thyroid meds I was feeling much better, but I then went into my funk again, well that funk is called depression, I didn't know there was lots of different signs of depression, I thought it was just people that felt like they didn't want to live or something. But no, its when u have this what I call pregnancy brain, where your brain is all foggy, you cant think, you cant remember things, you don't want to do anything even the stuff you love to do doesn't sound appealing, like for me baking or cooking(shocker I know). I also would have some bouts of anxiety, that I didn't know I was having, but I found some supplements that have helped a lot, again I didn't like the idea of taking prescription meds for that, I just have heard that there are a lot of side affects and if there is a natural way that's the way I try first. At first I was feeling kinda bummed knowing I all these things wrong with me and now taking so many things, but I'm 33 and never had to be on prescription medicine so I guess I had good ride, plus they are natural or a supplement so I shouldn't feel to bad and I am starting to feel like my self again! The creative juices are coming back and my energy is up, not quite where it used to be but we just upped my thyroid meds so pretty soon I should be my want to tackle the world self! I know some of you probably don't care about all my health issues but I have lots of friends that are dealing with some of the same problems and didn't know what was going on either, so I'm just letting y'all know so if you have some of these problems I can help you in some way, I have already sent 3 people to my dr. And it's nothing to be ashamed of, everyone has gone through different things in there life to make them the way they are. I'm just happy I know whats going on and what I need to do! And I can help my daughter who deals with anxiety now and then, there are some supplements for that too!
My hope for this year is a little less accident filled and more energy to tackle life with these crazy energized kids! And maybe just maybe there will be a lot of new recipes to try and post about!