May Day Challenge!

Hello all! Well last night was horrible! Not from an eating/food stand point, but from a sleeping stand point. Ray, my 2yo who has pink eye and a cold, woke up around 2am or so. Crying, but couldn't understand what he was trying to tell me.:frown: Finally got him calmed down enough to understand he had "coughs." Ok, out with the cold and allergy meds (shhh, don't tell the FDA I still give it to my kids who aren't 6 yet ). After his meds, he laid down and I THOUGHT he was going back to sleep. (By now it's about 2:45 or so.) At about 3am, he starts crying again. This time he has "snots." *sigh* Kleenex to the rescue. Back to bed. Crying again. Now his ear hurts. Out comes the ibuprofen (NOT an ingredient in the previous meds and OK to take with it, I checked:blushing: ). Now he doesn't want to be in his bed, he wants to sleep on the couch, probably because it reclines and keeps his head up higher than his pillow. Didn't manage to get any sleep in the time we were on the couch. Then he wanted to go back to his bed. FINALLY, at about 4:45 he went back to sleep and did not wake up again until DH and Ruth (5yo) got up to get ready for school and work. Even though he woke up at that point, he justs came and crawled in bed with me (thankfully I had already called in and sent sub plans to the secretary via email). We proceded to sleep until 9:45.:laugh: I know that I still got my usual 7ish hours of sleep, but I am SOOO tired:yawn: He just finally went down for his nap. I'm going to try to up my energy level by doing a little Wii Fit. I think boxing may be called for.

Thanks for listening to my rant:blushing: I hope everyone is having a great day!

Ok, so at 10 minutes till 5pm I get a phone call from my daycare lady. She "forgot" to mention that I would need a Dr. note b4 Ray can go back to daycare:grumble: So I call the office. All the dr.s are gone for the day, and won't return until 8:30 tomorrow morning. So I call DC lady back and explain this to her. She will not allow Ray at DC until she has the note in hand. Ok, I get the not wanting to get other kids sick, but I have to send the Rx to DC so that she can give it to him once during the day. Hmmmm, don't you usually have to go to a Dr to get an Rx? But that's not good enough. Sooooo, DH is taking the morning off to call the Dr, get the note, and then wait for the fax confirmation before he takes Ray over there. His boss basically told him (due to more than this, it's been a long time coming) that we need to find new daycare.

What is really the icing on the cake is that when she told me she was closing for 3 days, she made it sound like it was at her dr's advice. But oh no, apparently she has been turned in to the health department for noncompliance with the regs about illness, etc. Her dr was not the one who closed her down, the health department MADE her close so they could reinspect!:noway:

I understand that parents who send their kids to DC sick help cause this problem, but since I don't know which parent it is that keeps sending their kids sick, I am :explode: with her. She has been SUPER picky when Ray is sick, beyond anything I've dealt with at any other daycare. Why didn't she "fire" whatever parent it is that's been doing this way back when she got written up for it? I will admit to having to pick Ray up a couple times because he started running a fever or he started having "greenish discharge" (sorry for the mind picture) from his nose. Each time she's acted like it was major felony each time. I'm sorry. If the kid was acting fine and didn't have a runny nose when I sent him, how was I supposed to know he was going to develop those things during the day?

Sorry. Just a very stressful time from about 4pm to 7 or so this evening. I am trying to work my from :explode: :mad: :explode: down to merely :grumble: All of it just makes me want to either pull my hair out or :sad: Ray really likes her. Ruth likes her. She does preschool activities with Ray every day, and he's really learning a lot. As important as those things are, if DH loses his job over it, it's just not worth it! (I do want to make it clear that his work has been MORE than understanding. He's late every day because she doesn't open in time for me to drop Ray off or for DH to drop him off and make it work by 8am. More than once, they have let him switch his day off unexpectedly because she has had to close for one reason or another, or he had to go pick up Ray. They've been great, but you can't expect them to put up with it forever.) At least we can place the blame for having to leave on his boss. We live in a VERY small town (no grocery store, one gas station that isn't open past 9pm) and things like this can make it rough.

Ok. Thank you for putting up with me today. Two rants in less than 12 hours is probably a little much! We'll figure out what to do, but it's not going to be fun. I'm afraid Ray will be :brokenheart: when he finds out he won't be going there anymore. Hopefully we can find someplace better for all of us. *sigh* Well, I am off to bed. Last night was a short night, and tomorrow will be a rough day. The good news in all of this is that I did not medicate my stress with food:bigsmile: I really wanted to, oh how I wanted to, but I resisted and told you all about it instead. So THANKS!!:flowerforyou:

I had weigh in for the BL challenge at my school today. Their scale I was down 2lbs, but I wasn't wearing the EXACT same clothes, so that may account for some of it. Hopefully I really am down at least 1lb for weigh in tomorrow. (I don't log the weight I get here at school b/c they have us weigh fully clothed WITH shoes on.) Today has been a good day so far. Breakfast was a little lighter than I would have liked, but I ran out of time to eat all of it. I will make it up in snacks later, I'm sure:grumble: Good news is that I did the Wii Fit yesterday, and I'm feeling much peppier today. Even with all the stress, I'm feeling better. Coincidence? I hope not. I'm going to try add some more exercises with the balance ball tonight after I get done on the Wii.

I was thinking next week's challenge or challenges could be exercise and water. How does everyone feel about that? Any other ideas?

Start weight: 182
Dec. 25: 182
Jan. 1: Didn't weigh in
Jan. 8: 180
Jan. 15: 177:noway:
Jan. 22:
Jan. 29:
Feb. 5:
Feb. 12:
Feb. 19:
Feb. 26:
March 5:
March 12:
March 19:
March 26:
April 2:
April 9:
April 16:
April 23:
April 30: 165!!!

I have no idea how I lost 3lbs this week. I guess just getting back into our usual rhythm helped? That and I tend to NOT eat during times of high stress. So that probably helped. I've also been much better about my sodium and I've been drinking a lot more water. (I got a bigger bottle so I don't have to fill it up as often:laugh: )

I hope everyone else is having a good weigh in day, too!