Week 7: Vertigo or Baby Nausea, Who Knows?

It's been an interesting week.  Last Monday, I started feeling some issues with my vertigo.  It seemed to dissipate later and Tuesday I just felt a little tired.  Then Thursday afternoon, it returned to rock my world.  Ever since then, it's been really messing with me.  I keep trying to wait it out because some times, it'll come and go on it's own.  This weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a women's retreat with my church.  The entire time, it was on and off, really causing me fatigue and frustration.  Needless to say, I'm going to call the clinic where I've been treated in the past and try to see if I need retreatment or not.

I keep debating whether or not I'm starting to have some pregancy related nausea.  You're probably wondering how that's debatable. :)  Well, the vertigo can cause similar effects and I'm not 100% sure which it is.  Part of me feels it's the pregnancy, but then at the same time, my head feels all out of whack from the vertigo.  It's super hard to explain.  If you're familir with sinus problems, you know some of the feelings you can have when you feel pressure in your head.  Or when you drink one glass of wine: that slightly loopy, unbalanced feeling but yet you still have control for the most part.  It's weird.  Anyway, I don't want this entire post to sound negative, just to let you know where I'm at, as people often ask. 

Benjamin turned three this weekend.  Pretty hard to believe.  All the kids have unique birth stories so it's fun to think back on them.  You can read here if you're interested in his.  Such a big boy!  He thoroughly enjoyed his super hero themed birthday.  Next on the list is Hannah.  She'll be five this coming month.  She's wanting a rainbow themed party so it should be fun too.  Sophia is on the move like crazy, practically running now that she's got traction. 

This week, two friends joined our home.  We'll call them F and B until I get permission to include their names on here. :)  F is a single mom attending the seminary James and I graduated from and B is her almost 9yr old daughter.  It's been fun having them here and the kids love the extra playmates and attention.  An added blessing during my pregnancy/vertigo issues as well.

Until next time...
Take care,
Terra

Random Thoughts

Today Hannah wrapped a small ball of Play-Doh in a napkin, said "It's cold," and asked to microwave it. Wow.

In other news, I attempted to take both of the kids to the YMCA's waterpark today. That was just entertaining. Benjamin was being happy but he's only 3 months old and has to be carried around. Hannah was dying to go into deeper water or on the slides but I couldn't help her sufficiently enough carrying Benjamin. After about 30 minutes of trying, I decided we'd simply have to come another day. And as you could imagine, Hannah was really not happy about that.

Things around here have been busy but good overall. We joined the YMCA ("Y") last month and I know I've personally really enjoyed it. I've been taking Yoga and Spinning (aka Cycling) with my friend Leigh-Anna. I never realized just how hard yoga can be! I expected Spinning to be hard so that was no surprise.

Our church has launched a new campus in the St. Matthews area. That has been fun and exciting. The public launch will be this Sunday and I'm looking forward to it.

I've been limiting my online time lately (as you can probably tell) and hope to do even better. I'll try to get some new pictures on here later though. I just need to upload them.

Until next time...
Terra

Playgroup Friends

Very often I comment on the playgroup (or people from it) that the kids and I go to. Well, the picture below is a huge group shot of most of us at the park one day. There are a couple of ladies and their kids missing but this is the majority of us. This picture was taken just about a week before I gave birth to Benjamin, hence, he's not in the picture. These ladies (most of whom live in my neighborhood), have been such a blessing from the Lord and I love our weekly times together! I'm not sure how I ended up front and center but oh well!