Do Nothing Day
Sep 15th, 2008 by Alicia
We’re not getting much homeschooling done today. Or I’m not anyway. The kids have had some accidental learning via “Word Girl” and websites and new magazines that came in the mail.
Today is a bit of a Do Nothing Day for me, like yesterday and like much of last week. Maybe I should just call this a Do Nothing Month and then anything that gets accomplished will be a bonus.
I’ve been dealing with some rather annoying, occasionally miserable pain for about a month now and the past couple of days it’s been at the miserable end of the spectrum. Sometimes it feels like a dull cramping ache and occasionally if I do something reckless like shift to the left wrong I get hit with that “Oops, I’ve just impaled myself on a rusty pitchfork” feeling for 6 hours or so.
I am really not a fan of it.
But since just feeling like someone has stabbed you in the belly with something unfortunate is not enough, I have also been moody. Not just a little bit moody, but scream-and-stomp-and-fly-off-the-handle-over-like-everything moody.
Daryl is going to go into hiding soon. Or load his blow gun with some sort of elephant tranquilizers.
I believe all of this is a sign that I’m getting my long-lost period back. Alex is 17 months old and I am still nursing him. One of the advantages for me in nursing my little ones past early infancy (besides a free pass to consume extra calories, big boobs and a smaller waist, happy tots, bonus IQ points for the kiddos and cancer protection for both kiddos and me) is that I go eons without ever getting my period back. I quite enjoy it! 
Eventually all good things must end though, and apparently my body is preparing to join the ranks of most grown up women again. My rusty parts are dragging themselves back into place and being really, really whiny about it. Apparently I’ve got a backlog of 17 months of PMS that’s all going to hit at once, too. Sorry family!
So the kids are getting a free pass for a while, I’m taking lots of ibuprofin and hot baths, and Daryl’s staying out of the way.
We may not get to Scotland today or do much math. Knowing us, some sort of dorky homeschooling will happen anyway though. After all, this is what Daryl and the girls crafted one Mother’s Day…….
We are so weird. 
You deserve a do nothing day, honey! That’s a heck of a lot of stored up PMS. And, by the way, weird is good, in my opinion!
Thanks Mary!
Those 2 dolls are so cute in that picture that I can hardly stand to look at them!!! :o)
I’m slow. I looked at this post last night and it took me til now to get that they are standing in front of a gigantic uterus and ovaries diagram. That’s pretty clever.
Hope you’re feeling much better very soon. Let the bloodletting begin! Ha, I had go to look that up. Here’s part of what wikipedia had to say about it:
….a mystical equilibrium between several bodily fluids maintains human life. Excess blood thus would disturb the balance and result in illness.
Yeah. Pretty much, ay? ;o)