Another week of photos for your viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed each moment.
Day 150 – December 3, 2014: My happy moment today was devouring the left over roast beef sandwich Mr. MPB made me. In fact, upon eating it I proclaimed that this is the best meal I’ve had in 5 years!! – to which Mr. MPB was just slightly offended that I think his left overs are better than anything else he cooks. Clearly, in my half-starved state, I exaggerated slightly. It was so delicious, that I dove in and only thought to take a picture of the left overs.
Day 151 – December 4, 2014: Mr. Christmas M&M man brought to me by Mr. MPB. A cute (any yummy filled) reminder that it’s time to start decorating for Christmas.
Day 152 – December 5, 2014: One year to the day and the custom pine mantel above our fireplace is now installed. We love it and are over the moon happy that it is finally done.
Day 153 – December 6, 2014: We chose our fresh Christmas tree today and set it up inside to thaw. I love my new tree skirt and am so excited to decorate the tree tomorrow.
Day 154 – December 7, 2014: We had a fabulously happy Sunday. Delicious home-made wild venison eggs benedict for breakfast; a morning of Christmas tree decorating; a trip to the farmer’s market; and a long walk along the river with Mr. MPB and Sadie. An entire day filled with happiness!
Day 155 – December 8, 2014: I had a throbbing headache all day today, so my happy moment was taking comfort in a late evening cup of sleepy time tea.
Day 156 – December 9, 2014: Sadie and I went for a walk in the beautiful sunshine and stumbled upon this little guy. Normally when we see one, Sadie alerts me to its presence as she tries to rip my arm out of its socket trying to chase the rabbit. So, being able to get this photo before the attempted chase was a happy first.
Wishing everyone splendid happy moments!
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During our trip to New York and our visit with Dr. Braverman, I stopped taking my prenatal vitamins, my vitamin D and my daily low dose aspirin. In the last few years the only time I have not taken them is during an actual confirmed miscarriage.
I’ve noticed that each time I’ve stopped the prenatal vitamin specifically I tend to get sick and my finger nails start to crack and peal. So, after a miscarriage, I always go back onto them right away because it’s good for the next pregnancy and who likes cracked finger nails?
But this time, now that we know there will not be another attempt at pregnancy, I have not returned to the daily ritual of opening the pill container, pulling out a little pink pill, filling up the glass of water, swallowing the little pink pill and then putting away the container. This ritual has turned into something I seem to be avoiding at all costs. Heck, I’m not even taking vitamin D, which I’ve taken for years regardless of being pregnant.
Simply, I seem to have no motivation to start taking them daily vitamins again – not even my horrible looking finger nails seem to be able to motivate me! I’ve thought about just buying new non-prenatal vitamins, but I have a full bottle of the prenatal ones in the cupboard and it just feels like such a waste to throw them out. So, here I am just not taking anything. Which means today, I am coming down with a cold and I am avoiding even looking at my finger nails which are no longer long and durable.
Well clearly this is not the hardest decision of my week given the focus on our adoption decisions related to race and substance abuse, what is this girl to do? I’ve struggled my entire life to have nice finger nails, and prenatal vitamins seem to have been the answer to the conundrum. I want my pretty finger nails back, and I am really not looking forward to dealing with a cold. Since I’m rather confident that taking the prenatal vitamins while not pregnant won’t actually hurt me, maybe I just need to put the pills in a different bottle so I don’t have to see daily that I’m taking them? Or maybe I could just suck it up and go spend the money on non-prenatal vitamins and hope they work just as well?
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