Erin meets power tools, It was love at first spring generating hammering force...

So after viewing my friend's wonderful job making her beautiful Farmhouse Bed . I was inspired! If you've never been to Ana White's blog knock-offwood.com then you need to go! Its awesome. Anywho Greg and I have been waiting on purchasing bedroom furniture and just using our childhood dressers and a bedframe. Well I want to pass one of the dressers along to Haley (the girl has too many clothes!) and get new ones for ourselves. Since Ana doesn't have a dresser design out there yet we're going to purchase this dresser for me and this one for Greg. We are going to make the Queen Farmhouse Bed for our bed and have started the simple nightstands.

Here are some pictures of the nightstands so far. It's late (because we have to wait til the bearcub goes to sleep to play with powertools) and we're gross (because it's way to freakin hot in NC lately) but I hope you enjoy the photos! I'll try to get more action shots as we go. I forgot about documenting the process until partway in.

Posing silly by the tables so far

Enjoying the nailgun a little too much- Thanks for letting us borrow it Mike!

Greg putting a nail in

Tonight's progress!

I'll post more as we get more done! Once the tables are done- then we tackle the bed!!

I'm Back!

24 hours after taking the lower dose of my meds I felt infinitely better! Another day later I was even better than that! I feel like myself again! I can actually concentrate and get things done! Just in time too!

Greg left for work on Thursday and came back about an hour later with a dozen roses and a card and said "Happy Mother's Day, I took the day off." He TOTALLY surprised me! It was so sweet! We went to the Y and worked out then came back and put Haley down for a nap. We snuggled on the couch and watched a movie together. When Haley woke up we went to Crabtree and got lunch at Cheesecake factory. Then we walked around the mall for a bit. I bought a new dress at Old Navy for 5 dollars! (Yay 10 dollar reward certificates!) then headed home! It was a great day and I was so glad I'd started feeling better in time to truly enjoy it!

Friday Greg's mom (Nancy), Emily's mom (Carla) and Emily's sister (Katie) came down for Emily's baby shower. The shower turned out great! (again just in time!) We all went out to dinner on Saturday night then Emily and Mike had everyone over for a wonderful Mother's Day lunch at their house. It was a wonderful weekend and we are so blessed to have such great family and friends!

Incompetent?

I called the OB-Gyn today to say that I'm still feeling this dizziness - haziness sensation and I wanted to know if it was normal. The nurse called back to say that the dizziness was probably unrelated to the medication. I most likely had an inner ear problem and to call the general practitioner. I did and they managed to get me in this afternoon. They checked my blood pressure- sitting, standing, lying down etc. to see if there was any difference. There wasn't. Nothing made the symptoms worse or better, just constant throbbing dizziness. The doctor asked about the medication I was on. I told him how the doctor had switched me from Lexapro to Wellbutrin. He asked if I was tapered off the Lexapro and I said no. I have never seen a doctor become visually ANGRY before! He was so mad that my doctor had me stop the meds that way. "You can't go off that class of medication cold turkey!" He asked who my doctor was and the name of the practice.

SO in short- I've been going through major drug withdrawel... go figure! The doctor thinks the initial "fuzziness" I was feeling was that after I weaned my daughter, 20mg was just too much- that is why I was feeling extra tired, I was just being OVER-medicated. The solution should have been to return me to the 10mg dose, which is now what I'm doing. I'm taking 10mg of the Lexapro- stopping the Wellbutrin and going back in a week to see if its better. The doc thinks I should be in a couple days.

I'm very glad that this may fix the problem but I'm angry that the OB was able to prescribe a medication he doesn't know that much about. I think I'm in the market for a new doctor. I had issues when I was pregnant- I felt ignored by the office. I called them when I was 8 months pregnant and said "So... what am I supposed to do when I go into labor?" They said "Oh you didn't get that paper?" so I wasn't too thrilled with that part of the experience either. I also had the Mirena IUD put in and the first one fell down too low so I had to get another one. I had to insist on an ultrasound to make sure the 2nd one was in place. Might I also add that the first one caused 8 months of unnecessary cramping? So with this last thing, I think I'm going to try to find another doctor.

Hope things start to feel better in the next couple days. I've got Emily (my sis-in-law)'s baby shower on Saturday and I'd be much more on my game if the room wasn't spinning :)

Mother's Worst Nightmare

I just witnessed one of a mother's worst nightmare's in the parking lot of Harris Teeter. When I pulled up there was a firetruck in the parking lot. A woman had locked herself out of her car with her 10 month old baby inside. She was just standing outside crying while the firemen were trying to get the door unlocked through a slightly cracked window. They did get the door open before I'd gotten into the store and I spoke to the woman briefly just expressing my relief for her that they got the door open. I hugged Haley extra tight before her nap today. Its just pretty scary to think about.

Thank you Lord for taking care of that little baby and for all the blessings in my life.

Just Keep Swimming...

I talked to several friends at church on Sunday. The general opinion is that the combination of weaning and the meds and starting to have my cycle again just threw my hormones  and body for a trip and I've just got to wait it out until it figures out whats going on and levels everything out. The waiting game stinks. I thought today was getting better then the dizzy spells started again. However I did find the motivation to start taping off the shelves in the guest bedroom to paint them. They're only halfway painted and it's bothered me for a while so I'm finally going to paint them. Getting SOMETHING done always helps. Then I don't feel like I've just been a useless blob for the day.

As I write, my daughter is pulling tissues out of the box and shredding them... joy. I don't know why we buy toys... everything else is more entertaining anyway.

Speaking of getting things done, Greg and I wall-mounted the TV last night. It was rather funny- we decided to do it tonight since the kit came today, but we had to do it after bible study left. So we didn't start until about 9 anyway. Well the ratchet mechanism in some cheapo tool kit that Greg had stopped catching right so I had to call our neighbors at 10 to borrow a ratchet. Good thing they understand these things and were still up and glad to lend a tool. Thanks Erika and Scott :)

 Grammy (my mom) also visited this weekend. So we snapped a picture of her with Haley. I have such a cute kid :)

Post Partum- the Battle Continues

I know I stink at this blogging thing but I'm giving it another whirl. Plus I figure I might get an opinion that could be helpful. Who knows.

Anywho- For those who don't know I was diagnosed with Post Partum Depression back in September. They put me on Lexapro 10mg. Then in November it suddenly stopped working. I felt worse than before because I'd been feeling better then felt like it was being ripped away. They upped my dose to 20 mg and it leveled out and I'd been fine for a while. I recently started to wean Haley, I'd gotten down to one feeding per day and finally stopped last Monday. I noticed I just wasn't acting myself anymore. I was losing motivation, not doing stuff around the house- just kinda sitting there. I still take care of Haley and all, I'm just in a fog. I went to the doc 2 days ago and he says it sounds like I'm just starting to experience side effects so he switched me to Wellbutrin. I still feel like I'm in a huge daze. I have to concentrate to walk across the room. I have hard time sleeping - yet I'm always tired. Its only been 2 days but I read online about Lexapro withdrawel. I don't know if thats whats going on or not. Has anyone experienced anything like this? How long does it last? I just feel so very "medicated" I also feel like my body is just against me. This drop has been worse than the other one. I feel like every time it happens its worse. I hope it gets better- I want to be me again.

So much for staying on top of this...

I had every intention of getting on here more and nearly a month has passed. Oh well. Its a work in progress. Greg's parents came to visit 2 weekends ago. It was a really nice visit and Haley had special fun learning some bad habits from Grandpa. I told him he wasn't allowed to teach her to spit out her food until she didn't have problems gaining weight. She needs to keep that in as long as possible! Haley had fun climbing on Daddy on the floor and Nana captured a few good shots.

Haley enjoyed sitting with Nana on the couch!      

 

All dressed up for church and playing with Grandpa!

Grandpa teaching Haley to bang on the table.

Just

Just hanging around with Daddy!

MMMM! Prunes!!!