Getting Back to "Normal"

Ok, what is with those first trimester blues? Please tell me I'm not the only one who has suffered through this?! It's as if I feel like nothing is fun anymore and all I want to do is put my head under the covers and sleep for weeks. I cry, I'm moody, irrational, I pretty much don't like anyone anymore, and even taking a shower and brushing my teeth was such a chore. Add that onto feeling deathly sick, and you have a down-right miserable person. During those few weeks I swear I was feeling like I needed to be medicated or seek some sort of professional help. However, like clock work, right at 12 weeks to the day, every bad feeling disappeared. It was a rough week too last week with Mike being gone. I was being pretty hard on myself. I decided I needed to make some changes and get rid of anything bringing extra stress to my life. It's not healthy for myself, or for the growing babies. We have come up with some plans and I'll fill you in as they happen.

If you know me well enough, I work best on a schedule. Soon after Michael was born, there wasn't an hour of the day where something wasn't planned, even if it was "sitting on my butt" hour. It worked really well for me. My weekly meals were planned, activities were planned, I was sleeping better, and had much less anxiety. I NEED this back in my life. I'm going to work on a daily schedule tomorrow, and yesterday I did my meal planning. Hopefully these two little things help me get back into the swing of things. If you don't mind, I'll be doing some meal planning posts :) Maybe they will be inspirational and be worked into your meals too!

Another thing I've decided to start doing more of is reading. I love to read! I just finished The Hunger Games and it was great. I've started the second, but it's a bit slow so far.

We spent the whole weekend inside by the fire doing crafts, reading, and watching movies. It was great. Mike even did his "pregnancy run" to Coldstone for me. A big waffle bowl of french vanilla ice cream with reese's, cookie dough, butterfinger, and caramel was a great way to end that week I had! I didn't even get an upset stomach afterwards!! We did a craft I found on Pinterest, and they turned out so cute <3

Sun catchers! It was night time so the only light we had was the lamp...

Have a Happy Valentines Day!!