Progress

Boy, I'm feeling good today! Well, aside from the horrible cramps and crushing exhaustion. At least the snow all melted (again) and the sun is shining. Of course it's only about 50 degrees outside but that's better than 90, right?
Tomorrow is my first craft fair of the year and I'm super excited. I've completed all the projects I wanted to and I've gone through my bins and printed more business cards and pricing display cards so I think I'm ready to go. I love it when people buy my stuff, it makes me feel good about myself.
I'm also very excited to start doing the gardener's market again, it's such a fantastic opportunity for me.
Most of all, though, I'm excited because I'm starting to make progress on my BPD issues. This last Monday was a horrible day for me emotionally. I was really irritable and I felt completely out of control. Of course my coping mechanism for emotions like that is to overeat but this time when the urge hit, I was able to identify where it was coming from and why. I checked to see if I was hungry (I wasn't) and I ate one candy bar and then checked to see if it really tasted that good and helped me deal with my issues that day. It didn't and I was astonished to realize that I didn't want any more. Isn't that fantastic!
It's so wonderful to me to know that I'm making progress and that I'm no longer a helpless victim of my own crazy brain. Hooray!
By the way, I'm done with the hypnotism class and it wasn't that great. I still believe very strongly in the power of my brain over my body but I felt like the instructor wasn't terribly competent. Oh well.

Corn Dogs and Squeaky Cheese

On the way back from the cheese factory today as Kai began kicking my seat and demanding his third giant piece of squeaky cheese I started thinking about comfort food. I think it's safe to say that anything cheesy counts as my comfort food. I remember when I was little occasionally making the hour-long trip to the cheese factory to buy the rare extra mild cheddar and squeaky cheese. I think we bought ice cream, too, but the cheese was the most important thing. I used to love watching the giant stirring machines through the big window in the store. I wonder what foods my children will consider comfort foods? With Kai it will probably be corn dogs and squeaky cheese.

Graeme Is Also Exceptional

Okay, I just have to do a little more bragging. I talked to Graeme's teacher today and she was very impressed with how well Graeme is reading (he's in Kindergarten). She also said that his pronunciation is very natural and a pleasure to listen to.
Of course, every time I talk to his Speech teacher she goes on about how smart he is and what a great kid he is.
The funny thing is, I was considering waiting a year to start him in school because he's so super energetic and I didn't think he would do well in school.
Hooray for Graeme!
You know, Kai (who's 2) can already spell his name...........

Stupid Cat

Our cat is shedding like there's no tomorrow. The kicker is, he only sheds on me. Really. Of course, this is the same cat that hasn't wanted anything to do with me up until now. He's always been my hubby's best friend even though I feed him and give him fresh water more often than anyone else in this family. Hmmm....sounds kind of like my children. Anyway, now he suddenly never wants to be more than five inches away from me. And, of course, he won't go outside to coat things with hair because it's muddy and stinky and wet and icky outside. I'm not real fond of this not-still-winter, not-quite-spring season. Everything's brown and dirty and nothing's blooming yet and it still snows and the sun comes out and pretends to be warming things up. I say pretends because it's still in the low 20's at night and the high 30's during the day. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dying for the blazing, unrelenting heat that is summer at my house, but a little green would be nice. Sigh.