Happy finally Friday!! I say finally, but this week actually flew by pretty quickly. Praise the Lord! Time for the normal Five on Friday around here.
1.) Posts from this week...in case you missed it
Monday >> Our trip to Round Top Texas for Texas Antiques Fair
Tuesday >> Mason had a day off school
Wednesday >> nothing, I'm lame :)
Thursday >> Ninja Ninja never stop
2.) On Tuesday we went to the Palmer night out. Palmer is a small town close to ours and my parents hometown. I think this was our 3rd year to attend this event. It's a little festival type thing where they have booths set-up and you can get all kinds of free stuff. They also have drawings for many different types of giftcards. And the police & firemen come out and interact with the kids. It's a fun little evening. This year we were pleasantly surprised to see that Captain from the Texas Ranger games was there too! He was so much fun.
3.) Lavender oils...I started using it about 4-5 weeks ago and I am loving it. Like LOVING it. We were having some trouble with Mason at school being a little wiggle worm and chatter box and I was shopping at HEB and went past the oils aisle. I remembered how Lavender is used as a calming agent...so I quickly put that jar in my basket. At that point I was willing to try anything to help him at school. I put some on the bottoms of his feet and on his wrists every morning before school {and it's helped so much}. We also put it in our baths. So relaxing! And I have been putting a drop on Mason's pillow every night before bed. Y'ALL!!! This is where we see the most benefits with the Lavender Oil. Mason is notorious for waking up and crawling into our bed between the hours of 12-4am every.single.night. Well, since I have been putting lavender oil on his pillow he sleeps all night long in his bed. All night long! He's only came to our bed once in almost 5 weeks. And that was only because he had to pee. He went to my bathroom and then just climbed in our bed. Oh and I've also used lavender oil on his bites. He woke up one morning with 4 mosquito bites {a darn mosquito got in his bedroom and we didn't know} across his forehead. Mason is like me and swells big time with insect bites. I put lavender oil on them before we left for school. By the time we got to school about 45 minutes later they were almost invisible. I couldn't believe it. And he said they didn't itch either.
I've also put some lavender oil on a cotton ball and wedged it in my air conditioner vent in my car to diffuse it. It makes my car smell nice and makes for relaxing drives!!
I will be the first to admit that I was always skeptical about using oils. But, now I am a believer. And I am only using the HEB brand oil...and they say other brands like Young Living are much better. I may be dabbling into other oils soon.
Do you use oils? Which ones and what do you use them for? I'm so intrigued.
4.) I mentioned a couple of times on this blog about my mom's recent diagnosis with Hyperthyroidism and how it's common in my family. Well, I have been feeling "off" for almost 2 years now. I was pretty familiar with thyroid diseases because of other family members going through it. I googled it and I had about 85% of the symptoms of HYPOthyroidism. But, I never did anything about it. Until my mom's recent episode that left her so sick. It was a scary time for all of us. And it lit the fire under my bottom to make my apt. I went on Sept. 24th and had lab work done. At that time the dr. did confirm that all of my symptoms lined up with Hypothyroidism, but were also symptoms of other things. So, they took 4 vials of blood and ran 4 different tests. He checked my thyroid, for anemia, vitamin d, and also an overall health panel.
I got my results through the patient portal on Sunday evening.
Diagnosis: Hypothyroidism and very low Vitamin D levels.
It wasn't much of a surprise, but more of a relief that there was a cause for the awful way I had been feeling. And there is medication to reverse that! I started on Levothyroxine and Vitamin D3 {800 units} last Tuesday the 29th. After about 4 days I could tell a bit of a difference. I wasn't as dog tired as I normally am.
5.) Yesterday was playoff game #1 for the Rangers. Nathan left work early to go watch the game at Buffalo Wild Wings with his brother. Mason had another awesome day at school so I took him to the movies. We saw Hotel Transylvania 2. Random fact - Selena Gomez is my cousin and plays the voice of Mavis. So we were excited to see it! It was so good!
That wraps up our week. How was yours?
