Gaye, you are going to love that thing. I never thought myself the type to declare my love for an IUD, but I am here to say, Mirena is awesome.
MelW, your jam sounds truly delish, and pickles...sigh. On the farm, I had a wall of pickles in the basement. 
Did I mention they updated the aerial maps on Google? Dh discovered that a view of our old place now includes a spring flock of mamas and babies. Double . How did he discover this? Why, monitoring real estate listings for farmettes back home, of course. 
(It will be a while.)
We are slowly working our way back to normal, with earlier and earlier bedtimes. 
Last night it was 9, and next I am going to steal a run before administering scantron tests to my kids. Dd was unhappy talking about it last night, but she loses her mind when she's tired. Kids also have their final TKD class and belt testing today, so it will be another long one.
sparkle, perhaps disturbingly, perhaps luckily, my brain chaos already seems to be responding to suppressing ovulation. 
I haven't settled fully on how I feel about it, except that I also don't have a week of the physical pain of the swelling/bloat of every organ south of my navel. Going to do this a few more months for sure.
for DS. IBS is tough. I have no idea on the vax...I was counting on not needing to worry about it since I have a boy, but now...
) is nearly $300 a pack. Generic. 
So, I figured, before my student insurance runs out next week, I might as well just do it. And, as mentioned...no more remembering to take my pill when I get home from work. We shall see. I'm desperately hoping to be one of the 40% of women who has zero periods with the mirena, but I would settle for just having occasional spotting. Oh yeah, and they insisted on giving me a pregnancy test before inserting it. 
I literally laughed out loud. 
Thanks for updating the online schedule, people! Sigh. I needed to get something in, so I went to the cardio room and spun on my own. They have these fancy spin bikes that have a video screen and have pre-programmed spin classes in them, so I did that. It was a pretty good workout, but it didn't seem to have ANY recovery time built in. About 30 minutes in, I figured out that maybe there was recovery, but I didn't realize it because the guy was saying it and I didn't have headphones, so I was just going by the condensed instructions onscreen. Also, no headphones=60 minutes of spinning in silence. That was fun. I spent most of it reading the closed captioning on the Today show that the girl on the treadmill in front of me was watching. It was boring, but it was a decent workout at least, even if not as planned.
) and I am going to get myself a coffee. Fallin apart here a little.
It can be so debilitating physically and demoralizing emotionally because people don't really understand that it's not just a 'stomach ache' and begin to think you're psychosomatic or exaggerating. Sigh.
Wow, um yeah I better look into that! Our kids' insurance is actually really good, compared to our own. We have them on a different plan, so I am hopeful it is covered. If it is not then I will likely hold off. I think the things I have read about it were from some friends who are anti-vax posting articles online. I never actually read them in detail, though. It certainly sounds like it has benefits but the whole thing is just confusing. As for the IBS the handout regarding IBS and teens mainly focuses on diet and exercise: don't drink soda, make sure you move around, take fiber if needed, etc. Fairly generic stuff, TBH.
). I could say more about this part but that's what I learned and it worked for me. The problem in this case is that starting a kid on a daily, consistent relaxation technique would be very hard. but at least it's a possibility in the long run. PM me if you want to know more about what exactly I do.
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...she had never run more than 13.1 before in her life, and that was three months ago, and she easily could have run circles around me for our 15 miler. Sheesh. Not fair! I was taking DS to the zoo after my run as a last hurrah before school starts, so I didn't have time for an ice bath. Instead, I'm hoping that walking around the zoo constituted an extended cooldown. I think it probably kind of worked, since I'm not too sore today, muslce-wise. Really, my feet just hurt. Which was not helped by having back-to-back babies last night where I was standing and doing their admissions for about 4 hours straight. Hopefully, I get to sit a bit more tonight!
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