Where To Start

It is now the first day of October. I have not posted a blog since February but for good reason.  As most know I have had a lot going on since last year. From being addicted to a certain pain killer to learning to live life again without having to make myself high to do so.  But since February 2019 my life has been everything but simple and easy.  In April Ken and I had one of the biggest fights we have ever had. I will leave it at that out of respect for him and our relationship. However, since then I have battled with my health especially mental health severally.  I will say pretty much the summer was pretty decent, normal summer besides Ken not working but we survived.  Fast forward to September,  I know my body, I have struggled since I was 12 years old with my thyroid. I have a under active thyroid. For six and half years tho, I have been on the same script mcg. My body stop responding. But by September I got to the point I found absolutely no joy in anything. Like I was back to doing bare minimum to survive. I had brain fog like none other. Half the time not remember where I put my keys.  So I spoke with my doctor after not seeing her since April.  She couldn’t do anything with my thyroid meds because previously my levels came back normal (they’ve come back just in the normal range since having Ryleigh).  Therefor she was worried tho because I do have a goiter and now have a knot above the goiter that’s tender. Now I have to have an ultrasound done.  She put me on a generic form of Zoloft.  I went to the doctor on a Thursday and by Monday they were calling me that indeed my thyroid medicine wasn’t responding.  For almost two weeks I have been on Zoloft and a week and a few days have been on a new mcg of thyroid medicine.  But I really can tell a change. I’m getting my spark back. When I say I lost joy in anything, I even lost joy in keeping up with my planner. Well today I order my new Erin Condren planner and some Etsy stickers and ya girl can not wait to dive in. I also have been wanting to clean more and do things more. I’ve been a lot more active than I have been in a very long time and I hope that it stays this way. 

With all that being said, I am wanting to really dive back into blogging. Even if it’s just simply about our day. I am not going to make  quarented posting schedule but ya girl is going to try and back to what she loves to do. I am also gonna go through and clean up my blog some. My website isn’t extremely fancy but hoping once we get a computer back in our home can get all that set up. 

I hope those that have taken time out to visit the Occassionally Chaotic Mom understands why I’ve been gone but sticks around for more things to come. 

Also to remember you know your body better than anyone. Don’t stop fighting to feel better.

Thanks For Stopping By, 

The Occassionally Chatic Mom, 

Diedra

What Happened?

I was going to do a blog series of getting organized. Organizing is something my whole household is working on right now. Well to clarify,Ken and I. But we have decided once we purge all that needs to go and get it going in an organized manner that the kids then will begin to help. Sometimes when we are trying to get rid of things and clean, I mean deep clean. The kids tend to slow us down with the OMG I have been looking for that. Or OMG you can't rid of the stuff that I haven't touched in over a year because I still manage to use it.

Yesterday was mine and Kens five year anniversary.  (Blog coming soon.)  Before bed we stated that we were going to deep clean today. {Sunday} Needless to say by time I fell asleep last night after getting the kids to bed. And today November 6th was "fall back". I woke up at like 8:30ish a.m.  and by 9a.m. I was back to sleep until 11a.m. Then when I got up, our neighbor left us a rental movie to watch before taking it back. (BAD MOM'S,WHICH WAS A BAD ASS MOVIE!!)  So Ken watched it again with me and I was very proud of him because not one time was I annoyed at him repeating the whole movie. Then I took it back as promised to my neighbor I would and well Ry went to a friend's house for a few hours. However today wasn't a complete bust. I cleaned a huge section of the kids room. About 4 loads of laundry. As well as cooked a fried  chicken dinner on top of pretty much deep cleaning the kitchen while cooking and after dinner. Ken cleaned the  living room and deep deep cleaned out the pantry, before he sat down to endure an hour of his life to AMC The Walking Dead. Ya know the typical fall Sunday night.  

Now, well it's close to midnight and I have to be up by at least 7 am to get kids off to  school. Then tomorrow Brayden has his evaluation threw our local autism center. Wish us luck. I am hoping to vlog.  I miss editing and posting videos. With the family holidays coming up. I am hoping to get into the groove of it.

Well until next time,

Love Always,
Diedra

Savings....

Sometimes I often wander why tax time couldn't be at the end of the year. That would be awesome. We had come into some financial hardships due to switching jobs and slowly but surely have caught back up. However this time we have decided to start a savings envelop.  Each week starting this week we are going to put as much as we can into a savings envelop and go from there. We have to do this because from September to December we are jammed packed with everything imaginable. Stay tuned tomorrow to find out why we are so jammed back by the end of the year. 

Have any tips about savings that you guys have been successful with, comment below!