14 days Post Op

Today was a good day, though I am exhausted. Just doing a little bit wears me out.

Shelby had a playdate today with Carine's children, Jake and Jillian. They are 19 month old twins and we all had a nice time. I hope we can make it a regular thing, I felt very comfortable with Carine. The twins knew sign language pretty well, and I intend to step up working with Shelby on it as well.

After that we went to Sams Club to pick up the invites and then OfficeMax to buy envelopes. We came home afterwards and spent the day playing in the family room.

We had a 6:30 interview for the sitter position with an older woman who had previous nanny experience. Although she is a smoker and she talked over me, I wanted to meet her in person. She never showed and never called. Blows my mind.

I had more calls to return, emails to respond too (I've posted on Craigslist and I've also been using gonannies.com as a resource) and I did one phone interview with a woman named Debra who lives in Waukegan. She has lots of experience; her own children, foster children, and she adopted two of her foster children. She has grandchildren and used to be a preschool teacher for 20 years. She sounds nice and I booked an interview with her for Friday.

Tomorrow we are going to see the Renaissance School in Mt. Pleasant. It is a creative curriculum based program and is on the way to DJs work. It more than we can afford probably, but we need to explore all of our options. I fell in love with the school from the website. Also tomorrow we have another interview with a younger girl who has experience. Although Courtney soured us on younger girls, there was no reason for me to not ask her to come in for a face to face meeting.

Today I made all my goals. I got 64 ounces of water in, and I got at least 60 grams of protein in. I havent weighed myself today because I am becoming a bit obsessed with the scale so I am moving it to once every two days.

I did take too big of a sip today of water and felt my pouch for the first time. It hurt pretty bad actually, but eventually went away. That pretty much taught me not to gulp. Also, I am realizing that drinking from a water bottle causes more gas in my pouch than from a cup. I will most likely make it a habit to drink from a cup to avoid unneccessary pain.

My goal for the remainder of the night is to get envelopes addressed, stuffed, stamped, and sealed. Don't worry, I will enlist the help of Mr. DJ to ensure I get it all done.