9 Days Post Op

Today was a pretty good day. I had plenty of me time and even had a long nap after daddy got home.

My dad stayed the night so when the baby woke up in the AM, he changed her, dressed her, gave her breakfast and entertained her pretty much all morning. This allowed me to sleep in (til 7:45 AM), call work to check in, do a tab bit of research and check in on the boards with my fellow WLS peeps.

I needed to work on the birthday party invitations so my dad, Shelby and I went to the post office for stamps, went to Hobby Lobby to see what was up and went to OfficeMax where I purchased what I will be using. It is a relief to be going in a direction with the invites at this point. Hopefully I will have a productive weekend.

Food wise today I havent done well. Actually, I havent eaten anything except two protein drinks (56 grams of protein) and cream of chicken with 1/4 cup of shredded cheese melted into it (8 grams of protem). But this is however, the first day I got in all my required protein at this stage (60). I have drank only 50 ounces of the 60 required for the day, so I am going to continue to sip, sip, sip until I go to bed. I even wrote everything down in my food log - step 1 of getting control of this.

I spent some time this evening trying to find the best deal for protein drinks online and for liquid protein to add to water so that I am getting in protein even when I am sipping water. I found out that a lot of these places will send you free samples, so you can try before you buy. I intend to be busy on the phone on Monday calling all the places I can find to get free samples. Wish me luck.

Daycare situation - I posted to craigslist; received a response from a woman in Sturdivant (north of us on DJs way to work) who seems very promising. We will be going tomorrow to meet her and see her digs. I researched daycares in our area last night and found this one called Renaissance School that I really like and has two locations: one near to the recplex where we intend to work out and one on DJs way to work. I called them but the person I needed to speak to wasnt there until Tuesday. They couldnt tell me what the cost is or if there are openings, so that will have to wait until then. I also placed the ad in the Kenosha News. It will run Sat/Sun this week and next. It usually is a lot of calls without a lot of good leads, but at this point, I am desperate. Additionally, a mommy I met on mamasource.com who has 18 month old twins and lives near me, might be interested in a nanny share situation.