Week 7 MKE Happy Birthday to me!!

Hey everyone!! It was my birthday during this week on the 5th November! Yes I am youthful and glowing at the young age of 42!!  I feel younger though more like I am in my early 30’s! This is great, we are only as old as we think hey! lol. ( I am fighting what the stress is doing to me, refuse to let it effect me like I used to!)

So it was a lovely day with my son and my husband, we went and did a fitness day and played Squash, this was the BEST!! I had never done that before. It was a 1st for Bailey and I but my husband had played back in England in his 20’s, as he would say a long time ago!! Wow it was super fun, energetic and we all had a ball together. We needed those laughs and that stress release after the very rough times we have had of late.

It was wonderful to see my son have fun and relax and enjoy himself, this was the best birthday gift on this day.

We had a yummy roast dinner to come home to that my mum had prepared and collectively it was a very happy day with my family.  The next few days I was so sore, used muscles that I didn’t know I had, lol!

The week went fast really, not much MKE activities were done as I really struggled with time again. Tuesday I did what I could and worked on my movie trailer for my DMP, the index cards needing cleaning up and so I redid them to my satisfaction. There was something still holding me back from being fully organised, this I had not worked out yet. I defiantly needed to do some more thinking and feeling about this. Why am I finding the cards so hard to follow I am asking myself?

I decided to go over  week 1 again and tick off as I went,to see what was still out standing. It was a sinking feeling when I realised that my movie trailer and my give and receive cards were not done. So being that this was previous weeks I made the choice to stop watching Week 6 webbie, this was catch up time. I changed my path on this day and focused on the things still needing to be done.

I was pleased that I had these done by the school pick up time, when my son is home with me my study stops so I was feeling good that I had ticked some more tasks off.

Wednesday back to the Osteopath, really great telling her his headaches have reduced and he is not having as many. Lauren was pleased and really happy to hear, we will still see her weekly for the time being.

Thursday back to Endo Specialist and we had a new Dr, she was awesome, so caring, so compassionate and understanding. This made it such a different experience, she spent the time with us and asked lots of questions to do a full review of how my son was going.

We now await the most important blood tests that she did this day to check if the tumour is shrinking and the medication is working, what are his hormones and thyroid doing now?  It is Saturday as I write my blog entry and I have still not had a call hearing the results so it is a nervous time. Lets hope Monday is the day that we hear great news!

So then Thursday was a long day as they always are into the hospital, the travel and exhaustion, so no study then.

Friday a meeting at the school for his needs and then Bailey came home with me as he was not well, so this day was not too productive either. I did get a little chance to sit for a time while he was watching You Tube videos on fitness. I studied too and I worked on my next task which was colouring in the shapes all over my cards, filled in my movie trailer. I worked on my next submission of my DMP but did not really get too far, new things are popping up in my life and so therefore I am always thinking I want to change it up again.

Today I have had some time alone and this is what I am doing today, had some hours at it but still a work in progress, this keep to 400 words thingy is just so irritating. I need to let loose and write and write and write until I have it all down on this paper.

Saturday as I said and had a break, went to play Squash with our 2 boys, this was family fun, my step son is 18 and had never played so it was great to see him enjoy it too.

Back home now, need to cook dinner and fold the washing, these things are essential so I must make time for that too right now, make my entry shorter than what I wanted but hey I am super proud I got my laptop opened and just started typing, look now what I have achieved, my blog entry for week 7!!

Oh you know how I said I had not worked out what was missing earlier?

I HAVE NOW!!

I AM a visual learner and in my working life at the office previously I had a whiteboard that had everything written on it, my goals, my tasks, my thoughts, EVERYTHING out of my head onto the board! This is what I am missing during my course, this is a must for me to get all of that information, ideas, tasks, goals out of my head, to stop the overwhelming feelings! Soooo I don’t have the room for one now at home but I got a pad of huge white paper, poster size and my hallway is going to become my whiteboard!

It will be magnificent and it will feel awesome to get it out and write it up and follow it as a much easier way for me to process and retain the information of what needs to be done week by week!!

Yes so feeling excited about this and as soon as I hit publish I am off to begin turning my walls into a wealth of information and instructions,lol! Umm so sorry Hubby, please forgive me!! xo

Next week will be the results of my sons blood test… Pray for him….

Blessings Lana xo