i went in to the dr. on friday. Hazel is in position and ready for take off. ok, maybe not exactly, but she is head-down. everything looked pretty good. i'm still struggling to gain much weight. didn't gain any in the last week. i've been exercising every day, but nothing too rigorous, and i've been eating until i'm stuffed. not sure what the deal is. i've been feeling light-headed lately. i'm not sure if it is because of this, but my BP has been on the low side. i have another dr. appointment on wednesday. i'm getting pretty familiar with all the magazines in the waiting room.

Mama came and took us to lunch at jason's on wednesday. while we were there, John started complaining about his chest hurting. i took him on my lap and notice that his heart was just pounding out of his chest! Mama and i both tried to take his pulse, but he wouldn't sit still long enough for us to. he was acting fine. i called the dr. and asked a nurse what to do. she didn't seem too concerned, but i was! i was ready to take him to Dell Children's, but we decided to give it a little while. i looked up tachycardia on my phone and it seems that that is just something that happens to even healthy kids occasionally and is usually not something to worry about. as John was acting normal, we decided he was probably fine. it was pretty scary for me. my sister had a heart condition where he pulse would race and get above 200. she eventually had a procedure done to correct it. this reminded me of those scary times when we couldn't get her heart rate down.

Mama took the kids home with her for the weekend. i went out for a coffee splurge and then thrifting, then came home and did a little sewing. it felt so indulgent!

friday night Brian and i went out to dinner at Fonda San Miguel on a gift certificate from my mom and stepdad. it's an upscale interior mexican food restaurant, and we had a lovely time. it is located in a cozy old residential neighborhood and we walked around after dinner and admired the houses.

saturday morning we both got out and exercised, then went to find a place to watch the Texas-OU game. we settled on Trudy's as it wasn't crowded and this momma was starving. we stayed for the first half, but gave up and came home after that. it was sad to see the youngins get such a beating like that.

i did some more sewing and cleaning and Brian worked on some projects around here, too. it is always weird when the kids are away and we have the house to ourselves. it takes awhile to figure out what we're supposed to do with ourselves.

i did some more sewing and worked some more on getting the nursery tidied up. here is a promised pic of the sling i made last week. the one on the left is the bebe360 one i bought, and the other is my copycat one.

the most exciting news of the whole weekend is that we got a bunch of rain. it started pouring Saturday afternoon and didn't let up until Sunday. Brian and i cozied up together in the bed and alternated between watching the Rangers and Detroit and whatever college football game was on (i can't recall).

it was so good to be in church (i know, i say that every week, but it is SO true!) and worship and rejoice with the saints. after church we went out to lunch. i got out and exercised and then did some major grocery shopping because we literally had nothing in the house to eat but a box of Malt-O-Meal. do people actually eat that stuff??? not even sure why we had it. i think it had to be ten years old.

oh, and here's a vidoe of me at the finish of the IBM 10K.

Mama brought the kids back last night and now it is back to our regularly scheduled program. which means i need to put my teacher hat on and get out there.