Happiness

You can add visit to a naturopath to the list of Drs. I've seen (Christmas and New Years were wonderful by the way). The Dr. is my Dad's cousin and her office is a mere 8 minutes door to door trip from my house (while Walmart, the library, post office and almost everything is 15 minutes away. Although the outlet stores are 5. Yep, we live on a mountain right behind the Point of the Mountain Outlets- Annie's Pretzels in 5 minutes? Yes, please!). The Dr. was very sweet and told me to immediately toss all vitamins bought at Wal-mart (I agree), to eat healthy, whole food (which I will try- it's New Years, isn't it?) and to get a shot of magnesium (which I promptly received). It was a good visit but I won't be going back. I've learned a few things and one of them is- This headache is here to stay. For awhile. And I'm okay with that. (Lessons to be learned and all that). (pics of our home to follow)

"A broken heart is the very instrument we use to understand how deep we love." C Jane Kendrick I was taking a break from blogging, but sometimes there are thoughts that get stuck in my head and I have to get them out. Someway or another.  The other afternoon I found myself on my knees, not for the first time, with a large and persistent headache. Earlier that week I had just done some nesting/rearranging/calming my craving  to do something Pinteresty and had moved our large picture of Christ from the front room to  our bedroom.  As I prayed, I paused and looked up.  And there was the picture of Christ, smiling down at me- or actually smiling straight across the room- and I was taken by surprise. First by the fact that the picture w as even there- my poor Mommy brain. Second, by the thought that accompanied it- "He knows." He knows how it feels to have a small/medium/large headache. He knows how it feels to feel powerless in the face of pain. He know...

I can pinpoint the day my daily headache began. It was a warm Thursday, May 22, 2014. It was the last day of school for my four kids. I don't think that triggered it, but I was feeling a bit nervous and excited since I would be home all summer with them in the hot Phoenix weather with a small 6 week old babe.  At first it wasn't that bad. It was just a headache.  And I dealt with it. I took tylenol. It didn't help. I took advil and Ibuprofen, drank some coke and applied peppermint oil to my temples and PastTense to my neck.  Nothing seemed to help. My poor kids.I had to tell them to be quiet. Mom has a headache.  I gave up gluten for a week. No help. I wasn't eating dairy because my baby didn't tolerate it well. Poor Josh. I had a headache. All the time. And so, the headache continued. Every day it was there. Some days it was pretty strong. Other days it was very mild. But still there. After 2 visits to the Dr., my visit to...