Friday Aug 21st.
The kids and I frosted cookies and I snapped a few pictures of a butterfly out my window! I was really super tired for some reason but still managed to pull off a full day. Friday afternoon I took Luke to school to read his class list for the school year. Then we were off to Crestline pool. It was a short stay b/c it was windy w/ random clouds, which made the pool cold. Also they decided to close early. Rich and I ended up taking the kids to a nearby playground, then picking up pizza for dinner.

Saturday August 22nd

Was my "LAN" party... basically that just means I wanted time to myself b/c Rich hosted a LAN party here the other day, which meant I had the kids myself all day. For my time I tried to get out of the house a bit. Karen and I went to Planktown Market and enjoyed taking our time looking at all the food. They had so many new things at this store. It's fun to just look! Then we went out to eat at lunch at Aspen. ummmmmmm, I'm reminded, that 1/2 of my sandwich is still in the fridge! uh oh! Then we stopped by the farm to pick up corn. ummmmmm. At home I worked a bit on my baby bumper than headed out to Linda's to get some new parts for my sewing machine. On the way home, I took a long detour, and went 8 miles down the road the opposite way to an ice cream store up their street. I enjoyed my huge cone, almost all the way home! Then got started again on my baby bumper, which was short lived before I was back in the car and heading out to JoAnn's. I ran out of ties to hold the bumper in. Unfortunately on my way down the road the sun came out for 30 seconds! and it was just enough to trigger a migraine! :( by the time I got to the store I was seeing spots and when I looked at people, parts of their heads were missing. At the check out I couldn't see my card, or answer the right questions. The lady helped me out and I rushed home before I lost more sight. Dad stayed on the phone w/ me all the way home. Once close, it appeared as if I was underwater w/ a blurry and rippling effect in my vision. I went straight to bed about 5pm... and stayed there until almost 9am today. :( it was a very bad headache.. I was not able to get to sleep right away which made it worse. Then today I felt awful. Just exhausted all day. I took 2 naps. which is NOT like me! Just tonight I feel like I'm finally starting to shake this thing off. :( The only thing I can say I'm really thankful, is that it happened on a weekend, when Rich was home. He took the kids to the movies last night which gave me a little more quiet time in the house. This is the 3rd migraine this pregnancy and 2nd one in the last 2 weeks. I'm bummed thinking that I probably have more to come! but I learned that it's definitely triggered by the sun, so hopefully I can avoid that at all costs the next few weeks!

all for now.... -Beth