Well, Ms. Preschool diagnosed LM with pink eye late yesterday. She called me around 4:00 to let me know. Obvious when he woke up from nap I guess.

But she called so we could get in to the doctor or whatever. I haven't dealt with pink eye in forever, if ever. So I didn't really want to call the Doc without him in front of me to answer all the questions I knew they would ask. But we had just called a couple of weeks ago, later in the evening, to set up an Urgent Care appointment so I knew it would be fine to call in the evening. That we could get him in if it was necessary.

So after dinner, dh called and they just sent a prescription to the pharmacy. The 24/7 pharmacy at the hospital - didn't even know they had a 24/7 pharmacy.

Of course, they said, call back in an hour to make sure it is ready. Dh was a dork and left after 45 minutes. I was like, "aren't you going to call?" Whatever, he is the one that has to sit around for hours. So that was around 7:30. At 9:30 there was no sign of dh so after I put the kids down to bed, I called him. He said it wasn't ready and the line was a MILE long. Guess it was busy there. He got home around 10.

$25 later we have prescription eye drops.

I frankly think his eye looks fine. But I know Ms. Preschool knows her pink eye. Thank goodness for her. I wouldn't have noticed anything. Seriously! It was a little gunky. & that is the reason they just assume it is bacterial and go for the antibiotics.

Since then I have imagined eye itches and think I can NOT miss a day of work for pink eye. Trying to be mindful. They say he will not be contagious after 24 hours and I won't be home all day, to be exposed, so that helps. Likewise we did share a pillow the night before. Great!

OF course the kids were rubbing their faces together all night. LOL. Just hugging and wrestling and such. Trying to tell BM to stay the hell away from LM's eye. He was not listening so well. Yeesh.

Yeah, don't know how I feel about that. I cringe at how easily they prescribe the stuff. Always going for the antibiotics without knowing for sure if they are necessary. But I appreciate not having to pay a copay, and I appreciate MUCH more our insurance companies' attempts to keep highly contagious, sick kids out of the Doctors' offices, if they do not need to be there. I will never understand running to the doctor for every sniffle. Likewise, this is where the kids going to daycare comes in handy. Whenever they are sick I call and ask what is going around. If it's step throat? We go to the doctor. If it is just a cold going around? We stay home. It's nice to get that extra insight because all the other parents do rush to the doctor with every sniffle. So we usually have a pretty good idea what is going around.

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In other news, dh has been peeved with me since I have not worn my wedding ring in ages. To be fair, I bought a cute little ring and wear it on my ring finger. My wedding ring just does not fit.

I can't tell you how much I weighed when we were married. Maybe 120? I don't know. I used to be a waif and size 0 was too big on me. Likewise, I have gained a lot of weight over the years, but most of it was well needed. I remember I had surgery when I was 16 and I couldn't gain weight it my life depended on it. I lost 10 pounds and just as I gained most of it back I had mono and lost the 10 pounds again. So my weight hovered around 90-100 for a long time. Yeah, and I couldn't gain weight if my life depended on it.

So from that, to today. Was 134 before kids. 142 before LM. & then I got down to about 147 immediately after I had LM. I gained a lot of weight with both kids but most of it came right off. I mean it was just 6 weeks later and I was back to 147.

Anyway, BUT then my hormones went whacked and I started gaining weight like crazy. I went up to about 165 for a while. I mean for the first time in my life I was DIETING and it hardly seemed to help. I was just trying to slow the weight gain.

Things have settled down. I would say I settled around 155 before I joined the gym last year.

I haven't gone very religiously. But I have been better. I have been toning up, for sure. Likewise, I think I have been losing more weight from my hormones settling. It's just dropping off, very slowly. I have generally been gaining muscle weight, at the gym.

I guess being sick was the kicker. I have settled back to about 147 (lost a good 3 pounds while sick), which is the lowest I have been since my last pregnancy.

Yesterday my ring was practically falling off. I might have bought it closer to 160 - I don't remember.

So anyway, before I had told dh that I really wanted ONE more year - please. & that I promised I would resize my ring on our anniversary in the fall.

So anyway, with my "fake" ring falling off yesterday, I told him maybe it was time.

I looked online to get an idea of what resizing costs. I see in the range of $10 - $50. So I think we will go to the mall and case the jewelers there, for a start. Of course, I also read sizing up costs more than sizing down.

I finally realized that last time I squeezed on the ring it was probably rather tight. My goal weight is probably in the 140 range, and I am pretty much there. I am actually pretty happy with 147. It's a good weight on me.

If I wore my ring from 120 to 145 pounds, well, I think a small resize will be fine, even if I lose more weight. IT is probably LONG overdue. Likewise, it will be nice for the ring to fit even if I gain a few pounds again.

So yay to losing weight and yay to resizing my ring! Dh will be happy.

I haven't said much about it because just as I feel I did little to warrant gaining 20 pounds in a flash, it seems to be dropping off with no effort either. I feel like I am just along for the ride. Ah, hormones!!!!!

Likewise, if my goal weight is a flabby 142 (just a general goal to lose the 2nd pregnancy weight), a fit 147 is about the same size. So I am pretty happy where I am at.

I guess the exciting this is I usually always gain weight during tax season. So the gym has helped to keep the weight steady during my stress time. Well worth the $15/month or so for my membership. That I am pleased with. I expect I will lose a few pounds over the summer when I have much more time to hit the gym and be active.

I haven't been dieting in the least. So, I guess I am also just happy to have my old metabolism back. Phew!!!!!!!!!!!!