I had another follow-up appointment this morning - and as I'd predicted, the thyroid was out of whack again, so they upped my meds by 25mcg. I also received my new cholesterol numbers! Last time my cholesterol was 295, which is dangerously high. We made a switch to a partial vegetarian diet, and now eat chicken or fish twice a week. The rest of our meals are entirely vegetarian. In just a couple of months my cholesterol dropped down to 180! I've also lost 20 pounds since then, too.
So, to celebrate, I came home and fried up two whole pounds of bacon so I can spend the next few evenings making a dozen or so tomato pies to freeze for the winter. Two pounds of uncooked, packaged bacon looks relatively harmless, but I have to admit, when you see a heaping plate of two pounds of fully cooked bacon, it's a utterly obscene.
I won't lie. I wanted to lean my face right into the plate, chow down and follow it with a fluffernutter chaser.
Overnight I have made the shift from being MOMMY to MOM. I have no idea how it happened, but Elizabeth has decided that "Mommy" is what BABIES call their mothers. She is NOT a baby. I figure it will pass, though. Two weeks ago she was calling me Heather and telling me she did not love me anymore because I scolded her for poking Adam's eyelids shut. ("But I'm BLINKING him, HEATHER!"). Today I'm her BFF because I feed her bacon and let her bring a blade of grass to nap with her.
*shrug* Whatever keeps her from crying or from beating on her brother. That's really all that matters.