I finally feel like I am getting back in the swing of things. Diet, exercise, sleep and help have made a huge difference in my moods, though I still don't think I'm 100% "over" this depression.

That being said, I have noticed that I'm itching to start doing my hobbies again which is a very good sign.

I really want to sit down and scrapbook the heck out of June-now, but I haven't had time to order the pictures.

I started yet another blog because I apparently have some sort of sick blogging addiction. (This makes #5 though most don't get updated regularly.) See Carrie Eat follows my low carb lifestyle that I struggle with on and off. I'm officially back on it today and have done fabulous so far.

Exercise has been meh. Between being sick, busy and other stuff, I haven't been getting to the gym much at all. I won't be renewing my membership when it expires this month, but I am keeping the key and can just pay $5 every time I'm able to go. In the meantime, I've been trying to workout at home lately, and it's gone okay. I really need to start getting up at 7 a.m. and working out before the kids wake up.

Sleep is going amazingly well. Maddie has stopped nursing completely and usually sleeps through the night. I still get woken up at least once a night by random whatevers, but most nights I'm getting 7-9 hours of sleep and it's fabulous!

I've reread the first section of The Well-Trained Mind and have started doing some school-related things with Kasen again. He's doing kindergarten work but doesn't like to write so lots of reading, playing with math manipulatives and craft/science projects are happening. Maddie gets involved, too, and loves it.

I'm not completely back on my cleaning schedule, but am slowly getting there. I've hired a friend to come in one day a week to vacuum and mop for me. I have to vacuum twice a week and by the time I get the house cleaned up enough to do so, I have zero energy left to mop. My house is too big and my dog sheds like crazy. Add Maddie throwing food constantly and my floors are nasty within a few days. I'm going to tweak and update my cleaning schedule and then I hope to really get back on top of doing it regularly... it makes such a huge difference in the amount of free time I have available! I've also changed my laundry routine and am noticing it takes far less time to do now.

(No more folding jammies/matching socks/sorting/running between rooms to put things away! It's liberating.)

And since this is my infertility blog, I should note that I'm now on birth control with no plans of trying to get pregnant for at least another year. N and I have discussed him having a vasectomy, but neither of us are really ready to say we are done. I am no where near ready to add a third right now, but I can imagine the baby itch returning down the road. Will it be as easy as Maddie was? Who knows. If not, we still have the adoption money sitting in a savings account...