Long Time Coming

August 9, 2012

So it has been a very long time since my first post and a lot has changed.  Kane is now 11, Noah is 7 and Aubrey is 2 and a half.  I no longer work at the plus size clothing store and while I am still scoping, I am also working for a manufacturing company doing document control 20 to 30 hours a week.

I think the most significant change in my life is the fact that I had gastric bypass surgery on March 13^th.  While it has by no means been an easy journey I find myself down 81 pounds from my starting weight and I have gone from a size 28/30 to an 18/20.  Along this journey I have hit some stumbling blocks both with my health and with my depression.  I have fallen off from taking my medication and found myself spiraling back down into that black hole. It wasn’t just my antidepressants I quit taking, it was everything so I have also been battling anemia, Vitamin D and B12 deficiencies.  

The ADD has been a major struggle as I can’t seem to concentrate on anything lately for more than three minutes.  It doesn’t help that school starts again in about a week which means fundraising meetings and Cub Scouts and this year the addition of Boy Scouts for Kane.  All this on top of getting school supplies and uniforms all ready for two kids and at some point I am going to have to nail down daycare for Bree.  Then there is the four birthdays and two weddings this month.

I have begun the idea of setting goals for myself in an attempt to tame the ADD and the depression.  The first goal, which I have hit for the last week is to get my medication in daily.  My next goal is to blog at least once a week.  I am still trying to decide exactly where to take this blog but its main focus is to give me an outlet and maybe help someone else in the process.

Til next time,

A Blue Mama

Introduction

An Introduction

Ten years ago today I moved into my new house that I had bought and closed on the day before, seven years ago today I went my first day without a cigarette.  I have been talking about starting a blog for months now and have finally decided that if I don’t just start writing I will be saying the same thing months in the future and today, historically, has been a good starting day for me.  That being said, allow me to introduce myself.  I am a 32-year-old wife and mother of three kids.  Kane is 10, Noah is 6 and Aubrey is 21 months.  I have been married for the last three years but we have been together for seven years. 

I work very part-time in a plus sized women’s clothing store but mostly I work from home as a scopist.  I know, I know, I can already hear it, what the hell is a scopist.  Basically I do editing and proofreading for court reporters.  Scoping involves listening to the audio word for word, making sure everything is in the transcript correctly, fixing spelling and punctuation and making sure everything is perfect for the reporter.  I love what I do and it pays pretty well as long as the work is coming in, the problem is that work seems to stop coming in around this time every year so I am looking to add some freelance writing and blogging to my resume and hopefully add something to my bank account in the process.

In what feels like another lifetime I was a reporter, a credit card collector and an administrative assistant.  Now I am a wife, a mother, a retail worker, a scopist, a fundraising committee member, a crisis line operator and a Cub Scout Den Leader.  While carrying on all these roles I battle daily with depression and ADD, sometimes I win the battle for the day and sometimes I lose.  As I embark on this blogging journey my hope is that reading about my life and my struggles will help someone else facing the same issues or at least give them a reason to smile for a minute.

Til next time,

A Blue Mama