I'm glad I'm not afraid of needles!

Considering that I had about sixty of them sticking out of me today for about an hour or so. That's right. Acupuncture. I finally broke down and tried it. And you know what? I've decided to just keep an open mind and not try to question it or understand it. There's a reason it's been around for hundreds of years and millions of people practice it. Okay, maybe not millions, but a whole bunch, okay? And I'm at a point where I'll try anything. ANYTHING.

I'm so. freaking. tired. of waking up in agony every morning. Of waiting for the pain to subside after taking medications. Of just barely getting by in the morning, trying to get all four kids ready, get them to school, and try to make myself look presentable through excruciating pain. It sucks so bad. So now I'm ready to try to do anything. Even if I don't understand it.

So I went in today and had a zillion needles stuck into me and then I waited. I don't know what it was supposed to do or how I was supposed to feel and I know it's not some automatic thing, but it made me feel better just to be doing SOMETHING. I felt like just the act of forward progress was enough.

So I have to go back next week for another round, and some ultrasound therapy too. He also talked about some "muscle manipulation" or something like that. I don't care if he tries to saw me in half or light me on fire, if it makes me feel even a tenth of a percent better, it's worth it.

So other than the pincushion that I've been turned into, we had a fun morning at work today. The Patterson dental crew had asked us earlier this month if they could bring some people by to look at our practice. Some dentists that were looking to open their own practices. Like, so we could SHOW OFF our cool freaking practice!! So I was expecting like 4 or 5 dentists to come through with our Patterson reps, but this HUGE tour bus pulls up and out come 40 people!! It was crazy! It was so much fun to have all of those people come through and talk about how neat our space was and hear the compliments on our design. It felt awesome to actually HAVE something to show off. Our dream has come true, and it's awesome, if I do say so myself. I am so proud of the way it has turned out. Today it really hit home, too. That's OUR practice! Nobody's gonna come in and tell us we have to go back to Japan! Nobody's gonna tell us we CAN'T do this that or the other. It's ALL OURS! Okay, well technically it's still the bank's but let's not get all label-y over things, all right?


When I got home with the kids this afternoon, I decided to go get in a nice long bubble bath to relax and let my body recover from my pin-cushion experience, so I headed upstairs and filled up my huge tub. I was just about to get out when who do you think burst into my bathroom? That's right. The Maddie and her sidekick. They got so excited when they saw the big tub all filled up with bubbles and immediately started getting naked. Splash! They decided to come in for a swim.

There's nothing better the cute little naked wet babies in a bathtub. Blowing bubbles. "Swimming" across the tub. Little floating naked butts. Brady saying, "Look Mommy! It makes me float!" and bobbing up and down like a little naked apple.

I LOVE bathtime with the babies. And it's been a long time since they bombarded me like that. I'll be sad when they're too old for that, too. Little nuggets. I love 'em so much.

It's going to be a rainy yucky weekend which really sucks, because I really wanted to take the kids to the pumpkin patch. And I don't know if we'll have time to do it before Halloween, so we may have to get our pumpkins at the grocery store. Not ideal, but we'll do what we have to do, I suppose. We've really enjoyed the past couple of years being able to go to our local pumpkin patch in Illinois and I'd like to continue that tradition here. The kids are always so cute going to pick out their pumpkins and they get so excited to go on hayrides and stuff. I hope we don't have to miss out on that this year.

So pray for sunshine for us, and I hope everyone has a great weekend!