Tubes

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2014 is apparently the year of the ear infection.

Hannah is on her 20th day taking oral antibiotics, and in today’s doctors appointment they said “oh, this looks worse than a week ago!”

We already had the procedure to get tubes for Hannah on the calendar, and I guess there is no question but that it is necessary at this point. We feel so bad for her. She frequently acts like she doesn’t feel good, and I think we can understand why! Everyone tells us the tubes will make a world of difference, so hopefully they are correct.

Hopefully we can get our little explorer back full-time soon!

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-Jordan

Still Winter

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It’s amazing how hard this time of year seems to hit… every year. There isn’t much to look forward to in the days after Christmas and winter has only begun to bare its icy fangs.

So, twice in the past seven days we have gotten a flash snow storm bad enough to choke traffic going to work in the morning. Both times I managed to see an accident on my ONE MILE drive to work. Also, it was several degrees below zero on the way to work… again.

Sorry, I don’t mean to complain, I mean everybody knows it’s going to be cold in the winter. and this isn’t the first nasty winter we have seen in Iowa. That being said, it still surprises me how quickly it gets us down.

Driving home today, I did see one approach to dealing with winter:

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Mind you it was a balmy 5 degrees out by this time. I don’t know if this was an attempt to feel warm by dressing for summer or what.

-Jordan

Workouts 2014 Edition, Or Perhaps A Retrospective

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It has been roughly a year now that I have been doing the “You Are Your Own Gym” workouts, as mentioned in a prior post. I can’t say that I have really been doing the workouts as much as borrowing the lift ideas and doing parts of the workouts. His full program is intense! I find that I cannot push myself that hard and keep doing the workout, sadly.

On the bright side, doing a somewhat relaxed version has allowed me to consistently get three to four workouts in a week. This has been enough to at least let me maintain my weight, and stay in something that resembles “in shape.” I sometimes worried about my joints using this approach, but excepting some muscle soreness, it has been surprisingly easy on my body over the past year.

We had one of those random mid-winter nice days a week or so back, and I thought it would be a great idea to go for a run. It turns out my knees still don’t really like that. I guess it was almost two years ago that I was running regularly, and I wasn’t having too much in the way of knee pain most of the time then. Maybe I would need to work back up to that, because just doing an out of the blue run caused several days worth of pain.

All of that is to say that I am really glad to have found something that is: low impact, practical within the confines of parenting a one-year-old, and something I can keep doing day in and day out.

A year in, and I don’t even slightly resemble the guy on the cover though, so perhaps there is still room for improvement 🙂

 

-Jordan

A New Year

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Hey look, it’s a new year already!

It’s funny how often I think “hey I should work up a post on this,” and (as you may have noticed) how seldom that actually happens.

After lots of reflection on this, I think part of my reluctance is related to my reluctance to over-share about my child. Less because I am worried about those details being a problem as that I cannot help but feeling extra super narcissistic writing up a blog post about the thing she is doing that nearly every child goes through.

On the other hand, I suppose having a personal blog already puts me way over that line so maybe I shouldn’t worry about it.

That being said, I have a few goals for the aforementioned new year:

  1. Write a post a week
  2. Only have a Hannah post about once a month

With those goals in mind, what will I post about… There may be an abundance of cooking post, or maybe a few play-by-plays of the computer repair/upgrade I have planned. Although, if that goes poorly I would be reduced to posting from a phone… might lead to shorter blog posts 🙂

Despite the lack of posts, 2013 was a rather good year for the Nelson household. I don’t know what the proper level of sharing is, but we did manage to produce roughly 20 gigs of new pictures! That has to count for something right?

-Jordan