One has nothing to do with the other! I’ve just been in a perimenopausal funk for over a week and I visited Trailblazer Park today, so there ya go.

This particular park does put me in a mood every time I visit. I told JP and Jackson all about how my high school used to sit on the land. Then, I got upset because my old high school doesn’t exist anymore. I’m basically a hormonal mess. More on that in a minute.

Let’s look at the pictures of the beautiful park…

We were killing time before picking Preston up from school. The temperature was hotter than I thought it should be – in freaking November – but it was nice to be outside for the afternoon.

Ladies, can we agree that perimenopause is for the damn birds?! Like I said, I’ve been in the worst funk lately. I’ve not had the desire to do ANYTHING. I blame some of it on recovering from my mom’s hospital stay. I missed a lot of sleep that week. I’m having the hardest time bouncing back. She was really sick. Maybe I was more mentally affected than I realized? Mom is much better now, but my perimenopause symptoms have set up residence in my mind/body and I can’t seem to get back my pleasant, patient personality *wink wink*

My Symptoms

• I am sleepy all the time
• Everything makes me cry
• Once a month, my lower back gets tender and sore
• My head feels foggy/I forget things
• I have short bouts of vertigo
• My cycle is heavy & some months, debilitating
• My cycle comes inconsistently and sometimes more than once

This is just a short list of symptoms I’m currently experiencing. It’s so hard to be an active participant in our daily activities/mom-life when all I feel like doing is sleeping or sitting around reading a book in my pajamas.I’m going to HAVE to start exercising again and change my diet. I am not interested in taking medicine, but I do need to find a good vitamin!

Thank you for letting me whine. I’m traveling for work this weekend. Hopefully a change of scenery will help me to reset.

We leave Friday for the Holy Smokes BBQ Festival in Charleston. Last year, the weather didn’t cooperate at all. Rain is not in the forecast Saturday, so fingers crossed!