No, you're absolutely not being cheeky. LOL The rec camp we're camping at right now has a rather intermittent internet connection, so I'll get them up on my blog sometime today. A few others have privately asked for them, as well, and I feel horrible about not being able to connect until today.

Thanks to mommymilkies, I'm there! Yay! Thank you!!! http://pinterest.com/TheAugustOak/

O.M.G. That had to be TERRIFYING for you (and everybody involved, really).

Nope! There's not a whole lot of yearly subject planning I need to do, so that page is it.

I used to bake my own bread, too, on a daily basis. It's totally do-able to cut it out and actually, I don't even miss it anymore. Never thought I would say that, but it's true! What I discovered I loved was the melted butter ON the bread. LOL I do still love the smell, but it's not difficult to stay away from it anymore. Your TSH should be suppressed way more than that. As low as it will go. We have an increased risk of cancer and the TSH is stimulating that. It's common knowledge in the medical field that thyroid cancer patients MUST completely suppress TSH, yet they insist that even though our bodies are fighting our thyroid (as we see with the antibodies as an indicator), we don't need to worry about that. Do your own research on this and go with your gut. It's your body, it's your LIFE, and unfortunately, the state of the medical endocrinology field is archaic, to say the least. Your symptoms are totally hypo. Most of those symptoms are symptoms of low T3. The low carb should eliminate the hypoglycemia. The lower carb you go, the more even your blood sugar will be. Ketosis is our friend. Have you looked at Dr. Wilson's protocol for adrenal disfunction? I didn't purchase anything from him, but did follow his recommendations along with taking Isocort (OTC) and was very successful even after going through near adrenal failure. I hope this helps and I apologize if I come off a little strong on this. I spent the last 15 years going undiagnosed because of doctors lack of knowledge. And I had, what I consider, to be some pretty decent doctors. After getting so sick with hypo and adrenal fatigue that I was unable to get out of bed for months, I wasn't going to accept another statement of "your TSH and T4 look fine, it must be in your head." It's hard to find a doctor that is knowledgable on the modern diagnosis and treatment of endocrine issues (even diabetes!) and that, to me, is infuriating.

Can I impose on someone for an invite, too? I signed up a while ago, but haven't received an invite yet.

I love seeing other peoples schedules, so thank you for attaching that image!

Thank you! I just reserved it!

I have Hashi's, too. When I'm hyper, I'm "supercharged" and the only thing that will make it manageable is running on the treadmill 3 times a day (and I'm not exactly a svelte running machine LOL). Not fun. I have yet to swing back to hyper now that I'm on natural meds and am on an anti-inflammatory diet (Paleo...go to http://www.paleonu.com for more info). It's gluten-free and low carb. The anti-inflammatory diet is so unbelievably important, as one auto-immune disease typically begets another. I really don't want to end up with MS, Sojourn's or anything else if I can help it, KWIM? What are your lab readings (and ranges)? Does your doc test FREE T3 & FREE T4? If they're only testing TSH and/or regular T4, I wouldn't let them touch my dosage with a ten foot pole. Have you considered going with natural desiccated thyroid? Sounds to me like your T3 is way off and your T4 may be too high and NDT typically works very well for us auto-immuners as it has a "perfect" balance of all necessary thyroid hormones and is more readily accessible by our bodies. That's not to say that synthetic doesn't or won't work, but some people clearly do better on natural than synthetic and vice versa. If you haven't yet, you should go browse http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com . Also, look for a yahoo group for thyroid in your state.

I think I love you. For both answers. LOL

I wake up and make coffee, check e-mail, and all that jazz. The boys wake up a little later and grab their "fun books" and read for an hour. We do the "fun" reading in the morning and "structured" reading in the afternoon. We eat breakfast and then start with handwriting which kicks off the rest of our day. Handwriting because it's easy, but still requires a little effort, so I thought it was a nice transition into the more brainy stuff.

Rainbow Light is my favorite brand and I've done a boatload of research and warm water experiments with vitamins (I know, not the most accurate, but gives one an idea of ability to dissolve). You need to look into cutting all grain, legumes, and sugar from your diet if you haven't already. Eating Paleo style will reduce drastically/remove the need for inflammatory response in your body. It has ELIMINATED my husband's needs for anti-inflammatories for his back (he's had surgery, physical therapy, massage, the whole works and this is the only thing that's helped...and boy did it ever!). It has also eliminated our allergies and a whole host of other issues. Check out Dr. Kurt Harris' blog on getting started. It's not fun to change your diet, but if you're desperate for relief, it's a pretty dang easy choice. Hope this helps. ETA: And I have to eat an anti-inflammatory diet due to my auto-immune disorder (Hashimoto's thyroiditis). If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

I was an office manager of a busy pediatric office. I agree, if you look for it, you will find it. I saw a lot of this. If you only just started realizing symptoms after she mentioned it, I would simply file it away for future reference. But...you have to go with your gut.

Absolutely! For printing, I just downloaded my favorite free dotted font (D'Nealian "Precursive") and have the boys trace my favorite quotes and Bible verses. I'm a big fan of tracing as we've been highly successful with improvements using it, so if I were going to do my own handwriting, I'd probably use a super hard pencil (maybe a 9H so my writing was very light) and write a few lines to trace with a regular (2H) pencil. There are also font makers out there that allow you to input your own handwriting, if you're concerned with consistency or just want to use a word processor. Otherwise, if you just want to write them an example, your job is easy peasy (I tend to make things too hard, as you can probably tell LOL).

Wow, Crazyforlatin!!!