I want to invent a vitamin patch!

Can you take prenatal multivitamins as a regular daily vitamin if you're not pregnant? I am so depleted on vitamins and minerals, I'm thinking I need a boost.  As it is now, I double up once in awhile on my regular daily vitamin but I'm too afraid to do that more often because I don't want to OD on any one of the many vitamins in a multi-vitamin. 

I'm bad about remembering to take them regardless.  They need to make a patch for vitamins that you can wear and just absorb what you need for up to a week.  That'd be great!  There are patches for smoking and patches for birth control.  Why not a patch for vitamins?

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Mom, your cheeks are squishy.

"Mom, your cheeks are squishy." 

...says my 13-year old daughter.  Wasn't that nice of her?

It's a really good thing that human moms are genetically programmed to love and protect their young and that programming is very strong in me (anybody messes with my kids will deal with me).

So, yes, still struggling with weight loss.  I have struggled to lose more and struggled not to gain back what I lost.  It's not going too well.  I've thought about a diet pill that works but if my thyroid isn't working right, I don't know that there is anything else that can help until my thyroid hormones are right.

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Stressed & Relocating

Whew!  I'm feeling a little bit of anxiety now.  My husband has a job interview on Friday.  If they both agree to a job, he'll be moving within a week.  We will follow within a few weeks we hope. 

How am I going to get all of this done by myself, with four kids?  When I had to get us packed and ready to move by myself before, we only had two kids.  Now I have double that to move, plus five dogs and two horses.  Hubby will be in another state so it'll be up to me - again.  Darn, I really don't get paid enough!  Ha ha.

I guess I'll alternate between stress eating and fat burning supplements to counteract my stress eating!

I can do this.  I can do this.  I can do this. 

I didn't say I could do this without losing my mind though!

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Relocation List of Things to Do

We are actively looking to relocate back to our homestate.  My husband has two upcoming telephone interviews that have yet to be scheduled yet.  Wish they'd schedule them already!  I need to plan everything.  I'm OCD like that.  I need to know who, what, and when so I can plan what I need to do from there.  It's a compulsion of mine. 

There's so much that I need to do if it is looking like we are really going to move:

• Find good schools in an affordable place to live.
• Plan when/how to get us moved from point A to point B.
• Contact our current insurance company, and other auto insurance companies, to find out how much our rates are going to increase and who I can save money with. They decreased by 50% when we moved here so I'd expect them to double if we move back.
• Starting planning the transfer of school records.
• Research a new pediatrician, new thyroid doc for me, and a family doctor for both my husband and me, then arrange the transfer of medical records.
• Etc., etc., etc. 
• Get our docs routine vet care before we leave because it's less expensive here.
• Arrange for the transfer of 1-2 horses (I hope, I hope, I hope).  I don't want to leave them behind. 
• Etc., etc., etc. again.

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