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Last night, lying in bed snuggled up back-to-back with my 21-month-old daughter, it hit me that I haven't been taking very good care of myself lately.  I don't watch what I eat.  I rarely ingest vegetables.  I haven't exercised regularly (or, you know, at all) since I found out I was pregnant with my first child over five years ago.  I don't even think I managed to schedule a pap smear in between my two pregnancies.  Worst of all, though, is that I'm pretty sure I have two ACTUAL medical problems, which I've let go untreated for far too long.  (Anemia and hypoglycemia).

To top it all off, last night after eating a fun-sized Heath Bar, I noticed that my tooth felt weird and I ended up taking out the flashlight and having a gander in my mouth to see if I had a piece of toffee stuck in there.  What I saw instead was HORRIFIC.  I could count at least six cavities with my NAKED EYE, including a small, but jagged hole between my back molars, which was what I thought that piece of candy was.  I did manage to go to the dentist for a cleaning once shortly after Genoa was born, but I couldn't afford the $800 worth of work I needed to get done then and I guess I decided to put it off.  At least that's what ended up happening and here I am a year later with teeth that are probably twice as bad and three times as expensive as they would've been last year.  I'm hoping our new dental policy is better than our old one!

I guess what I'm saying is that I might be doing an excellent job of taking care of my family and even my house, but I royally suck at taking care of myself in even the most basic of ways.  If I don't count the butchering job I performed on myself last year, I haven't even had a hair cut in over three years.  When we have plans to have dinner guests over, I've noticed that I spend far more energy making sure the house looks nice than I do worrying about how I look myself.  How sad is that?!

The funny thing is that I actually consider myself to be a mom who generally has it together.  I'm not stressed.  I find the time to put on makeup every day.  I don't find parenthood overwhelming most days.  I'm organized(ish). I never wear sweat pants in public!  So why the self-neglect?!  For now I'm going to blame it on not having had a good local babysitter and I'm going to start scheduling my health (and beauty!) appointments just as soon as my mother-in-law moves in across the street.