Whew, what a day! Kayla and I are the only people in this house who are not sick at the moment and my goodness we've had a day. Poor Nicholas looks like a different child, his eyes are so swollen and goopy. Madelyn's voice is hoarse and her chest hurts. Mike came home from work and went straight to bed at 4pm. He was lucky enough to sleep til 7:30 and went back to bed at 9. Lucky him. One thing I really wanna know is, why I can't sleep like that when I'm sick!
On a good note, I managed to make my first ever sewing pattern that actually works! I had this dress for Maddie that we just love on her but it is very well loved and getting to be kind of worn out so I decided to make a copy of it. I traced and sewed and revised over and over again til I came up with something I like enough. The funny thing is that it looks nothing like the original but I like my version even better so yay for me! It takes 30 minutes to sew up completely but I do assembly line sewing and I had no time today so I have three half finished sundresses that I cannot wait to photograph tomorrow.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
I lost 2 pounds!!!
Okay this might not seem like a big deal to you, but for me this is huge. Do you know why? Because I didn't even really try. Sure, I go to the gym about 3 times a week and I've made a committment to not eat after 7:30 pm, but that is IT! That is all I've been doing and I lost 2 pounds!!!!
I like going to the gym, because it gives my little ones a chance to play with some other kids for 2 hours or so, I get a break and if I can get my oldest daughter to come with me, we get some bonding time...well, not really but that's what I'm hoping for. Usually she slowly pedals on the bike next to me saying "can we go yet?" but hey, a mom can dream right?
I started 2006 weighing about 195 (205 if you ask the scale at Curves, but whatever) and I joined Curves. The problem with Curves is that they close at 7 and they don't have childcare, and they only have one type of training. So, I got sick of not going because my husband wasn't getting home in time to watch the kids and I cancelled my membership there and joined a women's only fitness center that has childcare for almost the same cost monthly. They have lots of different classes, all types of machines, including a circuit that is just like what I was doing at Curves. Besides that they have 5 tvs and 4 stereos, so you can plug in your headphones to whatever machine you are using, choose a channel and listen to tv or a cd that you bring form home. They even have a tanning bed and sauna and steam room which I don't use but it's nice to know they are there. Childcare is offered for 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the afternoon, so I can go without having to leave the house the second my husband gets in the door. They are open til 9, so even if I don't go during the day with the kids, I have time after they go to bed at night. I love it!
Anyway, back to what I was saying. I started the year at 195, managed to get down to 179 at one point this fall but with Thanksgiving, then a cruise a week later, then after the vacation Christmas....I was back up to almost 194 (193.8 to be exact). I was soooooo upset by this but decided to just try to do better.
On a message board that I'm a part of, we were challenged to not eat after 7:30 pm. I decided to take part, half thinking it wouldn't make a bit of difference anyway because I don't really have my head together enough to strictly follow any real diet. Since then I haven't had anything to eat past 7:30 and I weighed myself today at lo and behold the scale actually said 191!!!!!
Can I lose 50 pounds or more by just not eating past 7:30 and exercising 3 times a week? Probably not, but until I'm ready to jump into the South Beach diet (which I love because it really is perfect), this will be a good start.
I like going to the gym, because it gives my little ones a chance to play with some other kids for 2 hours or so, I get a break and if I can get my oldest daughter to come with me, we get some bonding time...well, not really but that's what I'm hoping for. Usually she slowly pedals on the bike next to me saying "can we go yet?" but hey, a mom can dream right?
I started 2006 weighing about 195 (205 if you ask the scale at Curves, but whatever) and I joined Curves. The problem with Curves is that they close at 7 and they don't have childcare, and they only have one type of training. So, I got sick of not going because my husband wasn't getting home in time to watch the kids and I cancelled my membership there and joined a women's only fitness center that has childcare for almost the same cost monthly. They have lots of different classes, all types of machines, including a circuit that is just like what I was doing at Curves. Besides that they have 5 tvs and 4 stereos, so you can plug in your headphones to whatever machine you are using, choose a channel and listen to tv or a cd that you bring form home. They even have a tanning bed and sauna and steam room which I don't use but it's nice to know they are there. Childcare is offered for 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the afternoon, so I can go without having to leave the house the second my husband gets in the door. They are open til 9, so even if I don't go during the day with the kids, I have time after they go to bed at night. I love it!
Anyway, back to what I was saying. I started the year at 195, managed to get down to 179 at one point this fall but with Thanksgiving, then a cruise a week later, then after the vacation Christmas....I was back up to almost 194 (193.8 to be exact). I was soooooo upset by this but decided to just try to do better.
On a message board that I'm a part of, we were challenged to not eat after 7:30 pm. I decided to take part, half thinking it wouldn't make a bit of difference anyway because I don't really have my head together enough to strictly follow any real diet. Since then I haven't had anything to eat past 7:30 and I weighed myself today at lo and behold the scale actually said 191!!!!!
Can I lose 50 pounds or more by just not eating past 7:30 and exercising 3 times a week? Probably not, but until I'm ready to jump into the South Beach diet (which I love because it really is perfect), this will be a good start.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Hi!
Okay, my old blog was getting neglected so I decided to start a new one. I need a place to write and ramble on and on so here goes. I also need a place to share my pics and my new love, digital scrapbooking. Today my friends Hayes and Jennifer came over today to help me. My family is going through a tough time right now and today I was in need of major support. These two wonderful women came over early with lots of food and took care of my kids, cleaned my kitchen and play room, and kept me company so I didn't go crazy. I love these ladies and their children. Hayes has her own blog at www.mamaj.blogspot.com.
I wanted to do the 365 photo project and I probably took a photo a day since Jan 1, but never got around to posting them anywhere. Maybe tomorrow I'll try to pick some and post as many as I can from the past 15 days. Today I'm going to post some of my digital scrapbook pages.
These are my two daughters. Kayla is 12 and Madelyn is almost 4 years old. I made this layout using free downloads from www.shabbyprincess.com and www.digitalscrapbookplace.com.
This is my son Nicholas. He's 19 months old and plays in the sink almost every day so I decided to make a page with some recent pictures of him getting wet. The page was made with freebies from www.digitalscrapbookplace.com
I wanted to do the 365 photo project and I probably took a photo a day since Jan 1, but never got around to posting them anywhere. Maybe tomorrow I'll try to pick some and post as many as I can from the past 15 days. Today I'm going to post some of my digital scrapbook pages.
These are my two daughters. Kayla is 12 and Madelyn is almost 4 years old. I made this layout using free downloads from www.shabbyprincess.com and www.digitalscrapbookplace.com.
This is my son Nicholas. He's 19 months old and plays in the sink almost every day so I decided to make a page with some recent pictures of him getting wet. The page was made with freebies from www.digitalscrapbookplace.com
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