Another Week Bites the Dust

Good morning all!!! How was your week? Mine was GREAT!!! I had a wonderful week, I can't believe another one has come and gone and that we'll be starting a new month in a couple of days. I dislike how fast time goes by...BUT I take every day as it comes and I make the most of it. How about you?

This weekend is busy & full already; Ethan has soccer "camp" tomorrow at 4 and then I have two softball games on Sunday (not sure what times yet though). I'm excited; it will be my first time playing ball since, I think, 5th grade!!! And that, my dear friends, was a LONG time ago! :)

I need to work on eating closer to my calorie goal range. There are times when I am just sooooo stinkin hungry! But I've been watching a lot of the documentaries on Netflix and reading more about eating natural, cloer-to-the-ground foods. I've already started getting rid of processed crap out of my diet. I do, however, have a confession to make...I had McDonalds yesterday (first time in many months) and I can tell you that I did not feel better after I ate it...I actually felt like the nutritional things I ate earlier that day were being zapped out of me. And I remembered exactly WHY I gave up fast food to begin with! :)

Have a great weekend all!!!

Friday Fun Day

So I took Ethan to daycare for the afternoon...What a nice break. I got so much done!!! A little break makes me appreciate him so much more as well. Then Jason and I went out to the movies and saw "21 Jump Street" and I ate WAYYYYY too much candy and popcorn and drank pop! As we were driving away from the movie theater I told him that we need to bring our own, healthy stuff next time. What kind of things do you take to the movie theaters (if anything at all).

I was messing around with some photos tonight. Here's one! :)

I am so glad to have decided to make a change and not let anything get in my way...Granted, I've fumbled BUT I've always gotten back up and pushed on!!! You can too! :)

Do You Ever Feel?

Do you ever feel like there is not enough time in a day to finish everything you set out to do or that you want to get done? UGH! That is how I am feeling right now. I have books I wanna read, work I have to get done, Biggest Loser I'd like to watch, blogs to write ;), and relaxing to do!!! I MUST work on my to-do list the way that Chalene says to. I have her CarSmart that I listen to (both in the house and in the car) and I signed up to complete the 30 Day PUSH Challenge (today should be day 22, I'm on day 9). I KNOW that when I put these principles into place, my life will be much more put together and I will feel like I get A LOT done instead of NOTHING!


Ate at Freddy's today for lunch...I knew better. I even had a fleeting thought of going to Subway while the rest of the gang got Freddy's but Freddy's fries won out in the end! And b/c of going to that place today, I went over my calorie allotment by 1,359 calories! WHAT?!?!? Yeah, I can't believe it! Eye opening really. I haven't eaten fast food in a LONG time and now I remember why!!! MFP says that if I keep eating this way, I will have gained 9 lbs in 5 weeks. NO THANK YOU!!! I have goals to meet! And going out to eat at fast food restaurants not only drive me further from my goals but they leave my body craving nutrients!!!


How was your day?? Leave a comment! :D

Should Be Sleeping

Why aren't I? B/c I'm not tired...I am super excited about starting LC1 tomorrow, although I am sure that is not the reason I am still awake. Who knows? I have so much going on in my mind. So many things to do tomorrow but I HAVE to make sure I spend time with my little blessing. I told him we could set up his sandbox tomorrow. He's really happy about that and I wouldn't want to disappoint him. This weekend really opened my eyes to a lot of things...We went to the Extraordinary Women's Conference in Tulsa. It was fantastic! And I will never forget when Lisa TerKeurst said to not forget that your blessings are blessings!!! So easily forgetable at times, isn't it??? Well, every time I get impatient with Ethan or mad at him, I remember that HE is a blessing! It helps...It really does!!!


Jason and I tried to have a baby for four years!!!! FOUR YEARS!!! Granted, it was off and on for those four years but still...We prayed...We shoulda bought stock in pregnancy tests. I can't even tell you how many times I was disappointed by the negative sign on those tests; many nights I would cry; many times I would wonder if we were gonna be parents. Then one day in November of 2007, I was at work, and just thinking about things and God revealed me that he will give us the desire of our hearts but we have to do OUR part also. We smoked, ate whatever we wanted, didn't work out; we weren't healthy!!! So, we decided to quit smoking, start working out, and eating right but if this didn't work then we would go see a doctor. I set my quit date for 26Nov07 and never looked back! I KNEW I would get pregnant if I did MY part. And then Jason quit in Dec 07 (I can't remember the exact date). I signed up with a trainer at the beginning of January 08 and we cleaned up our eating (sort of), we were making healthier choices. And a couple weeks into 2008, I started not feeling well every night around the same time and I looked at Jason (on a Wednesday) and told him that something's not right, so we went and bought a pregnancy test that evening, I took it about 10:00p (11:00p for family in MI) and when I went to look at it, I saw one very bold pink line (like usual; negative) AND a very, very, very, VERY faint second pink line! I WAS PREGNANT!!! I just KNEW it! But Jason told me not to get my hopes up (b/c I had always done so in the past and he hated seeing the disappointment on my face and hearing it in my voice) but I couldn't help it! I told him that there can't be a false positive...That all the others time I had taken a pregnancy test there had NEVER been a second line, EVER!!! I called everyone I knew that night...I didn't care WHAT time it was... I was so extremely excited! I knew that some people chose to wait that first trimester out before they told anyone but not me. I told any and everyone I came into contact with! :) And on September 22, 2008, we had our beautiful baby boy!!!

Anyways, all that to say that we were blessed and any child is a blessing! And I just have to remember that when he's getting on my last nerve!!! :D


Now I think I can finally go to sleep; g'nite all!!!