It's just a step on a long journey - but pictures taken of me at Thanksgiving finally prompted a change in my eating habits. I originally set my first goal as loosing 10 pounds by Christmas, mostly because I did well the first week in December. A very stressful week made me realize that goal wasn't necessarily realistic, so I decided to shoot for ( Read more... )

Why, oh why, did both of my children decide to wake up at 4:30 this morning? They aren't sick - they went to bed at their normal time last night - ate decent dinners... But first Puff then Snuffy woke up. If they don't wake up together I have a chance of getting them back to bed. But neither of them wants Daddy in the morning (although Snuffy ( Read more... )

So it's not January yet, but my clothes not fitting, my refusal to buy "fat clothes" when money is so tight, and my angst over having to go to the annual holiday party at with all my in-laws that require multiple pictures being taken - all of this is leading to me trying to figure out how to start loosing weight, before the normal New Year's ( Read more... )

Happy 1st Birthday to my little man! I'm trying to get everyone up so we can all go to this indoor playground I found out about. There's an admission fee, but finally somewhere I can take the kids to run around and burn off some energy when it's too cold to really play outside ( Read more... )

In the limited time I've had lately to watch TV lately two brief scenes have made an impact on me. Probably scenes that most people wouldn't have thought twice about ( Read more... )

I was reading Snuffy a story tonight that ends with "After that Lars and Hugo were best friends..." and another little bit. I finished the story and Lucy snuggles up to me and said, "Mommy and Lucy are best friends."

It was an amazing moment.

PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, the house I grew up in could probably be considered in the middle of nowhere. We had neighbors who's houses you could see from the front yard, but the backyard opened up onto a powerline road. The yard itself was big and hilly and rocky - but a fantastic place to play and imagine in as a kid. But the dirt ( Read more... )

I need to decide if I want to pursue a job opening in a different division at work. There is a lot I like about my current job, but it isn't low stress and I don't think I'm good at leaving all my work stress at work... I'm not sure I'll like the new job, but it would be something different. If I want to pursue it then I still have to find out ( Read more... )

So Puff is 7 months old, as of Tuesday. He decided within the past week or two to learn to crawl, albeit still slowly, and to pull himself up on things. I give him another 2 weeks or so before he's going full speed ahead with the crawling - or some other way of getting around. He loves to walk holding on to your fingers so much, sometimes he ( Read more... )