Not a good start

Ok. I am determined to be honest here about my exercise and eating. This week I've done squat. Nothing, nada, and eaten horribly- junk food and cookies and sweets. Posting this makes me nervous because I'm going to be truthful in this blog here. And I hope that by forcing myself to be truthful about it here- I will motivate myself to change things so I can be proud of my posts instead of embarrassed.

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day!! 

Happy Mothers Day to all my mommy friends, all my sisters, sister in laws, mother in law, and of course my wonderful mom.  I truly never full appreciated all that she did for us until I became a mom myself and I love her even more now for the years and years that she put up with me and my siblings and taught us to love, laugh, work, and play.  Thank you mom for all that you have done.  The example you were to me then and continue to be now!

I'm back...

I alluded to my bad allergies earlier this year, and then stopped posting completely... Allergies have ruled my life the past few months and I am hoping I'm starting to be past the all encompasing allergies.  I started getting allergy shots- the cluster method where you get three shots within 1 1/2 hours once a week... I got to the second week of the shots and had a massive allergic reaction to them and had to be moved down to the traditional one shot at a time schedule.  So twice a week I've been going down to the allergist to get a shot and wait 1/2 hour to make sure I don't have any reaction... and then go on with my day.  Oh and I get a big welt on my arm that hurts and itches for the rest of the day, and then just continues to itch for the next day... Fun, fun, fun... but this should be helping my allergies and hopefully next year at this time I won't have to be using a nose spray and taking allergy medicine and still battling sinus pressure and headaches... cross your fingers this will work for me! :)

We have 8 more school days left in the school year.  It's going to be hard to keep the kids on a schedule to still get up and make it to school on time each day.  The weather has been beautiful and the little kids have been playing outside every single day after school with the neighborhood kids.  The big kids are done with pretty much all the school work in their classes so they have no homework and want to get to do everything as if school was already out for the summer.

I'm starting my new exercise program and goals this week.  Jillian Michaels 30 day shred, and the couch to 5k program.  I will get myself back into a regular exercise routine and get rid of some of this excess weight so I have more energy to take care of my family!  I'm going to start posting on this blog to keep myself accountable and make sure I get that exercise in each day. 

Friends

I'm thankful today for friends... we have now lived here longer than I've ever lived anywhere in my entire life!  I am a person that I don't want to take advantage of friendships and I have a hard time asking people for favors.  Today I was glad though that I feel I have a good enough relationship with a family that are our friends that I could ask a favor. 

I've been dealing with allergies- and the fact that they are already really bad now in February just makes me want to cry thinking of how bad they will get when the real spring allergy season hits.  I'm planning to follow up on the allergy testing I had done two years ago- and then chickened out when they wanted me to do allergy shots- I think I will be starting the shots this year.

We have a friend that is an ENT dr... (Ear, Nose, Throat), so when I texted his wife if he had any suggestions of what I can do to drain the fluid from my ears that had been there for the past week- he said I should just come over and he would take a look in my ears and make sure they were ok.  I saved a co-pay at the weekend walk-in clinic, and probably an hour or two of time waiting around for them to tell me the ears were full of fluid and I just needed to continue to take OTC stuff to get them to drain. 

So I'm trying the Neti pot for the first time ever tonight.  Rich is also battling a cold and he tried it this afternoon and said it's surprisingly easy to use... hopefully my ears will drain and I can get rid of this fluid filled feeling soon.

Smash

Ok so I posted that I liked the pilot of the new show smash.

Unfortunately it seems to be going down hill. It's becoming all about sex and affairs... Give me more storyline about creating the show with a little less in my face sex drama. Giving it one more week and then it's going to get deleted from my recording list if it keeps going in that direction.

ha ha... oh well

I couldn't keep up with daily posts... but I'll still post as I can.  I don't think anyone else reads this blog so it's just my rambling thoughts...  :)

Tonight was chocolate chip cookie night... now they are all out of the oven, and cooling on racks... the kitchen is clean and I will have one night this week that my kids will go to bed happy with cookies in their tummies... lol!

Smash!!!

Having just gotten back from New York where Rich treated me to three broadway plays, I had to watch the pilot episode of Smash- about a broadway show being written, cast and the stories behind it.

I loved it!!! Looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds. :)