First Swim

Two Words for You

Kidney Stone. Perfect timing right? This will delay my return to work by at least one day. Fan-stinkin-tastic!

Last Night...

went something like this:

9:30PM: Changed & Fed the boys

10:00PM: Put boys down for the night. Mommy & Daddy went down for the night too.

10:06PM: I hear Trevor fussing over the monitor. He's usually not a fusser, so this means one thing. Spit up.

10:07PM: I find Trevor with spit up running down his face, and a wet spot on his sheet. I wipe up his face, and move him a bit so he's not laying on the wet spot. I go back to bed. I know. Mother-of-the-Year Award!

10:16PM: More fussing from Trevor. More spit up. More wiping up. More moving. Back to bed for me.

10:22PM: Yep. More fussing. I wipe him up, change his pajamas, and rock him for awhile, hoping to get out any more burps he might have. He burps. All down the front of me. More wiping up. Change pajamas again. Change his bed sheet. Turn on his musical aquarium. Back to bed for me.

10:23PM: Realize his aquarium has turned off already. It's on a 15 min timer, and though I'm very tired, I know for sure, it hadn't been 15 minutes. Cue the fussing.

10:24PM: I throw on my bathrobe, go downstairs for a philips head screw driver and 4-C batteries. Thank the Lord we stocked up on batteries when the boys were born.

10:25-10:35PM: I figure out how to get the dang aquarium off the crib, and open the battery compartment. Trevor is still fussing.

10:40PM: Re-attach the aquarium to the crib. Turn. On. Aquarium. Back to bed for me.

10:55PM: Trevor kicks the button to turn off the aquarium. Cue fussing again.

10:56PM: Aquarium back on. Move Trevor so he can't reach aquarium. Mommy back to bed.

I hope this boy can figure out how to kick this thing back on before I go back to work on Monday. Maybe we should practice that.

W W: Week 1

I've officially completed one week on the "new" PointsPlus WW program. It went okay. I feel like I need to complain about/explain something.

Last week I weighed myself at home before I went to weigh in for the first time. The number on my home scale was exactly the same as what the scale at WW said. Wonderful! This way, I would be able to check my progress part way through the week and see how I was doing. On Wednesday, I weighed myself, at home, and the scale said that I was down 5.75 lbs. GREAT! I weighed myself tonight right before I went to the meeting, and it said I was down 6.5 lbs. I was SO excited!

I get to the meeting, and they weigh me in. Results: -1.6 lbs. WHAT!? I made them re-weigh me. And then weigh me on the other scale (there's two lines to get weighed in). Both times and both scales said I was only down 1.6 lbs. How could this be!?

Then the instructor told me that this is why they don't encourage at-home weighing during the week, because all scales are different.

Now tell me...how can last week's weights be EXACTLY the same, and this time, they're off by FIVE POUNDS!?

Enough complaining for now. Here's the update:

Expired Coupons

images found here

A friend of mine just told me about this, and I can't help but pass it on!

Everytime we go shopping, I end up throwing out tons of coupons that have expired because we didn't get to use them. Now, instead of throwing them out, they can be put to good use.

Military families are able to use expired coupons up to SIX MONTHS after they've expired! We just have to gather them up, throw them in an envelope and send them! What an easy way to make a difference for these families!

Please visit TheKrazyCouponLady's site for all the details.

Baby Weight

Tonight I joined Weight Watchers. Again. I followed the program for almost a year before I found out I was pregnant. Pre-babies, I was 30 pounds away from my weight goal. Thanks to these handsome boys, I gained 60 pounds.

I am now about 50 pounds away from my original goal. By August 4th, 2012, I WILL REACH MY GOAL. You see, that's the first day of my family vacation next summer, and I choose to wear cute shorts instead of capris, and tanks instead of tees. Because I can. And I will.

I volunteered for the "Community Journal" at the meeting tonight. This requires me to track everything I eat & drink and then return it to the meeting next week for all to view. My hope is that this keeps me accountable and gives me a good jump start.

So until next time, remember:
drink it, ink it. nibble it, scribble it. snack it, track it. bite it, write it.