Day one of working out...

I bet I get to start this over because I keep telling myself I will be working out, but don't get around to it. I tend to find life gets in the way as well as my own complete laziness.

I have been really trying to do good and not eat out as much during the week, in fact everyone has made fun of me because I have brought in a green apple, an orange and a kiwi at work to eat for lunch/snacks everyday this past week. I also had some cottage cheese and have had a bowl of oatmeal two days for breakfast. Then I have been cooking more at home in the evening. Yes, they are pre-packaged or come from a box but at least I am cooking right? For the most part H has liked most of the meals and he is really good at encouraging me to cook more by nodding his head saying "mmmm" when we sit down to eat. I do have my break down days where I just don't feel like I have the energy to cook then get the animals taken, get homework done and try to clear a path so I am not killing myself while walking around my house. All this after I work a 9 - 10 day because I feel that my boss lady (BL) doesn't seem to have the same type of work ethics I do at times. Really if that could count as excercise I think I would be weighing next to nothing.

My goal is to run a 5k and get it complete before H runs his kidsK. I think he will want to run the 5k eventually with me but I want to make sure I keep it fun and light for him. He still talks about the time that he did the 5k instead of the walk with us in Clearfield like it happened yesterday. The boy will be the death of me.

Well thanks to my sister she talked me out of bed and I made my way out for excercise. Of course I needed to come back and take a nap because I got exhausted, but one day in a step of many.

Going to check on the update from my other sister, regarding their Disneyland trip.

I am so dumb,

I really feel if I were to go back to second grade I would not be able to pass. Was it really this hard to go through it the first time???? I swear to you H's homework gets me stumped a lot!

It has been a week now and I have yet to let H watch tv (at least anything he wants to watch, I get really bored) or play video games. I think by this weekend I will allow him to watch movies or tv shows again but I am still holding out on the video games. I am not sure how long I will keep them away from him, but for awhile still.

I must say he has done ALOT of reading because of the whole no tv thing. He read for 2 1/2 hours in one day straight because he was so "bored". I made sure to point out he was grounded so he is lucky he was only bored.

H has his a program his grade is performing at school coming up next Friday. He is so excited and can't wait to sing his almost solo part. I am really excited to see him perform. He keeps practicing but he says he is scared because he can't remember all the words at home. I reminded him it is probably easier to have the music going on to remember.

His stomache has been bothering him the last few days, it hurt him so bad yesterday that he went to the sick room at school, they called me to come get him. He was doubled over in pain. I hate seeing him like that. I only wish I could take away such pain from him. Although I love when he is sick though, we get to "snuggle buggle" more, a joy that keeps slipping away as he grows up. He won't want it one of these days so I take advantage of it.

Ahhh, sweet young love...

Tomorrow in school is Valentine's day because they will not be there on the 14th. My young and beautiful son made valentine's for his class. I think if he had his way, even though he won't admit is out loud, he would give this lovely young girl a special one. I have met this girl on many occasions and she is truly adorable. I sense the feeling is mutual, she is already making the moves on the mom to get to the boy. If you ask H he will tell you they are only best friends but really to save himself from being teased I think he is being kind.

My young child is in a heap of trouble though. He got sent to the principals office, damn boy will be the death of me. Of course I wouldn't have a clue where he gets his temper from. ;) I guess the whole class was acting out and the teacher told the class that she would have to play the role of the mean teacher because no one would listen to her. Well leave it to H to decide that he was going to be mean back. I don't blame her for sending him away. Of course he could care less that he gets no video games and such for the weekend. Blows it off like it is nothing. I even told him he could not play with his toys, well he took it upon himself to find a box to play with. Really, am I suppose to be so mean that I can't even let him play with a box? I let him play with it because he was keeping the damn cat and damn dog from fighting.

Also I got asked while putting the boy to bed tonight why I love Edward so. I explained that Edward was fictional, if he had been real I would probably love him. But then I looked at him and I said "but you like him too". The boy turned his face away with a smile saying no, but the real answer was yes. I have tainted my boy, I think he is secretly waiting for the movie now. He was caught reading Eclipse (which is the one I am currently re-reading at the moment). I have created a girly boy!!!! I would like to hope he will only be more sensitive as he grows up and in tune to girls and women.

Again, I have accomplished yet another post, only hope I can keep it up.

Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?

See, hanging in there....

Ah ha, this is twice now this year. So far so good. Month end came and went, wow, combine that with 1099's. I work too much. I joke with my sister saying "Damn our parents and their work ethics". Why couldn't I have been one of those employees that decided well the day is done, I should be done. No I decided I felt bad that boss lady was staying late so why not I. Sure part of that guilt comes from her trying hard to get me a raise and a new position title, one that I was told I had years ago, the raise is just an added bonus. Of course it did me more good than her to work so late and hard on it too because I remember her being hospitalized only a couple of years ago, so I think me taking some of the stress off of her so she does not have another heart attack or stroke only helps me in the long run.

Well today we celebrated my older brother-in-law and my oldest nephew's birthday. Baseball diamond cake and a Mr. Potato Head cake. I must say baby sis does a good job with cakes, we have taken a sort of hiatas from cake making but I miss it. I should get back in to just making cakes and taking them in occasionally. As stressful as it is it really is relaxing in the long run.

To make my sister feel better too even as embarrassed as I am to admit it, I actually like the twilight series. Currently I am re-reading it, I really like them all but I really enjoy "New Moon". I find myself smiling through it. Now the part that I will never be able to read again is when Charlie gets to meet up with Bella after her transformation. I had to stop like three times to get through it. Not sure why it touched me so but it did. But all is well now. I hate to admit it but she made me an Edward fan. I always thought Angel would be my one and only vampire but I have really fallen in love with Edward now. My boy is disappointed in me.

All is well hope to share more at another time, H wants to make a posting too in the future.

Peace Out!!!

New year, new goals... well maybe.

Haha, I suck. I have not done very well at updating. But I must say I am much better than my baby sister. She still has only the blue pictures on her blog of pictures on the go. I will take solace in that little fact.

Well Christmas came and went. H got to celebrate before he went to his dad's and again when he got back too. His dad is Jewish so with H still believing that Christmas still has that magical aspect in life I wanted to make sure I got to share those memories with him. I figure I have only about one more year before the cover is blown.

H flew by himself to his dad, it broke my heart because he was telling me how nervous he was. When I brought this up to his dad he just scoffed at me thinking I was just trying to get under his skin. What he does not realize is my one and only concern is the boy, not sure why he wants to make is a battle. Once at the airport just a few minutes before H lost all of his reservation and was filled with so much exhilaration broke out. That stung my heart just as much as him being scared. He is really growing to fast for me to enjoy his life like I want.

Our latest adventure was to go see Walking with the Dinosaurs, it was quite captivating. H has out grown his love of Thomas the Tank engine and is into Dinosaurs. I am pretty sure he has checked out every book about Dinosaurs from his school library. His face was quite facinated in all of the Dinosaurs, his favorite is ofcourse T-Rex. He had really believed most of them were real. It was not until the last few at the end where he noticed the smaller ones had human legs as well as the Dinosaur legs too. Even as much as what was spent on the tickets I would do it again because he enjoyed it so much.

Again this may be a broken promise but I have put little reminders in my calander now that I might be able to try to update this a little more often. Here is hoping. ;)

Long time no update

Wow, so much for actually updating this in a timely manner.

First and foremost I have a new nephew (and no I don't remember if I already mentions this already even though I just read what I put on the blog)!!!! What a hoot and an adorable little boy. I can't wait to meet him, our family from Vegas are coming up for the Thanksgiving holiday. I am excited for that. My sister, bless her heart had a baby WHILE attending law school! WOW! I admire her because that is a tough journey but I know she can do it. My bro-in-law will be the primary caregiver though once she is done and the are moving back to Utah. I can't wait. I know she is a very independent person but it will be good to have her back home, I don't think she knows how much she was missed.

Halloween has come and gone, well H was a "scary" vampire. I say scary because he was a vampire before but he was too scared to wear the make-up but this year he had to have the blood that came out of the mouth. So we did one of those capsules, he didn't like that so much. So the other two times we just used a red stick to make the blood. He was much happier with that. I was told by the little man that he was going to have to get a bigger bag or dump his bag because he was going to get so much candy. Well we had not even made it around one neighborhood when he was complaining that his bag was too heavy (not even close to being full) and that he was done. I tell you he never would have survived a night with me trick or treating when I was a kid. We would take two pillow cases sometimes and come back with at least one full, and if we made it home by 10 our parents were lucky. We did find a place that had hot chocolate and made doughnuts, that was cool. My little sis also had a friend who made a spook alley that she told us about so we hit that up too. He was excited for that, he even went in a second time.

Thanksgiving is around the corner, AHHHHH! I am still trying to get the place cleaned up because they are coming. H was so worried that we were not going to get a turkey in time. Everyday he was asking. Got it on Sunday, but I still have alot that needs to get done. I gave the big sis the sweet potatoes, but she better make the GOOD ones. I don't know if my and baby sis have expressed this enough to her yet.

I will yet again promise to make this a better habit of updating but you know how empty that will be.

peace out

Rocks For Sale

So it started at the beginning of summer before h left for his dad's house, he gathered rocks and pebbles along his way. Now these are not anything special or polished rocks, just common gravel along the way. He had gathered these for some time, I would say he started when he was around 2 so a good 5 years. This summer they were getting in the way of me putting some plants in my pots outside that I actually was going to go and just toss them in the garbage. Well low and behold the little love noticed what I was doing and frantically came over to let me know his rocks were in that pot and was I really going to throw them away?

So once he rescued the rocks from certain death he decided he was going to sell the rocks, riding around on his bike calling out for a good 20 or 30 minutes, "rocks for sale!", upon the end I sent a message to my sister to let her know she had better come and buy some rocks so this little darling of mine. By the time I convinced Gma to come over he was working it, buy one get one free. Not sure how much he made off of them before he left, I didn't keep track, but trust me the sale only continued upon his return.

While h was gone I replaced the carpet in the living room with laminate wood floors, well this being my first time placing it there were a number of mistakes. I don't recall for sure where the cardboard piece came into place but the boy decided to create a sign for his rock sale. He fancied it all up so they could even place their name upon purchasing some rocks. I did not give it much thought when one day we were leaving for the day there was a disappointed shrug in his shoulders. "What is wrong love?" was the question at hand, "Why is no one buying my rocks, not one name on my list". Well I couldn't let that get him down, so my sister to rescue.

Upon her arrival for her milk she writes down Jake T., and let the boy know that he had a customer. Well that boy was so elated I just melted, but then his mood turned "Who is Jake T.? And why did he buy rocks?" Since this time a number of celebrities have come about. Santa, Spiderman and of course Billy Joel (although the boy does not know who this is as well as his name was written just randomly instead of the correct column" This little man has sold $16 of rocks now, but Santa is a little suspicious to him and he continues to look in my room because the boy does not feel that he took any for his purchase, my sis under estimated his obsessive convulsive disorder he has.