SAHM 5/3 - 5/9

valmaebel

Stacey - Glad your daughter is doing so well in her new class! All studies show that to get students attention it's best for a teacher to speak quieter or use a non verbal queue. Otherwise the noise level increases because the student's naturally talk louder to be heard. :P so this teacher must know his stuff!

Sarah- Glad you had that epiphany! :P I've struggled a bit with snacking but I'm doing quite well for just coming back from vacation. ONly went over by 40 yesterday and met my goals today. Whew!

Kim - bummer about not being 100% but at least you and your family can have a little bit of time together. Hope you have a great time!

Today spent the morning at the DMV with my parents to get the title and plates transferred over to my name. Then I made lunch for everyone, picked up the house, vacuumed the house and then made meat loaf and mashed potatoes for dinner. While doing that wiped down the bathrooms. Neither of the girls would take their naps today so they were quite a rollercoaster of emotions due to being over-tired. Needless to say I hit a wall come the evening once I got them to bed so I didn't get my pilates in. But on a plus side I entered in an hour of light cleaning and it burned quite a few calories. About the same as my pilates so I'll take it. Plus, my house is almost back to normal!

Goals for tomorrow:

Get my workout in
pull weeds in the front yard
sweep up the piles of dog hair

Off to get some much needed sleep!

Valerie

dolphin7

GM!!! Val, I'm glad you had fun on your trip, it does suck to be sick, the last 2 major trips we took with the kids, a couple of them were sick, but we all managed and ended up having good time. I cleaned up the downstairs yesterday, doesn't it feel good to have the house clean, even if its only for 15 min., til the kids walk through again, LOL

Kim, your always on the go, glad you were able to get away with the family, thats a very good idea to do before your DS graduates, family time is always the best. One of my younger brothers is graduating early June, we are so excited to drive to norther idaho to see the family for his graduation.

Stacey isn't it wonderful, when your kids are happy in school. One of my son's has a great teacher this year, and I mean great, she totally gets him. He has had a few bum teachers the past few years, but this year has been totally different, he loves going to school, and loves to learn. I think we are going to do something special for her at the end of the year, just to let her know.

Oh Sarah, I think we all have those days, of just giving in to our cravings, I do that once in a while, but I try for the once in a while, then the next day I always seem to get back on track, and remember where I was. Good luck!

Great job on all you runners, that is awesome.

Crazy weather here, we've about seen it all this past week, rain, lots of wind, thunderstorms, hail, flurries of snow, and when the sun comes out, it's like a beacon, we all run outside. So we've been busy. My youngest DD birthday is Sunday, she's turning 3, I'm having a bit of a hard time with this birthday for some reason, we're not having anymore kids, 5 is plenty, but I'm going to miss having the little one's in the house, and she keeps trying to grow up way too fast on us. She's so excited for her "3rd" birthday, she picked purple as her "theme" so I'm decorating a purple castle for her cake, and we're having the family over for the party tomorrow night. Ah, she's not a baby anymore......but she's still refusing to use the potty chair, the only time we could get her to use it was when we drove to Vegas on spring break, she used the potty chair the whole week, I don't think one wet pull-up, day we get home, she quit. I'll have to get creative to get her to start again.

Well lots to do, as usual, we don't stop going in this house, I need to finish up cleaning, get ready for the birthday party, and hopefully spend some time outside this weekend, have a great weekend everyone!!!!!!!

valmaebel

Dolphin - it does feel good to get the house clean even if it only lasts for such a short while.

Really quiet on here today. :P I got all my chores done for the day and played with bubbles with my 2 daughters. It was pretty fun. Also got in 30 minutes of pilates. We are getting a new AC unit tomorrow so I'm pretty excited! Ours is 20 years old so it will be energy efficient and hopefully save us $$. Also no more worries that it will suddenly die in the middle of the 120 degree heat this summer. Well, off to bake some cookies for my hubby to cheer him up. He has a tough week ahead of him. Night ladies!

Goals for tomorrow:
Pay the bills
chug the water
run on the elliptical machine

DrBorkBork

I've been quiet, but I've been reading. This week we've been getting ready for another show. This time it's local. I'll even be coming home for lunch! Finishing up ponies now. Just need to do some sealing and glossing, then packing & sleeping.

Went to T.G.I Fridays tonight to host my annual ice breaker dinner for this particular model horse show, and over ate. I was planning on just having dinner, but hubby thought it would be polite to get an appetizer to share with everyone. He ordered the potato skins, and there was an abundance... so I had one. I figured "I've got 150 cals, it can't be THAT much, it's only 1/2 a small potato"

The stupid thing was over 200 cals. WHAAAAAT! Put me over by 150 I think. Ugh. Should not have caved, but was soooo hungry!
At least I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow and THAT is a controlled portion.

Well back to work for me. If I'm lucky I'll get to bed by midnight. I'm getting up at 5 to get Jazz at 6 and to the show hall by 7. Gotta love 12 hour "work" days!

Keep up the great work, girls, and lmk if you need anything

staceyw37

trish--have fun with your show! i wasn't on much today cuz just busy being with irl friends for a change. had a friend and her 4 daughters here to play with ds. they all got along so nicely for more than 3 hrs! it was a great get together for my spirit!

moving co. came to put together estimate for packing and moving us. yes, i am having my house packed. it's just the way we do things in my lala universe.
i probably won't be on much these next cpl weeks as i go thru 5 yrs of accumulation to thin our stuff out. plus there's some sxns i need to organize to have packed for the year--as we won't need them in the rental.
i will say--it's the decorative accessories i've gathered these years--partly as a result of being a (former) southern living at home rep. but what i have still is what i love--just don't have the space/special place for it. i know hubby's thinking just toss it already, but i like these "extras" that make a house into a personal home. i know you girls understand.
so anyway...that will take my attn in these coming weeks.

i will keep reading and cheering--and nicole, i got your pm.

val, great on getting "work" done + bubbles. yay mom!

time to read and to sleep. have a great saturday!!

DrBorkBork

Stacey, when you get a minute can you measure the play kitchen? I appreciate it!

staceyw37

trish--sorry i'm such a dilly dally.
here it is

42.5 inches tall
21 inches wide
18 inches deep

(this is with the counter part folded down)
it is a little tykes kitchen with "oven", cabinets, dishwasher knobs, push button yellow telephone, chalk msg board and the "party counter"

plus i would have a box of block puzzles for you--
11" tall x15" wide x 14" deep

so lmk if you want to hook up next saturday. i wouldn't be able to do the 29th at the end of the month.--hope your am went well and you made some $$!

DrBorkBork

LOL, thanks, I made $25 by selling a pony from my own collection. I was sad to see him go, but the gal really wanted him and seemed like she'd give him a forever home

I will plug dimensions into Dave and see if it will fit.

valmaebel

Stacey - Good luck on the packing! There is something healthy about going through your old things and reorganizing everything. Not that it makes it any easier. :P

Today we had a new ac unit installed and it works wonderfully! That took up the majority of my day. I did get my run in on my elliptical and got a few odds and ends done around the house. Still need to pay the bells but that will wait till tomorrow. :P Off to bed now, hope you all have a great weekend!

Valerie

staceyw37

happy mother's day! :flowerforyou:

hope your day is filled with

DrBorkBork

Happy YOUR day, SAHM sisters! Hubby got me a waffle maker and we are having waffles. Mine needs peanut butter badly. Debating whether to go over on my calories today or not.

staceyw37

do not--you can have pb on it another day when you have the cals.!!
you are stronger than I--stay strong even today!!

well, i ran (jogged??? moved my feet faster than a walk) for 1.4mi non-stop.
now that was a GIFT to myself!

altogether i spent 48min exercising for a total of 2.7mi.
i love days like that!!

DrBorkBork

Way to go on the running, Stacey! I didn't really get to it last week. This week I'll get back in the groove. I hate working out with AF in town.
I didn't cave to PB, but unless I do some hard exercising today, I'm way over on cals. I think I'll enjoy my day and worry about getting back to hard work later

staceyw37

thanks trish! i'm way over on cals too, but for once i ate more nutritious food.

i've planned out my menu for the next week, so that could help me stay on cals and get better food in.

sassyg

Hey Ladies, hope your weekends have all gone well!

I had a massive pig-out on Saturday BUT I was at a MTBing event so expending a lot of energy too! It was just sugar, sugar, sugar!!! But I didn't bonk so that was awesome.


I've going to do at least one of these duathlons http://www.rats.org.nz/644/2010-winter-duathlon-series/ The first one being 4 weeks away I might not make it to but I'll try, definitely July, and not sure on August as I think I have a a performance the night before, so we'll see. but i'm definitely going to do the July one! It's in the forest I MTB in, so I know the route well.
Yay!

DrBorkBork

Sassy you can totally do a duathlon! You'll do great!

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