SAHM 6/7 - 6/13

Ok- I've seen this a couple times now and have to ask, what is SAHM?

GM everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend! We did! I kinda hurt my ankle a little bit from running in work-out shoes, but I will be okiedokie! We are winding down school, with wednesday being the last day of school! YAY! We also have found out that 2 of our chikcens are in fact roosters! :laugh:

Good Morning ladies! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Today I am working on housework and laundry. I am hoping to get in a bike ride later on will see how it works out.

Nicole~Hope that your ankle gets better soon.

quick fly by to mark my spot! boys are in MDO and I'm busy getting the last of the painting done (not fun stuff like walls though...boring stuff like doors and the outside eaves...boo!) Having a quick lunch (left overs from warm mango salsa chicken...YUM!) and then heading out in the heat. Gotta get my boys in a couple hours so I better get to it!

Hi all!

I've had a naff couple of days cos I found a lump in my breast. So much for my excitement at finding them under the flab! I'm trying to stay calm and I will go see a doctor tomorrow if I can get someone to watch the kids. I'm feeling really tired and really unmotivated to do any exercise and I've always found my comfort in food so am really trying to avoid bingeing.

Princess~That sucks I hope that it turns out to be nothing to worry about!

mummaof2~Welcome! You can do anything you put your mind to. If I can change my eating habits and find time to exercise you can too. I have 7 children from 9 yrs to 9 months, pretty much one every year. The key is to work it into your schedule and if possible have the Daddy help out while you workout if not then just find something you can do with the kids or with them around. I really like to hook up a bike trailer to the bike and go for a bike ride as a family. If the hubby can't watch them or we can't go for a ride as a family then I will just do a workout video and have the older kids entertain the younger ones.

FYI - those who voted for me to win free LASIK! results were in today and I won by 72 votes! It was a CLOSE race!

GM ladies!

Congrats Melissa!

Today started AWESOME! :happy: It is check-in day for me the vote is in~I lost 1 lb. Now the best of it is that in the last two weeks I have lost 1/4" off my neck, 2" off waist and 1/2" off hips. At this point I am on top of the world!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

hi girls! welcome mumma!
and princessleia--let's think for the best!

i am in the new house and finally have internet access! and i REALLY like it here so far! the kids are LOVING the stairs and backyard--so many roly poly's to find and make "homes" for. and the stairs are great launching pads, right?

today was the first day i could do school with the little ones too. definitely gonna be diff than what i thought....not bad, just different.

all went pretty well with the move itself. we're still unpacking (no surprise there) and they damaged our kitchen table (big gouge in it)--but we got the insurance this time, so it'll work out.
tonight will be my first night cooking at home. wish me luck!

and congrats all around--wt loss, tankinis, roosters (haha), and pushing along. you are all so AWESOME!!
and trish, that new family picture is adorable.
and katie--you have totally lost the pounds--can so see it in your face. and you are a powerhouse with the painting. i don't even want to CLEAN this place much less paint it. !

will chk in later. so glad you're all still here and doing GREAT!

Stacey- Iwas wondering how the move went! yay! I know you will do great with the cooking! You are so creative!


Princess- WHEW! on the boobie, but I am sorry to hear about your little one! I hope she is ok!

Don't mind me - am in the post-long-weekend funk... nothing to say, just posting so that the thread stays in my topics list. As you were

Princess~So glad that it was just an infection! Even those can be very painful and not much fun at all. I hope your daughter's finger is okay.

Stacey~Glad you got moved okay. Don't you just love it when your furniture or walls get dinged when moving. At least you have insurance for it.

Katie~I do not envy you I HATE painting! Good for you jumping in there and doing it.

Trish~I am going to have to try that one out I just happen to have both ingredients in my pantry.

Melissa~Believe me I know the feeling on the challenge. My body was so used to the routes that I would bike that I had to push my self to do more difficult ones. It pays off though. Before I starting in with regular exercise 3 years ago I hadn't went on a good bike ride for about 7-8 years. Well I went straight to bike riding pulling a trailer and talk about a BUTT WHOOPING! I would literally come home and lay on the driveway because I couldn't move I was so tired. However my body was dropping the fat like crazy. I went from 43 1/16" waist to a 38", 45 7/8" hips to 37 3/4" and my weight I went from 170 to 163. That was from March '07-May'07. If I could have kept going I would have looked HOT by the end of the summer so happens that I found out shortly after that I was pregnant yet again. :laugh: I stopped exercising while I was pregnant because I was depressed and I just had NO energy to do anything. That is the smallest I have been in years and it felt GREAT! I suggest to anyone that has a bike go out and do it. You can switch up your route and I have not yet gotten bored with it. Just last night me and the friend ended up going on a 14 mile bike ride. The longest for me so far but my goal is to make it to my parent's house and back which will be about a 45 mile round trip. I know you can do it. Just think of the great results that you will get by switching it up and doing something that your body isn't used to.

Good morning everyone!

Stacey- I hate moving! But I love setting up in the new house. So much fun to organize everything and find new homes for things. Sorry about your table!

Princess, I am glad to hear about your lump. Those are so scary! When my older kids were little, I was always so scared that they would do something like your little one did, but in their dresser drawers. They would always slam them in the drawers because when they closed them, they would lay their fingers over the top!

Blessd- I go through the same thing with my workouts. I have to constantly change things up to keep from getting bored. With summertime upon us, there are so many opportunities to do outside things.

Katie- I have been looking at bike trailers and wanting to get one. What kind do you have? I had one of the big plastic ones a few years back, and I swore that thing weighed 80 pounds. With 60 pounds of kid in it, I could barely ride on a flat surface. Does anybody know if they are safe for babies as young as 9 months? I don't want to damage her spine or something!

I don't know if anything else has been posted since I started this post 8 hours ago, and am just getting back to it now. If so, I'm not ignoring you!

Oh, and on the old thread, someone mentioned about living near Mount Joy. I am so sorry I cannot remember who wrote it to respond! But yes, I love going to Bube's!

Had a butt kickin workout today. Thank goodness, because I decided yesterday to take some time for myself and paint while the baby napped. Well, she was a cranky monster the rest of the day, so I got no workout in since I couldn't even set her down. My bodybugg said I just broke 2100 cals for the day. Fortunately I did well with eating, though not with my water. I weigh in on Fridays, so I count on a good Wednesday to help that scale!

Missed a few days here but luckily things seem to be settling down. So after DD2 was on antibiotics and back to her normal self DD1 sprung a high fever and stopped eating much. So far we've been filling her with liquids. We went to the doc and he said she looked fine but had us give a urine sample. Got that in today so hopefully rule out anything and that she just has a virus. Her fever has been down for a couple days now so I'm hoping she was just sick. :P

But at least I've managed to get my workouts in every day this week, been eating much better and dropped 2 pounds this so far! Got new glasses and contacts in today so I'm excited! Dusted the house and cleaned the bathrooms today along with a few loads of laundry so it was very productive.

Melissa - Well done on the workout with weights! I don't know if I have enough guts to try that yet. Maybe when it cools off here. :P

Melody - Eeek! Good luck on your busy week!

Princess - Glad your lump was minor but poor baby! I hope she's doing okay! Does she need surgery or anything or just a cast or what?

Mummaof2 - I agree with Katie....I have managed to change my habits and they were the worse! My tip: Change small things. I changed my snacks and substituted them with healthier ones, added more veggies etc. When I did one thing at a time I adjusted and then didn't "fall off the wagon" by trying to fix everything! :P

Yay Melissa!

Stacey - Yay on starting to settle in the new house! I'm so glad you and your family like it so far!

Amy - congrats on the running! That's awesome! I'm hoping once it cools off here in the fall to start training for a half marathon. I run on my eliptical but I'll take it to the streets once it's no longer triple digits here. :P

Well, it's time to eat some dinner, get the kids in bed and then take a shower! It's been a long day but very productive which feels good. I heard a quote once that says, "It's not what you do that makes you tired, it's what you don't do" So true! I feel so much better now that the house is back in order! Have a great night everyone!

Valerie

Valerie~Way to go on the loss! I hope the daughter gets feeling better soon.

Jessica~I looked up online to see what the instep ones look like and going off of those pics I wouldn't buy that one if fit was me they don't look as sturdy as the one that I got. I looked up the one I have and here is an image of the one I have just copy and paste the web address and it should take you right to it. http://www.kidarooz.com/images/product/Index.jpg and here is one from instep same thing just copy and paste http://www.costsaving2u.com/images/InStep Quick N EZ Bike Trailer.jpg. When I was looking up the instep images I realized why it was so familiar and why I didn't like it much. Our first bike trailer that we bought was an instep from Walmart and it was a piece! Poorly made and we didn't like the fact that if you wanted to use it as a stroller than you couldn't take the arm that attaches to the bike off. So you had a two foot extension on the front end of it. The material that it was made with was not the greatest very flimsy. I am not sure if that is just because it was Walmart and the bottom of line instep or if it is all instep. Since getting the Kidarooz though we have both loved them. We have had problems with the straps getting twisted up but for us that is easily fixed and the other problem that we had is because our daughter decided to put her foot out of the trailer (she wasn't sitting in it properly) and we have had problems with that one on the stroller mode since then because she bent something on it. I have pulled one of the all plastic ones (borrowed my sister's when we first starting biking 3 years ago) that one is a lot heavier than the one that we have now.

Well I got to get going me and the children have decided to walk to the grocery store to pick up some things (it's a 2 mile round trip).