SAHM 5/2 - 5/8

Having company two weeks in a row through me off totally! I'll be back here this week. Thanks for starting the thread Barb!

Good Morning Everyone! I hope that you all had a great weekend!
I am exhausted this morning....we stayed up late waiting for the President's speech, so I am dragging a bit. To top it off, my bulk-size container of laundry detergent fell off the shelf above the washer last night, so my washer was full of 100 loads worth of detergent this morning. :frown: That was fun to clean up...... ugh.

Didn't log food over the weekend, just paid close attention to portion size...don't think I did too bad.

In other news, potty training is going well. We are in big boy pants all the time other than nap and night, and averaging one accident a day. Sounds like success to me!!:drinker:

PNCtink~That has got to be hard to have visitors over. Hope that you can get back on track without any hitches.

Shoppie~It's so hard to please everyone isn't it? How old is DD?

KC~Love the PT success! PT is the bane to my existence.:laugh: Out of the 6 that are PT, only one was easy and that was my 1st. So talk about unfair you get expectations that they will all be that way and then rude awakening. "Hello we are all not that easy" :laugh: I am hoping that my youngest is an easy one to potty train. Sorry about the laundry detergent. That sounds like an adventure.

Wildcat~Have fun at the aquarium.

Well I survived my extra shifts. But man my legs were killing me. I swear I walked 15 miles each day. :laugh: I just keep thinking about the nice check that I will be getting from it. I love my job and the people I work with but I can't wait to get back to being a full time SAHM! I have been thinking about what kind of things that I could do from home. After doing my MIL nails I have decided that I want to go to cosmetology school and open a "salon" in my house. The hubby is standing behind it too. Even says he will build me one off the back of the garage. I have had a lot of fun doing my MIL nails and now a friend of mine has me do hers too. Plus they both have people that want me to do their nails for them, BONUS! Anyways got to go the boys are running amok.:laugh: Happy Monday everyone!

Hi girls! I am new to MFP, and a stay at home mom to 3 kids.. Ethan -5, Owen - 3 and Emily - 1.5. I also babysit an extra 2 year old full time ) My name is Melissa and I have 15 pounds left to lose to get to my initial goal of 150, and then we will see from there. My kids have been trading illnesses back and forth this week which has been a barrier to getting to the gym... But I'm hoping everyone is healthy enough for me to make my beloved step class tomorrow.

By the way, I have always been dead set against tracking calories, but after losing 10 pounds VERY slowly over the past few months, I have decided I need to step it up a notch, and I LOVE THIS SITE! I actually get excited about inputting everything and the knowledge that I will have to count everything has improved my eating a ton! Can't wait to meet you all, and by the way, I have no friends on here so far, lol.. so will you be my friend?? :-)

Melissa-Welcome to the group! I used to be dead set against tracking calories but whoa when I did it was a real eye opener. I make much better choices now. I won't say the weight has come off quickly, I started with 20 lbs. to lose in Jan of this year and I have 6 lbs. left. It's a process and at times a slow one. It's much better than the alternative of continuing to blindly eat and gain weight each year.

Amy-Yeah on the new fridge, what a hassle I'm sure it must have been to not have one. Now you can get yourself back on track.

Katie-Cosmetology school is fun, most of it any way. I've been a licensed cosmetologist for 21 years. I had a salon in my house to do friends and family before we moved.

WildCat-Happy Birthday to your little darling, she's so cute!

KC-That laundry detergent mess sounds like a lot of fun! EEKS! Hopefully your day gets better from there.

Shoppie-Sorry to hear your weekend has come to an end. Back to the normal routine. At least you get your husbands birthday to celebrate this weekend!

Nicole-I'm sure it is hard to stay on track with company, especially for 2 weeks. I'm sure it won't take you too long to get back into the swing of things.

We had an okay weekend here. We had company over Saturday afternoon until dinner time. Sunday morning my husband ran a half marathon which is 13.1 miles. Then my oldest daughter had a band concert and my middle daughter a soccer game. Everyone was worn out by the end of the night. I even went to bed by 10:00! Even so ...I skipped out on EVO this morning and I don't feel guilty about it at all. I think I've been getting more and more sleep deprived which is playing havoc with my system as well. I haven't lost anything and any gains that I've shown haven't been real gains just temporary fluctuation. Hopefully I can get things moving again this week. I'm going to push to lose 5 lbs. this month.

Tink - glad you had fun with your visitors! :bigsmile: We aren't doing anything much for DH's birthday as DD still won't take a bottle (*bang head on wall smiley*) We will have a cake and candles though, plus I have decided to bake him some caramel shortbread (unbeknon to him) as its his fave. I am also quite chuffed with his present - I have bought him a gift experience of having a drive in a formula 1 car - I'm hoping that he'll love it! Well done with your walk up the hill!

KC-Woohoo on the potty training! Its only about 6 weeks since we did DS2 and it is soooo nice to have him in pants! He doesn't have many accidents at all anymore, just the odd one when he gets distracted.

WildCat-Your DD is beautiful, I'm loving the hat too though mine would have had that off in 2 seconds flat! :laugh:

Katie- my DD will be 12 weeks old tomorrow, still loving the fuzzy headed, milky smelling tiny baby snuggles It makes it hard for her to enjoy any kind of unusual weather, she wants it to be warm but not too hot/ windy/ cloudy/ rainy at all times so she can lie on the grass having a good kick looking up at the trees!

Amy- DS1 will be 5 in the middle of June too, I feel quite emotional thinking its been so long since I became a parent, what an amazing experience it is, eh?! Happy birthday to hi!
Melissa-Welcome!!!

Cat-3 weeks? Wow! Hope spin goes well!

Holly- Sleep deprivation def affects weight loss - I think it slows/ confuses the metabolis, plus I find it gives me horrific sugar cravings as I'm constantly trying to give myself a bit of an energy boost!

Hello again ladies! Hope you are all having a wonderful week and staying dry. It has been raining in Ohio for practically 3 full weeks. I am really looking forward to a little less rain! It is funny, I moved here last fall from the desert...and now I feel like I live in a pond! Oh well, at least I am closer to the families! We did manage to get one nice day this weekend (Saturday), so it was nice to have a little sun on our camping trip. We came home very early on Sunday as it was just raining all day anyhow. Nothing like packing up camp at 8:00 am to beat the rain storms:) We were home by 9:30 am. It was fun! I love getting away from all of the "Extra" chores at home. We spend a lot more time just playing with the kids and enjoying our family - we have a trailer, so it is like a home away from home without all of the extra work.

Barb - awesome job making it to the Y this morning with your hubby and congrats to him on his 12 lbs too! Love your little guy's sunglasses too! Nice picture!

Shoppie - your birthday present for your hubby sounds awesome! Especially the carmel shortbread! Ok..the formula 1 car is pretty cool too:)

KC - Congrats on the potty training...I am jealous! I'll pay you to come to my house and train my daughter. The other day my husband asked me if there was a service you could hire to do it...I laughed a little...but oh how I wish there was!

Wildcat - I love the picture of your DD...super cute! Congrats on the birthday party.

Holly - sounds like you are extremely busy! Good job keeping up with everything and good luck with those 5 lbs this month. Sleep is definitely a necessity! Hope you can get to bed early this week.

Tink - nice job keeping active without doing your workout videos. I think it is just as important to play with the kids and get some outdoor exercise! Also - congrats on the NSV!

Ok - I had better get off of my computer! I am sure I have a lot of better things I could be doing like laundry, cleaning etc. The kids are sleeping and I have time to just catch up. Have a great week!

angie:)

Welcome Blueliss and Juls!

PNC—Awesome about all the time that you have been able to spend outside!

Cat—welcome back! We’ve missed you! I know the feeling about finally being back on your own after a lot of company. I love having people come to visit—but I love the quiet (well, relative quiet) after people leave.

Barb—Sounds like the party was a success! My little guy was the same way on his first birthday…

Thanks for all the encouragement about PTing. It is still going…today was a bad day, but hopefully tomorrow will get better.

No loss on the scale this morning, but I am going to take measurements tomorrow morning. I haven’t done that since February, so hopefully I will see some loss there to keep me motivated.

Nicole - I hate days that start that way, it makes e want to go back to bed and start again, hope today is better!

Barb - it is hard to host a party and actually feel that you spend time with your LO, we have decided to host it at a soft play centre in June for that reason - they do everything except the birthday cake!

KC - I'm sure you know bad days are just as likely as good days in the early stages of PTing, hopefully today will be better! We must be about 6 weeks in now and its only really the last 2/3 weeks that he has become normally dry without me worrying constantly about when he last went!

Welcome Julia! :flowerforyou:

No loss for me on the scales this week either, so 2 weeks at the same weight - my guess would be that last week's overeating was offset by this week being better. I'm going to do the same as KC and take my measurements next week, it will then be a month since I last did it. I have to bear in mind even if I don't lose anything again this week I will have lost 17 lbs in 2 months, which is still amazing.

Shoppie~I miss that stage of baby. I LOVE babies. As everyone can tell since I have soo many children. :laugh:

KC~I love to see loss on the scale but love to see it in the measurements even more. Hope you see a good size loss.

Well got to get very busy today. Went to the zoo on a field trip today and so of course the kids have been going crazy form that and I still haven't done my 2 hours today of cleaning the school.

I haven't worked out once this week, I'm exhausted from last week's party prep and R's sleep patterns have changed completely. She hasn't nursed at night for a WEEK now (yaaaaaay), but she's getting up much earlier for the day and I haven't adjusted. We're also struggling with naps. She used to sleep 12 hours over night with one night nurse, then took a 3 hour nap in the middle of the day. Now she's only sleeping 9-10 hours at night, needing her nap WAY earlier, and then taking a catnap on the couch around 4, which is too late, it effects bedtime. Ahhhhh. Oh well, we'll figure it out, eventually.

I lost 1.6 lbs despite not working out and cheating more than usual. I was nabbing a cracker or a few nuts here and there without logging them, which I never do. Yet lost more than I have in 2-3 weeks. Whatever. Halfway there!

Barb-Sounds like a good plan! We like to combine celebrations too, except for our birthdays.

Wildcat-That's great! You weren't in a plateau before, were you?

KC-Woohoo for a new deck!!

Welcome htuzzi!!

We have been pretty busy around here too. Today DH actually had the day off AND it was nice so we did yard work. (We also celebrated mother's day and he let me sleep until 8:45am!!) He mowed the lawn for the first time and I planted flower bulbs (that have been sitting in a closet for two years!) and we pulled out some dead bushes surrounding the telephone pole out front. My plan is to pick up some soil and plant crocuses and sunflowers. I may buy some wildflower seeds for the in between time, but I don't want to plant too many flowers out there. :laugh: I also planted some spinach in a spot where I pulled up a plant that began taking over my raised flower bed. Later in the day we went to a meetup.com picnic at a park, went for a walk when we came home, and ran around with the kids. We were ouside from about 10am-7pm. Can't wait to be outside all day again tomorrow!! I hope everyone else had a great Saturday, and happy mother's day to everyone for tomorrow!!!

My eating has been awful the last few days - it was DH's birthday and I have basically not had meals, just cake :noway: My DD's operation is tomorrow and I'm really stressed about it so have decided to just leave it until that is out of the way.

Happy mothering sunday all those who have it today (not me!)