Tom made it home yesterday. We had a little drama last night, but it's my fault this time. I don't speak up when I want something and then when it doesn't work out I get my feelings hurt. I think it's a Mom thing--anyhow, it all worked out and hopefully that was our drama for this trip. Tom says we always have to have a little drama, so if that was it we will have a good visit!
Hope that's the only drama this whole time with Tom. You must be getting so excited for your trip.
I did 4 miles on the tm yesterday and I ran the last tenth. Shhh, don't tell my pt. My foot felt good--except for a minute or two when I was trying to walk too fast--I had it at 4.2. It was sore last night, but I really beat it up on the golf ball after the tm, so that was probably a lot of it. Today it feels good, so I am starting to get excited about the Princess! I actually think it will be a lot of fun, because we have absolutely no aspirations of a PR, so hopefully I can just relax and enjoy myself. I will have to get up and make sure my hair looks good for the pictures.
I expect to see pictures of you with all the characters who's lines were too long for me to stop. Especially all the princes's.
I do love my sisters, but we all carry so much baggage, that it often makes things difficult. We don't have baggage--we're just friends.
It's been a true blessing in my life.
So nicely said, and so very true.
Ok, seriously, I can't believe this. I was doing dis and Christmas cards. Mike was putting lights on a wreathe. The dog drug his bed into the sun and CHEWED a BIG HOLE in it and pulled stuffing all over the floor!!!! They have had the bed for years. And now he's going to cry tonight when he doesn't have a bed to sleep in! Uggh! Mike thought it was so cute that he pulled the bed into the sun. Normally he chews holes in his blanket--it's totally holey, but I can't believe he chewed up his own bed! Silly dog.
But wait, it gets better. I kept smelling something. Well, Mike forgot to put something on our overstuffed chair last night and he puked all over it! Uggh. I am not a happy pet owner today.
oh bad petey. poor mama. Michael's learning not to leave his things on the floor here. Nothing too important's been chewed, luckily. We usually catch it quick.
Rose I'll trade your dog for my kid suffering from no cable or Internet. He has resorted to texting me his woes! Thank goodness for the iPhone!
Poor Robert. Hope it's all back up and running and life is good at your house.
kathy - it sounds like you're practicing CIO (cry it out) with poko! we did that with thomas when he was older - made him stay in his crib at night even if he cried. it's hard but it works, even for doggies! you are doing a great job. is there a petco by you? they do training there and i've heard good things about it.
i wonder if you move the crate closer to you and she barks then she'll wake michael up even more?
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We're practicing the cry it out, move the crate, just let me sleep method this week. She's better in the crate in the living room, and last night I slept on the couch but she did bark so I went in my bedroom and she stopped, and when she started again it was 4, so I came back on the couch, not talking to her at all, and she was quiet for another hour, and then she just started moving and yawning, and it was almost time to get up, so I got up hoping to beat the barking, and show her that barking won't get her out of the crate. We have met so many dog/owners this week, and so many share stories, and I feel so very lucky to have gotten this little puppy. She is settling in really nicely, and mostly the only time she barks is when she's in the crate, she loves to meet people and other dogs, and will jump up on anyone, but she's so friendly and sweet, and I really feel like she is the perfect dog for us. The neighbors I've talked to don't really hear her barking during the day either. One said once her dog barks, she'll hear poko answer, but that's it. So I do think she's pretty quiet most of the day. We checked out the classes at petco and petsmart, both are close by, and after christmas will get into one. OMG, thanks for asking, like you wanted to hear all that. I guess I'm officially a dog person now.
[my eating is horrendous. i have 18 lbs to lose before i'm out of the "overweight" classification according to BMI and then another 10 lbs after that before i'm back to my goal. eek. had mcdonalds for lunch today. so really i have no right to complain. i'm looking forward to getting back out there and running. i wonder what i'll be able to do - i could run 4 miles fairly easily most days of the week until i was about 6 months pregnant. then i walked most days for another month. but after that i did absolutely nothing and just gained weight steadily. i wonder if i'll need to start with the c25k program again. think i kept any fitness at all? i'm hoping that my body will at least remember a little bit of running so i'm not starting at square one.
have a great evening!
I bet you'll be surprised at how much fitness you have retained. You were out walking way into your pregnancy, and keeping very busy right til the end. Be patient with yourself. THe c25k would be a good start, but you could modify it if you felt good and do a little more running.
Good Afternoon
I'm taking a moment to enjoy the fruits of my labor -- I finally made those oatmeal choc chip cookies! I was all set to do it when I got home last night, and we were out of eggs! Dennis purged the fridge, not realizing I was counting on at least one egg when I got home Oh well, it freed up time to do a quick straightening in all my Flylady zones, so it was all good. So, I had two cookies and a cup of hot tea, pretty good for someone who has only had 100 cal Nesquick and clif bloks today
Cookies sound delicious. We need to do some baking this weekend. Well not need to, but want to.
I could really go for a gingerbread cookie with my coffee right now.
Kathy -- Forgive my "geek speak", BBT is Big Bang Theory. We decided this summer it was ok for Ben to watch, and he is hooked, and so am I
Can I just say you have a totally precious Christmas card?! Love it
Um, that's on my list of things to do today, addressing our cards. Shall we take bets whether Dennis gets Ben's picture taken? To be fair, they are out shopping for my Christmas presents, so it would be pretty churlish of me to complain. Dennis had to curtail his usual Christmas Eve shopping. He has to run that morning, the Pats play that afternoon, and he knows it would not be pretty if he announced he was going to be out that night
[ 2010 was cow abductions, 2011 was goats in trees. No, I am not kidding...
Anyway, I got home and did the straightening, and then we headed out to grocery shop. It was after 8:30 when we got home, and my stomach was not happy. I should mention that isn't all I ate, I did have almonds, a Babybel, and a handful of Stacy's pita chips before we left. Anyway, Dennis went to the Mexican place and got me two cheese enchiladas with rice and beans. I had a Dove peppermint bark square and called it a night after watching Person of Interest and Brad Meltzer's Decoded.
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Very smart to not eat the yucky food at the party, and a nice mexican meal once in a while is good for the soul.
I love BBT. It is hilarious, but I don't watch it too often. Oh, I should check netflix. Your calendars sound very interesting. So funny. We were at the mall a few weeks ago with 2 of michael's friends, and they went in the calendar store and were sneaking and looking at the girlie calendars. Too cute. THey had one boy look out for us mom's and the other 2 looking.
well the best part of the IL visit is that it's over! eek. i could have killed my lovely husband yesterday. he swore up and down they'd stay for an hour and he'd kick them out after. they arrived a few minutes early (that's not too bad - they used to come hours early. we hosted christmas one year and told everyone to come at 2pm. MIL and FIL showed up at TEN AM! i was sitting in a chair next to the garbage can peeling potatoes still in my pj's and no bra. they just sat there and waited the 4 hours til the rest of the guests come. no offer of help, nothing. i had to serve them food and drinks while they waited and i never did get that shower). MIL was dressed in one of those ridiculous christmas sweaters that would win any ugly sweater contest. but, whatever, she's old, who cares. john was like, "oh mom i love your sweater!" he is such a mama's boy.
highlights include:
-i was sitting on the couch with matthew. i have a little stand next to the couch that has my laptop and phone and hand sanitizer. instead of asking them to wash hands i had the sanitizer out. i used some and handed it to MIL and said, "would you like some?" she said, "no thanks, i sanitized my hands at home" .....in pennsylvania...hours ago...before they had breakfast at some diner by them. uh, ok, whatever.
-john's sister kathleen (the one diagnosed with stage 0 breast cancer a few months ago) was taken off lithium and put on something else. she has lost probably 35 pounds and looks terrible. the meds have her like a walking zombie. she just walked around the house and stared at different things. it was so awkward. i don't get it. she's on heavy anti-psychotics but doesn't see a counselor or psychiatrist or anything. how is that ok?
-john told me that he would explain to his family why we weren't seeing them on christmas (last year was a complete nightmare, yelling and screaming. every christmas is like that and i'm not doing it anymore) but when MIL asked us what was going on for christmas (she hinted that WE should have it. haha) he just said oh i think we're going to have our own b/c we don't want to travel with the baby. um...NO! that's not it! we're going to jersey for christmas eve - that's traveling! whatever. then they all look at me because obviously it's ME who is not "letting" john be with his family.
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OMG, Lindsay is right, you should write a book. You have a fantastic way of writing. Hilarious. Glad the visit is over, and you aren't letting John be with his family on christmas, mean old sil.
Rose, Ed says it's better for Moms to just not know about some of the stuff that goes on with guys in college.
Oh my I'm not going to do well with that. I want to know EVERYTHING!!!
Kathy, glad that Poko is adjusting to her new home. Hopefully moving the crate will do the trick so she knows that you guys are around when she wakes in the night. It's like getting your baby to learn to comfort themselves. You can do it!
Any luck with the pants? They do have husky and they hem them for you for free. The pants that Robert gets are uniform pants and they have an elastic waist. That was handy when he was going through his phase where his waist would grow then disappear as he grew taller. Now he is string bean guy. When I was measuring him for pants this fall I told him "don't suck in your stomach" and he said "I'm not."
Yeah, I think Poko is going to be just fine, and after watching her go after a few things here and there in my totally not puppyproof home, I will make sure she becomes a crate dog when we go out. She could get into too much trouble. I saw the pants, but need them for friday, so didn't order them since I wasn't sure if the hemming took longer. We are going to sears tonight. I love the pants with the adjustible waists too.
I'm sad to say that my run did not turn out the way I expected on Saturday. Only got to 11 miles due to a knee that would just not stop hurting. I tried everything, slowing down, moving to the TM, and just walking. I also rubbed a big blister on the bottom of my foot that I've never done before. My shoes are from June so I am hoping that some new ones will do the trick. Even with lots of Tylenol Arthritis and Aleve it is still hurting today. I may get a referral to the PT that helped with my PF from my doctor just for peace of mind. It's on the outside of the knee so I am thinking ITBS from moving to the track and going in one direction along with old shoes caused the problem. At least the rest of my running was good so I won't have a totally sucky report to my coach this week.
The good news is that we did manage to survive most of the day without internet and cable. After the initial texting flurry Robert resigned himself fairly quickly and was happy to read books until it was repaired later in the day.
The internet being down caused me to miss the Princess and Belle lovefest yesterday, too.
I do love you all and treasure our friendship more than you can imagine!
Have a great day ladies!
So sorry about the knee and foot. YOu are wise to nip it in the bud and go back for some PT, just to make sure it is ok for the Tink. 11 miles is nothing to shake a stick at, and I have no doubt if you were in DL, you would have gone the next 2.1 miles and crossed that finishline. Hopefully new shoes will help that blister heal and keep any more away. How are you feeling now? Is the knee any better?
Glad you all survived the internet/cable free day.
Love you too Lisa.
Then we had Ryans first bball game. It turned out to be just fine and the coach has seemed to calmed down a bit. Ryan got pretty much playing time. He did good once he figured out that he does not need to play defense on both sides of the court.
This is quite a learning process for him but he is quickly getting it.
Then we drove out to the tree farm to cut down the most perfect of trees.
This usually takes me awhile (remember I have a type A personality). Well my husband told me this year I needed to not be picky so I allowed him to pick a tree fairly quickly. I insisted I thought the trunk looked crooked but he said no way. Then it took him 20 minutes to cut the darn thing down because somehow every year he picks a bad saw.
We got it home. Grabbed lunch at subway and then started to get it set up. There was more arguing about it than anything but after a few minutes we go to stand the thing up and it scraped our ceiling. I had to trip half the darn tree off the top for it to fit.
Needless to say we do not have the star on top this year.
oh and guess what....the freakin tree is crooked. It had a curved trunk....go figure.
After that fiasco I tried to vaccum up all the pine needles that came off...like piles of them. My dyson clogged up. It took me a long time to fix that, meanwhile the kids are getting antsy and whiny because all they want to do is decorate the tree. So I get the lights out, check them, and string them on. Go to plug them in.....yep you guessed it. The lights didnt work anymore. So out I drove to 3 stores that didnt have white lights. I settled for multicolored. Got back and got them on the tree. Go to put the garland on....yep only enough for half of the tree. Take that back off and decided to just let the kids put the ornaments on the tree where ever they wanted to...which meant about 60 ornaments all on the front bottom half of the tree. But I was done.
Sunday- Sunday school program rehersal at church...got there and realized I forgot the cookies my mom and I baked on Friday for the shut ins. Had mike drive them to the church, that was his pay back for getting the tree with the curved trunk.
Then I spent the day at my nana's where it was filled with lots of child drama....way more than I need on a weekend. I ate entirely to much all day out of boredom.
Today was back to work and the full moon is still around because it was just insane.
We are basically taking it day by day with my grammy. She is pretty much out of it. Doesnt know any of us, isnt really talking or responding, just staring. Its so sad.
She is on pureed foods now because she kept choking on solids. I can only pray god would take her and ease her pain soon.
I have so much to do this week but my goal is to get to zumba tues, wed, and saturday. I have a few holiday parties this weekend and I need to keep my momentum through this time especially.
I also want to get more running in. I pretty much have been doing 2X a week right now. I want to sign up for the local half I did last year which is at the end of april. I believe training would start sometime in January.
oh by the way. I love you all too. I was joking with Mike that we have not received any xmas cards from family or real life friends yet but I received 2 from my internet family.
Life wouldnt be the same not having you all here to talk to.
Have a great night.
Glad the bb game went well, and the coach is chilling out a bit. Love the tree fiasco.
I'm guessing you'll be picking the trees from here on out. Our's is small, and we could get one this size much cheaper I'm sure already cut, but I just love sawing it down ourselves, and even more love the fact the needles do not fall off, other than the first few dead ones there always seems to be.
Hugs on Grammy.
Sounds like she is comfortable, so that is good.
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LIsaR-Hope you are well, and having a good week. Love the card. Kids are so cute, and I love the family pic.
Off for another quick walk before work. I think Maria asked, but yes I do feel like I'm getting way more exercise now. We are walking about at least 60-90 min most days, more on weekends. I have not had this consistent exercise in a long time, since the princess training, I think. So it feels good. Eating, not the best, but weight steady 3 weeks in a row at 211. I'm trying to be better this week, and hope to get under 210 on friday for the final bl weighin.
Have a fantastic day everyone!!
The pants that Robert gets are uniform pants and they have an elastic waist. That was handy when he was going through his phase where his waist would grow then disappear as he grew taller. Now he is string bean guy. When I was measuring him for pants this fall I told him "don't suck in your stomach" and he said "I'm not." 
This is the fun part of training because you realize how strong you are and that you can really do this thing! 
i almost pooped myself when he told me this weekend he had to go away for work but luckily he is going to be back tonight. flying to jacksonville, having a meeting, flying back. he probably won't be home til like 1am though. uggggh. at least it's just one day. he's going to be gone at the end of february for a week for the global pet show in orlando. i'm dreading that. hopefully baby boy will be sleeping for some longer stretches by then....hopefully. john's going to pick up our APs when he's down there - he will probably have some free time so might hit up some parks. lucky! i told him he should do all the thrill rides since he won't have to worry about baby swap and all that. 
The copier is finally being delivered this afternoon -- hope this happy feeling continues. 
I love the story of the Christmas tree and you know that you will always remember this tree for sure. 
So far everything is going well but we haven't put any ornaments on it yet. We will also have to watch out for Sadie (our dog) and the wagging tail of doom. Should be fun. 
