Nap time after the War of Banana's

Oh how I love nap time. The joys of mommy's quite time is so a necessity! Today we had the war of banana's. Here is how it all started. So we had banana's as a snack today. The 4 year olds (Mason & Maya) got a whole banana. Everyone else (Jasperlyn 2, Brooklynn 1, Kadence 1) received a half. Kadence immediately shoves the entire 4 inches of banana all the way in her mouth and takes Jasperlyn's. Jasperlyn begins to scream. I give Jasperlyn another half, when I get back in the room Kadence has no evidence of banana. I ask her if she wants more, and she says yes. I go in the kitchen, as soon as I leave the room I hear Jasperlyn screaming again. I go in and Jasperlyn is on the floor, Brooklynn and Kadence each have a piece of Jasperlyn's banana. Which Brooklynn throws and runs to the time out chair as soon as she sees me. I leave the room again and come back to replenish the banana's for everyone. They all eat their pieces under my vigilant supervision. War averted... And yes if you are keeping count. Jasperlyn got half a banana, Mason got a whole one, Maya got a whole one, Brooklynn got 1 and 1/4, Kadence got 1 3/4. All ended up happy so that is what matters. And it is nap time! And so now I must exercise and do my homework. Nap time will be over before I even realize I am sure. Hoping for a continued peace treaty, do not need war of the Spaghetti O’s in 2 hours…

Love having a laptop so that I can sit in the play room and do my school work...or play on the internet like right now, typing up a new blog.  So wonderful!  I really thing the more I exercise and the more weight I lose the better my patience is and the more my energy grows. 

I love to exercise.  Especially at Snap.  I love that gym, it has all the equiptment.  It's still small enough that you pretty much know everyone that is there.  It is very comfortable to feel like you aren't in a gym filled with strangers, instead you are there with friends and work out buddies.  I only wish they had a free day care there for members so that I could take the kids and go...That would be perfect!  But I'll take what I can get. 

I need to find a happy medium with all the things in my life.  i need to figure out how to keep myself destressed.  I do so well and then I just lose it.  I don't know why I let my self get so stressed that I just have to go work out or I feel as though I may die.  Maybe it depends on how much I burn.  The more I burn the more the destressing works, maybe...

Jasperlyn seems to be potty trained so that is nice.  Not too bad for being 13 months old.  Yeah!  No more diapers!  Super duper!  Now I just have to get the kids I babysit for to stop with diapers.  Earlier this week I walked upstairs to get the 1 year old twin girls I babysit for up from nap and one of them had removed her diaper, this is not too unusual.  But this time it was full of poop!  Se had smeared poop everywhere.  I took her downstairs put her in the bath tub and gave her a shower.  She didn't like it much, but it's the best and easiest way to get a poop covered baby sucessfully cleaned!  Now both girls nap in diapers that have been securely wrapped with ducktape!

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Here it is Thursday.  Just another day.  I am supposed to go to a 31 gifts party tonight.  But of course all the kids are sick.  I also haven't just been home doing nothing in like ever! I feel stretched thin.  It's like time is flying by and I can't catch up. 

Last night we all went to Olive Garden.  The kids love that place.  Not to mention that Paul and I love that place too! 

The weigh in

Well today is the big weigh in day… Ugh. I wish I had more to show for it. I am not quitting of course. In 70 pounds I will be at a “normal” weight. That will be where I want to stay. I want to be healthy and happy. I want to live a long life with lots of joy filled memories. I want to be a better Christian, mother, teacher, student, home keeper, etc. There is so much that I want to accomplish, I hope to keep it as real and honest as possible. I want to see constant improvement in my life and feel the joy of others that I can help and be there form I hope that my life will be a joyous help to others.

I need to get a new a new phone. Mine just keeps randomly shutting off. It is an enV3. It is driving me crazy! I don’t know what to replace it with or what. But something needs to be done.

Poor puppy!

Another day has come and gone and I am here still. That is a good thing. I did not sleep good last night. I was so worried about the poor cold pit bull that has claimed our back yard I wish that he would go back home, so I wouldn’t worry about him so much. I know he has to have a home because he is well fed and seems taken care of. Plus he keeps trying to get into our house. He gets along great with Dakota but I am not gonna risk the kids around a stray I don’t know that well. I don’t wanna call animal control because they will just put him to sleep. Poor puppy!

Saturdays

I am so ready for this weight loss competition.  I am ready to just live healthy and not worry so much about actual weight loss.  I am fasting today, hope that it brings me into a closer relationship with my God.  I am praying for the heatlh of my family and that we all find the joy in life that is already there for us to have.
I wonder what the Daily Devo is in my womens study bible today?.....

The one I'm doing today is Matthew 26:36-46.  It's about Trust and Confidence.  Excited!

Exercise has really become an obsession of mine.  I find it so relaxing and freeing.  That point when you begin to sweat and you feel that tingling cool, ah, I love that.  I need it.  It's an addiction.  I have to have more than one fix of exercise at least every day!  I love to go to the gym.  The elliptical is like my bestest friend ever.  I just love it.  There is no comparrison or replacment for it.  I guess if you are gonna be addicted to anything this is the thing to be addicted to! I have started doing 30 minutes on treadmill every morning prior to breakfast, thanks to the suggestion of my mother-in-law.  Thanks mom!  It starts my day off great.  It's like a morning pick me up!  Love it!

I have all my homeschooling supplies, they make me real excited and nervous all at once.  It is such a responsibility to take over my children's education.  But at the same time it is really the best for my kids.  They will get one on one attention.  They will be able to learn at their own pace.  Whether that be faster or slower than public school curriculum. They are going to be doing Bible, Numbers, Writing, Reading, Skill, Social Studies, History.  How many other 2 and 3 year olds do you know having all of that work put into them.  Thethrilling thing is, they are ready for all this.  They are so far ahead than other children their age in what they know.  It Is going to be hard, no doubt.  But it will also be exciting.

New laptop or notebook or both?

So I dropped a fortune at Best Buy today.  Paul got his new laptop.  Now that he is going to be preaching every Sunday, he needs to be able to do his sermons and other such things via a laptop.  I got me a cute little notebook to do my homework, blog, twitter, facebook, and other such things without having to use Paul's.  :)

I think it was necessary, however, it was way more money than I had planned on spending.... ugh!

Now to exercise or not to exercise.  I should, right?  But I am tired and burnt out from the spending spree...hmmmm....probably will end up going anyway.  I am an addict when it comes to exercise.  I have only had one "fix" today, gonna need another...probably.